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"chancellor" poems
a HOME credible THE BISHOP accusation ADMINISTRATION is PARISHES one MINISTRIES that, SCHOOLS after RESOURCES review SAFE ENVIRONMENT of EMPLOYEES reasonably CAREERS available, CONTACT US relevant MAKE A GIFT information BISHOP’S FAITH APPEAL in LOVE AND JUSTICE consultation AFRICAN AMERICAN MINISTRY with CATHOLIC CHARITIES the PLANNED GIVING Diocesan CHANCELLOR Review OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION Board HISPANIC MINISTRY or CAMPUS MINISTRY other CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY professionals, STEWARDSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS there YOUTH MINISTRY is FINANCIAL SERVICES reason MODERATOR OF THE CURIA to MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN believe SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY is FAMILY LIFE MINISTRY true VOCATIONS The soup today is not what it could be; We’d better search out the old recipe Explanatory Note: I fear the poem as written fails, which is my fault (perhaps I have lapsed into fuzziness from reading Leonard Cohen), so here is a bit of exposition: The words in small print are a quote from the Bishops of Texas (long may they wave), generated by some in-house scrivener, about what constitutes a "credible accusation."  "Credible accusation" is not a title in civil, criminal, or canon law, and it appears to be some sort of Article 58 (cf. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago), a means whereby anyone is guilty because he has been accused.  It stinks. Also stinky is the behavior of some few priests and religious. Anyway, I pulled the quote from a diocesan web site, and scattered among it in LARGE TYPE categories from that site.  I stirred 'em all up in a soup because the matter of paedophilia and the bishops' responses seem to be a soup, making it difficult for a "good simpleton" (cf A Canticle for Leibowitz) like me to understand. May God have mercy on us all.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 4:20 PM UTC
Our Catholic Soup Kitchen (Explanatory Note Appended)
a HOME credible THE BISHOP accusation ADMINISTRATION is PARISHES one MINISTRIES that, SCHOOLS after RESOURCES review SAFE ENVIRONMENT of EMPLOYEES reasonably CAREERS available, CONTACT US relevant MAKE A GIFT information BISHOP’S FAITH APPEAL in LOVE AND JUSTICE consultation AFRICAN AMERICAN MINISTRY with CATHOLIC CHARITIES the PLANNED GIVING Diocesan CHANCELLOR Review OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION Board HISPANIC MINISTRY or CAMPUS MINISTRY other CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY professionals, STEWARDSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS there YOUTH MINISTRY is FINANCIAL SERVICES reason MODERATOR OF THE CURIA to MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN believe SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY is FAMILY LIFE MINISTRY true VOCATIONS The soup today is not what it could be; We’d better search out the old recipe Explanatory Note: I fear the poem as written fails, which is my fault (perhaps I have lapsed into fuzziness from reading Leonard Cohen), so here is a bit of exposition: The words in small print are a quote from the Bishops of Texas (long may they wave), generated by some in-house scrivener, about what constitutes a "credible accusation."  "Credible accusation" is not a title in civil, criminal, or canon law, and it appears to be some sort of Article 58 (cf. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago), a means whereby anyone is guilty because he has been accused.  It stinks. Also stinky is the behavior of some few priests and religious. Anyway, I pulled the quote from a diocesan web site, and scattered among it in LARGE TYPE categories from that site.  I stirred 'em all up in a soup because the matter of paedophilia and the bishops' responses seem to be a soup, making it difficult for a "good simpleton" (cf A Canticle for Leibowitz) like me to understand. May God have mercy on us all.
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I remember when I walked the Earth in the days before I died. When ***** chancellor ****** rose, after the Reichstag fire. I remember a November night with a million shards of glass. I never felt more all alone, that night my lover passed. After that, I had no rights, I was forced to bear this sign: A pink Triangle swatch of cloth, by this I was defined. I remember some with David's star would look down their nose at me. We were under the same sentence- had not our deaths all been decreed? I remember when I walked the Earth in the days before I died. Before mein Fuhrer dug for me my grave up in the sky.
