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"autocrat" poems
Three-legged spider on a ***** tile Eyeball rolls, clean in hand Massive metal door opens, up top a hill Graveyard of ever-ringing cells. What's real creepy to you? Enclose the city, lock us out ..for good Condemned as doomed, living dead Big guns survive in metallic domes See the crass ******** shoot us down! Wanna talk about what's creepy, huh? Plunderers now lay down new laws Can't fight the sick, red sway Random acts of violence bay Armoured eyes see all from lofty towers. Creepy autocrats hide the truth, right? No soaring when blood runs rivers Tripping over rotting corpses Decaying stench of hope dying Help will come, we must believe! Do you believe lies to your face? Infrastructure's down, no services Power's out, no more flushing Car carcasses aflame on every corner, yet How come big brother's eyes still move? Are the gullible ones really stupid and feeble? Sun shines, but nothing grows Rain seeps red away into sewers Crops of twisted metal, hoards of guns Skeletal trees adorn our landscape. Why hold askance your glance skyward? The gates will open to let us in Surely, they witness our hardship! There must exist a life beyond this strife Uproar, bombard, gas, artillery....then no more.... Can you ever cease to have temerity? In face of adversity, calamity and injustice We should NEVER cease to be exasperated! Hope must prevail; faith must live; Thoughts expressed; love and respect must survive. Can you afford your spirit just to let go....? Think about it. Creepy autocrats eternally rank ... Chronically..........Insidious Repressively........Deleterious Egotistically.........Inadequate Eruptively............Odious Pretentiously.......Tedious Yucky...................Scum! S T, 31 May 2013
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 10:30 AM UTC
Creepy Autocrat
Three-legged spider on a ***** tile Eyeball rolls, clean in hand Massive metal door opens, up top a hill Graveyard of ever-ringing cells. What's real creepy to you? Enclose the city, lock us out ..for good Condemned as doomed, living dead Big guns survive in metallic domes See the crass ******** shoot us down! Wanna talk about what's creepy, huh? Plunderers now lay down new laws Can't fight the sick, red sway Random acts of violence bay Armoured eyes see all from lofty towers. Creepy autocrats hide the truth, right? No soaring when blood runs rivers Tripping over rotting corpses Decaying stench of hope dying Help will come, we must believe! Do you believe lies to your face? Infrastructure's down, no services Power's out, no more flushing Car carcasses aflame on every corner, yet How come big brother's eyes still move? Are the gullible ones really stupid and feeble? Sun shines, but nothing grows Rain seeps red away into sewers Crops of twisted metal, hoards of guns Skeletal trees adorn our landscape. Why hold askance your glance skyward? The gates will open to let us in Surely, they witness our hardship! There must exist a life beyond this strife Uproar, bombard, gas, artillery....then no more.... Can you ever cease to have temerity? In face of adversity, calamity and injustice We should NEVER cease to be exasperated! Hope must prevail; faith must live; Thoughts expressed; love and respect must survive. Can you afford your spirit just to let go....? Think about it. Creepy autocrats eternally rank ... Chronically..........Insidious Repressively........Deleterious Egotistically.........Inadequate Eruptively............Odious Pretentiously.......Tedious Yucky...................Scum! S T, 31 May 2013
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*Italic drumroll... imperial cavalcade with Roman horns, eagle standards raised*; ♪ ♫♪♫ ♪♪♫♫♪♪♫♫♪♪♫♫♪ ALL HAIL ! Ye screen-fed sacrificial citizens, seething simpletons and volatile voters: attend now, with republican fervor, tempered by democratic zeal, to the golden-tongued orator of our epoch, gallant guardian of American greatness, avatar of avarice, the Jeffersonian gentleman, anointed autocrat and Sultan of Swell, windswept Wazir of Wonderful, emissary of towering eminence in empire, The Anti H-Rod: Donald J. TRUMP ! (Plebeians look up from their circus-bread for a second—) And may Our Sovereign Savior & Almighty God also bless his worthy opponent and adversary *HILLARY ("H-Rod")* (Patricians murmur, nod; a few salute)
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 5:22 PM UTC
Of Debatable Importance
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
