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"imperialism" poems
1. De-Colonize This Space Drum circle protests genderplop demands Indigenous discount store camouflage We demand persistent stereotypes Solidarity initiative project Take back the people’s cultural statues Ethnographic curatorial practices Red spray paint fire imperialism Repatriate the Iphone Starbuck’s cups And don’t forget the “Hey! Hey! ** ** Because we’re, like, artists and stuff, you know? 2. De-Colonize This Space Too Guns and cholesterol made America great Fat white boys in discount store camouflage Duct-tape the Bible and the border wall We won our freedom with our Kalashnikovs Fake news back-stabber not a war hero SecondAmendmentSecondAmendment Lock her up get ‘em outta here yuge deal You RINO losers can grab my MAGA You snowflakes are sissies, you millennials too But ouch! my heel spurs hurt, oh boo-hoo-hoo!
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 3:02 PM UTC
De-Colonization x 2 (with an occasional "Hey! Hey! ** **
Birds have their homes. This bird made this world, Its own home. When other birds struggled To make friends beyond their homes, This bird made followers and comrades, Transformed them The perseverent leaders of a challenging mission It put its foot on Argentina and Set its victorious fight in Cuba. Availed losses in Congo Voiced and breathed every millisecond Struggled recklessly for a mission, Freedom, peace & prosperity of all its fellow birds Beyond borders. The most superior of the superior birds With an infinite and complex strings of cunningness Put an end to this bird in Bolivia. At the end, the bird failed Fell a prey for other selfish birds. As a root that fell and Buried itself in the soil with an infinite power. To give hope and shelter, To all those who come under it, For the near future and coming generations The bird died! But its mission ignited the phoenix flames In its bird comrades. Got them to fight for Every drop of Injustice, Imperialism and hatred That came racing towards them As an inescapable bullet Their hearts raised in spirit When every drop of its thought Hit them more fierce than The world’s most powerful atomic bomb. The bird died. But its ideals for the mission Rekindled the fires in their heart. Being born an ordinary bird, Fighting for the most demanded & toughest mission, Its thought and principles Set new leaders to fight the unattainable mission Now, looking the most possible Within an attaining distance The bird lived its life, An ordinary and the most challenging one. But transformed a phoenix, When it left the world. And created more of Daring Phoenix warriors; Attain a world filled with peace and happiness.
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Sep 24, 2018
Sep 24, 2018 at 9:14 AM UTC
Phoenix for the humanity
Birds have their homes. This bird made this world, Its own home. When other birds struggled To make friends beyond their homes, This bird made followers and comrades, Transformed them The perseverent leaders of a challenging mission It put its foot on Argentina and Set its victorious fight in Cuba. Availed losses in Congo Voiced and breathed every millisecond Struggled recklessly for a mission, Freedom, peace & prosperity of all its fellow birds Beyond borders. The most superior of the superior birds With an infinite and complex strings of cunningness Put an end to this bird in Bolivia. At the end, the bird failed Fell a prey for other selfish birds. As a root that fell and Buried itself in the soil with an infinite power. To give hope and shelter, To all those who come under it, For the near future and coming generations The bird died! But its mission ignited the phoenix flames In its bird comrades. Got them to fight for Every drop of Injustice, Imperialism and hatred That came racing towards them As an inescapable bullet Their hearts raised in spirit When every drop of its thought Hit them more fierce than The world’s most powerful atomic bomb. The bird died. But its ideals for the mission Rekindled the fires in their heart. Being born an ordinary bird, Fighting for the most demanded & toughest mission, Its thought and principles Set new leaders to fight the unattainable mission Now, looking the most possible Within an attaining distance The bird lived its life, An ordinary and the most challenging one. But transformed a phoenix, When it left the world. And created more of Daring Phoenix warriors; Attain a world filled with peace and happiness.
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Imperialistic meddlers, men of power greed and wealth Western Imperialism not too long ago was once put on the shelf Not too long ago this name was never heard Its name is New Order of DiSoRdEr But still us folk of sanity with eyes wide open we see their compliance lock-step herd vanity In White House spin gone amuck they throw their bolts of anger to all countries on the globe And with more and more displeasure we witness their destructiveness from sea to shining sea But now I hear, see and feel a distant faint rumbling the rising Valorous the rumbling stampeding of democracy by the forceful rightful anger, the free-spirited valiant word a word of truth and dignity, the echo of today, and aaah yes to hear the thundering of the mass To hear the thundering of the mass...