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Aug 20, 2012
Aug 20, 2012 at 6:15 AM UTC
Pink Triangle
A defeat I can't bare witness I should have known The king signed a peace treaty with the enemy Politics behind our backs Chancellor's participation His engagement cost us dearly this war Poison the king's mind for serenity Our enemies have won I renounce service to the king Nobleman I am A mercenary life I will live Payments is my services Death is thy drink May the spirits keep me away? From a nation of ignorance
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Sep 30, 2009
Sep 30, 2009 at 3:04 AM UTC
Betrayal
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. No Oscar ruled the table, But I'd a troop of friends That knowing better talk had gone Talked of odds and ends. Some knew what ailed the world But never said a thing, So I have picked a better trade And night and morning sing: Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon. Am I a great Lord Chancellor That slept upon the Sack? Commanding officer that tore The khaki from his back? Or am I de Valera, Or the King of Greece, Or the man that made the motors? Ach, call me what you please! Here's a Montenegrin lute, And its old sole string Makes me sweet music And I delight to sing: Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon. With boys and girls about him. With any sort of clothes, With a hat out of fashion, With Old patched shoes, With a ragged bandit cloak, With an eye like a hawk, With a stiff straight back, With a strutting turkey walk. With a bag full of pennies, With a monkey on a chain, With a great cock's feather, With an old foul tune. Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.
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A Statesman's Holiday
No, heart, no brains and no courage Friends, Romans, Countrymen lend me your hears Allow me to introduce the Queen of Truth Your majesty, you are the fairness of them all Such an honor to be your Lord Chancellor Thus, I beckon your call Your highness and sweet gratefulness I take great pleasure In serving you, my lady Indeed, I am at you services, Day or night, and Your wish is by command, and I wish you longevity
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Jun 24, 2013
Jun 24, 2013 at 2:54 AM UTC
The Donkey Kisser
I LIVED among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. No Oscar ruled the table, But I'd a troop of friends That knowing better talk had gone Talked of odds and ends. Some knew what ailed the world But never said a thing, So I have picked a better trade And night and morning sing: Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon. Am I a great Lord Chancellor That slept upon the Sack? Commanding officer that tore The khaki from his back? Or am I de Valera, Or the King of Greece, Or the man that made the motors? Ach, call me what you please! Here's a Montenegrin lute, And its old sole string Makes me sweet music And I delight to sing: Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon. With boys and girls about him. With any sort of clothes, With a hat out of fashion, With Old patched shoes, With a ragged bandit cloak, With an eye like a hawk, With a stiff straight back, With a strutting turkey walk. With a bag full of pennies, With a monkey on a chain, With a great cock's feather, With an old foul tune. Tall dames go walking in grass-green Avalon.
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The Statesman's Holiday
Today three hundred gather recalling to the World its’ shame. They’ve come once more to Auschwitz on a more comfortable train. The youngest, in their Seventies, were children at the time, when Russians overran the camp and exposed the Nazis’ crimes. If you were gypsy Gay or Jew incarcerated there They starved and worked you unto death- Your grave was in the air. The walks were paved with bits of bone from those who died before. These lives and deaths were cataloged for the ***** Chancellor. All who remain now gather for this last and final time, to testify to their suffering and rebuke those who deny.
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 3:40 PM UTC
All Who Remain
Thou Messiah preaching Change, art thou true to thy words?  Fighting bribery and corruption yet with cheap sentiments,  Judgeth thou not thy biased - honest actions to be corrupt?  Thou that prophesied an economy of sweet change, How is it that thou considereth not the masses interest?  Inventor of Change, thy prophesied words art without works;  Even thy supporters yearn in regret for voting thee in. Is this the change that thou for long prophesied?  I yawn tears for the future of Nigeria and her unborn child.  Thou art trusted to be the man after the peoples heart And loved by all cause of thy prophesies of change, But how be it that thou art different from thine own self? Savior of the people, why art thou adamant to the peoples cry?  Thy poisonous deeds have caused much great pain and suffering,  Why not invest thy ears on the sweat of the poor and helpless? Did ye deceive the ants and termites that voted thee in to save them?  Remember thou thy words and promises made before being elected.  Thou surrounds thyself with chameleons occupying seats of filtered ambitions, Woe betide thee for thy conscience have refused to judge thee.  Art thou not guilty of prophesying false prophesies of change?  Thou that killeth the rosy wealth of the nation's pride, Why doth thou not consider the sufferings of the poor ants?  I mourn for the bitter death of the nation's sweet economy. Savior of the people, why art thou so heartless a Messiah? Howbeit in thy regime, hunger and suffering is the income of ants? The marketplace has become an ocean of expensive - cheap items, Cost of petrol waxing hot and higher amidst the harsh economy;  Savior was thy coming to destroy or redeem the helpless ants? Thou promised hope to educated ants and graduated termites,  Yet not an iota of thy prophesied promises or words art come to pass;  Chancellor of Change, judge it if thou art true to thine own self. Thou that prophesied promises, howbeit thy words art not fulfilled? Mind thee the poor ants and termites voted thee in to save them, Messiah did ye deceive the ants with thy deceptive - genuine lies? Savior thy heresies has become a poisonous venom to the poor, Wilt thou not resign seeing thou be not true to thine own words?
