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Euthanasia

Seeing your pain crucially torments me…
You asked me to kill you with love and sincerity.
My hands could never be lethal coz I am your cure.
Left me no option but still quite so unsure.

You wear a ragged gown of despair,
Not too cozy to see your life so much impaired.
How long have you fought for this Black Death?
Days of agony just wasted all of your wealth.

Till end of the day I see your pain.
Am I too helpless to see you have nothing to gain?
Pills of remedy are ever too useless.
Magical potion is oddly so clueless.

Now I just have to end your long ache.
It hurts me bad but this is all you have to intake.
Rest and sleep my beloved oh friend.
Your uncured sick must all have to end.
Form: Narrative


In search of dignity

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This piece reflects on the landmark Supreme Court Bench deliberation regarding the petition for the mercy euthanasia of a nurse, a victim deeply wronged by a hospital hand. The verdict on euthanasia ruled that the court may allow passive killing on a case-by-case basis, but active killing remains strictly prohibited. Yet, active euthanasia seems far more kind and humane to the patient, whereas passive killing slowly tortures—proving to be inherently cruel. In this petition, head seems to have triumphed over heart. A life that is no life triumphed over death, and true dignity died.
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Two hallowed heads strived for a legal edge, 
Heard the case—but the horse still trailed the cart, 
Took time to ponder— head over the heart, 
Spirit of law bowed still to letters' rage. 

Sympathized with the plea and not yet still: 
‘We allow a passive mercy killing, 
One active we can't'— the unfair sibling, 
And final word shall be Chair's pondered will. 

Fair words always are worth a goodly wait, 
Wise words take much slower walk to arrive, 
A tune many a white-wig love to drive 
At, mercy must wait for her date with fate.  

Yet, passive killing scarce can be mercy,
 It's too cruel, heartless as inhuman, 
It adds, rather than allay patient's pain, 
Pity, the justice can't quite that way see. 

Murder in mind, red handed if one's caught, 
Proved and punished, he might hanged be till dead 
As our legal revenge that be red-hot, 
But mercy killing's sin—murder in bed. 

And look at words of wisdom from the Chair: 
Her friend cannot closeness to victim claim, 
Few visits make no friends, wise words as were, 
Poor she, made to carry the cross called blame! 

Poor Mercy, in court room ever decried, 
Reducing life as breathing of bare breath, 
Justice triumphed— life prevailed over death, 
Much before she, her dignity had died. 

Poor patient condemned— to live bare to bone, 
To live what was no life, nor ever death, 
While Lady Justice lost had all of faith, 
And she in a much maligned state, in twilight zone, 
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Happenings | 04.03.2011 | 
Note: One may read also, ‘And the death lingers (11.02.2011) ', Mercy Killing: Ethics Or Economics (02.04.2011), and Gentle unto death (02.10.2008).

Premium Member America's Off To See the Wiz

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz
   Because, because, because, because---
      Because of the wonderful things he does! …

My name is America, once a land of opportunity
Where gangs rule inner cities, with utter impunity
   Where generations live and die at the point of a gun
   In 'combat zones' without shelters, with nowhere to run

My name is America, and I've lost my soul
Traded it for *********** and the Super Bowl
   Sold it for a work-week of 70-plus hours
   In a race to the top for unbridled power

My name is America, and I'm as confused as can be
Not sure if I'm male or female, or a speaking monkey
   Should I abort my baby, get a vasectomy?
   When I get older, will euthanasia be right for me?

My name is America; I worship money
Faith is for fools; Religion, odd and funny
   Morality's only relative, and it's ever-evolving
   Narcissism reigns: Around ourselves we're revolving...

So I'm off to the Wizard, to reclaim my lost soul
To put an end to ghettos, to the inter-generational dole
   To clear up my confusion, to restore my belief
   To be proud to be an American ~ to breathe a sigh of relief
Form: Rhyme

Ah At Last Camaraderie Restored Within the Oval Office

Ah at last camaraderie restored within the Oval Office!

Whew... now with president er... Chief
tenderloin hoof and mouth 
knick knack paddywhack shah row'n nah 
diseased Trumpen proletariat -
ever so..., (think huck Cain Abel) -

phloem with his tree men diss
anti semitic, biased,
cutthroat dagger type bull leaf
eager, ready and willing
to give Democrats endless good grief,
(a substantial Casanova chock full
of McDonald's fast food beef),

that wily rotten thief
(machiavellian hedonistic commander
with playboy special penchant
to lend wind blow dried hair courtesy queef),
his princely (Jared jarhead) reign no end,
(I reckon at least bajillion years) in sight,

yours truly breathes deep sigh of relief
the meritocratically jaded, general electorate,
who try bringing good things to life - reef
fur to moost recent impeachment acquittal
asthma tongue in cheek persiflage leitmotif.

All Joe king ass hide, I really dread
locked worst case forty sixth oaf with
absolute zero governmental effective cred,
which scariest horror story scenario...
unfathomable, incomprehensible, amenable
to coon sitter seriously joining grateful dead

volunteering bon voyage euthanasia led
by tried and true straight
and narrow grim reaper
me more than willing
to enlist underground
grassroots movement instead

populated courtesy dark shadows
lovely numbskulls and crossbones
think Zombies patrolling
devoid of talking head,
nonetheless not frightening compared
to heir apparent of Fred,

whose real estate Mogul prodigal son
on warpath to shred
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
no matter *****sapiens
turning planet Earth, 
wind and fire more'n politically blood red!