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 5:35 PM UTC
To hear the thundering of the Mass
Onam Reminds Onam reminds me of the venomous mind That overthrew a just ,kind king ,unkind Aryan imperialism subjugating the Dravid The white over the black , dark apartheid Justice of the black is unjust for the white A matter of jealousy, dissatisfaction and fight. For the British, Indians were raw to be refined As Allopaths frown upon Ayurvedics as bad. But, what is the truth? think of the covered past Weigh evidences: from history, literature and art Of all non-whites; really, they were and are super In many respects, hence, awake from your stupor. India shall not be a kite of any ruler outside No race is Blessed to override anyone beside; Almighty considers all equals - by their deeds It is That, that fosters all by weighing our deeds. When greed of man rudely jeopardizes the Nature Nature jeopardizes human life, making a fracture. Torrential rain or draught is a positive measure Applied by It on earth (as earth-quake) to treasure. Man like Vamana tries to grow and measure the earth Other planets ,heaven or hell to exploit Nature’s wealth As Jehovah ,the Almighty, Brahma, or Allah, the Cause Of that Pulsation is everywhere, beware man! and pause!
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 3:55 AM UTC
Onam Reminds
Its hard to not to forget that they tortured our memory motivated by pain no motivated by love love for the living we are trying to reach the living those sensitive to nature still not desensitized by the construction of whiteness trying to reach those uninterrupted by the temporary dominance desperation pretending to be evolution hearts beating apathy to death hysterical neglect of our trauma native tint in our eyes take our minds back from the product whose profits are imperialism give them back to dancing revolution starts in the movement of the hips a cou de tat of sway no one knows what you are no matter how confident they seem dance with your eyes closed looking deep inside do not get stuck in its reflection the hysterical reflection dance like every military just surrendered into our hearts the living are with you now can you feel them in your sway
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 9:27 PM UTC
hearts beating apathy to death
The man behind the curtain Speaking loud and certain His image twisted and blurred Larger than life His armies and might Imperialism is what he prefers The little people do his bidden On the senate floor of Oz With pockets full Of yellow brick gold Their children live like gods While those outside the castle Have fallen fast to sleep Trekking through the ***** field Light upon their feet The witches rise On the centrist floor The Wizard of Trump Will have four more Where are the ruby slippers For it's time to go home There's no place like...
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Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 at 7:39 AM UTC
The Wizard of Trump
vanishing hope for consumption as a way of life obese children shovel pharmaceuticals down the throats of the infirm internally developing low-tone hymns relating to slow death by corporate greed – albino judicators pass melanin laws felonizing the populace perpetuating the proletariat while pontificating on the post 9/11 society – isolated rabble-rousers screaming at eggshell walls dislodge tacks holding together the fabric of American culture with ingrown and chewed fingernails flailing armies think back to trench warfare – robust midwives mediate heated discussions as the United Nations blindly support U.S. imperialism looking for kickbacks from energy companies globalization giving all humanity incurable S.T.D.’s – the last free house mouse bounds betwixt the ruins energetically sniffing the rubble seeking some small morsel to satisfy its hunger –
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Sep 23, 2015
Sep 23, 2015 at 12:49 PM UTC
dinner bell
