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"illiteracy" poems
When we look into today, *Do our minds dial back to 16 June '76 to envision the torment Our fallen heroes endured? Is your vision blurred? Mine isn't. Their fight was just, It was sacrificial One by one they perished But, even with blood and sweat slipping Through their trembling fingers They did not falter They pushed boundaries In order to create opportunities They had a burning desire For something greater, For freedom The freedom that we now bask in Like it's just another day of leisure "The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow", they say Look in the mirror, Are you really the leader of tomorrow? Do you fit somewhere in that statement? Me: No Do we have the will to stand Firm for what's right, Against what's wrong Or do we clam up, let the Truth escape through broken doors? We feed the stereotypes, We fit perfectly into the stereotypes We've been dubbed insubstantial, Not layered, and one dimensional What are we really after? What are we doing to change that perspective? No- what am I doing to change that?? Ask yourself, what would the world have lost if you were not born? Me: Nothing But there are those who understand that the meaning of "struggle" Goes beyond the dictionary definition, Those who look at the world With crystal clear eyes Those looking to make a difference Those looking for a difference We may be in freedom, but we're not free at all The chains are still bound to our Wrists binding us from reaching Out to the sun, The chains are still tied to our Feet hindering us from going further We can stand united Against the ****** government, Against illiteracy, Against poverty, Against pointless wars, Against abuse. We can clench up our fists, Ready to fight for what others Led way for I am, by no means, a beacon of Hope (hypocrisy at it's best) I'm uninformed, like they say Ignorance is bliss But I am not proud of it We've come far since '94 We still can go further "Together we can do more"*
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM UTC
Youth Day: 16 June
When we look into today, *Do our minds dial back to 16 June '76 to envision the torment Our fallen heroes endured? Is your vision blurred? Mine isn't. Their fight was just, It was sacrificial One by one they perished But, even with blood and sweat slipping Through their trembling fingers They did not falter They pushed boundaries In order to create opportunities They had a burning desire For something greater, For freedom The freedom that we now bask in Like it's just another day of leisure "The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow", they say Look in the mirror, Are you really the leader of tomorrow? Do you fit somewhere in that statement? Me: No Do we have the will to stand Firm for what's right, Against what's wrong Or do we clam up, let the Truth escape through broken doors? We feed the stereotypes, We fit perfectly into the stereotypes We've been dubbed insubstantial, Not layered, and one dimensional What are we really after? What are we doing to change that perspective? No- what am I doing to change that?? Ask yourself, what would the world have lost if you were not born? Me: Nothing But there are those who understand that the meaning of "struggle" Goes beyond the dictionary definition, Those who look at the world With crystal clear eyes Those looking to make a difference Those looking for a difference We may be in freedom, but we're not free at all The chains are still bound to our Wrists binding us from reaching Out to the sun, The chains are still tied to our Feet hindering us from going further We can stand united Against the ****** government, Against illiteracy, Against poverty, Against pointless wars, Against abuse. We can clench up our fists, Ready to fight for what others Led way for I am, by no means, a beacon of Hope (hypocrisy at it's best) I'm uninformed, like they say Ignorance is bliss But I am not proud of it We've come far since '94 We still can go further "Together we can do more"*
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Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! My Motherland, Why not take pride in who you are? When you converse, You use the language of the West. The offspring of the same parents, And still use the language of the West. Your own children try to distance themselves and dress and talk like Those from the West. Your airwaves are filled with music, Fast beats, foul language and heavy metal from the West. Even the food you eat All processed and purchased From the West. Your fields are dry. You laugh at traditional foods and ceremonies. You have forgotten who you are. Your heritage cries out From the depths of the tombs you're filling up with immorality and your self-destructive ways. You despise who are, You ridicule who you are, You try so hard to change Who you are Your heroes and comrades In entertainment and politics In the community, the society Have been overshadowed By those from the West. Remember them, Revere them, More so alive than after death. Resurrect Ubuntu, Show a little compassion For a fellow who needs it. Stop the hate, tribalism And racism. This path of destruction Will get you nowhere. Let peace rule in the Motherland. Respect your elders, Salute the teachers Who try to lead your youth In the right direction. Teach your children well Violence is not the way The pen is still mightier Than the sword Eradicate illiteracy End child labour and Marriages. Honour, love and protect Your women and children. They will give you respect and happiness in return. Follow the footprints Of your forebears. Live in harmony with Yourself. Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! Take note Before it's too late!