Feathered Fiends
(An experiment, this poem can be sung to the tune of "America" from "West Side Story.") (Fans) Donald Trump, oh, You fearless leader. Of praise you are so deserving. Never liking what critics say… And always hoping they'll go away. (Critics) Donald Trump, oh, You nasty leader-- One who’s so blind and self-serving. Only caring about the rich. Your biggest concerns: your sales pitch, And the people who snitch, And the money you earn, And the people you burn…. When will they ever learn How you're destroying this nation? And still you expect admiration! (Fans) We all agree we like Donald Trump. We want to be more like Donald Trump. Our cup of tea: it is Donald Trump. (Critics) Lying is key when you're Donald Trump. (Fans) We want to visit his tower. (Critics) Watch him accumulate power! (Fans) We think he rules us with finesse. (Critics) Though he's an autocrat, too. Yes? (Fans) Drilling off shore: that's with Donald Trump. He'll never bore you--not Donald Trump. Job growth will soar with our Donald Trump. (Critics) Tariffs galore with your Donald Trump! (Fans) We're going to vote for him next year! (Critics) It's hard to believe you are sincere. (Fans) The man is great; don't forget it. (Critics) Sorry, you're going to regret it. Immigrants fear Mr. Donald Trump. They won't go near Mr. Donald Trump. One thing is clear about Donald Trump: A racketeer he is--Donald Trump! (Fans) He says we all should do all right. (Critics) If you are rich and if you’re white! (Fans) Four more years will be a blessing. (Critics) Four more years would be distressing! (Fans) Well, don't you know that with Donald Trump Stocks will all grow, yes, with Donald Trump? You'll make more dough, yes, with Donald Trump. (Critics) With quid pro quo, yes, with Donald Trump. (Fans) If he wins, we're gonna be glad. (Critics) If he wins, we’re gonna be sad. (Fans) Certainly, no one can beat him. (Critics) Anyone, you must defeat him! (All) La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…¡Olé! -by Bob B (6-19-19)
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Jun 20, 2019
Jun 20, 2019 at 9:31 AM UTC
Opposing Views
(An experiment, this poem can be sung to the tune of "America" from "West Side Story.") (Fans) Donald Trump, oh, You fearless leader. Of praise you are so deserving. Never liking what critics say… And always hoping they'll go away. (Critics) Donald Trump, oh, You nasty leader-- One who’s so blind and self-serving. Only caring about the rich. Your biggest concerns: your sales pitch, And the people who snitch, And the money you earn, And the people you burn…. When will they ever learn How you're destroying this nation? And still you expect admiration! (Fans) We all agree we like Donald Trump. We want to be more like Donald Trump. Our cup of tea: it is Donald Trump. (Critics) Lying is key when you're Donald Trump. (Fans) We want to visit his tower. (Critics) Watch him accumulate power! (Fans) We think he rules us with finesse. (Critics) Though he's an autocrat, too. Yes? (Fans) Drilling off shore: that's with Donald Trump. He'll never bore you--not Donald Trump. Job growth will soar with our Donald Trump. (Critics) Tariffs galore with your Donald Trump! (Fans) We're going to vote for him next year! (Critics) It's hard to believe you are sincere. (Fans) The man is great; don't forget it. (Critics) Sorry, you're going to regret it. Immigrants fear Mr. Donald Trump. They won't go near Mr. Donald Trump. One thing is clear about Donald Trump: A racketeer he is--Donald Trump! (Fans) He says we all should do all right. (Critics) If you are rich and if you’re white! (Fans) Four more years will be a blessing. (Critics) Four more years would be distressing! (Fans) Well, don't you know that with Donald Trump Stocks will all grow, yes, with Donald Trump? You'll make more dough, yes, with Donald Trump. (Critics) With quid pro quo, yes, with Donald Trump. (Fans) If he wins, we're gonna be glad. (Critics) If he wins, we’re gonna be sad. (Fans) Certainly, no one can beat him. (Critics) Anyone, you must defeat him! (All) La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…la…la… La la la la la la la…¡Olé! -by Bob B (6-19-19)
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. She's a top-hat autocrat, inamber wavesof grain,singing whiskey lullabies-As young girls comes of ageanother flower dies.3 a.m. pencilsprickfamous strangers;the waitress in theblack stockingsstill believesshe's lost some timebomb ticking somewhere.A starving dog,unblinking-barked at my shoes..
