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My generation is the technology generation We are connected 100% of the time My generation is the "selfie" generation A generation of self love and positivity My generation believes you can love someone Even if they're thousands of miles away My generation is the download generation Music from every era is at our fingertips They'll tell you all this is bad They'll say we're a generation ruled by technology And we are, but that's not a bad thing My generation is the one being killed in the street For the color of their skin My generation is the one yelling "hands up don't shoot" And reminding people Black Lives Matter My generation checks social media And hears about news before CNN or Fox My generation uses pictures and videos To dispute the lies we're being fed My generation has the power to change the world They'll say technology is ruining my generation, It's not. It's ruining theirs.
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Aug 28, 2015
Aug 28, 2015 at 10:34 PM UTC
My generation
You see my brown skin And assume I'm a **** You see my hijab And assume I'm a terrorist. You see the smile on my face And assume I'm happy. You hear my words And assume I'm okay. But I am not. Instead I am broken. Yet I am also strong. I am dark and rule-following. I am peaceful and Muslim. You assume based on Society's POV. If you smile You must be happy. Fox, CNN, any media Tells you I am a terrorist. So the names I get called And the extra security checks Are extremely upsetting. The murders of black folk Is either considered appropriate Or it's "black on black crime" So it's not taken seriously. Who are you gonna believe Me or those who don't know me?
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Mar 26, 2018
Mar 26, 2018 at 7:34 PM UTC
Assumptions
HEAR YE HEAR YEIt's a wedding bell for bedding well cause' we're crushin' the illusion of Russian collusion! CNN wets on Russian bedding but Trump bets on Russian wedding, and you're invited to the bridal shower. Punking the monkery, dig the debunkery; from Rasputin to Putin it's time for some straight shootin'. Hillary looks old and glowers at Donald's rumored golden showers. Our media owes US an explanation for streams of steaming urination, but we are willing to forgive and use their wet diapers as debt wipers. My poem's appeal may take a toll, but let its little peal now roll: ****** ****** rings the bell A Fake News warning; time to spell out what was wet with Moscow girls. Putin's putas ?  Wisdom's pearls were pried from Truth's reluctant shell, banishing Hillary straight to hell. None. It's what we want left over from this hag. We now discover beds were dry; it all amounted (all those golden tricks recounted) to less than a tepid bowl of kasha. . . Russia laughed from her summer dacha. InfoWars was on it first while Dems spun lies from false to worst, awarding cash for faked dossiers embellished with the CIA's well-trained performing circus-seal. The FBI endorsed the deal as RINOS horned in on the action: Washingtonian distraction; a democrat-concocted fuss— . . . but we ALL paid Hillary to **** on us.
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Oct 26, 2017
Oct 26, 2017 at 4:47 PM UTC
Fake News Wets Bed
people **** people with nothing but fingers and hair and their very heavy breath. their breath like a crow beak before crucifixes of straw. like a tightening banishment of a lung. remember when we would blow it onto our car window and create that consistent mirth of fog to begin in? the bodies riddled with bullets that flank the highway are no such thing. the schoolchildren lying face down in the corner of the closet are no such thing. they are just winter coats with schoolchildren to fill them for the time being. no amputation of what’s mine will aid them into the grave. no mass communication grief. so why would you call it a mass grave when in truth it was just a pit i dug to fill with crowds of people who died under the pretense that they had previously done so, that nothing was new under the sun. and when people **** people like people do with their instruments as ways of extending themselves into the world and into the marrow of our body obliterating organs of people with their stretching of the muscular rib, shoulder. one eye closes firmly. it’s nothing but a hand gun as if to say a hand eats the gun and makes it whole. as if to say the reinforced metal door exit plan for people who are being killed by other people clicked shut and locked 15,000 years ago and i can’t quit slamming what’s left of me into it. your kid is very dead. but then again so is mine. suppose they killed each other. suppose they both made the mistake of dragging their small, stupid bodies through the trajectory of another body in the first place. in the chip aisle of a gas station maybe. in theaters this christmas. in the midst of a good song that began playing on the lobby radio just a minute before, oh yeah before, things really got going. i saw people killing people on television the other day with their whole bodies, devouring themselves like surgical gloves slick with oiled consumption and bleeding out and i could do nothing. some kids died just because and they told me so and i was told nothing could ever help them because they were just people and they were dying. “breaking news” ended up just being people again. in those moments, i was eating breakfast. our houses were very quiet and needed me in all of them, grandfather clock over CNN, clarifying what has already been committed and committed again. the cipher was others lost blood.