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) But I remain a believer in my ancestral religion Whose God is wele but not the Germany world, it is a religion, Like most of universal ancestral ones, With appalling moral threshold, When Elijah Masinde of dini ya Misambwa Despised those who condemned man as notoriously religious He meant human religious approach to life is absolute in nature However diverse religions compete for human ears Rich ones glorified in the luring away of modal ears But all are devoid of spiritual impetus Disappointing the progenitors of religious imperialism These short-cutters in matters of sanctimony Will not come to our heaven They will get me sharing a cup of tea With my sister- in-law; Mary, the mother of Jesus And I will shun them, I will not know them I will not invite them to a heavenly cup of tea They will be suffocated by cadaverous appetite, For we honor our religion with ancestral regard; The Faith of Our Ancestors But in ridicule they call us kaffirs, pagans, christo-pagans, Animists, atheists, gentiles, non-believers, mediumists, Rebellious rebels or whatsoever they call us; The anti-muhamedan-mis-christologists, Let them delude themselves, If they disparage us with sick contumely Abreast the dumbfounding development in sciences Plus so fortuitous humanistic awareness, Humanity in Religion has to adjust optimally Religious masters have to help Interpret the religious Books, bible, gita, quran All Written or verbalistically in the glory of epical orality In tandem with the best centered Life extant, Otherwise selfish religions becomes an old wine bag With its old and stale wine, You will persuade Russian carousers to drink But to your chagrin, none will condone, your stale wine Do not seek to sell your faith Because every human community Has an ancestral faith Respect them all for that is gods in their accolade of Omonipresecence, Any man or woman without religion is dangerous But do not advantagize yourselves At the expense of people of other faiths It is good you reciprocated Planet earth is our only sure and known abode If we lived well here, and there is another world For those who will be good, we hope the conclave of Gods Would all sit in judgment for their credit And reward those who helped humble humanity Of their religions as well as those of other religions As for all the Gods love humanists.
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Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM UTC
Echoing Taban Makitiyong Reneket Lo Liyong
Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) But I remain a believer in my ancestral religion Whose God is wele but not the Germany world, it is a religion, Like most of universal ancestral ones, With appalling moral threshold, When Elijah Masinde of dini ya Misambwa Despised those who condemned man as notoriously religious He meant human religious approach to life is absolute in nature However diverse religions compete for human ears Rich ones glorified in the luring away of modal ears But all are devoid of spiritual impetus Disappointing the progenitors of religious imperialism These short-cutters in matters of sanctimony Will not come to our heaven They will get me sharing a cup of tea With my sister- in-law; Mary, the mother of Jesus And I will shun them, I will not know them I will not invite them to a heavenly cup of tea They will be suffocated by cadaverous appetite, For we honor our religion with ancestral regard; The Faith of Our Ancestors But in ridicule they call us kaffirs, pagans, christo-pagans, Animists, atheists, gentiles, non-believers, mediumists, Rebellious rebels or whatsoever they call us; The anti-muhamedan-mis-christologists, Let them delude themselves, If they disparage us with sick contumely Abreast the dumbfounding development in sciences Plus so fortuitous humanistic awareness, Humanity in Religion has to adjust optimally Religious masters have to help Interpret the religious Books, bible, gita, quran All Written or verbalistically in the glory of epical orality In tandem with the best centered Life extant, Otherwise selfish religions becomes an old wine bag With its old and stale wine, You will persuade Russian carousers to drink But to your chagrin, none will condone, your stale wine Do not seek to sell your faith Because every human community Has an ancestral faith Respect them all for that is gods in their accolade of Omonipresecence, Any man or woman without religion is dangerous But do not advantagize yourselves At the expense of people of other faiths It is good you reciprocated Planet earth is our only sure and known abode If we lived well here, and there is another world For those who will be good, we hope the conclave of Gods Would all sit in judgment for their credit And reward those who helped humble humanity Of their religions as well as those of other religions As for all the Gods love humanists.