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Jul 1, 2016
Jul 1, 2016 at 7:12 PM UTC
Is This Change?
Thou Messiah preaching Change, art thou true to thy words?  Fighting bribery and corruption yet with cheap sentiments,  Judgeth thou not thy biased - honest actions to be corrupt?  Thou that prophesied an economy of sweet change, How is it that thou considereth not the masses interest?  Inventor of Change, thy prophesied words art without works;  Even thy supporters yearn in regret for voting thee in. Is this the change that thou for long prophesied?  I yawn tears for the future of Nigeria and her unborn child.  Thou art trusted to be the man after the peoples heart And loved by all cause of thy prophesies of change, But how be it that thou art different from thine own self? Savior of the people, why art thou adamant to the peoples cry?  Thy poisonous deeds have caused much great pain and suffering,  Why not invest thy ears on the sweat of the poor and helpless? Did ye deceive the ants and termites that voted thee in to save them?  Remember thou thy words and promises made before being elected.  Thou surrounds thyself with chameleons occupying seats of filtered ambitions, Woe betide thee for thy conscience have refused to judge thee.  Art thou not guilty of prophesying false prophesies of change?  Thou that killeth the rosy wealth of the nation's pride, Why doth thou not consider the sufferings of the poor ants?  I mourn for the bitter death of the nation's sweet economy. Savior of the people, why art thou so heartless a Messiah? Howbeit in thy regime, hunger and suffering is the income of ants? The marketplace has become an ocean of expensive - cheap items, Cost of petrol waxing hot and higher amidst the harsh economy;  Savior was thy coming to destroy or redeem the helpless ants? Thou promised hope to educated ants and graduated termites,  Yet not an iota of thy prophesied promises or words art come to pass;  Chancellor of Change, judge it if thou art true to thine own self. Thou that prophesied promises, howbeit thy words art not fulfilled? Mind thee the poor ants and termites voted thee in to save them, Messiah did ye deceive the ants with thy deceptive - genuine lies? Savior thy heresies has become a poisonous venom to the poor, Wilt thou not resign seeing thou be not true to thine own words?
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I have no patron saint. But if I should I doubt that Doubting Thomas would be him. Though well he worked with what he understood, I cannot emulate my eponym: too squeamish still to press your ****** palms, too cowardly to bear the cross you bore. too blind to fall and sing believing psalms. With other saints called Thomas, all the more. But then there's Thomas Cantilupe's career, So concrete: he was born in 1218, was chancellor of Oxford for a year, gave countless counsellings to king and queen and years of selfless service to his see; and lives today recalled by God, and me.
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
Thomas Cantilupe
Recognizing that lovely dress At the Chancellor's Ball Perceiving her on the palace floor Chancing to dance with Tacita Too many suitors Crowding the scene Imagine us Holding each other Following the engagement To the promenade Gazing for an opportunity for morning tea At my cottage Over looking the glossy pond Our yearning can ment A hight of lost hope
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Sep 9, 2009
Sep 9, 2009 at 1:22 AM UTC
Tacita
If you go down to Westminster today you're in for a big surprise If you can stand the stench, you will not believe your eyes For all the MPs who have lied and lied have all quit before the people uprise For this is the week that parliament collapses. ******** it time for the Blairites, who don't know who to back for their best ******** it time for the Tories, as Daves walked away from his mess The Labour deputy is such a coward and like the chancellor has lost his voice Because they realise the people no longer want them. So if you go south to parliament you best beware of knives Labour have turned into Tories and only Jezza survives. They think they can push him off a cliff, more chance of Dave being stuck in a pig The week the war came back to haunt the Blairites! But if go down to tip you hat and stand against Corbyn Beware back home they petittion to do you knees like you did his Your voters whom you have ignored and ignored are looking to throw you out the door So grab your coat and don't forget your sister!!!! But one more thing if you think this is cut and drawn Remember Farage, Boris Gove and the irritable bowel one None have so far grown a pair, they want to give someone else the blame Because half the country has changed its mind again!!!