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Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 AM UTC
clarification
people **** people with nothing but fingers and hair and their very heavy breath. their breath like a crow beak before crucifixes of straw. like a tightening banishment of a lung. remember when we would blow it onto our car window and create that consistent mirth of fog to begin in? the bodies riddled with bullets that flank the highway are no such thing. the schoolchildren lying face down in the corner of the closet are no such thing. they are just winter coats with schoolchildren to fill them for the time being. no amputation of what’s mine will aid them into the grave. no mass communication grief. so why would you call it a mass grave when in truth it was just a pit i dug to fill with crowds of people who died under the pretense that they had previously done so, that nothing was new under the sun. and when people **** people like people do with their instruments as ways of extending themselves into the world and into the marrow of our body obliterating organs of people with their stretching of the muscular rib, shoulder. one eye closes firmly. it’s nothing but a hand gun as if to say a hand eats the gun and makes it whole. as if to say the reinforced metal door exit plan for people who are being killed by other people clicked shut and locked 15,000 years ago and i can’t quit slamming what’s left of me into it. your kid is very dead. but then again so is mine. suppose they killed each other. suppose they both made the mistake of dragging their small, stupid bodies through the trajectory of another body in the first place. in the chip aisle of a gas station maybe. in theaters this christmas. in the midst of a good song that began playing on the lobby radio just a minute before, oh yeah before, things really got going. i saw people killing people on television the other day with their whole bodies, devouring themselves like surgical gloves slick with oiled consumption and bleeding out and i could do nothing. some kids died just because and they told me so and i was told nothing could ever help them because they were just people and they were dying. “breaking news” ended up just being people again. in those moments, i was eating breakfast. our houses were very quiet and needed me in all of them, grandfather clock over CNN, clarifying what has already been committed and committed again. the cipher was others lost blood.
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Paris The city of light Having its darkest night Since World War Two. Lebanon Double the body bags, Yet no media hags Turn their heads. Normal For there they say But for Paris nay And so we pay attention. Kenya Syria Iraq Libia A suicide bomb Over here, Two hundred dead, we overhear Wrapped into our daily news. We pay it Almost no heed As the blood drips down to feed The list of the dead. We say It is because we have grown Accustomed, yet we have flown Over the Coocoo's best to believe this. The truth is, Both for here And there, A white life is worth far more. It is worth 10 Black American lives, 16 Hispanic or Asian lives, 27 Arab lives, 35 African lives, These numbers Straight from CNN And the New York Times. Do we not bleed the same blood? Have we forgotten what it is to smile Such that we cannot see ours are all the same? What has happened to this world, Once so gold and bright, Now a darkened, saddened grey As it weeps it's tears Upon the red river That runs through the valley of fears.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 8:46 PM UTC
Paris
The Revolution will not be pay-per-view, Streamed online, or listed in the TV Guide, The Revolution will be LIVE ON AIR Rush seating No reservations First to come are first to serve The Revolution will not be monetarily politicized, the Revolution will be patronized Next, On the World Today Network: Revolution This Way Comes The Revolution will not be a mutually exclusive for CBC, BBC, CNN, YouTube, Facebook, SnapChat, or Instagram The Revolution is more than digital trolling, It will be a Counter-Electronic-Magnetic-Pulse Do you have your passport for the Revolution? The Revolution is unauthorized Written for and by all the people The Revolution is radical, hands-on, and requires assembly Batteries are not included and there is no manufacturer’s warantee,   The Revolution will be uncomfortable for those living in leisure For it has been bred to cause the Elite displeasure Revolution 99% Uploaded Press [ENTER] key to initiate collective action ~ NM 10/17/15
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Dec 28, 2018
Dec 28, 2018 at 3:17 PM UTC
The Revolution Will Not Be a One-Time-Only YouTube Sensation
relaxing? relaxing would be a sin against myself. see God spun and wove golden bits of wisdom in these curls that are mine. see these curls spring loud with songs of my Nubian mothers and war cries of my Rasta fathers. see these curls bounce proud to the rhythm of tribal drums and the foot prints of my sisters from Manila reside there as they roll lumpia between the coils and springs. see these curls have moved sandstone bricks cross deserts, building divine architecture so perfectly aligned with cosmos and planets until Moses told Pharaoh to Let My People Go. these curls have traveled cross oceans and triangles packed like sardines squalid below the decks of ships. see these curls have been ***** by the nasty ***** in the big house and suffered sun strokes in cotton fields. see these curls sing loud and strong. See these curls were branded and forced at gunpoint behind ******** barbed wire fences gassed to death in the name of so called purification. see these curls bleed the pain of fire hoses and dog bites and whites only signs. see these curls wont back down gainst no burnin crosses gainst no swastikas gainst no elephant ******** talkin all that jazz on fox and cnn. see these curls dance wildly off beat to straight rhythms that drone on in 4/4 time c major sixty bpm. see these curls are Mas and my Grammas. see my curls are too proud to sit back and chill and won’t take no **** or heat or hot air. see these curls cannot be contained in braids or scarves or jars of creamy crack. see these curls dare you to force them to coerce them to straighten up their act. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls will not ******* relax.