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Once imperialism is diagnosed what does healing look like? Beyond the tally of those killed and the killers of them What was our thinking process while these things happen? What do the senses require for humans to function within imperialism? How to establish a dialogue paranoia and a dialogue forbidden Understanding spirituality near imperialism
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 2:26 PM UTC
spiritual imperialism
i cannot remember how your lips taste. i can only remember they felt like an uninvited guest trying to move in. your lips and teeth are perfectly made to **** on skin so then you won't have to make lies with them. but i let you in. (maybe if i do what he wants, no one will get hurt). the tribe of my love, has never been one to be silenced by any lips but my own. that should have been my warning for a war cry. but it was too late. you were Columbus Day. you came in as a new reality and you left as a tragedy. you put a knife to the strings that held us together. there is a spirit floating around the ghost town of my heart that is mourning the loss of your name. it is aching to hold on to memories before the battle, but is blind to see the bodies, the bullets. we have taken a knife, and cut the strings that held us together. (for many people, Columbus Day only expresses the start of the damage introduced by imperialism, colonialism and the celebration of the birth of issues in North America, that still happen to plague us world wide)
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Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013 at 12:54 AM UTC
my Columbus Day
“The horror, the horror!” Nothing or everything Not simply something The pain of what? The people? The disease? The world? Imperialism… To what do we owe this horror Mistreat, and mistake Seize and learn Lets all take a lesson from Kurtz We are all people White, black, tan, brown No matter what It doesn’t matter We are a kinship We are all brothers Sisters, Fathers, and Mothers We are all families We are all people The Heart of Darkness
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May 29, 2011
May 29, 2011 at 7:41 PM UTC
The Heart Of Darkness
I have written a million words and fought a hundred battles. I have stood against all enemies in all corners of the world. I have been an agent of destruction and retribution. I have been a despotic symbol of unyielding authority. I have been a god of war and slaughter. But in the face of this new force I am powerless. I stood against the atom bomb, and bent it to my will. I broke the tides of imperialism and nationalism, and soon devoured them too, with my insatiable lust. I have crushed all who have contested against me; no revolution has ever ousted me. And yet. In the face of this new force I am powerless. My atom bomb is enervated. My armies are decrepit. My once iron resolution has melted to lackadaisical fancy. My Tanks, guns, swords and bombs are nothing but flaccid instruments of failed conquest. Because For all my inimical ********** I am rendered prostrate before the empyrean power of joy immeasurable.
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Jun 9, 2011
Jun 9, 2011 at 6:41 PM UTC
The Failure of the War Machine
How to design a killer society by president whiteness the imperial imagination drone culture drone language drone purpose a rough process of putting your conscience back into yourself far away from what you look like while having your experience surrounded by those who fear having their experience alone awkward comparisons of experience acting out in play called “how normal melts into experience” you ****** expired you are looking now at yourself having been experienced expired and ready for the next program I destroyed leisure white celebration single handedly found its brittle structure and took it apart piece by piece as it squeezed and begged I smiled as it crumbled down back to nature begging for mercy begging to be taught how to live how to be alive i can give time I can take it away does time need electricity to be charged does time need to socialize the harder it seems the more easy my words come the better they touch you graze your skin barely tickles like I could never with my hands I want my words to be a spark I want you to be flammable I want you to be mesmerized by the flame I made out of your attention I want you to feel warm and cozy burning passion scared of fire out of control spreading you need yet fear so boldly desperate nuclear dissociation like the affection of whiteness stampeding innocence feining my writing like drugs needles love too deep in limbs they are coming imperialism ******* longing for bodies I want your mind keep her body naked hostage of imperial lust what happened to your attention being an adult I don’t know what the **** is in the future but I do so do you I wanted to write to you so I could just focus on your eyes the next time I am with you your moistness melts my desire I become more of a mystery more mystery until nothing but mystery and then nothing at all
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 6:43 PM UTC
How to design a killer society
How to design a killer society by president whiteness the imperial imagination drone culture drone language drone purpose a rough process of putting your conscience back into yourself far away from what you look like while having your experience surrounded by those who fear having their experience alone awkward comparisons of experience acting out in play called “how normal melts into experience” you ****** expired you are looking now at yourself having been experienced expired and ready for the next program I destroyed leisure white celebration single handedly found its brittle structure and took it apart piece by piece as it squeezed and begged I smiled as it crumbled down back to nature begging for mercy begging to be taught how to live how to be alive i can give time I can take it away does time need electricity to be charged does time need to socialize the harder it seems the more easy my words come the better they touch you graze your skin barely tickles like I could never with my hands I want my words to be a spark I want you to be flammable I want you to be mesmerized by the flame I made out of your attention I want you to feel warm and cozy burning passion scared of fire out of control spreading you need yet fear so boldly desperate nuclear dissociation like the affection of whiteness stampeding innocence feining my writing like drugs needles love too deep in limbs they are coming imperialism ******* longing for bodies I want your mind keep her body naked hostage of imperial lust what happened to your attention being an adult I don’t know what the **** is in the future but I do so do you I wanted to write to you so I could just focus on your eyes the next time I am with you your moistness melts my desire I become more of a mystery more mystery until nothing but mystery and then nothing at all
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AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 8:52 PM UTC
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL?