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Jul 9, 2016
Jul 9, 2016 at 5:38 PM UTC
The Westminster picnic
34 / Million-To-One Way Street, London [3] (Emma Clark, BBC, BBC), German and Russian, the main $22.2 billion home / Netscape MD 3100 Axiata / Russia / 1683 at Ariel, George 2) 12,300 AB (Boston 600 to 12), Italy, Japan, Guillaume Lucy 342 in Hawaii, Russia, Hawaii, 21 BCE 1000 1000 May 12, 2001 | / i / 0 0 (9 0 6) 342 6, 16 and 16, four, | |    || Italy, Japan, Georgia, Russia) 342 (10) / 100,000, Krishna 34. In 2008, the Consolidated Chancellor of the United States of America, 1004 London, 1000 4, 00, George, 4) Stacey Kentucky, 1683 Louisville CFR (Boston, 2006) 2005 Nottingham 8 (100) 000 100, 000), Country (Boston, 600, 12) , Italy, Japan, Georgia, California, 34 / B] | (3-Emma Clark BBBCBBC), Russia, Walter and George's Sham in the jungle 22 million (12) USA (44) Asia 3100 GJ / Russia / Jordan Jordan 3300 163 16 16 22 John Stathy in 1683 12 (300) and Bruk (Boston) 12600342 [Romanian Physician 8] | (12) Belima (m) 2100 34 35 Like Valerie, | Breed 4.4 / Ed Statsy (16) 23 Janavar, 2001| (E) and 0:10 / produce (00 9 00 00.0 Greece (10) (Armenia, Italy, Japan, Georgia, California), USA (21) - German Ethics L074k23lk683 23 100 / fifth 12 minutes London, 2008 Fourth, | Nood-oo Bumma (1), Hiroshi Brahma (62), 12 and her father 100 000 100 grams) KI: Italy, Italy, ||War Pigs Gen'rals gathered in their masses, Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction, Sorcerer of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning, As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind, Poisoning their brainwashed minds Oh Lord yeah Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role for the poor, yeah Time will tell on their power minds, Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess, Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah Now in darkness world stops turning, Ashes where the bodies burning No more War Pigs have the power, Hand of God has struck the hour Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees the war pigs crawling, Begging mercies for their sins Satan, laughing, spreads his wings Oh Lord yeah!
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Oct 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018 at 1:02 AM UTC
❤Untitled & War Pigs [Black Sabbath]ላውራ ❤♀︎☉♀︎
34 / Million-To-One Way Street, London [3] (Emma Clark, BBC, BBC), German and Russian, the main $22.2 billion home / Netscape MD 3100 Axiata / Russia / 1683 at Ariel, George 2) 12,300 AB (Boston 600 to 12), Italy, Japan, Guillaume Lucy 342 in Hawaii, Russia, Hawaii, 21 BCE 1000 1000 May 12, 2001 | / i / 0 0 (9 0 6) 342 6, 16 and 16, four, | |    || Italy, Japan, Georgia, Russia) 342 (10) / 100,000, Krishna 34. In 2008, the Consolidated Chancellor of the United States of America, 1004 London, 1000 4, 00, George, 4) Stacey Kentucky, 1683 Louisville CFR (Boston, 2006) 2005 Nottingham 8 (100) 000 100, 000), Country (Boston, 600, 12) , Italy, Japan, Georgia, California, 34 / B] | (3-Emma Clark BBBCBBC), Russia, Walter and George's Sham in the jungle 22 million (12) USA (44) Asia 3100 GJ / Russia / Jordan Jordan 3300 163 16 16 22 John Stathy in 1683 12 (300) and Bruk (Boston) 12600342 [Romanian Physician 8] | (12) Belima (m) 2100 34 35 Like Valerie, | Breed 4.4 / Ed Statsy (16) 23 Janavar, 2001| (E) and 0:10 / produce (00 9 00 00.0 Greece (10) (Armenia, Italy, Japan, Georgia, California), USA (21) - German Ethics L074k23lk683 23 100 / fifth 12 minutes London, 2008 Fourth, | Nood-oo Bumma (1), Hiroshi Brahma (62), 12 and her father 100 000 100 grams) KI: Italy, Italy, ||War Pigs Gen'rals gathered in their masses, Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction, Sorcerer of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning, As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind, Poisoning their brainwashed minds Oh Lord yeah Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role for the poor, yeah Time will tell on their power minds, Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess, Wait 'till their judgement day comes, yeah Now in darkness world stops turning, Ashes where the bodies burning No more War Pigs have the power, Hand of God has struck the hour Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees the war pigs crawling, Begging mercies for their sins Satan, laughing, spreads his wings Oh Lord yeah!