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM UTC
soft and beautiful just for me
relaxing? relaxing would be a sin against myself. see God spun and wove golden bits of wisdom in these curls that are mine. see these curls spring loud with songs of my Nubian mothers and war cries of my Rasta fathers. see these curls bounce proud to the rhythm of tribal drums and the foot prints of my sisters from Manila reside there as they roll lumpia between the coils and springs. see these curls have moved sandstone bricks cross deserts, building divine architecture so perfectly aligned with cosmos and planets until Moses told Pharaoh to Let My People Go. these curls have traveled cross oceans and triangles packed like sardines squalid below the decks of ships. see these curls have been ***** by the nasty ***** in the big house and suffered sun strokes in cotton fields. see these curls sing loud and strong. See these curls were branded and forced at gunpoint behind ******** barbed wire fences gassed to death in the name of so called purification. see these curls bleed the pain of fire hoses and dog bites and whites only signs. see these curls wont back down gainst no burnin crosses gainst no swastikas gainst no elephant ******** talkin all that jazz on fox and cnn. see these curls dance wildly off beat to straight rhythms that drone on in 4/4 time c major sixty bpm. see these curls are Mas and my Grammas. see my curls are too proud to sit back and chill and won’t take no **** or heat or hot air. see these curls cannot be contained in braids or scarves or jars of creamy crack. see these curls dare you to force them to coerce them to straighten up their act. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls will not ******* relax.
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battling demons or suffering PTSD with ADHD and OCD on TCH looking for LSD – need a little TLC from the FDA the EPA just went MIA and the UN blames the FBI while the CIA and the NSA seek the PLO – brb LOL, IDK the shizzle is cray cray ****** be trippin er’ry day like Ross say “don’t **** wit me” – the USA in betrothed to the NRA and OSHA just gave me a passing score at the same time as the AMA failed my blood stylistically, this is MLA and functionally it’s more WWE TNT CNN t’n’a --
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC
acronym attack
I'm going out and get something. I don't know what. I don't care. Whatever's out there, I'm going to get it. Look in those shop windows at boxes and boxes of Reeboks and Nikes to make me fly through the air like Michael Jordan like Magic. While I'm up there, I see Spike Lee. Looks like he's flying too straight through the glass that separates me from the virtual reality I watch everyday on TV. I know the difference between what it is and what it isn't. Just because I can't touch it doesn't mean it isn't real. All I have to do is smash the screen, reach in and take what I want. Break out of prison. South Central homey's newly risen from the night of living dead, but this time he lives, he gets to give the zombies a taste of their own medicine. Open wide and let me in, or else I'll set your world on fire, but you pretend that you don't hear. You haven't heard the word is coming down like the hammer of the gun of this black son, locked out of this big house, while ***** looks out the window and sees only smoke. ***** doesn't see anything else, not because he can't, but because he won't. He'd rather hear me talking about mo' money, mo' honeys and gold chains and see me carrying my favorite things from looted stores than admit that underneath my Raider's cap, the aftermath is staring back unblinking through the camera's lens, courtesy of CNN, my arms loaded with boxes of shoes that I will sell at the swap meet to make a few cents on the declining dollar. And if I destroy myself and my neighborhood "ain't nobody's business, if I do," but the police are knocking hard at my door and before I can open it, they break it down and drag me in the yard. They take me in to be processed and charged, to await trial, while Americans forget the day the wealth finally trickled down to the rest of us.
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Riot Act, April 29, 1992
I'm going out and get something. I don't know what. I don't care. Whatever's out there, I'm going to get it. Look in those shop windows at boxes and boxes of Reeboks and Nikes to make me fly through the air like Michael Jordan like Magic. While I'm up there, I see Spike Lee. Looks like he's flying too straight through the glass that separates me from the virtual reality I watch everyday on TV. I know the difference between what it is and what it isn't. Just because I can't touch it doesn't mean it isn't real. All I have to do is smash the screen, reach in and take what I want. Break out of prison. South Central homey's newly risen from the night of living dead, but this time he lives, he gets to give the zombies a taste of their own medicine. Open wide and let me in, or else I'll set your world on fire, but you pretend that you don't hear. You haven't heard the word is coming down like the hammer of the gun of this black son, locked out of this big house, while ***** looks out the window and sees only smoke. ***** doesn't see anything else, not because he can't, but because he won't. He'd rather hear me talking about mo' money, mo' honeys and gold chains and see me carrying my favorite things from looted stores than admit that underneath my Raider's cap, the aftermath is staring back unblinking through the camera's lens, courtesy of CNN, my arms loaded with boxes of shoes that I will sell at the swap meet to make a few cents on the declining dollar. And if I destroy myself and my neighborhood "ain't nobody's business, if I do," but the police are knocking hard at my door and before I can open it, they break it down and drag me in the yard. They take me in to be processed and charged, to await trial, while Americans forget the day the wealth finally trickled down to the rest of us.
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What flows through me, flows through you... They all call it some ancient kind of voodoo. When the cash is not enough, you have to open new doors, sit back with the dancing shadows, as the feeling leaves your pores. There is some news coming, and it is not on CNN. It is the new-coming, with proper particles of zen. Beginnings with no ends; an apocalyptic change... phenomenon to transcend; we will never be the same. The world is awake, doing all that it can. Do not make the mistake of sleeping on the plan. Different perspectives under one light; Different projections of all that is right. Walk with the wind, and feel the depth of the river. Also feel the cold -- There is no heat without the shiver. Be calm like a giver. Plant a vine and let it grow. Persevere and do not whither... There is more for you to know. Take a path and sing a song; run, walk, and fly. This is your marathon. Now, ask yourself why... You have a purpose, whether sun or fog, it will be worth it, for what you will fight along the way. Which way? If you do not know where to go, hear what they say, listen and then glow. Evolution is occurring, and anxious souls await, but do not be in a hurry; it is a door, not an escape.