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Dear Russians, would you mind not taking Crimea? This is not the Cold War nor the time of Imperialism, so I suggest that you go back and think empathetically about the Ukrainians pushing to be part of the European Union. You must try to walk a mile in their shoes, understand? There is no more Soviet Union or the Iron Curtain, so you really shouldn't be meddling in Ukraine's affairs. Let the revolutions play out and what will be, will be. Sincerely, Wistful Wanderer
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 2:44 PM UTC
A Poem Letter to Russia
we're all armed with an appliance of emancipation we can nurture non-violent defiance in a non-compliant ethos of antiauthoritarian self-reliance we have the ability to eliminate the vestiges of imperialism and dominant dogmas that choke and impede our creativity and shackle our imagination to impotent ideologies fragmented unrealities augmented by fractures in our psyche tendrils of theology that prey upon our fear and exacerbate conditioned responses that are at once unnatural and irrational and lead inexorably to infantile expressions of regression and fantasies of an aggression rooted in the suppression of dissent and the oppression of dissidents deities as impotent as our terror of the unknown by the promise of security and prosperity a cabal of brutish thugs have erected an imaginary hierarchy and demanded our subservient obedience and reverence for this malfeasant apparatus that leeches our paychecks and robs all of our dignity while somehow retaining the illusion of liberty a delusion that festers like an open wound a tumorous ulcer oozing foul fluid into our minds blotting out our capacity for cultivating a future divorced from misanthropy so pour kerosene on this fluttering flame of revolt before it sputters out if we'd quit looking back and forth at one another rotting in the gutters checking to see if we have more to our name than our sisters and our brothers we might just muster the courage to overthrow the vapid and misguided fictions that divide and segregate us into pawns trapped in this unending rat race they've deemed the American Dream harness the revolutionary tenacity dormant in humanity's most important ***** infinite potential latent in every molecule each neuron dancing across synaptic gaps and fanning the embers of an engine that gives motion to this evolutionary frame the human brain is omnipotent
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Feb 12, 2016
Feb 12, 2016 at 1:26 PM UTC
omnipotent
we're all armed with an appliance of emancipation we can nurture non-violent defiance in a non-compliant ethos of antiauthoritarian self-reliance we have the ability to eliminate the vestiges of imperialism and dominant dogmas that choke and impede our creativity and shackle our imagination to impotent ideologies fragmented unrealities augmented by fractures in our psyche tendrils of theology that prey upon our fear and exacerbate conditioned responses that are at once unnatural and irrational and lead inexorably to infantile expressions of regression and fantasies of an aggression rooted in the suppression of dissent and the oppression of dissidents deities as impotent as our terror of the unknown by the promise of security and prosperity a cabal of brutish thugs have erected an imaginary hierarchy and demanded our subservient obedience and reverence for this malfeasant apparatus that leeches our paychecks and robs all of our dignity while somehow retaining the illusion of liberty a delusion that festers like an open wound a tumorous ulcer oozing foul fluid into our minds blotting out our capacity for cultivating a future divorced from misanthropy so pour kerosene on this fluttering flame of revolt before it sputters out if we'd quit looking back and forth at one another rotting in the gutters checking to see if we have more to our name than our sisters and our brothers we might just muster the courage to overthrow the vapid and misguided fictions that divide and segregate us into pawns trapped in this unending rat race they've deemed the American Dream harness the revolutionary tenacity dormant in humanity's most important ***** infinite potential latent in every molecule each neuron dancing across synaptic gaps and fanning the embers of an engine that gives motion to this evolutionary frame the human brain is omnipotent
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unbelievably I dont know what to say fear in this world, Im scared unreluctantly warfare striving today here imperialism re-declared
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Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 3:13 AM UTC
Friday 13.
