There is no such thing as a minor poet.

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Adulation does not confer worth.

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Silence in the face of political corruption is treason.

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3 November 2020, the evening thereof, could miror the Battle of Actium when Mark Anthony and Cleopatra were defeated on the sea by Octavian, thus ending the Roman Republic and creating the Roman Empire in 31 BC with Augustus becoming its first Emperor. Criminal Trump would never have this premonition, but I do. That's what he wants badly, isn't it, to become America's first Emperor? He has already been as cruel as Caligula, and if through cheating and other forms of illicit help, Criminal Trump "wins" another four year, we Americans will become his serfs. Would we not want to remain citizens instead of becoming serfs? To restore our democracy, we must fight and win our battle on the land of the free, if that is what we wish still to be. Lies lie at the feet of would-be Emperor Trump. Let us defeat him with truth and intransigence at the polls.

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Censorship is analagous to wife-beating.

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Lierary critics are people who wish they could write creatively, but can't. Music critics are people who wish they could play a musical instrument, but can't. Theater critics are people who wish they could act or write a screenplay or direct, but can't do any of them. Sports critics are people who wish they could throw a football 45 yards, hit a curve ball, shoot like Curry, but remain on the sidelines, in the dugout, or on the bench. What they can do is get angry if anyone disagrees with them so much so they lose readers and get fired. A plot gone awry, a sour note, forgotten lines, a dead dialogue, a misdirection, an interception, strike three, fouled out, a visit to the unemployment office. All could happen, and do. But nobody's perfect, right? C'est la guerre!

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Criminal Trump has done what no other U.S. president has ever done. He has created a gulag in the United States of America. It is a metaphorical, and evil, gulug:  an archipelago of lies, cheats, racism, misogyny, illegalities, and rampant corruption, among many other offences. His Oval Office has become a black box, spiritually so dark that truth cannot enter. His friends, his associates, his heads of the most important governmental departments are, or have been, in prison. His Republican cohorts, most notoriously in the Senate, have been craven for four years. McConnell has shamed himself innumerable times in the political arena. Starr is no star at all, but a moral Black Hole. Stalin got away with his gulag in tact. Trump will try to cheat his way to four more years and not only keep, but also enlarge, his.

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