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Don Bouchard Jan 2012
I remember reading
Martin Luther King, Jr's
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
Mark Twain's Huck Finn
DuBois' Souls of Black Folk
For the first time

The words of Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Tecumseh
James Welch
and Alexie Sherman
And others of indigenous kind
Linger like arrows in my mind.

Of course, there's
Gilgamesh's forlorn quest for Enkidu;
Osiris, Amun, Ra, and Seth,
Homer's Illiad and Odyssey,
And Virgil's Roman treatment -
(For whom the gods destroy
We all must learn bereavement).

I remember reading
Milton's Paradises (lost and found)
And Dante's Infernal quest for Heaven
Through the bowels of Hell with Virgil's spritely guide
And up the Devil's staircase with Beatrice by his side.
John's Revelation of Times' End;
And LaHaye's money-making Left Behind
Apocalypses here to chill my mind.

I have surveyed Dead Presidents
Washington,
Jefferson,
Lincoln
Both Roosevelts, Ted and Frank,
And Reagan
And smatterings of others...
Then hopped the bookish pond to read
Sir Winston and some others,
Not the least of whom is Gandhi G,
Taught by the Queen to free his brothers.

I have studied
Moses
Job
David
Ruth
Esther
Isaiah
Jeremiah
The Disciples
Paul
and James
(Ironically,
Though Jesus is the "Word"
He never penned one).

British poets's thoughts,
Tale tellers long-dead
Have found their way
Into my head:
Beowulf and Chaucer
Old moral plays
Shelley and Keats
Cavalier Poets
Scott and Brownings
Burns and (not) Allen
Spenser and Shakespeare
Dylan and Tolkien
Lewis and Auden
And so many more
That I leave on the floor

Western Americana I have loved
Hemingway and Steinbeck, all worth the time,
Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, and
Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth,
Keroac went on the road, while
Joseph Kinsey Howard showed us the West
Lewis & Clark in journals scribed
Their journey west and back again

I can't forget psychology
And so I will digress
Or Sigmund's accusation stays
That I have but suppressed:
Ellis, Freud, and Eric Berne,
Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike, Watson,
Wundt, and Wm James, Piaget and Chomsky
Then Vygotsky and Bandura put a social spin
on cognitive psychology, and Everybody's in.
Diverging and Converging, psychic students, all
Could never make transaction
'Til Rogers tried to make some peace
But Ellis wouldn't have 'im.