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Ilsa's hair blew like silk in the soft Parisian breeze. Rick looked 10 years younger driving his sportster down Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe was in the distance. Young, radiant, Ilsa was the most beautiful woman in the world. Every man who ever saw her instantly fell in love with her, myself included. The German army was only a day from entering Paris, but that didn't stop Rick from proposing to Ilsa in La Belle Aurore as Sam played AS TIME GOES BY. That Ilsa didn't meet Rick in the pounding rain at the train station as they had planned to take it to Marseille on their way to Casablanca foreshadowed the protracted, brutal war the Nazis had already begun one conquest after another across Europe. But ****** was not prescient enough to realize "...a kiss is just a kiss...." and in his Berlin bunker first swallowed a cyanide capsule then put the muzzle of his revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger, his only constructive act since becoming Chancellor in 1933. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Dec 18, 2022
Dec 18, 2022 at 7:59 PM UTC
LA BELLE AURORE
my stomach has never hurt so hard from laughing because i’ve met some of the best people to share it with. it’s two in the morning and we decide perhaps it is time to start the work that we should’ve done ahead of time. and in the morning, we promise we’ll finish but instead we sit and laugh, again. this time, inappropriately. the professor’s watching, and we aren’t getting our work done. the mexican restaurant ironically run by asians is closed. again. i’m craving enchiladas. so i make do with second tier ones from gramercy. they’re not bad. but i prefer the ones from the mexican restaurant run by asians. i sit bundled up, half free-writing, half asleep, and i take the person sitting in front of me and use them to my advantage. perhaps if i move my head just a little to the left, the professor won’t see me nodding off to sleep. (i just wanted a little nap). but i resist and we present half-heartedly. i don’t think we really cared about the new chancellor about bloomberg and about joe torre. the library brings a welcome change, and i see a familiar face. and we sit together and we laugh and before we know it, it’s time for class. again. this time, i make haste to allow my eyelids to flutter until they are cemented shut as Descartes is explained to us by our passionate but flighty professor. i wake up in time to be assigned into a group. (what are we arguing again?) something about the senses and how to use them. and whether we are certain. i dislike debates like this. i feel uncertain already. and philosophy makes me even more uncertain. uncertainer. uncertainest. the train ride home is a haze. and i am glad to be home. even though the living room is missing its lively chatter half from my parents and half from the television. but they’ll be home soon, and all will be right.
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Feb 20, 2011
Feb 20, 2011 at 5:32 PM UTC
my day in freeform #1
my stomach has never hurt so hard from laughing because i’ve met some of the best people to share it with. it’s two in the morning and we decide perhaps it is time to start the work that we should’ve done ahead of time. and in the morning, we promise we’ll finish but instead we sit and laugh, again. this time, inappropriately. the professor’s watching, and we aren’t getting our work done. the mexican restaurant ironically run by asians is closed. again. i’m craving enchiladas. so i make do with second tier ones from gramercy. they’re not bad. but i prefer the ones from the mexican restaurant run by asians. i sit bundled up, half free-writing, half asleep, and i take the person sitting in front of me and use them to my advantage. perhaps if i move my head just a little to the left, the professor won’t see me nodding off to sleep. (i just wanted a little nap). but i resist and we present half-heartedly. i don’t think we really cared about the new chancellor about bloomberg and about joe torre. the library brings a welcome change, and i see a familiar face. and we sit together and we laugh and before we know it, it’s time for class. again. this time, i make haste to allow my eyelids to flutter until they are cemented shut as Descartes is explained to us by our passionate but flighty professor. i wake up in time to be assigned into a group. (what are we arguing again?) something about the senses and how to use them. and whether we are certain. i dislike debates like this. i feel uncertain already. and philosophy makes me even more uncertain. uncertainer. uncertainest. the train ride home is a haze. and i am glad to be home. even though the living room is missing its lively chatter half from my parents and half from the television. but they’ll be home soon, and all will be right.