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Jun 19, 2017
Jun 19, 2017 at 6:41 AM UTC
Africa, oh Africa
Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! My Motherland, Why not take pride in who you are? When you converse, You use the language of the West. The offspring of the same parents, And still use the language of the West. Your own children try to distance themselves and dress and talk like Those from the West. Your airwaves are filled with music, Fast beats, foul language and heavy metal from the West. Even the food you eat All processed and purchased From the West. Your fields are dry. You laugh at traditional foods and ceremonies. You have forgotten who you are. Your heritage cries out From the depths of the tombs you're filling up with immorality and your self-destructive ways. You despise who are, You ridicule who you are, You try so hard to change Who you are Your heroes and comrades In entertainment and politics In the community, the society Have been overshadowed By those from the West. Remember them, Revere them, More so alive than after death. Resurrect Ubuntu, Show a little compassion For a fellow who needs it. Stop the hate, tribalism And racism. This path of destruction Will get you nowhere. Let peace rule in the Motherland. Respect your elders, Salute the teachers Who try to lead your youth In the right direction. Teach your children well Violence is not the way The pen is still mightier Than the sword Eradicate illiteracy End child labour and Marriages. Honour, love and protect Your women and children. They will give you respect and happiness in return. Follow the footprints Of your forebears. Live in harmony with Yourself. Africa, Oh Africa! Africa, Oh Africa! Take note Before it's too late!
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Part II  of "Got 0 Followers" aim high to keep it low expectations such an Awesome Awful curse others infect you with don't, yada yada, ya wanna be like Tom, **** and Jane, even Harry, a transgendered friend and fellow (ha) outcast, all with a good job prospects of a goodly tented long life? so ya write poems to nobody about nothing and you are pleased to be pleasing just yourself in writing you have nothing to prove, so read them like keepsakes ya like, keep 'em & me hid, in the shoebox under the closeted pile of ***** clothes, special designer outfits concocted so they keep my remains, privatized and unsanitized, my equity, hidden, disguised as disgusting but for god-sakes don't follow me, unless you want to curse us both with Expectations of Expectations, then comes with illiteracy of Affection then the literary pre-tension that always follows, leading to Affectation, the first derivative of the infection of affection yeah, then comes caring and it instantly it's too late, you're ******* right up the mental heine, lost condemned ruined annihilated crushed subverted crushed into mental death camp suffocation of more, please ma, can I have some more? crap, why did you have to go and follow me?
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 8:14 PM UTC
the expectation of expectations March 2015 (crap, why did you have to go and follow me?)
Right to education, Is a right to live, Without education we spontaneously get, A right to die, Not physically but morally, Illiteracy is our moral death, For being illiterate we can't even talk life, Education is a soul rests In the body of human being, So without education, We are only human animals, Education takes us to height of humanity. BY: Sandhya Nirvana Indarjeet(me)
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 5:53 PM UTC
Right to Education
The ****** of the east and west, At Your recovery we all rest, Lord is merciful but the people are not. Clocks tick and the days goes by, I'm afraid that you will never be forgotten. The west will dangle you Before the eyes of thousands. For all the thousand things they want Your agendas are quite right I'm afraid, Perhaps they thought metal was the answer. They were afraid as well. Showed, praised and written about, Cherished and awarded. Our dear malala. I can't help think, Perhaps you're a puppet And west the clever puppeteers. Brave as you are, I know for sure now that You don't stand a chance. Life might be short but it seems like an eternity. For change is what you want, You don't reside with the enemy, You don't accept their awards. When a government can't assure us change, What chance do you stand with your words, For you are just a girl with a bullet hole. And half this country is drowned in illiteracy. Brace yourself sweetheart, Cause you are just another girl, Where millions others are fighting a real fight, All you do is befriend the woeful west.