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 3:37 PM UTC
New Doors
I see the green grass with autumn leaves The season of change and naked trees arrives Again – without thinking we see the continuity Knowing Christmas is around the corner The birth New Year starts the cycle After the death of the old year And some of our past friends Whose passing was real Too real for Comfort. How Do We “Know” What is real When everything From movies to magic Is just imagery of imagination? The TV a parade of our new enemies. 1984 “Big Brother” is now a reality show And CNN is our reality of disasters and wars Until we visit the place and see that we are told What our “Big Brother” wants us to know.
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Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM UTC
Big Brother
At one end of the couch you sit, mute as a pillow tossed onto the upholstery. I watch you sometimes when you don't know I'm watching and I see you. Who you are. You are a self made man. Hard suffering. You are grey stone and damp earth. A long scar on a pale sky. The television is tuned to CNN. The world's tragedies flicker across your face like some foreign film. You are expressionless. Your usual gestures ground to salt. How do you explain yourself to people that do not know you? How do you explain to them, this is me; that is not me. However many words you choose in whatever context with whichever adjectives you use could not compare. Even you describing you would not be you. Not totally. Your hands are folded together, resting in your lap. I study those hands until every groove becomes familiar. Like a favorite hat, you wear your silence comfortably. I sometimes can not help but wonder what we will talk about if we ever run out of things to say. You are the curve I burrow into. The strength I borrow. You are the red sun rising over the mountain. You are the mountain.
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You Are The Mountain
**Drop your Grudge Rants by the door We Will Not Tolarate This Anymore Edit and toss Distasteful Rhymes Ugly Poems with Vain designs Haughty thoughts and bitter words Childish petty accusing verbs Who did What to Who and When Will this Clusterfuck never end? Selfish actions, Spoiled Children We Refuse to be your Minions Like CNN And Drone Fox news We've had enough of Self Serving views Hurting hearts, far and wide tender Poets with tenuous pride Yet, Strutting and Indignant for who I ask? All those involved, A Donkeys *** Not a home for Egotistical Zealots Nor a place for flinging pellets We come in Peace, HP to share Not get caught in ugly snares And to the few that have the gaul. "If you have nothing decent to say, say nothing at all"** **YOU CHOOSE TO USE HP THIS WAY. GO AWAY. FIND SOME WHERE ELSE TO PLAY.** ●HELLO●HELLO●HELLO●                  Copyright © 2015 Christi Michaels. All Rights Reserved
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 6:55 PM UTC
●HELLO●HELLO●HELLO●
I’m walking up hilltop, two men pass, one says, 'Fuck the French, they never have the bottle for a fight’. To have got here they passed the old Cathedral. Did they glimpse it as a relic - exploded by incendiary, ostracised in dubiety, seen fit to feature only in the focus and snap of foreign tourists? It is two days before Ramadan. Tonight Tornados will tear between the Euphrates and Tigris to illuminate Babylon... live on CNN. At the top of the hill I pause, staring at stained glass fragments still suspended in the apex of frames and view snacking office workers, seated upon the benches that have replaced the pews.
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Mar 31, 2010
Mar 31, 2010 at 12:30 PM UTC
Coventry Cathedral
Things are quite rocky in today's world wouldn't you say? Hate is growing stronger, as a consequence love is waxing cold day by day. Celebrities are securing riches while the rest of the world succumbs into sickness. Everyday Americans are going into foreclosure, others can't obtain jobs to pay their monthly dues. There's even a battle on the news based on who has the right to use a particular bathroom. Simultaneously there's millions of homeless people starving and sleeping on the streets. Meanwhile it's breaking news that Beyonce is having twins! Still, we never hear CNN mention the pedophiles that were arrested in California. Which resulted in 450+ arrests and counting, the veil has been lifted if you have open eyes to look. There, there you can go back to sleep now... Continue dreaming about Beyonce's twins.
