In a looking glass world
Everything looks about right
But is in fact backwards.
Now tolerant modern liberal societies
Are taken over by backward tribalists
Who call for the death of their hosts
While those few places
That still preserve their borders
Are called xenophobic and racist
As their populations simply live in peace.
Increasingly men think they can be women
And women men.
There are even some socalled conservatives
Who think they are conservative,
And best of all are the many liberals
Who actually think they are liberal!
The delusion runs deep
In a looking glass world
Everything appearing real and true
While it is only a mirror image.
(8/29/26)
Angelic, Axial, Animalistic, Anonymous
Balanced, Bullish, Brave, Boorish
Caring, Cynical, Charismatic, Contradicting
Daring, Doodling, Detached, Deep
Eccentric, Excavator, Engaged, Exorcising
Fatherly, Frantic, Fiendish, Faithful
Gamer, Gothic, Gibberish, Gentle
Heretic, Hippy, Horizontal, Hermit
Inspirational, Inquisitive, Impulsive, Interpreter
Jolly, Just, Jumper, Jack in the Beanstalk
Kindling, Kudosocial, Kinky, Karate zen
Loving, Lexical, Lavish, Lunar
Mysterious, Motherly, Musical, Mnemonic
Nurturing, Nibbling, Natural, Neanderthal
Outgoing, Outsider, Onlooker, Orthopaedic
Pious, Pepperish, Plastered, Porcelain
Quiet, Quixotic, Quester, Quicky
Repairman, Rider, Realistic, Remnant
Sweet, Sour, Single, Stamped
Truthful, Thinker, Tinker, Tumbler
Undecided, Untitled, Universal, Unknown
Vertical, Virgin, Vandal, Varsitarian
Whimsical, Waiter, Worldly, Wordy
Xenophobic, X-men, Xylophonic, X-rated
Yuppy, Yummy, Y era, Yoyo
Zany, Zealous, Zippy, Zapped
Evils
Money-hungry xenophobic cruelty
Automated psychopath robots
Lustful murderous tendencies
White cloaks, expensive sedatives
Human values and hopes are dead
Trampled and discarded religions
Disgusting psychology thrives on life - there
Alcohol and medicine are the life here -, it’s psychological
Created by celebrated world professors
Success, money, and career are on their side
Suffering, depression, and pain in my side
Hopelessness and abandonment on our side…
Why stopping to speak the truths?
Where there is ignorance
of the true word of God,
there is all sorts of evil.
Why stopping to speak the truths?
People who really know true God,
are not:
unjust,
tribalist,
racists,
discriminators,
Heartless,
Killers,
Robbers,
Xenophobic,
Antagonists
Hypocrites
Liars
Haters.
Why stopping to speak the truths?
Happy is someone who loves the truths.
The nature has been unruly
Where we laid our chimneys
Pandemonium whirling in the air
The accents terrible was heard
The hatched to the woeful time
Manifest the obscure birds
The clamouring livelong through nature
The earth is peculiar on the diasporic living
All suffering of peculiar dizziness
The assailants dumb founded in their horror act
All is known through the combustion proclamation
The sweetest buds are comsumed by cankerworms
The surrogates abort their oats
Methinks, this is a change of eclipse
A major alteration that bizarre
A kind of colic pinched that toppled lives
Who will save the world from this horrors
Of black and white mind and flesh
Who will ease the diasporas?
Or the Matthew 24 has arrived to pass
At dawn, when wind blows...
Beyond might tree grows,
Can its root rescue
Dying tree anew?
Even though mountain
Floats root, its fountain:
Growing up at ease,
High and strong, should seize
Inner wind's rough hands,
Jogging wind's commands-
Keen on dropping all,
Lest the tree does fall.
Much might, rage enshrined,
Nails wind so unkind,
Oiling it with zeal
Pressure couldn't heal...
Quiet tree's pleas, kneel leafs
Repeatedly beefs-
Struggling tree, wind pulls...
Timing fall schedules.
Until it obeys,
Victory wind conveys.
Waiting wrath won't stop;
Xenophobic cop-
Young unyielding root,
Zealously dilute!
A noble woman
among the nobility...
humanist in
humanity...
humble in the middle
the superb...
Solidarity inside
of the sick world,
Welcoming in the middle
to so much need,
spiritual, in the midst
of disbelief...
engaged in serving
in the midst of indifference...
tender and affable
Amid
incongruities,
cosmopolitan in
half the world
xenophobic... extra.,
extraordinary
person... nice person,
buona gente !
SILVIA... !
QUEEN SILVIA OF SWEDEN, BRAZILIAN MOTHER DAUGHTER AND and GERMAN father
So, you’re prepared to compare?
What you’ve done to our country to thousands of innocent people being murdered out there?