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Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014 at 10:30 AM UTC
Malala
My mother always used to tell me that I could read anyone. "Give them an hour with you", she'd laugh, "and you'd just know." Then I met you and it seems that your book is written a language that I just don't understand. This illiteracy is driving me mad and I know I would spend years just to decipher one page. - R. H.
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Jul 23, 2014
Jul 23, 2014 at 2:38 PM UTC
Library
BTZZZZZZZZ “…open wide! The all-new Angus third-pounder…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…illiteracy: an incurable disease or education malpractice…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…childhood obesity is at an all-time high…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…suicide bomber, 10 people dead…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…teachers on strike again…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Michael Jackson…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…another Amber Alert has been issued…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…number of Americans going hungry increases…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…ninety-six billion pounds of food go to waste each year…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Nicole Kidman loves her new ***** BTZZZZZZZZ “…another soldier was killed yesterday in a firefight…” BTZZZZZZZZ “...you can do to protect against H1N1…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…live the rainbow, taste the rainbow…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…the King of Pop…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…confirmed: the remains belonged to 6 year old…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…boy refuses to pledge allegiance unless gays and lesbians have equal rights...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…scientist reveals her secret life as a ********** BTZZZZZZZZ “…police are waiting on a positive ID on the girl’s body...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Michael Jackson...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…actor who played Santa Claus jailed for having *** with boys…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Iran is restarting their nuclear facility…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…armed teen jumped the pizza delivery man…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…woman who has three hundred ******* a day finally meets her dream man…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…why we love Taylor Swift…” BTZZZZZZZZ “fifteen year old son, shot by his father, has died tonight…” BTZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [click]
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Jan 3, 2010
Jan 3, 2010 at 8:25 PM UTC
Television Land
BTZZZZZZZZ “…open wide! The all-new Angus third-pounder…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…illiteracy: an incurable disease or education malpractice…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…childhood obesity is at an all-time high…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…suicide bomber, 10 people dead…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…teachers on strike again…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Michael Jackson…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…another Amber Alert has been issued…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…number of Americans going hungry increases…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…ninety-six billion pounds of food go to waste each year…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Nicole Kidman loves her new ***** BTZZZZZZZZ “…another soldier was killed yesterday in a firefight…” BTZZZZZZZZ “...you can do to protect against H1N1…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…live the rainbow, taste the rainbow…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…the King of Pop…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…confirmed: the remains belonged to 6 year old…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…boy refuses to pledge allegiance unless gays and lesbians have equal rights...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…scientist reveals her secret life as a ********** BTZZZZZZZZ “…police are waiting on a positive ID on the girl’s body...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Michael Jackson...” BTZZZZZZZZ “…actor who played Santa Claus jailed for having *** with boys…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…Iran is restarting their nuclear facility…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…armed teen jumped the pizza delivery man…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…woman who has three hundred ******* a day finally meets her dream man…” BTZZZZZZZZ “…why we love Taylor Swift…” BTZZZZZZZZ “fifteen year old son, shot by his father, has died tonight…” BTZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ [click]
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The following is based on a true story. This dude came into my work 3 years ago and literally did not possess the vocabulary to order his food. I don't know what his story is, but he inspired this piece. "ill literacy" He spoke in code like birds perched on branches singing unintelligible tunes only they understand I watched him in silence my voice boxed in my voicebox in shock at the witnessing of a mis-education illiteracy personified another foster child of the SUSD system just another “unreachable” student deemed “just another” <17% of stocktonians have college degrees 17% such a juvenile # 18% leastwise is more adult-sounding in front of every high school is a flag red white blue ring ---------- middle ---------- index only the “just anothers” can read between the lines
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 5:44 AM UTC
ill literacy
*we won't die for ideals we once held dear, we'll now simply die for the numbers we can simply keep, but when it comes to ourselves, we'll die to simply keep a mistook numbering in order to readdress the ideals that are no longer appreciated in our numbering a loss of a tiger's roar, and more the microscopic ant digestion auditory exploding into a h-bomb for man to imitate by number but no essential authority: since once mammoth the authority killed man, now some sub-insect (virus) can **** man.* if there's a group of people who are assumed to be possessed, then there's a group of people who are dis-possessed, and there's always the middle interval mediating sales and necessary priesthood the two polars never mediate, once the priesthood used to cradle the illiterate ones, now the priesthood uses the literacy of the once illiterate ones now literate, consecrating them with something apart from holy water, selective reading they testified to be as calm as a lake, but turbulent as a river the salmon swam against the current to spawn: the once illiterate ones now literate are taught a second illiteracy: watch the television, read the best-sellers.. this second illiteracy is worse than the original one... half of us will be water and fat... and half of us epileptic zombies enslaved by a television... i preferred the first illiteracy... at least we died for love... this second illiteracy is worth a jackal's cry and a ******* of paedophiles.