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 2:56 AM UTC
The Matrix
On the day Liz Taylor died, CNN called Larry King out of retirement to eulogize her during the mornings breakfast segment. Tears were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, TEPCO stated that one of the Fukushima nuclear reactors was on fire. Tears of cataclysm were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, government officials warned that Tokyo's water was contaminated with radiation and was not fit for infants to drink. Tears of anguish were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan scrubbed the deck clean of TEPCO radiation. Tears of worry were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, Oregonians rushed out to buy potassium iodine tablets to counteract radiation poisoning. Tears of affliction were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, NATO forces continued to fire missiles and drop bombs on Libya. Tears of agony were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, a terrorist bomb exploded in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring many. Tears of vengeance were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, the Syrian Army fired on demonstrators calling for reforms. Tears of hostility were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, The USA Today reported that during the past decade the population of Detroit declined by 25%. Tears of loss were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, a dilapidated brownstone in Philadelphia collapsed; city officials expect many more to occur. Tears of distress were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, President Obama cut short his Latin American trip by skipping a tour of Mayan ruins. Tears of dismay were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 67.39 points. Tears of joy were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, Elton John dedicated the song, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me to the memory of his departed friend. Tears were shed. You Tube Music Video: Elton John, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me Lewes DE 3/23/11 jbm
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Feb 27, 2013
Feb 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM UTC
The Day Liz Taylor Died
On the day Liz Taylor died, CNN called Larry King out of retirement to eulogize her during the mornings breakfast segment. Tears were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, TEPCO stated that one of the Fukushima nuclear reactors was on fire. Tears of cataclysm were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, government officials warned that Tokyo's water was contaminated with radiation and was not fit for infants to drink. Tears of anguish were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan scrubbed the deck clean of TEPCO radiation. Tears of worry were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, Oregonians rushed out to buy potassium iodine tablets to counteract radiation poisoning. Tears of affliction were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, NATO forces continued to fire missiles and drop bombs on Libya. Tears of agony were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, a terrorist bomb exploded in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring many. Tears of vengeance were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, the Syrian Army fired on demonstrators calling for reforms. Tears of hostility were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, The USA Today reported that during the past decade the population of Detroit declined by 25%. Tears of loss were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, a dilapidated brownstone in Philadelphia collapsed; city officials expect many more to occur. Tears of distress were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, President Obama cut short his Latin American trip by skipping a tour of Mayan ruins. Tears of dismay were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 67.39 points. Tears of joy were shed. On the day Liz Taylor died, Elton John dedicated the song, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me to the memory of his departed friend. Tears were shed. You Tube Music Video: Elton John, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me Lewes DE 3/23/11 jbm
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While these groupons cutting coupons I mean and croutons with Grey Poupon with the flight crew on an Islond off Moulin Rouge -- these dudes calling me rude, how I took'em to school. went from second hand shoes to licking silver spoons eating delicious grapes, in luxurious estates, and plush lagoons. Leaving the monkey business to the buffoons. Instead I'm watching CNN news being amused. LeBron making his moves on the tube, setting screens, and running schemes, on the big screen, HD clarity got me taking three, I'm catching charges too. This is the life. I'm just manifesting what they said I couldn't do -- nothing new.
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Dec 29, 2014
Dec 29, 2014 at 9:48 PM UTC
Manifestation of an Attitude
Fourteen years old on sensory overload. The evening news. Burn baby burn. Da bomb. Sauteed mushrooms. Drop drill in all the classrooms. Lesee. If I crawl under this wooden desk with hands over head then I wont end up toast ? Outa sight. Puff That Muthfkn dragon. He still got a condo by the sea ? I remember thinking how privileged and exciting to live in the USA. But. Burn baby burn. Watching late night reruns till the station signed off. No CNN then my fren. The Duke. Abbot and Costello meets The Mummy. Free T.V.That was a first for I. No T.V. In Belize. None. No gun violence either. Hmmm. My Lai. The Panther Answer.
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Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM UTC
The Nam #2
Yes, I’m black Look at my back There you will see The scars of slavery Yes, I’m black under attack Police officers screaming For me to step back Yes, I’m black Disgusted stares death glares As I walk down the street Yes, I’m black Hide your children from me Run, run, run From the beast that you see Yes, I’m black Headlights Dark nights Forced to fight Yes, I’m black Government hates me Because I take a knee For what I believe Yes, I’m black You can see me on CNN Being handcuffed And shoved into the back of a van Yes, I’m black What they once hated The dark skin, curly hair Our individuality now tainted Yes, I’m black Scared for our daughters Too young to understand why we’re being slaughtered Yes, I’m black Still wearing these chains Slavery never ended They just changed the name Land of the free, home of the brave You lie and say we’ve come along way If you ask Ferguson, tears running down his face Racism still lives, but tomorrow’s another day
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Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018 at 4:08 PM UTC
Yes, I'm Black
When CNN monotony breaks my heart, children wail for candy at cash registers, and traffic buzz replaces birdsong, I flee to my garden to water and **** Sanctuary explodes in miniature chorales soprano buds breaking through cellulose cradles last waters from a thousand wilting blossoms sing tenor at their organic wake above the loam and endless pneumatic streams drip from leaf tips as they always have and will. A googolplex of minute carbon dramas occurs melodious ballads echo relentlessly like Buddha’s kalapas of soil and light as pistil and stamen call the fat brown bees. Equally marvelous are my hands' deft fingers fueled by arterial rivers lymph and blood on capillaric freeways with off-ramps for neighborhoods of dividing cells built into my DNA, this machine of loving grace. Even the leather of my gloves once lived thick on a bull eating grass that waved on a prairie where the soil let the sun in drank the rain and that meticulous ensemble plays still for the wolf and the eagle. With the last seed sewn I sit transfixed by the garden gate knowing every blossom in every random patch will arise and pass away like the pointless TV news and I hear the machinery of this impermanence crackling like spring frost when sprouts push through and Gaia’s eternal trumpets ring.