with each passing day, I understand less and less, for who could ever claim to know it all, yet, the simplicity of our base-ic basest instincts makes evil so easily attractive, that now, I forgive almost nothing, anyone for the cruelty inherent in on the surfacial skin of our normalcy, so easily, revealed, and reveled in, wrecks me, and the poetry sparks are not doused, but wick and ember shriveled oh the irony, that foolish me should write of the commandment to love just as the world displays old levels of hate historically deep… .I am hated, to many who would know me only as Jew, and this refresher course in my brain, reminds me, that love thy neighbor as thyself, can morph into a generational opposite, that my former degree of comfort, beliefs, was only skin deep…and Tolstoy was a naïf, a romantic, a royal, who hoped for the best in each man, and that cannot ne achieved for hate is so easy digestible, so sweet a treat for humans, who desire no compass other than simple baseness to know which direction to take…. ————————————————————————————- ”There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy ”To perform evil deeds a person must discover “a justification for his actions,” so that he can regard stealing, humiliating and killing as good. “Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble,” and so conscience restrained him. He had no ideology, Solzhenitsyn observes, nothing like “anti-imperialism” or “decolonization” to allay pangs of guilt. Solzhenitsyn concludes: “Ideology—that is what gives evil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but receive praise and honors.Solzhenitsyn
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Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023 at 3:08 PM UTC
Tolstoy uses a French expression, “Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner”: To understand all is to forgive all.
with each passing day, I understand less and less, for who could ever claim to know it all, yet, the simplicity of our base-ic basest instincts makes evil so easily attractive, that now, I forgive almost nothing, anyone for the cruelty inherent in on the surfacial skin of our normalcy, so easily, revealed, and reveled in, wrecks me, and the poetry sparks are not doused, but wick and ember shriveled oh the irony, that foolish me should write of the commandment to love just as the world displays old levels of hate historically deep… .I am hated, to many who would know me only as Jew, and this refresher course in my brain, reminds me, that love thy neighbor as thyself, can morph into a generational opposite, that my former degree of comfort, beliefs, was only skin deep…and Tolstoy was a naïf, a romantic, a royal, who hoped for the best in each man, and that cannot ne achieved for hate is so easy digestible, so sweet a treat for humans, who desire no compass other than simple baseness to know which direction to take…. ————————————————————————————- ”There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy ”To perform evil deeds a person must discover “a justification for his actions,” so that he can regard stealing, humiliating and killing as good. “Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble,” and so conscience restrained him. He had no ideology, Solzhenitsyn observes, nothing like “anti-imperialism” or “decolonization” to allay pangs of guilt. Solzhenitsyn concludes: “Ideology—that is what gives evil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but receive praise and honors.Solzhenitsyn
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With my hands, I want to erase 500 years of colonialism off your flesh. With my lips, I want to placate your christian guilt and burn away your evangelic shame. With my words, I want to travel through your mind spreading a new gospel of love. All in all: I want you to become your own savior breaking tradition in little pieces and rising in passion as a whole until you can touch the moon without having to be crucified. I want you to leave me if that's part of your liberation. It is imperialism and not god that they worship. Being touched by the holy spirit as they turn deaf to the cries of children in Iraq... and on top of that calling the poor woman of color who just had an abortion a murderer. (meanwhile their pastors and priests **** children nonstop.) Begging for donations to build the next temple as people in intervention torn countries die of hunger (all of this while Bill Gates and Carlos Slim become richer.)
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Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 3:28 AM UTC
evangelic shame
it was an inevitability that we'd unearth the evidence to validate Einstein's theory of general relativity. three cheers for the method of science, an appliance that liberates and enlightens, suffocating the miasma of dogmatic parasitism. pariahs can't stand beneath the weight of empirical data. a culture of imperialism intoxicating inane idiots, inundated by asinine philosophy. ideologues instigating turmoil— vainly believing an intergalactic being created the cosmos in seven days for the predestined elect. to insist inanely that the legacy of our existence could be measured in seven millennia is to extinguish the light from the majority of our neighboring galaxies. you read the opening lines of your holy text too literally. open your mind to the poetry of a reality that no deity could ever breathe into existence. we are not special. our fate is tied to a planet choking on CO2 and you deny the truth in the same breath you disparage any challenge to your impotent, imaginary friend. **** sapiens— mere animals cursed with conscience. if you would deny the ancestral history of our evolutionary biology simply on the premise that it's “only a theory,” then i'd invite you to put your vain hypothesis to the test and take a long walk off a short bridge. perhaps the theory of gravity will provide with you some clarity.
