#fascists - Hello Poetry

~ for the poet Lorca (1)~ <> we spoiled citizens of our United States have little facetime, nor hands on familiarity with fascism even less with global geography, and that tiresome subject, h i s t o r y but it’s a disease just like malaria, that has never been fully eradicated (ya didn’t know?) and yet, malaria has a treatment, a cure, even a vaccine, as does fascism something muy valuable, free for the taking, but not freely necessarily, freely given, a commodity with its own supply and demand curve it is commonly known, but not necessarily commonly available at any pharmacy, generically labeled f r e e d o m! this disease is however attractively packaged, it is not embodied in an ugly mosquito, so many eager to embrace its potential praises, ignoring the deep sea trenches of pitfalls that encase it for it has the elegance of simplicity the simplicity of eloquence whose glittering is an attracting disguise of deadly poison, the infamous elixir of a “cure-all”

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Nov 1, 2024

Nov 1, 2024 at 8:28 AM UTC

nat-lipstadt

The Fountain Weeps, The Fascists Have Arrived

~ for the poet Lorca (1)~ <> we spoiled citizens of our United States have little facetime, nor hands on familiarity with fascism even less with global geography, and that tiresome subject, h i s t o r y but it’s a disease just like malaria, that has never been fully eradicated (ya didn’t know?) and yet, malaria has a treatment, a cure, even a vaccine, as does fascism something muy valuable, free for the taking, but not freely necessarily, freely given, a commodity with its own supply and demand curve it is commonly known, but not necessarily commonly available at any pharmacy, generically labeled f r e e d o m! this disease is however attractively packaged, it is not embodied in an ugly mosquito, so many eager to embrace its potential praises, ignoring the deep sea trenches of pitfalls that encase it for it has the elegance of simplicity the simplicity of eloquence whose glittering is an attracting disguise of deadly poison, the infamous elixir of a “cure-all”

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Feathered Fiends by Michael R. Burch Fascists of a feather flock together. Alternate: Conformists of a feather flock together. I came up with the "Fascists of a Feather" epigram after Donald Trump repeatedly praised authoritarian "strong men" like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Xi Jinping and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Heroic Americans fought a war against fascism and many of them paid the ultimate price, so why is Trump giving comfort to the enemy of democracy? The alternate version of this couplet was written first and won a National Couplet Contest sponsored by the Society of Classical Poets. The couplet has now been published in one form or another on the websites of major newspapers and news services like TheHill.com, Haaretz.com (Israel), Crikey.com (Australia), Cleveland.com (as the headline of a letter to the editor), Reddit Political Humor, and Humane Conservatives Unite Blog. Sometimes the epigram is quoted in reader comments, sometimes by the writers of letters to the editor, and sometimes within articles. Keywords/Tags: fascists, flock, together, fascism, conformists, nazis, blackshirts, brownshirts, dictator, tyrant, autocrat, despot, totalitarian, cultist, militarist

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Mar 25, 2020

Mar 25, 2020 at 12:48 AM UTC

michael-r-burch

Feathered Fiends

Feathered Fiends by Michael R. Burch Fascists of a feather flock together. Alternate: Conformists of a feather flock together. I came up with the "Fascists of a Feather" epigram after Donald Trump repeatedly praised authoritarian "strong men" like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Xi Jinping and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Heroic Americans fought a war against fascism and many of them paid the ultimate price, so why is Trump giving comfort to the enemy of democracy? The alternate version of this couplet was written first and won a National Couplet Contest sponsored by the Society of Classical Poets. The couplet has now been published in one form or another on the websites of major newspapers and news services like TheHill.com, Haaretz.com (Israel), Crikey.com (Australia), Cleveland.com (as the headline of a letter to the editor), Reddit Political Humor, and Humane Conservatives Unite Blog. Sometimes the epigram is quoted in reader comments, sometimes by the writers of letters to the editor, and sometimes within articles. Keywords/Tags: fascists, flock, together, fascism, conformists, nazis, blackshirts, brownshirts, dictator, tyrant, autocrat, despot, totalitarian, cultist, militarist

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Vestal Virgins forbidden to have *** spent their days getting groped as they stood silently around the temple; having to watch the sacred ****** clean up; treated like goddesses, they'd have preferred to be treated like women, like the Senators' wives, who per custom had to serve as temple ****** for a good part of the year; harvests flourishing; | little ******** born & set adrift; picked like apples from trees & plucked out of streams, yet the Virgins were busy scratching their pious itch, that became the sanctity of Mother Church [Mary never got her freak on? oh, no -- I say she & Leda had much in common: here's a tip, ladies, don't let birds get too near ur snooch: weird **** happens: & eunuchs became the priests & bishops; perverts doing the paper work for free; for the chance to go frolicking in pre-Deluvian Bliss w/ fair-haired boys forced to dress & act as maidens, inspiring fantasies of the long ago past; when we think of the Golden Age: [our ideas of Erotica are very predicated on the 19th century's idea of ****** fantasy; which we regurgitate erzats back into our own cultural spaces; ******* ******** & peeing & vomiting going hand-in-hand w/ giving birth; Life has forever been ***** & in the mud; conscious Fascists manipulate Pomp & Circumstance to enslave the World; Fascists Never Win b/c a Lone Ranger rides out of the Sky & saves the people after much destruction, sadly, new things need to be built; so tear down the old & burned & obsolete & build new powerful spaces for people to live & thrive We think the Golden Age was like Rococo, but they were ******* Barbarians, just like today & tomorrow

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Sep 26, 2018

Sep 26, 2018 at 1:11 AM UTC

johnny-noiπ

#Fascists Never Win [for the Pulitzer Prize]