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 9:13 PM UTC
selective reading
Band-aids to prevent the social infections that could eventually spread to the frontal lobe, Diseases started on Fox News, spread to the living room, circulate around the family dinner table putting victims of ignorance on the coroner’s slab Alleviate the pain. Should we let the gapping wounds of intolerance fester, decay and grow maggots? ***** bigotry, vile illiteracy, primitive ideas coat the skins of society like a black goo. Band-aids: self adhesive bandages We aren’t teachers. We are medics. covering the gapping wounds of life lathering the lesions with Neosporin. Healing the scars from parenting gone wrong - scars from wounded self-esteems -lacerations to the proverbial heart Scars lasting longer than the body itself.   No one knows where its impact will end. Band-aids temporary fix heal the wound fast, heal the hurt faster A Johnson and Johnson remedy for damaged organisms Well-meaning ones hurling scriptures scald hands with tainted words Healing is a matter of time. Arm teachers to protect children from the crazies who loom? What will protect them from their own inherited ignorance? The damage is already done when they get here. Equip us with Band-Aids, boxes and boxes. Hello Kitty over their ears to block the infection from coming in Spiderman for their mouths. Stop the seepage of any contamination from spreading to others. The remaining scars will fade, but not disappear. even with a band-aid.
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Oct 14, 2013
Oct 14, 2013 at 8:13 PM UTC
Band-aids
Let it be known~ Beyond the mere musings of tool bearing monkeys Lies an ineffable essence which deflects archaic labeling. This is the direct experience of non-discriminatory equalization Of conceived notions. All which may be considered good and true Vaporizes in the blinding eye of this clarity. Language is the battleground of ignorance and illiteracy Of what begs not be named~
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Sep 3, 2015
Sep 3, 2015 at 12:21 PM UTC
Small Mouth Noises
I've never believed anything without questioning why, The question of God is the biggest I've come and across and actually answered. God isn't a myth to comfort a weak mind, God is the truth that a strong humble mind accepts and embraces. With wisdom God lives,for with wisdom one knows that science is a portion of His creation and therefore it can't prove His absence. If God exists,He's just there doing nothing. But if God lives,He's always moving and watching over His children. Believing in God isn't folly nor illiteracy. It is wisdom and realisation that without a Creator life has no purpose and if that's the case then there's no point living.
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Sep 23, 2016
Sep 23, 2016 at 1:22 AM UTC
God doesn't exist,God lives.
Everyone deserves a person that makes them want to write poems about the way they feel despite illiteracy. Everyone deserves a person that makes them want to sing to the heavens about their wonderful voice as tone deaf as they may be. Everyone deserves a person that makes them want to fill canvases with the colors of their beautiful body despite being colorblind. Everyone deserves a person that make them want to dance despite the self-diagnosis of two left feet. Everyone deserves their person. Everyone deserves a person that defines falling in love before falling cause knowing where you're going to land before you trip is always a beautiful comfort. Everyone deserves their soulmate who can pick them up when they fall. I found mine.
