Life's madness stutters and vibrations;
Darkness envelops serves as a chilling;
The grace and the warmth of Father's arms;
I heed the call;
I see before it all;
Fears apparent suppress killings;
Catechisms and monopolies;
Useless on trust be comes over me;
I am overcomers odyssey;
Life normancy;
8/28/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2026
Civilian communicator
Manager and organizer
Reckon it really is smart?
Tests for IQ hadn't passed it
Sense much it doesn't real make
Shall we announce a tender
Requirements for contenders
Who and or what judge will take
Pairings and the APIs
Monopolies marketing lies
Vs this Predator Apex
If human is website
Your slice
How will your memories
Of brain yours and enemies
Forget all that what they had seen
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Monopoly
by M. Griswold
10312020
Have you rolled the dice and played the game?
You know, that one that's in the hall of fame.
Where one travels the board at the roll of a die.
Not knowing of where your total count will lie.
Will you land on chance or buy property to gain?
To profit on the next players landing in rental pain.
Players travel the board until all is bought or sold.
Then trade back and forth for monopolies to hold.
New houses and hotels pop up, one then two or four.
As players build monopolies up even more and more.
Dollars paid and dollars played, it's all in the game.
To win or the loss is just in the roll of dice that came.
The winner is most happy counting all his rent money.
While the losers sit pouting in frown most unhappily.
There can only be one winner and the losers are the rest.
But that's good old fashioned Monopoly fun at its best.
Do you remember when a workman
Used to ply his trade with care?
Do you remember when good service
Counted more than selling shares?
Do you remember back when products
Would all stand the test of time?
Back when pre-planned obsolescence
Would be treated like a crime
Do you remember back before the time
When daily prices soared?
Before the great monopolies
Had massed their obscene hoard
And can you still remember now
Before the bulging sacks
Of Governments addicted to
An overload of tax?
And is it even possible
That things were much more sane?
Be glad at least you saw good times
We’ll never see again
For life is now just lies and greed
Compassion rules no more
We face a world where money rules
And business is a wh**e
From my PDF book "Bush Ballads and Bulldust"
When black would rule each day
and white compete for fire-crossed night
Degenerate monopolies
without room or time for color's nuance
cooperative slow truth and beauty harmonies
outlasting endless distressed dissonance,
surprising lack of resolving intuitions,
absence of inspired re-investments in cooperative intent,
When dark climate clouds rule each potential thanksgiving day
and white supremacists compete in post-millennial nightmares
of jihad terrorism
against healthy multicultural communions,
Against resonant nurturing nuance,
Against resilient democratic process and co-empowerment,
For fueling competitions in stressful dissonance
between loyal thanksgiving truths
and matriarch-wombed experience of hope
Then grateful sensual beauty
of full-octave Father shining sun days
outcast our wealthy capital reinvestments
in full communion EarthTribe stage
with 2020 light of day
bright for ultra-nonviolet night.
Monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies spell danger
Collecting scraps of personal data, averting due tax
Mingling with and tingling a ribald ranger
Displacing, misplacing and suppressing the affable axe.
Monopolies in information technology cyberspace
Slay democracy, lay foundations for autocracy
Manipulating and circulating data in stealth space
Pandering to and engendering artificial aristocracy.
Monopolies obsessed with data consolidation
For trade with bundles and blades of profits
On the back of tax evasion pursued with premeditation
Incinerate and vitiate users and account holders’ benefits.
Monopolies drunk with megatons of megalomania
Kill and spill incentives to build a fairer platform
Bereft of insignias of data kleptomania
Bent and meant to degrade and invade users data tome.
March middles and meanders
while munching on mild marigolds and
meekly mumbling melancholy meanings
about the miserable maladies of
migraines from mostly grasses and pollens.
Meanwhile, mealy mouthed moguls
make monotone messages about
monopolies while meandering
around the metropolis, moving
morosely like mundane mensches.
Maybe a masseuse with a
mustard mustache could
manipulate and mop up the
madness that has multiplied
over this mixed up millennium.
Mostly, though, we must march and
move to mitigate the mad man monarchy
or make a mad dash to Monrovia!
My land is culturally richest,
Yes not as bloody as canvased!
Purely we follow the same lord,
At same time we offer, so faith is restored!
Knotted in holy month to fast, all together,
In my home, religious values still haven’t blur!
So we speak different languages but,
The followers of same prophet!
And we have the different skin color,
Nationally but we are alike, greener!
In my home, hospitality for which people dote,
Nobly I say religion we culturally denote!
And the love imparted in closely knitted families
So rich, but live only under father’s monopolies!
I make hackneyed proclamation of beauty of my home,
Anchoring the same ship, we stand under the same dome!
How possible for escaping
From post-soviet suffocation
In all spheres of our life?
From Black Hole of awful greediness,
when post-communist leaders
starting to learn us for art of capitalism
breaking all rules voluntarily or not
and transform our life to hell?
How possible in lack of legitimacy
and totally grown corruption
to live and survive
as honest man and ventured company
self maded, respected and been prosperous and happy
in such fatal environment and craziness?
The answer is one:
then more government, leaders and presidents
abscessed for wealth, stealth, robbing and smuggling,
then more you will been
modern Robin Hood
staunch, inventive, honest and congenial
in great business
for overcome bad boys and their bad monopolies and technologies.
Gain success and influence faster
in the frame of honesty and justice,
fight and beat merciless corruption,
personally and common negligence
and with them to provoke
the truly reforms
and create right institution and hope
for new generation
in our transforming society.
As a child I was “board” with Monopoly
Games dragged on endlessly, such monotony
Now I’ve noticed a fearsome monstrosity
Special interests creating atrocity
PACs are strangling the sentiments of Congress
Bailouts for bigwigs while people are jobless
To win votes, we hear many a false promise
After elected, leaders become pompous
Get out of jail free cards are passed readily
Eagerly sought by those who lie steadily
We try to make sense of this inequity
But “players” are laughing at our density
Yet I know monopolies when I see them
And all of this control I’m quick to condemn
Looking up to God
trying to explain that life is hard
His vision was lost within the translation
even He can't see the light
Life goes on without pause
nobody understands the cause
Juveniles carrying sawed offs
it seems humanity is lost
Corporate monopolies
crippling the economy
Legal systems have become a failure
giving more time than people lived
Creating second class citizens
building upon the poor
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