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 11:08 PM UTC
*****
*i wait all weak for the newspaper sections i read to arrive, the magazines of sat. and sun., the style section, the culture section, and the news review, things that matter to be honest.* i wonder why people want brave ethnicity, they want the long ships the arabs do listening to viking metal, the vikings want peace and quite, but with global capitalism and the defunct national socialism: if only the jews weren't involved the single pathology, all those able and nimble, we get no ethnic bravery, we only get citizens and astronauts, the only exploration geography is empty and vast space, and since we're using fossil fuels we're exploring and destroying at the same time, like the olden days: plunder and pillage mechanics, but we're waiting for the other exploration dynamic, where almost everyone is involved: turn an autocrat to be paired with a tsunami or an earthquake and you get panic, pair the tsunami / earthquake with democracy and you still get panic... pair it to a theocracy and you get theories like evolutionary history with the time scale all too wobbly extending too far, people think of gooey eggs easy in 5min,, but monkey to man in 5 minutes - where's the adaptability issue concerning? the darwinian per se dislodges man's adaptability concerns - historically it was going to be either Stonehenge or the Giza pyramids, darwinism dislodged man's adaptability to future concerns by favouring debate of past truth and whether mathematically speaking: the geometric beginning of x, y, z, was a will to live from the standpoint of (0, 0, 0), denial of denial creates a propeller, kantian given 0 = negation. instead of being as darwin stressed evolutionary beings, we've become historical beings, with 24h news reels, with celebrity culture, trying to piñata nazis... japan conquering with karaeoke singing... loss of story telling... with intellectuals trying to pinpoint and in an arena of plagiarism agree a historical date where dialectics is impossible... because something is cited, circa, and the circa defines one person being wrong and the other person being right... evolutionary analysis made us so overcome by our history we're trying to live a single day out, but in 24h news reels no important historical event will take place... i call it historical insomnia... as a scot might say: eh maytee, das est shovel of ***** (linguistic allegory: shy kite)!
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 7:22 PM UTC
historical insomnia
*i wait all weak for the newspaper sections i read to arrive, the magazines of sat. and sun., the style section, the culture section, and the news review, things that matter to be honest.* i wonder why people want brave ethnicity, they want the long ships the arabs do listening to viking metal, the vikings want peace and quite, but with global capitalism and the defunct national socialism: if only the jews weren't involved the single pathology, all those able and nimble, we get no ethnic bravery, we only get citizens and astronauts, the only exploration geography is empty and vast space, and since we're using fossil fuels we're exploring and destroying at the same time, like the olden days: plunder and pillage mechanics, but we're waiting for the other exploration dynamic, where almost everyone is involved: turn an autocrat to be paired with a tsunami or an earthquake and you get panic, pair the tsunami / earthquake with democracy and you still get panic... pair it to a theocracy and you get theories like evolutionary history with the time scale all too wobbly extending too far, people think of gooey eggs easy in 5min,, but monkey to man in 5 minutes - where's the adaptability issue concerning? the darwinian per se dislodges man's adaptability concerns - historically it was going to be either Stonehenge or the Giza pyramids, darwinism dislodged man's adaptability to future concerns by favouring debate of past truth and whether mathematically speaking: the geometric beginning of x, y, z, was a will to live from the standpoint of (0, 0, 0), denial of denial creates a propeller, kantian given 0 = negation. instead of being as darwin stressed evolutionary beings, we've become historical beings, with 24h news reels, with celebrity culture, trying to piñata nazis... japan conquering with karaeoke singing... loss of story telling... with intellectuals trying to pinpoint and in an arena of plagiarism agree a historical date where dialectics is impossible... because something is cited, circa, and the circa defines one person being wrong and the other person being right... evolutionary analysis made us so overcome by our history we're trying to live a single day out, but in 24h news reels no important historical event will take place... i call it historical insomnia... as a scot might say: eh maytee, das est shovel of ***** (linguistic allegory: shy kite)!
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My autocrat of a cat sat on the pedestal and watched me type. His eyes, slits, like slivers of emeralds. He took a paw, licked it, and washed his despot face. He owned me. I did whatever he wanted. He sauntered off, then turned and watched , as I took liberty with truth, for the sake of imagination and creation. I dreamed last night that he could talk. He just said two words. "Beautiful lies."
