Paying To Play
...Imagine
if you would be so kind,
join me
in striving to become
less blind
Brilliant God says:
Give to your oppressively militarized government
weaponized suppressive
defensively repressive...
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Categories:
nationalistically, community, culture, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Migrating Culture Change
...Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety
because we don't know how to unilaterally abort
cancerous growth of matricide.
Too much to even think about
at a merely nationalistic level
o...
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Categories:
nationalistically, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Growing Healthier Hopes
...For measuring fleeting successes
of punishing policing justice,
we have overly relied on recidivism rates
in response to curiosity about
How to decrease crime.
For enjoying compassion
of rest...
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Categories:
nationalistically, culture, earth, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Breaking Through Nationalism
...Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions
of eco-politically salvific techno...
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Categories:
nationalistically, caregiving, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Where Do Bullies Heal
...Where do bully pulpits go
when the only audience
right or left
is silence?
How would a narcotic Bully speak
after wonder and awed silence
return to anxious quiet
within a healing ecological ...
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Categories:
nationalistically, anti bullying, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Costs of Freedom
...The value of individual freedom
seems impossible to quantify
without at least knowing,
What is this freedom for?
What is this freeing political and economic purpose?
Will my freedom
and you...
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Categories:
nationalistically, culture, earth, freedom, health,
Form: Political Verse
For Anil Sook Deo
...I
Here lies a small brown man, maybe average, with heart, mixed
nationalities
Sounded and spelled AMERICAN, spoke always of Africa
nationalistically
Loved words, could not communicate car...
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Categories:
nationalistically, 12th grade, africa, anti
Form: Epitaph
King Midas Trump
...I wonder how Donald Trump thought
and felt
about his King Midas political narrative
at the time of his electoral college victory.
Well,
actually I don't need to wonder.
He mentioned, once or ...
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Categories:
nationalistically, america, gospel, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Contract Against Greatness
...In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sol...
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Categories:
nationalistically, culture, health, integrity, mental
Form: Political Verse
These Liberating Truths
...I'm musing with Jill Lepore,
historian (Harvard feminist, but definitely within brackets of general interest),
through eight hundred pages of These Truths
telling an other U.S. herstory.
She st...
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Categories:
nationalistically, freedom, health, history, slavery,
Form: Political Verse
Spiritual Maturity
...Erik Erikson
described U.S. culture
as stuck in adolescence,
and a more feminist Erika Fromm,
or Erik Erikson,
might have added
Nationalistically stuck in patriarchal adolescence.
Yet in the...
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Categories:
nationalistically, adventure, age, health, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Flowing Through Quicksand
...Meritocracy is nurtured through discerning differences
between regenerative and degenerative information.
Aristocracy is controlled and maintained
against revolutionary change
by both regenerat...
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Categories:
nationalistically, anger, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Political Verse
Why Is It
...Why is it:
we plant gardens
but we garden plants?
we call natural medicines drugs
and we call unnaturally produced drugs medicines?
we label our disease-addicted corporate-insurance comple...
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Categories:
nationalistically, culture, earth, garden, health,
Form: Political Verse