And then, of course,
The lighter stuff,
The popcorn of the mind:
Clancy, Rankin, Carole Keene
L'Amour and Will James
Stephen King and Poe,
Cruz Smith and Leon Uris,
Grisham, Deaver, Cornwall,
Asimov, Bradbury and Herbert,
Carroll and Baum...
Written Words change us.... I use the term "poem" as Louise Rosenblatt did, namely, a poem is the creation each reader makes to describe the connection between the Text and his or her own life experience, opinion, knowledge, beliefs, feelings, etc. Those "poems" affect and change us in our wanderings on this earth. I am, indeed, changed by the texts I have read and continue to read....
In haphazard fashion, I am starting a collection of writers who give me an understanding of the world's color and shape. This is just the beginning.... If readers have suggestions or reminders, I will add the ones I have read....
JT Jun 2016
Within the four walls of this library
sit three walls packed into the corner;
shelves, stuffed full of books with dog-eared pages
and slip-disc’d spines and fraying edges,
and a big white sign, which dangles from the ceiling
like a megabat hung on a cave mouth, sleeping and dreaming,
the word “NONFICTION” is inscribed on its countenance,
adjacent to signs shouting “MYSTERY” and “SCIENCE
FICTION” and “FANTASY” and “ROMANCE”
and a thousand other sorts of words
for myth and fabrication. But in this corner
live the rest, the et ceteras, the miscellaneous,
the kingdom of protists; for instance, care for some ethics?
Marx’s manifesto is stacked lazily beside a heap of essays by Rand;
you can practically see the two of them, shaking hands
uneasily, the will to never understand already forming
in their brains, and others yet remain;
Capote and the Clutters share shelf space
with the Mansons, hiding helter skelter behind
gnostic gospels and silent springs and a thousand
dreams for Freud to interpret (translated
from German for your convenience); nearby,
Orwell sings war songs in Catalan, accompanied
by the universe’s most elegant superstrings,
and the caged birds, singing of freedom,
harmonizing a melodious cacophony with the song
of the executioner. Butler criticizes his performance,
and she probably would have anyway, but Friedan thinks
he has a certain sort of mystique and Dawkins offers his own critique,
going on about genes and memes, extinction and delusion, but
not hallucinations—Sacks makes the distinction; let us continue
to praise famous men, and their children after them,
these naked apes, with minds so ***** that
they’re riddled with the emperors of all maladies; oh, Morris
Kinsey and Mukherjee could tell you all about these things,
maybe over lunch with Schlosser or dinner with Pollan,
minglings with Machiavelli over affairs of the state,
or affairs of space and a brief history of time; but,
if you're feeling too full to eat, or to pray, or to love,
ask Frankl what to do, let him change your life
with words from decades yore as he keeps on
his search for meaning just like every man before, at least
that's the case when these boys’ lives weren’t preoccupied
by artful war or bright and shining lies. And here,
by the holy bookend, lies some old and antiquated glossary
which lost most of its “glossy” many years ago,
for one flip through the pages will catalogue the changes
between what we thought we knew about the stars
and our bodies and doomsday as recently
as your last birthday, and all the things that everyone says
we now know that we know; speak,
memory, remember all you can
about this endless, sundry cosmos, and
the microcosms that it boasts; bury my heart,
if not at Wounded Knee, then maybe at this
library, where comprehension and speculation
find themselves in coexistence, packed into a single
point resembling the genesis, and fear and hope
take dueling forms, those of fact and mystery;
and now all that’s left to do is read,
until the end of history.
if you want to play along at home: there are 33 allusions to spot.
Don Bouchard Jan 2016
I remember reading
Martin Luther King, Jr's
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
Mark Twain's Huck Finn
DuBois' Souls of Black Folk,
Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck,
Sherman Alexie's Part-time Indian tale....
For the first time

The words of Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Tecumseh
James Welch
and Alexie Sherman
And others of indigenous kind
Linger like arrows in my mind.

Of course, there's
Gilgamesh's forlorn quest for Enkidu;
Osiris, Amun, Ra, and Seth,
Homer's  Illiad and  Odyssey,
And Virgil's Roman treatment -
(For whom the gods destroy
We all must learn bereavement).

I remember reading
Milton's Paradises (lost and found)
And Dante's Infernal quest for Heaven
Through the bowels of Hell with Virgil's spritely guide
And up the Devil's staircase with Beatrice by his side.
John's Revelation of Times' End;
And LaHaye's money-making Left Behind,
Collin's Hunger Games and Dashner's Maze Running
Apocalypses enough to chill my mind.

I have surveyed Dead Presidents
Washington,
Jefferson,
Lincoln
Both Roosevelts, Ted and Frank,
And Reagan
And smatterings of others...
Then hopped the bookish pond to read
Sir Winston and some others,
Not the least of whom is Gandhi G,
Taught by the Queen to free his brothers.

I have studied
Moses
Job
David
Ruth
Esther
Isaiah
Jeremiah
The Disciples
Paul
and James
(Ironically,
Since Jesus is the "Word,"
Through men He penned).