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I am the commissioner of sewers, king of rat's alley, chancellor of the canine graveyards. This life right here is a party and safari. In hoc signo vinces: In this sign you will conquer. I am impetuous, adamantly audacious. Ic heb u liever dan en everswin, al waert van finen goude ghewracht: I love you more than a wild bore, even if it were made of fine gold.
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Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 9:42 PM UTC
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Academic meanness in the blend of old age crisis Have over-taken the only professor in my country, He began with a colonial Maths diploma to his current air Of Doctorate in history of his ethnic pristine African village, He served all the universities as the chancellor of chancellors, Unto now to his octogenarian age dressed in full suits of bitterness, He is strongly jealousy to full scale of intellectual blindness, In full plumage of faith that none else went to school after himself, In the parochial mental realm of his foot steps on the sands of time Being the features and land-marks of education in the land of Africa, He hates other scholars with passion, but no iota of reason He feels them defective as their tribes can not produce a professor, His fear is that who will teach PhD. students after his death, He refers to his family as center of everything, none else can do Other than his glorious sons and daughters from his dear wife, Mrs. Professor speaks twenty four languages; Greek and Russian, A mere saucer to her strong linguisticised African mandibles, Who else on earth can have a wife of this sterling caliber? That made the Kalahari and Sahara deserts to have thunder.
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM UTC
SELFISH PROFFESSOR
Here lies mash of mutilated corpses. Spilled Bavarian bloodline boiling under the sun. Glistening dew, maelstrom fog. Resting on some foreign land to conquer. For Chancellor, for Kaiser, for God. Blood is the same to the soil. We bleed different for our adversaries. For their Man, for their King, for their God. Clash of cogs, industry, machinery and competition. Banging rocks to rockets burying. Our brothers without banners to the same fate.
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 4:40 PM UTC
W. Poetry: The German
A chancellor of effectual visualization, Tantalizing, vigorous, scrutiny, Betwixt a certain thought? The depravated child bends his Eternal, Nostril of elite passions inward, Queuing and choking indiscriminatly, On the possible detention of self, Ring, ring, ring The fish calls, "Salutations" A man is worth every penny, Spent in a way he cannot control, Or conform with, In a sense that he notices Anything at all
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM UTC
Effect and sense
Sara and Stephen were of a marked race, living at the wrong time, and in the wrong place. When ****** took power, they eased each other’s fears. “Germany is civilized, It can’t happen here.” When the Chancellor railed against gypsies and Jews “ He’s just playing politics” was their commonsense view. Yet hatred took root; the brown shirts had free run And the voters had cause to rue what they had done. ****** came for their guns and they meekly complied. Few then thought to resist the strong onrushing tide. “The Police will protect us, Sara, my dear.” “This is Beethoven’s birthplace; it can’t happen here.” Those were very hard times, the worst we ever saw. Rich Jews were resented for the furs that they wore. “They cost us the war, they are traitors, it’s clear.” “Sara, don’t worry, it can’t happen here.” The foes of this Chancellor disappeared in the night And he started to speak of a thousand year ***** He censored the newspapers; both Left and Right. And glass littered the streets one November night. With Hindenburg dead, who was there left to stand? Who had will to resist that warped little man? Perves wore Triangles, Juden wore stars Both lost their rights under Germany’s laws. Sara and Stephen were loaded, like freight, on a train bound for Dachau by command of the State.” I’m sure we’ll be freed, Sara, my dear.” We’re a civilized race, this can’t happen here.” Stephen worked as a slave but at least stayed alive. He was freed by the Russians in May, Forty five. Sara, his wife, had a far crueler fate; She was sent to the showers by the Nazi’s mandate. Back in Berlin, Stephen saw with his own eyes that the “Thousand year ***** was a tissue of lies First pillaged by brown shirts, then bombed in the war Stephen thought” This isn’t home anymore.” Now Stephen is old, living here in the States. He looks with dismay at these two candidates. It seems like a nightmare he lived through before. A crisis is coming and there will be war.