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May 28, 2012
May 28, 2012 at 10:31 PM UTC
TINY KALAPAS
-The best way to fight the fear of terrorism is by turning off your TV screens.- TV Terrorist. Ladies hide your burkas! the 1st amendment ain’t gonna protect ya because for as little as an ignorant comment... -YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Racist slurs, misinformation and greed are 1/2 the price of what they used to be ACT NOW so they can see! -YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Don’t let the sirens of the fashion police disturb ya we’ll wiretap your mosque from the city to suburbia just grow that beard Osama style! -And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! After your Morning Joe just head over to CNN they’re about to have some Baklawa at Fox & Friends let’s keep feeding more hate speech to the talking heads. -So YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Replace your Quran with the National Enquirer so you can be as American as they are Muhammed is not a match for Uncle Sam. -Just wear that robe the way Jesus did and YOU can be TV Terrorist too! You see, turban rhymes with Taliban therefore you’re all the same so pump our gas brown skin clashes with the red, white & blue of our flag. -Just make sure to look angry! And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Sensationalism in the media is worth more than your beliefs your good morals and spirituality is not for us to say as long as that red dot across your forehead turns into an infrared. -Look up Hassan! And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! From the cities of Iraq to the caves Afghanistan ride your camel and dignity right through an EZ Pass watch the drones drop and the ratings soar! -And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too!
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May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 at 11:30 AM UTC
TV Terrorist
-The best way to fight the fear of terrorism is by turning off your TV screens.- TV Terrorist. Ladies hide your burkas! the 1st amendment ain’t gonna protect ya because for as little as an ignorant comment... -YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Racist slurs, misinformation and greed are 1/2 the price of what they used to be ACT NOW so they can see! -YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Don’t let the sirens of the fashion police disturb ya we’ll wiretap your mosque from the city to suburbia just grow that beard Osama style! -And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! After your Morning Joe just head over to CNN they’re about to have some Baklawa at Fox & Friends let’s keep feeding more hate speech to the talking heads. -So YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Replace your Quran with the National Enquirer so you can be as American as they are Muhammed is not a match for Uncle Sam. -Just wear that robe the way Jesus did and YOU can be TV Terrorist too! You see, turban rhymes with Taliban therefore you’re all the same so pump our gas brown skin clashes with the red, white & blue of our flag. -Just make sure to look angry! And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! Sensationalism in the media is worth more than your beliefs your good morals and spirituality is not for us to say as long as that red dot across your forehead turns into an infrared. -Look up Hassan! And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too! From the cities of Iraq to the caves Afghanistan ride your camel and dignity right through an EZ Pass watch the drones drop and the ratings soar! -And YOU can be a TV Terrorist too!
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"Thank you for saying Happy Birthday to Shimone" my mother said and I kind of said oh, no problem and we went on from there to argue since that is what we do and she will never know who I am and I assume she meant Happy Birthday on Facebook because I certainly don't keep track of her friend's birthdays, especially not her friends who live in Haifa and remind me of my X Upset, I ran off to the pool, hoping for endorphins after some laps  I rested at one end and realized in a kind of slow, creeping way, kind of like fog rolling in over the cliffs at Muir beach, Not menacing, even beautiful, but a little cold, that I never wrote anything to Shimone, not even on Facebook No, I've been too self absorbed to write to my parents Israeli friends who used to have me and my X over for Shabbat meals where I used to insist on walking up the stairs since the elevator was small and hot and scared me but he always wanted to ride in it and one day we went over there was a sign on the apartments next door that a woman had died in a terrorist attack the other day-- When a suicide bomber, afraid of the security guards at the nearby mall, ran into an Arab restaurant conveniently located at a gas station where all the best restaurants are, and blew himself and everyone inside up CNN international came for a day to report and then left the next like a rude house guest who comes for your best food and then dissapears, never to be heard from again With my X, my mother always got cards she loved because he knew just how to pick them and he'd send them without even telling me sometimes faking my signature or I just had to sign and he'd do the rest, in between crank calls to them at all hours, taking advantage of the time zone.  At once tormenting and caring for them as he did for me And now is he a ghost in my account?   A ghost, a fog, a memory, something ephemeral, not real
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 12:58 AM UTC
Happy Birthday in Absentia