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Feb 16, 2016
Feb 16, 2016 at 12:01 AM UTC
theory
This is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No music nor rhythm But of images Of farmers exultant Though they break their backs, Or their bones creak, With every slash of their sickles, The heavy strokes Wounding light in the fiery heat of noon, The gaunt-faced sons of earth, Bringing home harvests of gold To the people's granary, Where no greedy landlords are in sight. For centuries, the land robbers Had squeezed their souls dry In constant toil. It may be that their time is up. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem But of history Of workers milling around a lingering twilight. Pounding their hammers with their might, Ecstatic at the thought of freedom, Yet battling still, long dreaded ills Of feudal ******* barratry, Imperialism Storing up for the people’s cause, Building a new commune in the new place Freed from the landlord-minded President From the imperialist ogres Of IMF-World Bank and Uncle Sam, The warmongers, From oppression And poverty and wretchedness That, like a python, had wound Around them to the end. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No fictive tale but of radiant truth. As throngs of men And women march Out of their homes With new-found hope, Gathering strength As from a blasting storm, Defiant now of lying saints or heroes Or of murderer Presidents Who speak with forked tongues, As the throng march out into the streets Flooding the cities, Ready to offer their lives for freedom To them would come such happiness, Such love No poem would express, No art suffice to render. This is no love poem No piece of art, no song Only a sense Of how it is to tell of battles won, Of folding in to feel the surge of triumph Though brief perhaps, Within this flashpoint moment Of the people's war.
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 6:24 AM UTC
This Is No Love Poem
This is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No music nor rhythm But of images Of farmers exultant Though they break their backs, Or their bones creak, With every slash of their sickles, The heavy strokes Wounding light in the fiery heat of noon, The gaunt-faced sons of earth, Bringing home harvests of gold To the people's granary, Where no greedy landlords are in sight. For centuries, the land robbers Had squeezed their souls dry In constant toil. It may be that their time is up. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem But of history Of workers milling around a lingering twilight. Pounding their hammers with their might, Ecstatic at the thought of freedom, Yet battling still, long dreaded ills Of feudal ******* barratry, Imperialism Storing up for the people’s cause, Building a new commune in the new place Freed from the landlord-minded President From the imperialist ogres Of IMF-World Bank and Uncle Sam, The warmongers, From oppression And poverty and wretchedness That, like a python, had wound Around them to the end. But this is no love poem No love, no art work, no poem No fictive tale but of radiant truth. As throngs of men And women march Out of their homes With new-found hope, Gathering strength As from a blasting storm, Defiant now of lying saints or heroes Or of murderer Presidents Who speak with forked tongues, As the throng march out into the streets Flooding the cities, Ready to offer their lives for freedom To them would come such happiness, Such love No poem would express, No art suffice to render. This is no love poem No piece of art, no song Only a sense Of how it is to tell of battles won, Of folding in to feel the surge of triumph Though brief perhaps, Within this flashpoint moment Of the people's war.