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Feb 13, 2023
Feb 13, 2023 at 6:50 AM UTC
A Cat Named Poe
*When I think about forever, only your humble face shows up for my heart claims it can endure your smile forever... that simple stretch that's in between the make of closed bright petals and a completely stretched blossom but again I'd appreciate even an hour with you, because a single moment with you is worth a lifetime without you albeit the moment wouldn't be enough... but what's enough about loving you? I can never get enough of you...even forever would never be enough...I'd crave more and more of you the more I'd take... I'd feel more thirty the more I drink... I only wish for an eternity because it's the inadequate anyone with such passion would prefer...One that can give me room to explore all corners of the volatile untapped passion that's almost fermenting to solid. I love you, I do... I don't need a lifetime to prove it, we just deserve a lifetime with each other like any other two normal lovers do albeit we don't lie within that limitation... I would ask God for infinity but then would my romantic waves still hold their strength in a million years? Would I still love you this much? It doesn't matter, I don't have infinity in my sample space, forever's unlikely too...I'll thus make the best of every now to cherish you, to appreciate you, to keep you cool in the air of romance and to protect you like the protection a tortoise gets from her shell... and do the much I can to lend some heaven to the earthly hell Just run to my arms for they will always be open, this is home for you at all times and the doors of home are never closed to family... that's what you are, the leaf that's been missing on my family tree, the much welcome member of the canopy. I love you more than a king loves his throne, I even love you more than an autocrat loves commanding. I love you for the lack of a better phrase to mean I do. I love you.*
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May 14, 2016
May 14, 2016 at 12:34 AM UTC
A King & His Throne
*When I think about forever, only your humble face shows up for my heart claims it can endure your smile forever... that simple stretch that's in between the make of closed bright petals and a completely stretched blossom but again I'd appreciate even an hour with you, because a single moment with you is worth a lifetime without you albeit the moment wouldn't be enough... but what's enough about loving you? I can never get enough of you...even forever would never be enough...I'd crave more and more of you the more I'd take... I'd feel more thirty the more I drink... I only wish for an eternity because it's the inadequate anyone with such passion would prefer...One that can give me room to explore all corners of the volatile untapped passion that's almost fermenting to solid. I love you, I do... I don't need a lifetime to prove it, we just deserve a lifetime with each other like any other two normal lovers do albeit we don't lie within that limitation... I would ask God for infinity but then would my romantic waves still hold their strength in a million years? Would I still love you this much? It doesn't matter, I don't have infinity in my sample space, forever's unlikely too...I'll thus make the best of every now to cherish you, to appreciate you, to keep you cool in the air of romance and to protect you like the protection a tortoise gets from her shell... and do the much I can to lend some heaven to the earthly hell Just run to my arms for they will always be open, this is home for you at all times and the doors of home are never closed to family... that's what you are, the leaf that's been missing on my family tree, the much welcome member of the canopy. I love you more than a king loves his throne, I even love you more than an autocrat loves commanding. I love you for the lack of a better phrase to mean I do. I love you.*
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On my shoulder a heap of garment In two hands two birded cage In my mind time management That I love to do with craze! List of my works to do Keep growing in a hellish way Clipping nails polishing shoe Time is too short for one day! When to do them you may ask If all loose ends I’ve to tie So I take up multitask There’s not even time to die! At 8.30 her medicine 9 I must run the pump I must keep my cheek trim clean Traitor time not run but jump! With one hand I push toothbrush With one eye I keep check on milk Alertness aids in the morning rush Time’s too alert for you to bilk! Stairs to climb windows to open Pluck some flowers from back garden Time autocrat hears no bargain Slow down a bit get a big burden! I’ve to make time to blow her a kiss Will be away whole day she’ll miss While I peck I hold a biscuit For the dog at the door badly needs it! I don’t ever think time kind to me Give me respite a little time free But chase it hard without relent A multitasker bent on time management! *In this thankless pursuit I can’t tell thee If I manage time or time manages me But one thing sure I make time on bed For not just love but what cooks in head!*
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 8:02 AM UTC
Multitasking
An imperial flat round circle autocrat where dipper yesterday only quash their goad though doldrums there dock a yacht for deeper waters afloat let me take her far away to the mellifluous island strand with coral sand and coconut butter as sea whips up in royal flush to whisk her eventually from horse latitudes while temperate hold sway but the moon air breeze with lavender and stella star light again.