Vestal Virgins forbidden to have *** spent their days getting groped as they stood silently around the temple; having to watch the sacred ****** clean up; treated like goddesses, they'd have preferred to be treated like women, like the Senators' wives, who per custom had to serve as temple ****** for a good part of the year; harvests flourishing; | little ******** born & set adrift; picked like apples from trees & plucked out of streams, yet the Virgins were busy scratching their pious itch, that became the sanctity of Mother Church [Mary never got her freak on? oh, no -- I say she & Leda had much in common: here's a tip, ladies, don't let birds get too near ur snooch: weird **** happens: & eunuchs became the priests & bishops; perverts doing the paper work for free; for the chance to go frolicking in pre-Deluvian Bliss w/ fair-haired boys forced to dress & act as maidens, inspiring fantasies of the long ago past; when we think of the Golden Age: [our ideas of Erotica are very predicated on the 19th century's idea of ****** fantasy; which we regurgitate erzats back into our own cultural spaces; ******* ******** & peeing & vomiting going hand-in-hand w/ giving birth; Life has forever been ***** & in the mud; conscious Fascists manipulate Pomp & Circumstance to enslave the World; Fascists Never Win b/c a Lone Ranger rides out of the Sky & saves the people after much destruction, sadly, new things need to be built; so tear down the old & burned & obsolete & build new powerful spaces for people to live & thrive We think the Golden Age was like Rococo, but they were ******* Barbarians, just like today & tomorrow

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Our way is the right way Just like ****** has shown. We will carry automatic weapons And you must leave us alone. Keep your liberal mouths shut Give KKK politicians a pass. If you don’t our President will Okay thugs to kick your *** You had your own way too long With jerks like that FDR guy was. We have taken over everything now. Haven’t you heard the buzz? We don’t care about equal rights And **** and blacks and Jews. We have plenty of Republicans And Fascists we can use. We’re going to beat you up We’re going to **** your kids We’re going to blow you up ’Til you agree with what we said. Our way is the right way Yours is a piece of crap. We will walk all over your rights And give The Constitution a slap! We can take those stupid laws down That tell us to agree with you Or hear you or behave ourselves. Any time we don’t want to. So quit all your sickening whining About the things we have done Like rioting against you wimps. Your day is over, we have won. We won because most of you Like the Germans of the forties Let spread our righteous hatred In murderous, cleansing sorties. So don’t look for magic tricks Played by a powerful evil elf. Everything that is happening now You can only blame yourself. We’re going to beat you up We’re going to **** your kids We’re going to blow you up ’Til you agree with what we said. Our way is the right way Yours is a piece of crap. We will walk all over your rights And give The Constitution a slap!

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Aug 19, 2017

Aug 19, 2017 at 2:39 PM UTC

brent-kincaid

THE ALT-RIGHT

Our way is the right way Just like ****** has shown. We will carry automatic weapons And you must leave us alone. Keep your liberal mouths shut Give KKK politicians a pass. If you don’t our President will Okay thugs to kick your *** You had your own way too long With jerks like that FDR guy was. We have taken over everything now. Haven’t you heard the buzz? We don’t care about equal rights And **** and blacks and Jews. We have plenty of Republicans And Fascists we can use. We’re going to beat you up We’re going to **** your kids We’re going to blow you up ’Til you agree with what we said. Our way is the right way Yours is a piece of crap. We will walk all over your rights And give The Constitution a slap! We can take those stupid laws down That tell us to agree with you Or hear you or behave ourselves. Any time we don’t want to. So quit all your sickening whining About the things we have done Like rioting against you wimps. Your day is over, we have won. We won because most of you Like the Germans of the forties Let spread our righteous hatred In murderous, cleansing sorties. So don’t look for magic tricks Played by a powerful evil elf. Everything that is happening now You can only blame yourself. We’re going to beat you up We’re going to **** your kids We’re going to blow you up ’Til you agree with what we said. Our way is the right way Yours is a piece of crap. We will walk all over your rights And give The Constitution a slap!

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how about something radically different: Trump as ****** & all his followers as Nazis yeah... might just work as poetry ♡ ♡ ♡

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Mar 3, 2017

Mar 3, 2017 at 10:17 PM UTC

connecthook

Breaking Through the Poetic Ceiling

how about something radically different: Trump as ****** & all his followers as Nazis yeah... might just work as poetry ♡ ♡ ♡

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*The parasite that bites, that always bites in the night, The parasite that does so fright, it bites who it will, whoever it might, The teeth so sharp the tongue that hangs, it ***** and ***** and ***** Again. It's the parasite that bites, tasty thrills are it's delight, The eyes that blink the watering mouth, the open lips, You are the one the parasite decided was the best to pick, Salivating and drooling, it just can's wait for it's turn to take a lick! It's all about when you've gone to sleep, they go to work, They feed and feed you're all they need, you'll do quite well...* And all the while you are supposedly evil and you're going to hell!

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Oct 6, 2015

Oct 6, 2015 at 3:57 PM UTC

alan-s-bailey

People Parasites

*The parasite that bites, that always bites in the night, The parasite that does so fright, it bites who it will, whoever it might, The teeth so sharp the tongue that hangs, it ***** and ***** and ***** Again. It's the parasite that bites, tasty thrills are it's delight, The eyes that blink the watering mouth, the open lips, You are the one the parasite decided was the best to pick, Salivating and drooling, it just can's wait for it's turn to take a lick! It's all about when you've gone to sleep, they go to work, They feed and feed you're all they need, you'll do quite well...* And all the while you are supposedly evil and you're going to hell!

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