"Thank you for saying Happy Birthday to Shimone" my mother said and I kind of said oh, no problem and we went on from there to argue since that is what we do and she will never know who I am and I assume she meant Happy Birthday on Facebook because I certainly don't keep track of her friend's birthdays, especially not her friends who live in Haifa and remind me of my X Upset, I ran off to the pool, hoping for endorphins after some laps  I rested at one end and realized in a kind of slow, creeping way, kind of like fog rolling in over the cliffs at Muir beach, Not menacing, even beautiful, but a little cold, that I never wrote anything to Shimone, not even on Facebook No, I've been too self absorbed to write to my parents Israeli friends who used to have me and my X over for Shabbat meals where I used to insist on walking up the stairs since the elevator was small and hot and scared me but he always wanted to ride in it and one day we went over there was a sign on the apartments next door that a woman had died in a terrorist attack the other day-- When a suicide bomber, afraid of the security guards at the nearby mall, ran into an Arab restaurant conveniently located at a gas station where all the best restaurants are, and blew himself and everyone inside up CNN international came for a day to report and then left the next like a rude house guest who comes for your best food and then dissapears, never to be heard from again With my X, my mother always got cards she loved because he knew just how to pick them and he'd send them without even telling me sometimes faking my signature or I just had to sign and he'd do the rest, in between crank calls to them at all hours, taking advantage of the time zone.  At once tormenting and caring for them as he did for me And now is he a ghost in my account?   A ghost, a fog, a memory, something ephemeral, not real
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You three believe in creating scarcity, NOT union. You build HOV lanes for your luxury cars, caring less how efficient they are. They roll royce cross your game board, fuming trails of money. Bell Atlantic bought Madison Avenue, you bought all the properties. Now tenants can't avoid the traffic or the noise of an internet rolled in palms and diced spiraling to speed limits ... ... ... ... and red highways ... ... ... ... and orange traffic cones that block hybrid cars, already swerving to avoid bankruptcy. We STOP the STOP people STOP moving, our preamble crumbles to a STOP, becoming a eulogy — an ideal dumb to power trippery, after Time Warner and Comcast merged, allies on opposite sides of the game board. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; together you own pretty much everyone but Fox and Disney, (yet have invested in them heavily). Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; your oligarchy is NBC, Universal, CNN, Warner Brothers, and now FullScreen, family-friendly nepotism that inbreeds bearing deaf drones bored of flying, over Why Beyonce is a Feminist. or Why Ferguson was racist, media's offspring just keep clicking, the headline genocide victims basking in concentrated lamps for a sliver of attention. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; Now you want the backend buffering, bulging eyes and emptying pockets of those Spocked into believing, hyperspeed was ever necessary. No choice when the exits are slow and there are no backroads. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T;, offspring of the Bell Atlantic Company, we will not let your ****** populate the internet. Call it Capitalism, but your playing Monopoly, yanking the carpet underneath to the wood of Tyranny. You shamed Bell's invention by stringing together telephone internet, and entertainment companies until you could be lazy. Monkeys who spent millions to shriek at government parties about the communication machine, a system downloaded so slowly, we did not act on cons piracy theories, when Amazon made online shopping so easy. Dear Internet Service Providers, so called ISP's, WE ARE DONE playing Monopoly. Our collective voice will shout blasphemy on your streets, hashtagged net neutrality, till you're counting pennies. So empty your Washington banks cause it's 3 a.m. and no ONE is winning.
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Nov 6, 2014
Nov 6, 2014 at 3:09 PM UTC
Dear Verizon, Comcast, & AT&T,
You three believe in creating scarcity, NOT union. You build HOV lanes for your luxury cars, caring less how efficient they are. They roll royce cross your game board, fuming trails of money. Bell Atlantic bought Madison Avenue, you bought all the properties. Now tenants can't avoid the traffic or the noise of an internet rolled in palms and diced spiraling to speed limits ... ... ... ... and red highways ... ... ... ... and orange traffic cones that block hybrid cars, already swerving to avoid bankruptcy. We STOP the STOP people STOP moving, our preamble crumbles to a STOP, becoming a eulogy — an ideal dumb to power trippery, after Time Warner and Comcast merged, allies on opposite sides of the game board. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; together you own pretty much everyone but Fox and Disney, (yet have invested in them heavily). Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; your oligarchy is NBC, Universal, CNN, Warner Brothers, and now FullScreen, family-friendly nepotism that inbreeds bearing deaf drones bored of flying, over Why Beyonce is a Feminist. or Why Ferguson was racist, media's offspring just keep clicking, the headline genocide victims basking in concentrated lamps for a sliver of attention. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T; Now you want the backend buffering, bulging eyes and emptying pockets of those Spocked into believing, hyperspeed was ever necessary. No choice when the exits are slow and there are no backroads. Verizon, Comcast, AT&T;, offspring of the Bell Atlantic Company, we will not let your ****** populate the internet. Call it Capitalism, but your playing Monopoly, yanking the carpet underneath to the wood of Tyranny. You shamed Bell's invention by stringing together telephone internet, and entertainment companies until you could be lazy. Monkeys who spent millions to shriek at government parties about the communication machine, a system downloaded so slowly, we did not act on cons piracy theories, when Amazon made online shopping so easy. Dear Internet Service Providers, so called ISP's, WE ARE DONE playing Monopoly. Our collective voice will shout blasphemy on your streets, hashtagged net neutrality, till you're counting pennies. So empty your Washington banks cause it's 3 a.m. and no ONE is winning.