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May 28, 2016
May 28, 2016 at 11:25 AM UTC
It Can’t Happen Here (revised)
Sara and Stephen were of a marked race, living at the wrong time, and in the wrong place. When ****** took power, they eased each other’s fears. “Germany is civilized, It can’t happen here.” When the Chancellor railed against gypsies and Jews “ He’s just playing politics” was their commonsense view. Yet hatred took root; the brown shirts had free run And the voters had cause to rue what they had done. ****** came for their guns and they meekly complied. Few then thought to resist the strong onrushing tide. “The Police will protect us, Sara, my dear.” “This is Beethoven’s birthplace; it can’t happen here.” Those were very hard times, the worst we ever saw. Rich Jews were resented for the furs that they wore. “They cost us the war, they are traitors, it’s clear.” “Sara, don’t worry, it can’t happen here.” The foes of this Chancellor disappeared in the night And he started to speak of a thousand year ***** He censored the newspapers; both Left and Right. And glass littered the streets one November night. With Hindenburg dead, who was there left to stand? Who had will to resist that warped little man? Perves wore Triangles, Juden wore stars Both lost their rights under Germany’s laws. Sara and Stephen were loaded, like freight, on a train bound for Dachau by command of the State.” I’m sure we’ll be freed, Sara, my dear.” We’re a civilized race, this can’t happen here.” Stephen worked as a slave but at least stayed alive. He was freed by the Russians in May, Forty five. Sara, his wife, had a far crueler fate; She was sent to the showers by the Nazi’s mandate. Back in Berlin, Stephen saw with his own eyes that the “Thousand year ***** was a tissue of lies First pillaged by brown shirts, then bombed in the war Stephen thought” This isn’t home anymore.” Now Stephen is old, living here in the States. He looks with dismay at these two candidates. It seems like a nightmare he lived through before. A crisis is coming and there will be war.
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the tiredness in my bones at times is almost overwhelming it feels existential lodged deeply somewhere at my core that center of my life wherever it is seems to gain distance step by step from the world’s busy-ness makes me consider things like from above and at the same time narrows down my vision to my basic needs what do I care about the hungry dead in Africa the Asian victims of typhoons and floods and mudslides or who becomes chancellor or president etc. I focus on myself mulling the question whether I have a mission in my life whether there is a destiny that needs to be fulfilled or fate to be resigned to or if it’s better to catch each day as if it were my last experience life to the brim as long as possible and die in the midst of it at times I wonder & ponder yet shy back from any definite conclusion hesitant to fall into a groove that lead me to a too predictable end * * *
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 8:46 PM UTC
at times
I was the chancellor of time We ask the breadth of why? Inside my mind. And she gives me an Always ten pence piece In answerings.
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Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM UTC
Witterings
Dedicated to Angela Merkel Mother Germany in word and deed! The Eurounion’s motor of motors, As a physicist, she put deeds right, indeed Laying special stress on economics. The Lady Wonder: she’s existing again, In Marvel there was no tale personage. The foe’s calling her Valkyrja in vain, She is well- known but not for epatage. There are no more any Roman Empires, And Karl the Great’s partially  forgotten. But as before (we know from popular beliefs): Over Europe a black eagle is soaring. {02.12.2019} КАНЦЛЕР ЕВРОПЫ Ангеле Меркель Мать-Германия: слово и дело! Евросоюза железный мотор Меркель, как физик, наладила смело, На экономику сделав упор! Женщина-Чудо: она существует – В Marvel не сказочный был персонаж! Враг называет Валькирией всуе: Меркель известна не за эпатаж! Нет уже римских великих империй, Карл Великий частично забыт. Но, как и раньше (как знаем с поверий), Чёрный орёл над Европой парит! {02.12.2019} Translator - I. Toporov
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May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020 at 10:11 AM UTC
Europe’s chancellor
The rains seem to have finally subsided At least it seems so for now Mopping up the sodden devastation Amid many an insurance row. Some now say that dredging will not work But surely history proves that it’s right Though never a complete solution At least it reduces the plight. But politics now comes into play It’s crucial to be seen in the right So decisions that were taken only yesterday Can so easily be changed overnight. Climate change is with us for good now It’s become part of our way of life And solid steps will need to be taken To end frequent bad weather strife. But Chancellor’s have always cut budgets And none have done more so than this In fact in all of the service programmes People see themselves staring into the abyss. It’s all about how they look to the voters For we carry their careers in our cross For