I once disliked poetry worse than math
going back further – than taking a bath
Shelley was for sissies and so was Blake
reading their verse was a king-size headache
But then along came Eldridge Cleaver, a real man’s man
his poetry faced down ‘whitey’ and the Ku Klux Klan
Poems came alive for me then, I read Castro and Che
Lenin and Stalin, Ayn Rand and Zane Zen
So now you know why I’m a big poetry guy
I can write about why civilization deserves to die
~ and no one ever asks why
Our National Guard can not ban
Trump's affair with the Ku Klux Klan
But tell Trump supporters
And all his cavorters
What they need is a moving van!
The Ku Klux Klan did exist through out society. A racist clan with no other hobby. Tearing up as you see their eyes, afraid of what could come next burning down their houses with fire flies. They hated the color, was color blind, knocking on their doors as they committed the crime. Singing together with cries of sorrow, hoping that they would leave and not come back tomorrow.
Donald Trump says that the Ku Klux Klan
Manifestly love every man
(as long as they're white
and willing to light
a cross under those with a tan)!
Do not sell your soul to a corrupt man,
Groveling to pay the Devil his due;
Stand together and thwart Trump's fascist plan.
Depose the Nazis and the Ku-Klux-Klan,
Let the world witness what patriots do;
Do not sell your soul to a corrupt man.
Fight the good fight the only way you can,
Go to the polls, let your vote speak for you;
Stand together and thwart Trump's fascist plan.
Thousands of lies since his campaign began,
Nothing this confidence man says is true;
Do not sell your soul to a corrupt man.
He claims to be an honest businessman,
Yet, he bullies people, threatens to sue;
Stand together and thwart Trump's fascist plan.
He's imposing an immigration ban,
His view of America is askew.
Do not sell your soul to a corrupt man;
stand together and thwart Trump's fascist plan.
A cleric in the Ku Klux Klan
Claims "White" must be God's "Chosen" man
But he prays with a frown
Since Jesus was brown
And the clay that made Adam was tan!
Nothing feels the same; in my day,
innocence was shielded by love.
And folks who bent a knee to pray,
found that the words fit like a glove.
One did not venture far from town:
the world was much bigger back then.
Teens never carried guns around,
and prayers ended with Amen.
Men wrote poems for a lady,
instead of texting on the phone.
And politicians, though shady,
seemed to at least have some backbone.
Marchers weren't mowed down by a van:
and school kids weren't shot in their schools.
Only kooks joined the Ku Klux Klan:
and the NRA didn't dictate gun rules.
There's no way to go back in time:
though the present's a scary place.
And as our anxieties climb;
I only hope love can keep pace.
I am slimy scum
I'm a rotten bum
I rule America
Sucking on my thumb.
I am rather dumb
I make people numb
I'll turn America
Into endless slum.
If I'm feeling glum
Unhappy I become
I praise the Ku Klux Klan
Then I get giddy some.
Beat my kettledrum
Rat-a-tat-tum-tum
Shriek racist epithets
Ad-infitum.
My ultimatum
Needs uranium
Blowing up the world and grin
Ain't it worrisome. I win!
Injustice is the legacy of man
It is the tainted ground on which he stands
Do not put your trust in earthling man
Why, he cannot wield his mundane lifespan
So what do we do with our earthy divan
This copious globe of purpose and plan
When all the media flaxen flames do fan,
And there is no trusting a robed clergyman
When half the country hates a family man
His replacement backed by the Ku Klux Klan
We cannot put our trust in earthling man
So put your faith in the Higher Helmsman
Black lives matter
yes they do
Blue lives matter too.
Green and red and yellow lives
I’m all on board - no lie.
But when you say that “ALL lives matter”
you’ve lost me, and here’s why:
I seriously doubt that you
agree that every life
is as important as the next
Oh really, Barney Fife?
So tell me - and I’m sorry for
invoking Godwin’s Law
but what about that Hitler guy?
Now don’t you hem and haw!
You said “ALL lives” - so do you mean
that people like ol’ Dolf are just
as valuable as you and me?
Why shouldn’t he be dust?
And what about the Ku Klux Klan?
And what about the Taliban?
And what of ISIS (or ISIL)
who stay up nights to plan their kills?
So all lives matter? Really now –
That just seems very wrong, somehow.
During the '70's, deep in the South,
I was white but raised black by a black man.
As a boy, I have watched the Ku Klux Klan
on the news—and was frightened as a youth
who was “black.” In those times, it was uncouth
and a mark of disgrace to be less than
the child of a white mother and white man:
even back then I felt that racist truth.
Two-score years have passed and I’m still confused,
troubled, and unclear as to what or how
I should be: am I white—or “black” (abused
by my black "dad," I relate to him now—.)?
It’s joyless being me—unhinged like this:
but feeling more black, I hate prejudice.
Zenith
Love will heal everyone. Even those who blow their brothers and sisters up. It will heal people with issues.
Love will heal the white supremacist who walks in Charleston with a Nazi blood banner.
Love will heal the Ku Klux Klan members who wave their Confederate Dixie battle flags.
Love will heal the Muslim extremist who walks thru London with his baby on his shoulder, both draped in individual ISIS Daesh flags.
Love will heal everybody and unfrick the world.
Who the frick are we kidding?
Don’t ask me
To write a cartoon on Islam
Write a cartoon on the Ku Klux Klan
Or on Diana’s car accident
You have a better chance to survive
All of Islam deserves our hate
Unlike ours—this faith can’t be great
The ground zero mosque
Is an evil kiosk
Our lord says to obliterate
What’s better than the Ku Klux Klan
And frightens the bad Taliban?
Yes—with a book roast
America will toast
Those evil who read their Koran
Burning books ain’t nothing to fear
Infernos are fun with a beer
So with drink all cheer—(hip hip hooray!)
To hate is nothing *****
Hitler did it—and he we revere
To all of the grandest of wizards of the ku klux klan
as well as to all of your members be they woman or man.
To all hate groups worldwide and through out America's great land.
Prepare for your own extinction. It will be delivered by your own hand.
With great risk of offending The Neanderthal,
you're all much like they were and like they you will fall.
Neanderthals didn't have the ability to learn any new knowledge.
If they were with us today, I doubt you'd see many in college.
You lack that same ability to open up your mind and learn.
Your ignorance has damned many of your children to death and/or prison,
never again to return.
Your convictions breed hatred, stupidity, ignorance and worse.
I truly understand. It's your hereditary curse.
You keep alive the concepts of hatred and racism
by passing this stupidity on to your innocent children,
but in time all of your children will one day leave your nest
and make some very brave decisions not in your best interest.
They'll learn that the concept of race is not only morally divisively strong,
it's a concept that has been scientifically proven wrong.
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