Long Lenders Poems

One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left...

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We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has been laid on...

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I'm not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue

But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowomanist political theory,

Part of my own experience
betrays a rightwing bias
against superficial entertainment

And, by association, self-promoting entertainers
living out shuttered
and too...

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   Davos visiting prostitute spends her 
unbeknownst last hours wide eyed 
in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John, 
a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss 
approach the stage. 
The...

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Chorus
Banks! Banks! Let us all do away with banks
And their dirty tricks and their silly pranks
Banks! Banks! They mean very little to me
If I was the king all banks will be history
If I was the...

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“All Scripture is God-breathed

 And is useful for teaching,

Rebuking, correcting

And training in righteousness,

 So that the man of God

 May be thoroughly equipped

 For every good work.”

To receive anything that

Will last you have to run

Righteously...

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Moneylender seems me Pickpockets 
When they lend money on variable rates,
And charge their hidden costs. 
They promised to charge lower rates,
But sometimes their costs are the cost of life.
I applied mortgage on variable rates with...

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Waiting in line, 
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun  
Old and invalid people are submitted to this daily torture, constantly moaning, for Our country’s suffering...

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Practice-practice-practice, be good at what you know;
Patient-patient-patient, it takes some time to grow.
forgive-forgive-forgive, you could make the same mistakes;
Kindness-kindness-kindness, be good for goodness sake.

He practiced and he practiced, but nothing ever changed;
It's  been some...

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I don't know about Archbishop Justin Timberlake, 
He’s jazzing up the church, 
Making Jesus controversial, 
Leaving life in the lurch. 

It’s fine to have excitement, 
About any religious thing or assumption, 
But when you poke...

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Variations on a Punishing Theme

When people are hungry and at risk of homelessness
despair
chronic depression
and climatic extinction

Is it because their leaders 
and community developers,
learning incubators 
and technical assistance providers,
grantors and lenders,
representatives 
and public sector service providers
absorb...

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I think of you more than anyone can  know
During quiet gray mornings when all is calm
And the television news is blessedly off
I hear the swish of the light wind whispering
And hear the house's breath

The...

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Nature

sounds and waves
transfix in keys
trees refines fine lines made
faded leaving leaves fall
fragile Merc
roads leading to nowhere
fine hair
water fluidity and stupidity
stamps mad cramps
stamp to punctuality
staircase spiraling to disintegration
major appreciation
columbo toad
old crackling code
engineers and Arche
marshes shaded
coiled rope...

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I DON’T WANT HIM
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I’m Pontius Pilate and here’s something I need to share
As of this moment I wash my hands of the entire affair
You’re  saying this guy’s a heretic meddling in all...

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They came not with swords, but contracts in hand,
With smiles that curdled like poisoned sand.
World Bank, IMF — dressed in divine intent,
But behind every loan was a nation's lament.

They called it aid, we called it...

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I understand this
Without lenders there are no borrowers
Without borrowers there are no gain
Of debt multiplying
And without debt
No one can buy nor sell again.
For everyone must want
And makes things
Accessible like products
Spilling, and spilling
Into the endless blackhole
In...

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Eminent domain

The money is all dried up like the grass on the side of the road
I said the money's all dried up like the grass on the side of the road
feels like dragging a heavy...

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Tale of two Cracks 
__________________

Farmers Heel crack
S C R E A Ms
Bountiful harvest 
is no time to rest  
From Farm to Market
Middlemen exploit 
Money lenders squeeze 
Scheme benefit vanishes 
Bumper crops 
finally yield cropped...

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ODE TO MONEYLENDERS

Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought

When courtesy has no more currency
With those to whom one is indebted
And...

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The candidates for world dominance 

The contenders who want to sit on the highest branch on the tree of power should 
not be elected because they want it too badly
Theirs are a grab for dominance...

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The story of the young Jesus 

Jesus was sceptical of his tribe as a trainee carpenter
he was lousy, could even make a bookshelf, he was bullied for this.
Jesus took umbrage and criticized the establishment of...

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Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers
David J Walker

Christians that go to hell 
will have one
Hell of a story to tell

       In the
Nick of time but no place to
Dwell among tent...

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Jesus was skeptical of his tribe, as a trainee carpenter
so lousy couldn`t even make a bookshelf, they kidded him 
for that and Jesus took umbrage and criticized
the priests who served the Romans.
He took to hanging...

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Black, Shiny Shoes.  
The EU dictatorship has crushed Hellas Germany and the banks won- 
The French to their helped the Greeks writing a new tax system and 
for once the tycoons have to pay...

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ECONOMICS
 
Grunt, from the hunt,
Has more than he can eat.
Groan, maker of tools of stone,
Trades a spear point
For a fat leg joint.
Moan, who sews skins 
Traded for an ax sharply honed
And a nice shoulder bone.
But...

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