British poets's thoughts,
Tale tellers long-dead
Have found their way
Into my head:
Beowulf and Chaucer
Old moral plays
Shelley and Keats
Cavalier Poets
Scott and Brownings
Burns and (not) Allen
Spenser and Shakespeare
Dylan and Tolkien
Lewis and Auden
And so many more
That I leave on the floor

Western Americana I have loved
Hemingway and Steinbeck, all worth the time,
Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, and
Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth,
Keroac went on the road, while
Joseph Kinsey Howard showed us the West
Lewis & Clark in journals scribed
Their journey west and back again

I can't forget psychology
And so I will digress
Or Sigmund's accusation stays
That I have but suppressed:
Ellis, Freud, and Eric Berne,
Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike, Watson,
Wundt, and Wm James, Piaget and Chomsky
Then Vygotsky and Bandura put a social spin
on cognitive psychology, and Everybody's in.
Diverging and Converging, psychic students, all
Could never make transaction
'Til Rogers tried to make some peace
But Ellis wouldn't have 'im.

And then, of course,
The lighter stuff,
The popcorn of the mind:
Clancy, Rankin, Carole Keene
L'Amour  and Will James
Stephen King and Poe,
Cruz Smith and Leon Uris,
Grisham, Deaver, Cornwall,
Asimov, Bradbury and Herbert,
Carroll and Baum...

The list goes on and on, and will, I'm sure, expand beyond capacity.
Work in progress.... Thanks to Soul Survivor for catching my glitch about Jesus.... Since all Scripture is God-breathed, technically, Jesus is the author of Holy Scripture, and He inspired the text we know as the Bible.... Good catch!
Surely, ****** babies is bad but not really so bad as it has provided priceless insight into understanding the psychology of infants and their ****** responses when reamed, digitally sodomized & ****** fellated by men. The crapped-out charlatan Wayne Dyer was an amoral beast. People who eulogize this blood-lusting crackpot should bow their balding, bleached heads in shame. By the end, at the time of the end, in ending times, all will be revealed.
Third Eye Candy Oct 2012
join me in a husk of foam.

tell your demons to sing this wingless gift
spilling vicious plumes of almost.

yawn the anthem of a bleeding art !
succumb to the beautiful
your ugly said
"Yes " too.

dream now.

don't fear the rasp of Kinsey reports
return to the dungeon of free love

a real thing, on the fringe of a last thing

swimming in the mercury
of taint.
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Wayne Dyer praised Margaret ****** who wrote: "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the ***** is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." – Margaret ******'s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's "Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America," New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

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Wayne Dyer praised Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou wrote of being a *******, a ******* madam, a communist and a lesbian. She hustled for racist/State eugenicist Margaret ******'s Planned Parenthood. Margaret ****** referred to negroes as human weeds. Planned Parenthood kills 1,400 unborn negroes daily. Maya Angelou supported the South African husband/wife terrorist team of Nelson & Winnie Mandela.

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Dyer taught Alfred Kinsey's sexology, the same Kinsey who, with & his merry band of pedophiles & pederasts (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), manually & ****** brought to "******" kids as young as 2 months old. Surely, ****** babies is bad but not really so bad as it has provided priceless insight into understanding the psychology of infants and their ****** responses when reamed, digitally sodomized & ****** fellated by men. The crapped-out charlatan Wayne Dyer was an amoral beast. People who eulogize this blood-lusting crackpot should bow their balding, bleached heads in shame. By the end, at the time of the end, in ending times, all will be revealed.
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Wayne Dyer praised Nelson Mandela. THE MAJORITY OF NELSON MANDELA'S & THE A.N.C.'S VICTIMS WERE ORDINARY CITIZENS AS NELSON MANDELA'S A.N.C. TARGETED PLACES WHERE FAMILIES WERE SURE TO BE:
☒ 1981 -- 2 car bombs at Durban showrooms
☒ 1983 -- Church Street Bomb (killed 19, wounded 217)
☒ 1984 -- Durban car bomb (killed 5, wounded 27)
☒ 1985-1987 -- At least 150 landmines on farm roads (killed 125)
☒ 1985 -- Amanzimtoti Sanlam shopping centre bomb Dec 23 (killed 2 white women and 3 white children)
☒ 1986 -- Magoo's Bar bomb (killed 3, wounded 69)
☒ 1986 -- Newcastle Court bomb (wounded 24)
☒ 1987 -- Johannesburg Court bomb (killed 3, wounded 10)
☒ 1987 -- Wits command centre car bomb (killed 1, wounded 68)
☒ 1988 -- Johannesburg video arcade (killed 1 unborn baby, wounded 10)
☒ 1988 -- Roodepoort bank bomb (killed 4, wounded 18)
☒ 1988 -- Pretoria Police housing unit, 2 bombs (wounded 3)
☒ 1988 -- Magistrate's Court bomb (killed 3)
☒ 1988 -- Benoni Wimpy Bar bomb (killed 1, wounded 56)
☒ 1988 -- Witbank shopping centre bomb (killed 2, wounded 42)
☒ 1988 -- Ellis Park Rugby Stadium car bomb (killed 2, wounded 37)
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Duke Thompson Oct 2015
weekend
saturday after
wilin last night
designer shirt
computer chair
808s
tired eyes
wise cracks about quaaludes
this ******* thinks
he's Kinsey
or something
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Wayne Dyer praised Margaret ****** who wrote: "We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the ***** is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." – Margaret ******'s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's "Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America," New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