So, you’re prepared to disrespect?
Thousands of heroes who stayed to fight for their country to the xenophobic lies you made your lemmings and morons digest?
So, can you sink anymore?
Do you even hear yourself spiel this from your mouth and think that’s ok?
So, you represent us to the world.
How much shame do you think we can bear?
An abecedarian Australian animal activist
Bagged bodacious big bucks
Caustically criticizing crocodiles,
Driving darling dragons
Essentially extinct. Eschewing
Fact, fabricating fanciful fiction,
Grifting gloriously,
He haughtily held hostage
Important, instructive information,
Juxtaposed jaundiced, junk
Kangaroo kills,
Leveling large lizard libel,
Manufacturing marsupial misinformation malevolently.
On other ominous occasions,
Preferring pernicious propaganda,
Quickly, querulously, quashed
Real, rational reports, rather,
Substituted several substantially
Tarnished technical travesties,
Undermining unified understanding.
Very vociferously, viciously
Wrote works without warrant,
Xenophobic xenotypic
yarns, yammering yellow-bellied yawps,
Zombie-like, zealously.
Acrimonious Bureaucrats Consolidate Divisiveness Exploiting
Fearmongering Greed Hatred Ignorance Jealousy Knowingly Leading
Men Nowhere Oligarchs Perpetuating Quackery Resolutely
Supplanting Terroristic Unilaterial Vitiating Wrathful Xenophobic
Yellowbellied Zealots.
romance of a Roma waggon
tinkering around the world
dreams of blissful freedom
no possessions nothing to lose
bells and whistles violin music
horses with intricate saddles
gallivanting on free reins
crackling camp fires
before you unsettle
look around you
scapegoating and othering
xenophobic attacks
even a tramp under a bridge
has less ill repute
at least a German born hobo
last caveat
visit the museum
at Auschwitz Birkenau
27th August 2021
In the beginning, the Word stood alone,
A solitary witness to creation.
Its single nascent syllable was pleasant in tone,
But found itself in need of conversation.
In the beginning, the Word harnessed time,
Till language lit the darkness of existence.
It wove an epic narrative of meter and rhyme
For Echo to get jiggy with Narcissus.
In the beginning, the Word could be heard
To lend its voice to vendors hawking merch.
It sacrificed its soul to play the mockingbird,
Dispensing infomercials from its perch.
In the beginning, the Word was pristine,
But soon became corrupted by the Man.
Xenophobic buzzwords vented venom from spleen.
Political invective fouled the land.
In the beginning, the Word learned deceit,
Revealing innuendo like a stripper,
Commemorating Salomé’s sinister feat
With tropes and taglines framed as sacred scripture.
In the beginning, the Word stood in awe,
Aware of its potential for abuse.
It sifted man from superman by quoting Bernard Shaw,
Then authorized The Tales of Mother Goose.
I don't see many white NBA players
even fewer white all-stars
I wonder what kind of xenophobic tyrants
the owners and commissioner are
Not one Latino hockey player that I know
has made it to the big-time, to the NHL's show
Demonstrating once more and again
How our deep-seated prejudices continue to grow
As for gay football players, there's only been one
He sat on the sidelines, and he was done
Where's that rainbow of pigskin diversity
Like Colin Kaepernick, it's taken a knee...
There's this old-fashioned idea that 'talent will out'
~ Which is inherently biased, no doubt
"Do nothing
and everything is done."
LaoTse
Do no spiritual thing
and every natural climate is finished.
Become no merely natural being
and every spiritual becoming
has already been merrily fulfilled.
Play no win/win nature
and every lose/lose spirit is working out
resolution
integrity
confluence
synergy.
Play only win/win nature
and all lose/lose spirits
zealous
competing
totalitarian
dualistic
bigoted
supremacist
patriarchal
violent
violating
racist
sexist
ageist
xenophobic
homophobic
narcissistic
egocentric
anthro-testosteroned
become way too much ultra nonviolet work
for even the most left-hemisphere dominant
StraightWhiteWesternMale
to become deductively distracted
from inductively healthy
playful
good humored
full moon light for
multiculturing extended family life.
Do no win/lose capitalistic work
and every win/win playful communion is done.
Or, like he said,
Do No future-planning Thing
and Every past Thing is Done.
There remains
only integrity
of this Moment's
health-wealthiest play potential.
A
Baby
Cries,
Demanding,
Emphatic,
Forming,
Growing,
Having
Intelligence,
Joy,
Kindness,
Love.
Mounting
Neuroses,
Outrageous
Propaganda,
Quickly
Remove
Simple
Truth,
Unleashing
Violence-
Wanton,
Xenophobic.
Youthquake
Zeitgeist!
February 25, 2020
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