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Where did the fire go You talked of blood diamonds Slave labor And imperialism Now you sit on a couch With that rock on your hand Weighing you down
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Dec 10, 2014
Dec 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM UTC
Diamonds Don't Melt But Apparently Dreams Do
soft-bodied succulents dutifully separating the perennials organization crisis, preservative induced chemically altered worldview shaped largely by food reconstructed and the public’s inability to unite against imperialism – daily newscasts give rise to propaganda water-cooler hype fest breaking information leading with bleeding enveloping the country in irrational fear unsafe, even with children constant threat from every direction insanity has become the home of Ward and June Cleaver – glowing exhaust pipe as all roads lead back beginnings resemble endings all things circular revolving Revolutionary revolted remembers regurgitating rancid raspberries aluminum spray from the sky coated pesticide residue from below only the hate left is organic and pure – immeasurable, time slides away plastic incorporated into new organisms freshly evolved bacteria eat the remains of humanity and its greatness traceless epoch forever eroded undiscovered pockets of micro cilium dine on the fat reserves stored in the soil like oil – returning gods survey creation version Earth emotionless and stationary the process is repeated as it has been for billions of years single manipulation recoding the genetic structure life begins this journey one more time –
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 12:43 PM UTC
potential message
When the shadows overtake me I hope my throat is already slit. /MERCY. I've learned by now That fast and painless Is a concept of fiction. It wouldn't matter If you were to tear out my heart Or rip out my spine, It's all death just the same. If you choose to take my life, Don't take mercy into consideration, Because mercy has been long lost On those already rotting In the graves dug in their minds. /CONSUMPTION. Peace from the darkness Has taken the shape Of your hand on the goblet, With all my absolution taking the form Of your loving embrace. Let's build up our legions, Show them the light in our gospel, And convert them to our truth... Such a beautiful proposition, If we could work it out ourselves. Wash over me with your holy sermon. Let me absorb all your light. Reconstruct all my arrogance Upon the backs of the broken, Just for the rare opportunity For such a picture perfect landscape. Monarchy never looked so stunning. /EMPIRE. Drowning is becoming an art. Deeper and deeper Into the depths do I venture, All the while indifferent To my lack of oxygen. I'm plugging in plot holes. I'm re-founding Byzantium, And all for the iconography That has left me In such a state of marvel. I don't want compromise Or pity of any sort. I just want you in tidal waves, And to get pulled deeper Beneath the whole of your personality. In a modern world So short on imperialism Why was it so easy for you To colonize my heart? /TRANSLATION. For the first time in years, I need no translation. I speak clearly, openly, And without filtration. She both listens and hears, And that's not even the beginning Of her infinite positive traits. She's a modern masterpiece, So above modern art. I want to dissolve into her brilliance If for even a moment. /RECOIL. I have nothing to fear. I am the God of Death... I am the shadows That haunt even the deepest corners Of my recuperating mind. I'm gaining back the strength To show the world once more, That there are better, truer Forms of evil in our control. I am the culmination Of the lives I have taken, And now I choose to never Be frightened by fate again. I am the God of Death, And now I choose to live.
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 11:54 PM UTC
Thanatos.
When the shadows overtake me I hope my throat is already slit. /MERCY. I've learned by now That fast and painless Is a concept of fiction. It wouldn't matter If you were to tear out my heart Or rip out my spine, It's all death just the same. If you choose to take my life, Don't take mercy into consideration, Because mercy has been long lost On those already rotting In the graves dug in their minds. /CONSUMPTION. Peace from the darkness Has taken the shape Of your hand on the goblet, With all my absolution taking the form Of your loving embrace. Let's build up our legions, Show them the light in our gospel, And convert them to our truth... Such a beautiful proposition, If we could work it out ourselves. Wash over me with your holy sermon. Let me absorb all your light. Reconstruct all my arrogance Upon the backs of the broken, Just for the rare opportunity For such a picture perfect landscape. Monarchy never looked so stunning. /EMPIRE. Drowning is becoming an art. Deeper and deeper Into the depths do I venture, All the while indifferent To my lack of oxygen. I'm plugging in plot holes. I'm re-founding Byzantium, And all for the iconography That has left me In such a state of marvel. I don't want compromise Or pity of any sort. I just want you in tidal waves, And to get pulled deeper Beneath the whole of your personality. In a modern world So short on imperialism Why was it so easy for you To colonize my heart? /TRANSLATION. For the first time in years, I need no translation. I speak clearly, openly, And without filtration. She both listens and hears, And that's not even the beginning Of her infinite positive traits. She's a modern masterpiece, So above modern art. I want to dissolve into her brilliance If for even a moment. /RECOIL. I have nothing to fear. I am the God of Death... I am the shadows That haunt even the deepest corners Of my recuperating mind. I'm gaining back the strength To show the world once more, That there are better, truer Forms of evil in our control. I am the culmination Of the lives I have taken, And now I choose to never Be frightened by fate again. I am the God of Death, And now I choose to live.
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