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Nov 30, 2015
Nov 30, 2015 at 1:27 AM UTC
Love; a Necessity
high finance and terror you had half a job the commissioner made a huge mistake where words just disappear oh do help the rich and well-connected they need you careful that your boss does not see you favoriting my tweets unstar! unstar! panic! panic! social media illiteracy bio: follow or **** off **** the king of hearts quadruple cheeseburger acidic fruits keep chugging harm on y a night of debauchery in the works our minds refueled with petroleum entropy hour with free golden shower where truth gnaws at your legs but you continue walking human irrationality gets beaten to a pulp by bot rationality how bland and discordant getting them drawn and quartered humanity can do without us that **** poet saw the egg hatch into regrets **** the only one who cares manufacturing awkward silences and making a killing what the hell is anergy miss world virginity 2012 what have we done ghost eating humans or some **** like that someone already thought of that funny thing you wanted to say your timeline can beat my timeline mute only the users who make too much sense the epitome of trying too hard and then coronal mass ejection all the over the place you know this goes nowhere so you want out no more outreach from this point on shredded the flow chart too much in the projects exit stage down
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 8:37 PM UTC
employment
i find it strange to be politically correct, without actually exercising any political career-motive as a member of a government... because that's what's we're being sold: to be politically correct, without a career in politics. doubly strange, to foster non-antagonising views on everyday matters, to later realise that whoever we're antagonising from an environmental bias (rather than a personal bias) we will never share a dinner with... so like our opinions mattering in the first place was by-and-large, just a media hoax to ensure we were all prescribed the safety of walking the tight-rope... and never really designating ourselves the freedom of the constitutional rights - this leftist bias remains intact, on the canvas of freedom of speech, however that freedom allows us to see rural endeavours in talk, the once appreciated freedom is becoming a polarised freedom to name & shame... a media hammer or nail... because it's only freedom when enough people agree with "us", to allow a bicep expression of being backed up like some Spartacus... i mean, i don't agree with most expression, but i wouldn't **** the hornet's nest with the media frenzy to appear politically correct... when so few of us actually have any political power.... being sold free speech, to be later curbed with political correctness is a bit cancerous.... given that free speech is equated to the voting X from the age of mass illiteracy... i don't see how free speech became a vehicle for acquiring constrained speech dynamic - when did we forget the chastity of speaking the airy-fairy things in life on the informal basis, and when did we become so ****** friendless, estranged, outsiders to everything that matters... and now, supposedly between butcher and greengrocer, talking about the weather in cocktail smocking and bow-tie? free speech gave us the rights to not ask for political powers... on whatever governmental tier... prescribing us political correctness has given the everyday John the delusion that he can process political power... the once famous strive for speaking what the hell you want but not wanting political power changed into being prescribed political correctness but no political power... so i ask you... what's the point of being politically correct, if you gain no political power, unless you're a rat, a snitch, spying on your neighbour to grass them out? because that's what political correctness bred, snitches... those given political correctness laws were never given any other political power... added to the fact that they wouldn't have said anything interesting / provocative anyway.
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Aug 21, 2016
Aug 21, 2016 at 9:50 PM UTC
Media Spartacus / Cannonball Adderley's else
i find it strange to be politically correct, without actually exercising any political career-motive as a member of a government... because that's what's we're being sold: to be politically correct, without a career in politics. doubly strange, to foster non-antagonising views on everyday matters, to later realise that whoever we're antagonising from an environmental bias (rather than a personal bias) we will never share a dinner with... so like our opinions mattering in the first place was by-and-large, just a media hoax to ensure we were all prescribed the safety of walking the tight-rope... and never really designating ourselves the freedom of the constitutional rights - this leftist bias remains intact, on the canvas of freedom of speech, however that freedom allows us to see rural endeavours in talk, the once appreciated freedom is becoming a polarised freedom to name & shame... a media hammer or nail... because it's only freedom when enough people agree with "us", to allow a bicep expression of being backed up like some Spartacus... i mean, i don't agree with most expression, but i wouldn't **** the hornet's nest with the media frenzy to appear politically correct... when so few of us actually have any political power.... being sold free speech, to be later curbed with political correctness is a bit cancerous.... given that free speech is equated to the voting X from the age of mass illiteracy... i don't see how free speech became a vehicle for acquiring constrained speech dynamic - when did we forget the chastity of speaking the airy-fairy things in life on the informal basis, and when did we become so ****** friendless, estranged, outsiders to everything that matters... and now, supposedly between butcher and greengrocer, talking about the weather in cocktail smocking and bow-tie? free speech gave us the rights to not ask for political powers... on whatever governmental tier... prescribing us political correctness has given the everyday John the delusion that he can process political power... the once famous strive for speaking what the hell you want but not wanting political power changed into being prescribed political correctness but no political power... so i ask you... what's the point of being politically correct, if you gain no political power, unless you're a rat, a snitch, spying on your neighbour to grass them out? because that's what political correctness bred, snitches... those given political correctness laws were never given any other political power... added to the fact that they wouldn't have said anything interesting / provocative anyway.