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Feb 22, 2017
Feb 22, 2017 at 12:14 PM UTC
Stella In Star Light
The clues have been…let's say, Preponderant. We've seen That Trump's reputation Is far from squeaky clean. Now he sounds indignant: "How dare they imply That I worked with Russia! Do THEY think I'm a spy?" Is there evidence That Trump and certain staff, Knowingly or not, Worked on Russia's behalf? Knowing or not knowing… Yes, even the latter Definitely is A counterintelligence matter. The FBI will discover Whether suspicions are true While Trump sends out a tweetstorm. Of course, what else is new? Is he an asset to Russia At our country's expense? The accusation really Makes a lot of sense. His words and actions are Often injudicious, Which makes him sound so utterly And blatantly suspicious. Mueller certainly knows A lot more than we think. He will put together The pieces, link by link. Team Trump will spread Deep state myths to steer Us off the path to truth. They smear whom they can smear. They will try to hide The truth without a doubt. Cooperation with Russia Is what it’s all about. Misstating the law, Giuliani tries To give Trump his support By backing the president’s lies. Trump’s words leave us With so much to bemoan. Who knows WHAT goes on When Putin and he are alone? He's been parroting Putin's Talking points. How's that? Is he a spokesman for The Russian autocrat? Undeniably, Trump Finds himself in a spot, Which amounts to a case Of possible kompromat. Never have we had A situation so…hairy. Never have we had A president so scary. -by Bob B (1-13-19)
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Jan 13, 2019
Jan 13, 2019 at 9:13 AM UTC
An Asset?
The clues have been…let's say, Preponderant. We've seen That Trump's reputation Is far from squeaky clean. Now he sounds indignant: "How dare they imply That I worked with Russia! Do THEY think I'm a spy?" Is there evidence That Trump and certain staff, Knowingly or not, Worked on Russia's behalf? Knowing or not knowing… Yes, even the latter Definitely is A counterintelligence matter. The FBI will discover Whether suspicions are true While Trump sends out a tweetstorm. Of course, what else is new? Is he an asset to Russia At our country's expense? The accusation really Makes a lot of sense. His words and actions are Often injudicious, Which makes him sound so utterly And blatantly suspicious. Mueller certainly knows A lot more than we think. He will put together The pieces, link by link. Team Trump will spread Deep state myths to steer Us off the path to truth. They smear whom they can smear. They will try to hide The truth without a doubt. Cooperation with Russia Is what it’s all about. Misstating the law, Giuliani tries To give Trump his support By backing the president’s lies. Trump’s words leave us With so much to bemoan. Who knows WHAT goes on When Putin and he are alone? He's been parroting Putin's Talking points. How's that? Is he a spokesman for The Russian autocrat? Undeniably, Trump Finds himself in a spot, Which amounts to a case Of possible kompromat. Never have we had A situation so…hairy. Never have we had A president so scary. -by Bob B (1-13-19)
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None other than him matters here at the noon. The sun is an out and out autocrat the sky, he singularly rules,without any apology to anyone. He has banished all the clouds; not even the faint trace of fluffy, milky  white strands seemingly unstoppable till the far horizon. This is when his hidden intention to scorch all at sight is at it's atrocious peak, which would lead to his decline. Under the low hanging sky the earth parched dry, is a cry for mercy.Sun now is a roaring water fall of heat waves lash one after the other. The village of thatched mud huts stand dazed, like it's women in this ascending symphony of pain not feeling any difference of tune, this is what it always been. It's a living miracle, it  still exists fighting the vagaries of winds and the sun not willing to collapse as dunes of dust, which would have been a better solution. The little girls from a school the only secret this village keeps, in midday break pour out like ants from  hidden anthills, scurrying to all directions, trying to cheat the wind spitting fire. A frail old woman, her skin sun scorched,dark, deeply furrowed and folded a true face  of resistance life capable of in the face of the attack of armies of obliteration, sweating all over, sits under a tamarind tree all twigs and only few patches of weak green, cobbling for a living, as if it is her day last here.
