"intermediaries" poems
Circle ****
A benzene ring of the most powerful
Viral assortment of the worst kind
Accountable to no one,
Secrecy rules this cabal.
Only fire can extinguish this conspiracy-
Burn the rich.
The poor don’t need middle men,
Lawyers or intermediaries
When there’s an obvious infestation
To be dealt with quickly-
Before they change all the rules, again.
Aug 9, 2010
Aug 9, 2010 at 8:26 PM UTC
Hosannah (Mombo from Missoura)
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Hosannah (Hebrew): an exclamation of joy, adoration
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*who says Hosannah anymore, I think, recalling
a question reversed,^ one, long ago, that she sent to me,
the answer comes, a puddle splashing grandmother,
Mombo from Missoura
a what?
doesn’t matter
Periodic perusals of the small fine poems here, jewels lost in the kerfuffle,
At once, a signet ringing word jumps into my historical consciousness,
That little place, where the childhood was puzzled, but purified, remembering
That little boy, in synagogue, lost amid a congregation chanting
Hosannah! to
Yahweh, ghost god, user of intermediaries-whisperers,
Mombo from Missoura (today’s guest voice)
selected by greater forces to make him recall the unity of many voices
his squeaking tone, found among that pure noise
that went to god’s heart direct
exclaiming in joy, adoration of
a majesty unfound on Earth,
sealed with a Selah,
crowned with Hallelujah
that god who never, incapable of forgetting,
still chats with him, that boy, now a boy~poppy,
from time to time,
recalling when together,
they too, puddle jumped,
looking for oil drop rainbow spots
so they could unison shout out loud*
Hosannah! A rainbow on Earth
Sabbath Sept. 14, 2019
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^ ”who writes poems like this?”
Sep 14, 2019
Sep 14, 2019 at 9:50 AM UTC
you turned me into ....
into an anxious person
passive aggressive
trembles at your absence
screaming your name
now I'm a scary puppy
licking my wounds
going around in circles
waiting for you to return
... your words
a gesture of love in your eyes
... to throw the ball
i wait ... and waiting I get weak
dehydrate me, I'm getting carbonized
my eyes are dry watching the window
my lashes fall
and my hands wrinkle
this time is cruel
makes me feel anxious, awkward, desperate
is like a tunnel crowded, which I can't leave
as tying the laces without hands
falling limply to the floor
without intermediaries
Here I'm
May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 3:40 PM UTC
One problem in traditional finance
Is that intermediaries are needed to
Facilitate transactions in the system.
These intermediaries charge fees, act
As points of control or censorship, and
Often allow chargebacks (non-finality)
Therefore
What we need is a truly peer to peer
Electronic cash system which allows
Payments to be sent from one party
To another without an intermediary.
Such a system built for the internet
Exists here and now. It is Bitcoin.
Feb 27, 2024
Feb 27, 2024 at 10:58 AM UTC
The concentric circles
Of two within one
described by colours
And the colours have meaning
The outer circle shaded red
those who build the world located hear
They are poor
They work day in day out
They make a living out of sweat
Most have many children
Most uneducated
Most die of hunger
They do unpropotional kind of work
They work a lot but paid less
Success is imagination
The inner is yellow
This describes the better ones
They are intermediaries
They speak for the few
They give given orders
They earn
They are settled but still most are not happy
They still strive to impress their bosses
The innermost belong to the few
The tycoons and multimillionaires
The earn but do not work
They formulate orders to favor
They hate local and like abroad
They speak in tongues
For others to interprete
Their shade is green
They have years to die
They import doctors
They inspire in ****
These are the few,
They have their say
And they must be heard!
Live is not fair
On earth someone struggles to make ends meet
While the other struggles to frustrate the more
The stinky rich
Controls the world
Even if they are educationally down
Their money speak louder
Their stories spread like fire over dry grass
They are of joy...
I will still believe in this concentric circle and unearth even better stories .
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 12:36 AM UTC
Fiat money relies on intermediaries
Such as banks and government entities
To facilitate transactions and keep records
And ensure the integrity of the money system
This system requires trust to make it function
Yet the history of fiat currencies is replete with
Breaches of that trust - breaches of integrity
Therefore
Let’s move to a new money not based on trust
With no reliance on any centralized authority
But peer to peer verification through code
Made secure by a decentralized network
Allowing any and every user to validate
Their own (and all) money transactions
This is Bitcoin. Don’t trust, but verify
Jan 10, 2023
Jan 10, 2023 at 9:08 AM UTC