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We hobble along with outrage fatigue And watch as nothing ever exhausts Our Machiavellian leaders' use Of the media to win at all costs. False story lines prevail. To hell with accuracy and precision. Sowing distrust of higher learning Solidifies their paranoid vision. Watch how their destructive disdain For expertise gains vitality As people's opinions and feelings stomp On any form of objective reality. Watch as they rewrite history; Notice how data can be erased As they become suspicious of much Information that's science-based. Language becomes weaponized: Hyperbole, salacious lies, And slippery superlatives Celebrate truth's demise. Party loyalty: that is key. All that matters is the sale. Hijacking democracy Becomes the goal: the holy grail. Mobilized by grievance, they Inflame fear and anger. They hope That we will find scapegoats to blame When we are at the end of our rope. A general illiteracy On issues that affect our lives Keeps us all in doubt while they Create fake news and sharpen their knives. Ah, how they want you to fear Government, which is ironic, For they themselves are government. Look at their smiles, cold and sardonic. Give equal weight to both Sides of arguments, they say. That's how they can justify Bigotry and lead us astray. While extremist views go mainstream, Blurred lines make life hazy. Keep watering narcissism, And you will see it grow like crazy. Their careful manipulation of language Proves how much their rhetoric's swollen. The people find it hard to accept That basic freedoms are being stolen. As we lament the death of truth And wonder how it came to pass, Before we cast blame we must Peer into the looking glass. -by Bob B (9-28-18) °Inspired by "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 11:37 AM UTC
Lamenting the Death of Truth°
We hobble along with outrage fatigue And watch as nothing ever exhausts Our Machiavellian leaders' use Of the media to win at all costs. False story lines prevail. To hell with accuracy and precision. Sowing distrust of higher learning Solidifies their paranoid vision. Watch how their destructive disdain For expertise gains vitality As people's opinions and feelings stomp On any form of objective reality. Watch as they rewrite history; Notice how data can be erased As they become suspicious of much Information that's science-based. Language becomes weaponized: Hyperbole, salacious lies, And slippery superlatives Celebrate truth's demise. Party loyalty: that is key. All that matters is the sale. Hijacking democracy Becomes the goal: the holy grail. Mobilized by grievance, they Inflame fear and anger. They hope That we will find scapegoats to blame When we are at the end of our rope. A general illiteracy On issues that affect our lives Keeps us all in doubt while they Create fake news and sharpen their knives. Ah, how they want you to fear Government, which is ironic, For they themselves are government. Look at their smiles, cold and sardonic. Give equal weight to both Sides of arguments, they say. That's how they can justify Bigotry and lead us astray. While extremist views go mainstream, Blurred lines make life hazy. Keep watering narcissism, And you will see it grow like crazy. Their careful manipulation of language Proves how much their rhetoric's swollen. The people find it hard to accept That basic freedoms are being stolen. As we lament the death of truth And wonder how it came to pass, Before we cast blame we must Peer into the looking glass. -by Bob B (9-28-18) °Inspired by "The Death of Truth" by Michiko Kakutani
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Corruption… Dysfunction… Illiteracy… Grows strong even today as if it was 1695. Man is guilty of neglecting his neighbor Underpaying his labor And getting some next door flavor. But it’s a brand new day and I’m feeling great. The air is cool, My clothes are fresh But boy am I late. I dash to the mirror, ‘cause I’m as vain as they come. Take my time to comb my hair, fix my beard and then some. I got my swagger on and my hair look tight. Knowing that I’m goin’a  have me a good one tonight. Then as I step out of my comfort zone and into the World Wide Web of man, Where other players got it on, and I just want to get along, but I can’t… The panic switch flips and my stomach plays tricks And my swagger just dipped ‘cause my confidence skipped. I say hey!... It’s all good. So I be chillin’ like a building made of Water, Glue and Wood. My adrenalin pumps as my heart keeps drumming. On the inside it’s like Katrina’s coming. The ******