otherwise I think most politicians About the plebiscite just wouldn’t give a toss. We have wards now closing down in our hospitals There are schools that are never repaired A benefit system, though flawed, is besieged Yet the rich tax avoiders still get spared. So the land, like these other things will lose out The efforts will cease as will the rain Till the next time that the heavens all open And ordinary folk again feel the pain. There are houses that are ruined forever Some insurers refusing the bill Flood defenses that seem barely adequate Properties from before empty still. On sodden fields where houses keep rising And new concrete covers over flood plains Where tenants often get such poor insurance And the country just never sees the gain. But it’s the ‘I’m alright Jack’ way of the politicos Who mostly live in their ivory towers They’re the ones who aren’t making decisions Yet the ones wielding all of the powers. So the’cross’ is our one powerful weapon It’s the most powerful thing in the land We should all make so sure that we use it And make all of these fools understand. ©JRW2014
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Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014 at 4:25 PM UTC
On Sodden Fields
The rains seem to have finally subsided At least it seems so for now Mopping up the sodden devastation Amid many an insurance row. Some now say that dredging will not work But surely history proves that it’s right Though never a complete solution At least it reduces the plight. But politics now comes into play It’s crucial to be seen in the right So decisions that were taken only yesterday Can so easily be changed overnight. Climate change is with us for good now It’s become part of our way of life And solid steps will need to be taken To end frequent bad weather strife. But Chancellor’s have always cut budgets And none have done more so than this In fact in all of the service programmes People see themselves staring into the abyss. It’s all about how they look to the voters For we carry their careers in our cross For otherwise I think most politicians About the plebiscite just wouldn’t give a toss. We have wards now closing down in our hospitals There are schools that are never repaired A benefit system, though flawed, is besieged Yet the rich tax avoiders still get spared. So the land, like these other things will lose out The efforts will cease as will the rain Till the next time that the heavens all open And ordinary folk again feel the pain. There are houses that are ruined forever Some insurers refusing the bill Flood defenses that seem barely adequate Properties from before empty still. On sodden fields where houses keep rising And new concrete covers over flood plains Where tenants often get such poor insurance And the country just never sees the gain. But it’s the ‘I’m alright Jack’ way of the politicos Who mostly live in their ivory towers They’re the ones who aren’t making decisions Yet the ones wielding all of the powers. So the’cross’ is our one powerful weapon It’s the most powerful thing in the land We should all make so sure that we use it And make all of these fools understand. ©JRW2014
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Justin Chancellor is blowing my mind, His timing as he hammers on his bass, Setting the tone in the picture Maynard James Keenan paints as he rips through the events, A great separation between sects of the faith, The horrid fate of a monolith, To crumble and burn, Alone and lost, Adrift a raft of ashes, Floating out to sea. The taste of tobacco, tar, and ash is too much at that moment, I stub out the smoke, Taking a swig of cheap beer, To wash down the rancid taste. The song changes again, Keenan belting out about his dark passenger, Making all his victories taste of ash, A most dreaded specter indeed. My mouth is no longer bone dry, I really need to quit, Trust me.
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May 6, 2017
May 6, 2017 at 11:04 PM UTC
11:04 P.M.
I don't give a **** About the pressure Life's a joke so I'll probably End up on the stretcher Eat bad die fast No matter my opposition Enemies seem to find they Way in my jurisdiction **** I know I about cancer But I got a lot of answers Fools say I'm crazy cuz I move my feet But not a dancer Dash like a prancer I'm a spiritual chancellor Got an invisible force they'll shield ya My guns stay bustin bustin Guts all open open hopin To make it but it's going be a ******* Ducking and dodging Hell on a daily sit back kick my feet Up and sip on the Bailey's Irish creme I'm stuck inside s dream of a dream Life ain't what it seems I see people fighting Over who's wrong and right and Dumb muthaphukkaz ain't uniting Take your problem put to the white house Get about ten thousand gallons Of diesel and let it douse Get a flame thrower burn that ***** to ground This is for my ancestry burial ground. Along with the Indians blacks and Mexicans this is a tradition So go on with that raiding Pipelines can't be built We setting up fort so **** yo European courts Never short I stay long hits of the **** Relaxes my state of mind But they say I'm gone fool So What?????????????????
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Dec 30, 2016
Dec 30, 2016 at 12:49 PM UTC
what?