Long Tariffs Poems

Be Embarrased by Arms

The right of a person to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon when in a
well-regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state. In other words, if 
you...

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I am reading Wendell Berry stories
again,
still,
today.

And notice
over these past several weeks
he unfolds two bipolar themes.

Berry is,
was,
a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer
of organic hospitality.
His protagonists grow on multigenerational farms
as Berry grows into writing while farming,
thereby farming readers
co-investing...

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If I was God
I would be angry with the Government
you fight and you bicker
and you get nothing done

Look at England 
trying to get out of a contract
you want your leaders to be effective
they create plans

but...

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“Deep, deep, deep. Listen and hear our faint gait.
Sanitation, fluorescent lights, and a PC pillow for smother.
Agree! Agree! Atone! Suck it in and suff-o-cate.
White-ness. Black. Ev’ry creed, faith, and color. Listen to Nanny State and...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of the Supreme High Command of the International Militaro-Business Conspiracy I...

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Our prez is now Donald J Trump
Who has promised to clean out the sump
      Well he's certainly no wussy
      When groping a pussy
What more to...

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People are starving
prices are rising
people are dying
tariffs are mounting
children are suffering
as predicted
life is worth nothing
and the expenses keep on mounting

Land is eroded
the forests are felled
while food mountains are built
the price in the process of disjunctive
it’s...

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Trickle Down Economics
By Franklin Price
6/10/2017

Trickle down economics has been around for quite awhile
Makes the rich so very happy doesn't make the middle smile
Puts the masses at the beck and call of the increasing super rich
They...

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this virus eats clothes
has exposed our "leaders" 
the ones we elected
the ones that refuse to work
for the working man 

one side wants to exile us to virus island
puff adder the panic
watch the economy tank
get people...

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time …

takes no hostages
but for those let with dearest blood
if there IS such a thing as chaos
it is in the scrambled madness
that intent, circumstance, fate, and impulse
leaves upon our plate …
we trade the futures of...

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Its a conundrum to me.? In Ukraine i see; farmers
Complaining they can't farm' because of wars harm
The E U did help, droppling tariffs no stealth.'
In Holland its different..There the farmers are punished
Net zero ' and...

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Name your next ten children Trump
May all your twins be Donald's
I wish you a Merry Christmas too
With Happy Birthday visions of him
With surfer dude hair very wavy and thin
Almost life like and pretty pink
And may...

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Trump's No Longer Tweeting
By Franklin Price
3/15/2019

Trump's no longer tweeting
He has given up the wall
He is welcoming illegals
It's much better for us all

Encouraging big business
To once again build over seas
For those who want to hire here
There's...

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Where is the Next USA
 Wasn't it good one day

  Now I see historical correlation
  To the once great Roman nation

   Nero fiddle while Rome burned
   Trump tweets while...

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A cartoon
he flies over cities
saving the world
from reality

Child abuse
200,000 dead
humongous tariffs
concentration camps
money laundering with Russians
el fato dictator with out the tator
laughing stock
trillions of debt
science denied
witches in the Whitehouse
grabbing privates cause he brags
he can , he...

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Brexit Sonnet No. 44
‘The sun that’s setting’
 

Is that the sun that’s setting, the end now nigh
For the day brought on by foolish spit and spat?
As shafts of sunlight streak the lead lined sky,
This low...

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Brexit Sonnet No. 33
‘No Kaizen Rules’
 

No just in time, no Kaizen rules for this,
Our partners fear their European loss.
Their products here, our ill-judged tariffs kiss,
And futures now approach that Brexit cross.
So Civic pride in...

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How much said the man of forty crown
To pay the tax of this town

Taxes are used to pave the street
The fathers try to keep it neat

Levies on your toil
A bushel basket from the soil

A mercantile...

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SHE IS THE DEAD FLOWER

Flush off my call tariffs,
Meticulously analyse both halves,
technically halt all the texts
and see who calls first.
It's not a game of checks,
don't be oblivious of your integrity,
her attitude is your definition of...

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