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Aug 26, 2010
Aug 26, 2010 at 12:36 PM UTC
~HOOD RAT~
The not me is blind He can’t see past the illiteracy swamp The not me is deaf He can’t ear harmony in humankind The not me is dumb He oppresses and repress The not me has no smell He bargain and sell and swell The not me has his hands clasped and tied He’s guide to be a guileless tool The not me are gray They’re simply fuel Dead corpses to play Deny thyself Untangle your eyes Cease to be a machine And become the self I mean, let go of Prejudice and conventions And dogmas of society Let yourself be carried by the self Let go of thy dimension Stable and confortable Those made up dreams Provide sense to existence The self lives Sees past unreal reality Ears past instilled dreams Lastly tastes the liberality Lastly irradiates beams out Of instilled tune Lastly he flies from the cocoon
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 2:20 PM UTC
Fraction: 1/0
when poetry will die the apocalypse of the soul will erupt in each of us my being made of lyrics will get lost in contemporary illiteracy, our daily food will be missing from the shelves in the libraries and virtual pages will replace the smile of the sweet girl from my favorite bookstore, I will no longer cuddle the book covers made with good taste and I will no longer breathe stories that hide behind them, thinking will become limited by a collective sentence which will swallow me and devour my last remaining metaphor, then amnesia will make a nest in me and I'll beg it never to leave me!
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Apr 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2019 at 6:38 PM UTC
~ Apocalypse ~
Our bilingual illiteracy and contemporary expression of vintage infancy remind me of developmentally mature eccentricities within a complex haven of interpersonal dynamics. Just like a carnival hall of mirrors, our perceptual disturbances succumb to elaborate revelations and dreadful expositions of what we presume to be articulate prose. Although the socio-political roots of a seductive striptease may shatter the silence of our audible and urban ecosystems, we can now access realms which connect to the severance of divided collusion. Our galaxy has established her infinite story, in the same manner as a wrought iron gate interferes with the evidence within our contemporary society. It is just like an alternate universe.
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 1:02 AM UTC
Empathy
The good ole days were enjoyed with ease, There was less to enjoy because of disease; There were fewer people to dress and feed Thanks to childhood mortality. The middle-class were few and greedy, Thanks to needs and poverty; We could find work and be employed, But tenure turned to workplace injury. Illiteracy was common, Innumeracy, our fate, Due to the high school drop out rate. Polio and smallpox kept in check The burgeoning growth of the unelect. Minorities knew their social place; Jim Crow was voting in black face. Heteros ruled the ****** race, Alphabet people were an outlier trace. In summer and winter we were outplayed and beat, With no Air Conditioning nor Central Heat. Let's leave the past in the past, Where history belongs; Where hunger and sickness Lasted all life-long, And the poor and ignorant Were subdued by the strong. We can agree times were simpler then, As time came rushing to an end.
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Jan 2, 2024
Jan 2, 2024 at 10:57 AM UTC
Past Over
But! little did they know... Seriously, they didn't know much Illiteracy prevents them
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 9:55 AM UTC
Knowledge
I'm not your enemy Anagrams of truth It's no spoof Much hate near The human race No one listens No one is silent Marriage is a grim era Weird vacation I want a divorce Ethnics, a fearsome attitude The United states of America Vs. You and me Politricks straight off the baloney farm Snake charming zealots on tv Poverty and illiteracy Donate some donuts to the poor Transcending Increments of Mans Existence T.I.M.E. D. Clare TIME is the enemy of us all...