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Mar 19, 2017
Mar 19, 2017 at 10:40 AM UTC
Sultry noon
.how many coordinates does it take to draw a straight line? last time i heard: two... so why even bother with two spells of being a politician in office... why not extend the tenure to 8 years to begin with and scrap the 2nd cycle of elections? the "people's will" wouldn't require a 2nd election cycle to elect a politician... given that a politician can be given a 2nd "referendum", but the people, with their iron will, are not entitled to collectively express the plethora of doubt? good! and upon with each and with each upon every other: their own version of an autocrat. so...    why would you have a mid-term vote in America?! what's the point?!        why have a mid-term vote?!                  people are either too tired to give a **** or too engrossed to mind: either... i don't need some pompous diacritical exfoliation from the south of England, to mind whether it's a politician or a journalist talking... fuck's sake...    Lord Andrew Adonis sounds less pompous than Peter Hitchens! so... why have a mid-term vote?!   what's the point?! you voted blond-quiffie in power... so... the mid-term vote could depose him?!        no... i'm too dumb and without much of a libido to give a **** about the politics of these people... and... i'm lacking the fetish for lying.
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Oct 22, 2018
Oct 22, 2018 at 8:04 PM UTC
2nd referendum
Russian aggressors made their move. Now they're in Ukraine. What is Putin trying to prove? What is there to gain? The autocrat's messages are cloaked In lies that Russia was provoked. Stand with Ukraine as Russian forces Put Putin's plan into action. We already know that this of course is More than a mere infraction. Playing the role of boogeyman Is part of Putin's larger plan. Putin claims his forces are there To stop denazification. The argument, which is full of holes, Is total fabrication. We already know that he's obsessed With Ukraine's interest in the West. We watch as the egomaniac Causes death and destruction With this unwarranted attack-- Another Putin production! Stand with Ukraine in this sad hour As Putin basks in his ill-gotten power. -by Bob B (2-24-22)
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Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022 at 10:05 AM UTC
Stand with Ukraine!
All is a graveyard We stumble about upon epochs of reverberating death knells Living like leaves upon one solemn tree Enriched by ancestral spell below Fallen Not yet Organics ancienter -unknown- That black-indigo before the dawn Ground up between bedrock Churned into an oil We go because they went before And we too will go Gone from this whirl The skull calls all Either respond Or don't It does not matter The worm is autocrat Its dictate: feed Excreting the creed Again again There is death Then there's the sleep of Fall Death's second self As Shakes' leaves once penned But the reflection of this In this our complicated globe flitting Is death's third self A selfish giver left to leave A self that is Because of what once was A flourishing Sped forth by inner-whorl of seed An intimate meeting of bodies Being being And been
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 5:57 PM UTC
Leave
Slavishly touting laudatory Remarks that Run counter to his belief Could not let a journalist A moment's relief! "The incumbent Has flickered Darkness piercing light Now as things are bright None stop We have to condemn the past To catapult the present On the infallible mast!" Conveying messages Without beef, Also forced to turn Eyes, to reality, deaf, He is smote by Excruciating grief Freedom of expression Turned brief! To spare himself A stomach pang He has to allow Political thugs, In the guise of Media bosses That form a Government's favour Ingratiating gang, His mouth to gag! Intimidated by them Into self censorship The facility of his pen He could not keep! Ironically, A mainstream press, With a toothless face, Rather conveys An autocrat or, To be precise, A clinically dead Government in place!//
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Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016 at 2:46 AM UTC
A toothless face
bah bah black sheep... ok... the black sheep knuckled you to sleep and now you’re asking for directions using a map and not a satellite navigation across europe, esp. tremendous in germany near dortmund and the rhine cities getting confused... but that’s no reason to drive with ease from new jersey to florida with a glum pickers' pride en route... i can play the ‘i spy with my little’ game into midnight passing me and spare myself inventive optics - like shadow like hallucination in consistency, both flimsy, i can recognise the real filth from packaged recyclables from the orient. well there’s that and there’s old russell the schizoid affective outside tesco drinking a bottle of old speckled hen and talking about snowfalls... 