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The willingness to speak objective truths! Born out of the prejudice in experience. He is no god, but a man who speaks to you. The people, who are proud to be Americans. He is our ruler, in Trump we trust. The abused, the lied to and put in harms way. The dead homosexuals and Christians. The ministry of truth, the CNN. The white lynching at the protests. And the weak Clintonites are abandoning ship! Had she won, we would stay and endure. They run, we stayed under Obama. The dead are finally leaving. Lets see if Trudeau can treat them better. He is hard spoken, harsh and a man of the people. Build the wall! More like fix the wall. Deport the illegals, they are not Americans. Stop the muslims who are killing my people. This is not out of hate, but love. My love for truth and happiness. Maybe now we can have a country that values both. Not a lying ***** who silences **** victims. Oh, give me strength! Strength! To save our childrens schools! Strength! To save our children from hate! Love! to bring love, not resentment for humanity! O, give me truth. The truth that humanity is not horrible. That my whiteness is not a feature to describe me. That my heterosexuality is not a privilege. That I find my own life, not the lives of the pacific. Give us, to trust our country to a man who has raised successful children. Let him be our role model, not that which seeks to lecture me on sexism. God political poems are trash. Just like your hatred. Let it go, only admonish the actions. It's current year. **** Obama for campaigning for his replacement.
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 4:12 AM UTC
In our orange man, we trust.
The willingness to speak objective truths! Born out of the prejudice in experience. He is no god, but a man who speaks to you. The people, who are proud to be Americans. He is our ruler, in Trump we trust. The abused, the lied to and put in harms way. The dead homosexuals and Christians. The ministry of truth, the CNN. The white lynching at the protests. And the weak Clintonites are abandoning ship! Had she won, we would stay and endure. They run, we stayed under Obama. The dead are finally leaving. Lets see if Trudeau can treat them better. He is hard spoken, harsh and a man of the people. Build the wall! More like fix the wall. Deport the illegals, they are not Americans. Stop the muslims who are killing my people. This is not out of hate, but love. My love for truth and happiness. Maybe now we can have a country that values both. Not a lying ***** who silences **** victims. Oh, give me strength! Strength! To save our childrens schools! Strength! To save our children from hate! Love! to bring love, not resentment for humanity! O, give me truth. The truth that humanity is not horrible. That my whiteness is not a feature to describe me. That my heterosexuality is not a privilege. That I find my own life, not the lives of the pacific. Give us, to trust our country to a man who has raised successful children. Let him be our role model, not that which seeks to lecture me on sexism. God political poems are trash. Just like your hatred. Let it go, only admonish the actions. It's current year. **** Obama for campaigning for his replacement.
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Life: A Carnival In so many ways we are a human freak show, just a breathing carnival attraction. So get the **** off your high horse, look around be mesmerized, hypnotized and wonderized by a world of awe. Let’s get real, move a few strands of DNA from here to there, drop some chromosomes at the deli to re-arrange their eating patterns and we would see that those mindless amoebas down the street is talking our language. Of all the billions of species populating this planet, we humans are the most ignorant, opinionated, **** for brains fools. We puff out our stupidity on a regular basis, books, movies, music, TV and social media 24/7/365 there is no end to the racist, slime eating, motherfukers brought out in grand displays as “experts” in a single hour of opinion disguised as “news” on Fox, or CNN, NBC, ABC or CBS a menagerie of fools. The world is a marvelous place, alive with diversity, which we should embrace. All of us, humans wide, emerged from Africa, humanities origins 10's of thousands of years ago. We humans are a carnival, a side tent freak show, all diverse and magnificent. And to all those idiot religious fanatics, USA, USA ignoramuses, de-evolve your brains, slither back under your rock, go back to your ancient, long gone humanoid origins, become like you are, extinct. Aztec Warrior/redzone 8.28.16 Note: yes it’s a rant after watching an hour of Fox CNN and MSNBC news... I must go throw up now. Apologies to Natalie Merchant whose song “Carnival” is embedded below, her song is a much more kinder celebration of our diversity.. I on the other hand cannot stay calm in the face of fascist fanatics pretending to speak for human beings.
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Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016 at 10:16 AM UTC
Life: A Carnival
Life: A Carnival In so many ways we are a human freak show, just a breathing carnival attraction. So get the **** off your high horse, look around be mesmerized, hypnotized and wonderized by a world of awe. Let’s get real, move a few strands of DNA from here to there, drop some chromosomes at the deli to re-arrange their eating patterns and we would see that those mindless amoebas down the street is talking our language. Of all the billions of species populating this planet, we humans are the most ignorant, opinionated, **** for brains fools. We puff out our stupidity on a regular basis, books, movies, music, TV and social media 24/7/365 there is no end to the racist, slime eating, motherfukers brought out in grand displays as “experts” in a single hour of opinion disguised as “news” on Fox, or CNN, NBC, ABC or CBS a menagerie of fools. The world is a marvelous place, alive with diversity, which we should embrace. All of us, humans wide, emerged from Africa, humanities origins 10's of thousands of years ago. We humans are a carnival, a side tent freak show, all diverse and magnificent. And to all those idiot religious fanatics, USA, USA ignoramuses, de-evolve your brains, slither back under your rock, go back to your ancient, long gone humanoid origins, become like you are, extinct. Aztec Warrior/redzone 8.28.16 Note: yes it’s a rant after watching an hour of Fox CNN and MSNBC news... I must go throw up now. Apologies to Natalie Merchant whose song “Carnival” is embedded below, her song is a much more kinder celebration of our diversity.. I on the other hand cannot stay calm in the face of fascist fanatics pretending to speak for human beings.
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