Black Bear Up a Tree

A black bear climbed a tree.
The tree
was not in a suburb,
more an un-walled hiking space.

A concerned cell phone monitor
caught the bear up a tree
while it was being a bear up a tree.

This cannot stand.
A bear up a tree,
almost near to us,
we who jog, walk, or off-road
near the very same kind of tree!

The press are alerted.
News trucks race to see
a bear up a tree.

Pundits posit humane euthanasia,
some favor dope-filled blow guns,
poles and nets.

The bear cannot hear the news,
for it is up a tree.

An outraged dawn breaks.

The bear is no longer up a tree,
it has been spotted
as definitely not up a tree!

For days no black bear is seen
climbing a tree, 
or even a nearby tree.
News trucks race to be
somewhere else.


Premium Member Reverend Billythekidster, Animal Last Rights Minister

I let everyone know in my immediate vicinity,
that if you have a pet, any
whereupon euthanasia has become a necessity,
because your pet is suffering needlessly
from a condition that is destined to end terminally,
but you cannot bring yourself to undergo this most difficult deed,
Please Feel Comfortable And Free To Call On Me,
and I will bring your beloved pet to your vet
and I assure you they will all depart with a most glorious exit.
None of them will ever see any tears from me,
none  will feel any energy from me suggesting grief.
In my arms they will drift off to their well deserved peace,
When they go all they will feel is all of my positive energy,
but after they are finally gone I will admit truthfully 
that I will breakdown and uncontrollably weep,
not just out of sadness for this loss and the survivors bereaved,
but also out of joy, because I know unquestionably,
that I provided your beloved pet the best final exit 
your furbaby could have ever received.
I am Reverend BILLYtheKidster,
Animal Last Rights Minister.

Oh yes, I forgot to tell everybody,
I provide this service ABSOLUTLY FREE,
but I'm afraid that you will have to pay for the procedure unfortunately.
I do this a lot and if I paid for every euthanation,
I'd soon thereafter have to file for bankruptcy everyone.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member An Invitation For Euthanasia

I sent an invitation to all my friends
to come and watch me die
I said, I know you may all be busy
but please at least try.
with the last breath our story is done,
but I hope we shall remain friends
our love should last beyond the grave,
though earth’s  journey is at an end.
you may hold my hand or just look
but make sure you are there,
decades of friendship cannot be ignored
I know how much you care.
time has hurried past lanes of living,
some moments remain still in a daze,
that youth, my love, torments and taunts,
all that time lost in meaningless chase.
tears are okay but smiles are the best
when you come to watch me die
in passing we enter God’s eternal rest,
so please come friends, do try.

written 4/02/22

Premium Member Do You Know Me

My friend, do you know me?
   I am a Pharisee
No, not per the dictionary
  Which mischaracterizes my beliefs and me

For while he keeps the tradition, it's true
  A Pharisee's an ever-evolving Jew
He delves deep into the Talmud to learn the ways
  to deal with the problems of the world today

Thanks to the Pharisees a Jewish-Israeli farmer
   can halakhically* 'Sabbath-milk' a cow in its barn, or
devotedly observe Passover or Yom Kippur
  be he in the jungle, outer space, or Kuala Lumpur

What's more, be it abortion, euthanasia or homosexuality
  the Talmud treats current issues of controversiality --
A Pharisee views the times in light of the Talmud, you see
  ~ differentiating his faith from Hebraic-Christianity**


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* halakhically = in accordance with Jewish Law, in this case
                        the laws of the Sabbath
** Practitioners (for a few generations after Jesus Christ) 
                        were known as Hebrew-Christians.
Form: Rhyme

Aflutter

"This rainbow is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh."—Yahweh

You are gentle now, and in your failing hour
how like the child you were, you seem again,
and smile as sadly as the girl (age ten?)
who held the sparrow with the mangled wing
close to her heart. It marveled at your power
but would not mend. And so the world renews
old vows it seemed to make: false promises
spring whispers, as if nothing perishes
that does not resurrect to wilder hues
like rainbows’ eerie pacts we apprehend
but cannot fail to keep. Now in your eyes
I see the end of life that only dies
and does not care for bright, translucent lies.
Are tears so precious? These few, let us spend
together, as before, then lay to rest
these sparrows’ hearts aflutter at each breast.

Published by The Lyric, Poetry Life & Times and The Eclectic Muse
Form: Sonnet

Bill C7 Slam Poem

Bill C-7 is a motion to expand medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada to persons with disabilities whose deaths are not foreseeable. Persons with disabilities are protesting that the Canadian government is proposing to offer medically assisted deaths to individuals without offering adequate social supports, housing, medical equipment, nutrition, and mental health supports. 


After the pandemic is over
I don’t know if my troubles will be fewer,
or if my life will be valued,
as people see my life as a prelude
to choosing medical assistance in dying —
I don’t know why they’re trying
to imagine life in my shoes,
as something not worthy to choose.
I hope I will be okay,
and all the friends I’ve met along the way,
and we will have the help we need,
and not be stopped by ignorance and greed.
Just because I’m diagnosed with schizophrenia
doesn’t mean I should be worth any less to ya!
And just because I can barely walk
doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to me talk!
I don’t know the day I will die,
or all the tears I will cry,
but it’s not up to you to take my tears away,
and causing my death is not okay!
Why don’t you ask what I have to offer society,
instead of offering to put an end to me!
Form: Rhyme

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