3 / 4 years ago last time i spotted saint clause... i slipped and imagined myself breaking a knee... didn’t happen... what happened was was a clearer truth: why this fake image stimulant... i cant’ watch the stars but have to subconsciously watch candy crush? it’s **** i want the days within the insignia of war, i don’t want my subconscious patented with candy crush, i want the stars to remain... better an autocrat than a technocrat... at least a human face... adolf touchy-feely, here we go... i imagine all those rivers of heraclitus concerning a coordinate known as a waterfall... and post-humous exactness expressing peace... then i spot picasso on the roof outside my bedroom window... i support his elevation through evangelicalism from halo to angels wings... you know what the three wise babylonians said... you scared them to egypt you idiot announcing reign of the ditto, you scared them them with myrrh, melchior you’re already close to malachi, that will do... look at it... it’s babylonian already... it’s a babylon of orthodox christianity (greek / russian), catholicism, protestantism, baptists, pantheists and other offshoots like being mormon! well you can never make an omelette by the dozen involved without asking the thirteenth egg: chicken or egg first? crucifix?! oh.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM UTC
picasso outside the window (I)
bah bah black sheep... ok... the black sheep knuckled you to sleep and now you’re asking for directions using a map and not a satellite navigation across europe, esp. tremendous in germany near dortmund and the rhine cities getting confused... but that’s no reason to drive with ease from new jersey to florida with a glum pickers' pride en route... i can play the ‘i spy with my little’ game into midnight passing me and spare myself inventive optics - like shadow like hallucination in consistency, both flimsy, i can recognise the real filth from packaged recyclables from the orient. well there’s that and there’s old russell the schizoid affective outside tesco drinking a bottle of old speckled hen and talking about snowfalls... 3 / 4 years ago last time i spotted saint clause... i slipped and imagined myself breaking a knee... didn’t happen... what happened was was a clearer truth: why this fake image stimulant... i cant’ watch the stars but have to subconsciously watch candy crush? it’s **** i want the days within the insignia of war, i don’t want my subconscious patented with candy crush, i want the stars to remain... better an autocrat than a technocrat... at least a human face... adolf touchy-feely, here we go... i imagine all those rivers of heraclitus concerning a coordinate known as a waterfall... and post-humous exactness expressing peace... then i spot picasso on the roof outside my bedroom window... i support his elevation through evangelicalism from halo to angels wings... you know what the three wise babylonians said... you scared them to egypt you idiot announcing reign of the ditto, you scared them them with myrrh, melchior you’re already close to malachi, that will do... look at it... it’s babylonian already... it’s a babylon of orthodox christianity (greek / russian), catholicism, protestantism, baptists, pantheists and other offshoots like being mormon! well you can never make an omelette by the dozen involved without asking the thirteenth egg: chicken or egg first? crucifix?! oh.
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At last the sinister stranger arrived, in a large limousine with windows dark that no one should see who was inside, and a small flag in front and a shiny sheen, every part polished and perfectly clean, diplomatic plates both front and behind impressive it was this four-wheeled machine. Out stepped the stranger and black of hair, his glasses glinting in the glare of sunlight shining down on him, strutting slowly unsmiling towards the club with all his bodyguards, short of stature, fat not thin, tunic of grey and stern of mien, the arrogant autocrat himself in person had arrived to visit George’s kitchen. From The Adventures of George ©Blair Gowrie (Roderick Macdonald)
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Jul 18, 2017
Jul 18, 2017 at 10:54 PM UTC
The Sinister Stranger
Hungry and homeless oh what a mess, but don't believe everything that you would read, to be fed or to feed to be led or to lead to sit and beg with a dog on a lead is it greed? do we need explanation is the state of the nation so sad did we ever have what we thought that we had or is it really that bad that we just cannot look? Close the book don't read any more stay behind your locked front door. What do you care whether or not people share you're an autocrat a fattened cat a rat and something else that rhymes with that. Homeless and hungry and your tongues hanging out, Food? You've forgotten what the taste of food's all about Home? Is a place by the river,on a bench where your fingers are clenched against the cold and the night it'll be alright the Government say so, so you know that's the truth.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 4:28 PM UTC
London lights