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 3:11 PM UTC
T.I.M.E.
Bamboo sticks will never bend. Bamboo sticks will never break. Bending down is a moringer stick. Breaking down is for dry moringer. The book should be judged by its contents. The heart will never be defined by its face. Open the roof and see inside. And open the door to see the house. Read the contents of the book before going on. Read the heart, then accept the face's smile. Find the building before opening its roof. Knock at the door before opening the house. Why will the judge just judge the book by its cover? Learn it before attacking. Well, reason before rumour. Wash your mouth and chew the words. Attacking before learning is ignorance. Rumour before reasoning is illiteracy. Remember, your mouth is odorous. Wash it again and again and again.
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Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM UTC
Bamboo
*whatever we speak, it's hardly going to be spoken of.* which means two                   kettles... mind you: target practise                     or as i mind the 2.4                 of said: superman in Iowa... do i care to mind? well, **** me!    they verse in acronym i.n.d.i.a. & c.h.i.n.a. akin to a billion... i'm tongue tied and heaving,        das bōt... this doesn't help the aesthetic... with prolonging dies the excess o...                   kaiser schweizer min took!       whatever that means, they say funny accents in **** to **** a thought of a zeppelin... yhwh: or the hollowing-out, awaiting the god to lift us out...            Pythagorean umlaut into a macron joinery...             depending on your aesthetic... Kreisler schisser...                           twins anti avid, interchange s and z...                                   Charlotte and sharpening, shearing and cheering, and so many excuses...          the chard and the sh and the charcoal and the shattering of, of the chatter:                   cheap and sharp or the acute variations of śarp & ćeap... or what the first H represents: an upper punctuation marking, above the letter,               Y or gamma γ vs. Υ (upsilon)             in latter phrasing comma...    or what's pinpointed with Y and what's later replicated in trigonometric W of sine and cosine, as is Y the tan divergence... excesses bound to later and latter... how to differentiate? the lay'ter from the latté of not mopping up the surd h and the vocalised h that's asphyxiating within catching breath asthmatic?                       people forgot punctuation in the same way they forgot diacritical markings but at least they got a pretty picture and dyslexia, and iconoclasm, and modern illiteracy; as said modern conspiracy theory: far **** away from 1990s cartoon network... everything you just said: doesn't prop a need for me to buy things; which is why, i guess, you need a drugs trade that's the alternative of consumerism.
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM UTC
dāß gelb bōt
*whatever we speak, it's hardly going to be spoken of.* which means two                   kettles... mind you: target practise                     or as i mind the 2.4                 of said: superman in Iowa... do i care to mind? well, **** me!    they verse in acronym i.n.d.i.a. & c.h.i.n.a. akin to a billion... i'm tongue tied and heaving,        das bōt... this doesn't help the aesthetic... with prolonging dies the excess o...                   kaiser schweizer min took!       whatever that means, they say funny accents in **** to **** a thought of a zeppelin... yhwh: or the hollowing-out, awaiting the god to lift us out...            Pythagorean umlaut into a macron joinery...             depending on your aesthetic... Kreisler schisser...                           twins anti avid, interchange s and z...                                   Charlotte and sharpening, shearing and cheering, and so many excuses...          the chard and the sh and the charcoal and the shattering of, of the chatter:                   cheap and sharp or the acute variations of śarp & ćeap... or what the first H represents: an upper punctuation marking, above the letter,               Y or gamma γ vs. Υ (upsilon)             in latter phrasing comma...    or what's pinpointed with Y and what's later replicated in trigonometric W of sine and cosine, as is Y the tan divergence... excesses bound to later and latter... how to differentiate? the lay'ter from the latté of not mopping up the surd h and the vocalised h that's asphyxiating within catching breath asthmatic?                       people forgot punctuation in the same way they forgot diacritical markings but at least they got a pretty picture and dyslexia, and iconoclasm, and modern illiteracy; as said modern conspiracy theory: far **** away from 1990s cartoon network... everything you just said: doesn't prop a need for me to buy things; which is why, i guess, you need a drugs trade that's the alternative of consumerism.
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