There were times when we at least thought The United States was deserving of praise. We served as a model for many nations. What has happened to those days? Now we're at the threshold of A growing movement that seems to be A direct assault on what we've stood for And a threat to our democracy. How we used to criticize Strongman rulers worldwide Who stripped their people of their rights! Oh, how we were horrified! Now people around the world Look at us in disbelief And ask themselves how all of us Are not overcome with grief. People who lived in autocracies And fled because they lived in fear, Look around wide-eyed and ask, "What the hell is happening here?" Insurrectionists being called Patriots? Voter suppression? Overturning election results? A personality cult obsession? Immigrants becoming scapegoats? People challenging safe elections? Paramilitary thugs? Folks with suspicious foreign connections? People threatening health care workers And thinking there's nothing wrong with that? The breaking down of institutions? Voters preferring an autocrat? Apathy will be our downfall; Our complacency will as well. There won't be a clang of freedom From our silenced Liberty Bell. If we do not strive to preserve Democracy and make that our aim, We will suffer the consequences And have only ourselves to blame. -by Bob B (10-12-21)
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Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021 at 8:27 AM UTC
On Saving Democracy
Some parents love their children, others don’t. -Why don’t you love me Mama and Papa? That would involve something like wisdom. -What did I do to make you hate me? To wonder and ask what’s wrong with them. -Daddy, I’m scared. The world seems mean. Not want much of anything to do with them. -I feel like a horror movie on the screen! Throw them overboard to teach them swimming. Their faith in family love keeps on dimming. Too young to have a real chance to sue them. Parents who have kids but never knew them. People that have no use for encouragement. People who seem born without any patience. An autocrat that has no use for creativity. A parent who demands obedient passivity. To make them live a life like a federal prison. -We used to play Not now. What for? To have babies and then abandon them -How come you don’t smile at me anymore? To living with people that don’t really like them. -There was a softness in your voice that’s gone. Demanding they act like little men and women. -I have no one to trust at home from now on. Throw them overboard to teach them swimming. Their faith in family love keeps on dimming. Too young to have a real chance to sue them. Parents who have kids but never knew them. People that have no use for encouragement. People who seem born without any patience. An autocrat that has no use for creativity. A parent who demands obedient passivity.
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Jan 5, 2018
Jan 5, 2018 at 12:43 PM UTC
PARENTS WHO DON'T LIKE CHILDREN
So many burbed wires sorrounding my heart! No one can enter the border, How was it occupied by a refugee intruder? The cunning refugee is my lazy moments, I can't pass time feeling loving him, Without him everything seems faded and dim. I am a migrant in my own land, Refugee conducts the state as an autocrat, A born ignorant! He can never be a democrat. Love? He doesn't know at all, Primitive, savage who frightens storm by weapon, I feel furious thinking how my heart was won? What's the secrecy? My knowledge can't explain, I see Emotion smiling, not a bit worrying, Telling me that God himself did this Love showering.
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Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019 at 12:35 AM UTC
A Cunning Refugee
What is the gulf Between moggy And doggy? Why is it that The cat Is an autocrat? And the hound Is renowned As nice to have around? Some people make a beeline For the feline Others show elation On ‘spotting’ a Dalmatian Though each may rejoice In their choice The cat will embrace His rightful place Above the human race
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May 2, 2018
May 2, 2018 at 2:22 PM UTC
The rightful cat.
By autocrat I mean a domineering bossy pseudo-dictator of a basically free country. No, I say, and he's doing a good job, but he has thing kinda harsh peopled following that probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for certain pink lazy young people infiltrating the power structures of this country. That sounds far-fetched, I know, and the babbling of a jealous old man, but that's my hunch - there are too many young people in high school who come home and plop themselves down on the couch to a bunch of inane TV with a whole bag of Lay's potato chips at their fingertips, irritating their right-winged father, cheating afterward, and getting educated in a technical field and offending dangerous psychotics off the street. If Trump would just correct that and not take his hang ups out on us Latinos (I'm partially Mexican, Puerto Rican, South American, and Spanish, so far as I know) and Muslims like me, this country wouldn't disintegrate with mass murderers and such, who might have delusions that Trump is their der fuhrer. He's kind of a know-it0all and becoming autocratic as it would seem. He could prevent this from coming to full fruition by just minding the liberal media a little bit.
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 11:23 AM UTC
Donald Trump - Is He a Thriving Autocrat Already