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Wayne Dyer praised Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou wrote of being a *******, a ******* madam, a communist and a lesbian. She hustled for racist/State eugenicist Margaret ******'s Planned Parenthood. Margaret ****** referred to negroes as human weeds. Planned Parenthood kills 1,400 unborn negroes daily. Maya Angelou supported the South African husband/wife terrorist team of Nelson & Winnie Mandela.

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Dyer taught Alfred Kinsey's sexology, the same Kinsey who, with & his merry band of pedophiles & pederasts (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), manually & ****** brought to "******" kids as young as 2 months old. Surely, ****** babies is bad but not really so bad as it has provided priceless insight into understanding the psychology of infants and their ****** responses when reamed, digitally sodomized & ****** fellated by men. The crapped-out charlatan Wayne Dyer was an amoral beast. People who eulogize this blood-lusting crackpot should bow their balding, bleached heads in shame. By the end, at the time of the end, in ending times, all will be revealed.
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Wayne Dyer praised Nelson Mandela. THE MAJORITY OF NELSON MANDELA'S & THE A.N.C.'S VICTIMS WERE ORDINARY CITIZENS AS NELSON MANDELA'S A.N.C. TARGETED PLACES WHERE FAMILIES WERE SURE TO BE:
☒ 1981 -- 2 car bombs at Durban showrooms
☒ 1983 -- Church Street Bomb (killed 19, wounded 217)
☒ 1984 -- Durban car bomb (killed 5, wounded 27)
☒ 1985-1987 -- At least 150 landmines on farm roads (killed 125)
☒ 1985 -- Amanzimtoti Sanlam shopping centre bomb Dec 23 (killed 2 white women and 3 white children)
☒ 1986 -- Magoo's Bar bomb (killed 3, wounded 69)
☒ 1986 -- Newcastle Court bomb (wounded 24)
☒ 1987 -- Johannesburg Court bomb (killed 3, wounded 10)
☒ 1987 -- Wits command centre car bomb (killed 1, wounded 68)
☒ 1988 -- Johannesburg video arcade (killed 1 unborn baby, wounded 10)
☒ 1988 -- Roodepoort bank bomb (killed 4, wounded 18)
☒ 1988 -- Pretoria Police housing unit, 2 bombs (wounded 3)
☒ 1988 -- Magistrate's Court bomb (killed 3)
☒ 1988 -- Benoni Wimpy Bar bomb (killed 1, wounded 56)
☒ 1988 -- Witbank shopping centre bomb (killed 2, wounded 42)
☒ 1988 -- Ellis Park Rugby Stadium car bomb (killed 2, wounded 37)
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poetryaccident Aug 2017
Consider phobia as a fault
a statement put out as “I’d never”
by the ones who turns their heads
with blanket statements uttered forth
putting judgment on those who fail
to be in tidy boxes built by life
whether speakers are the majority
or in the minority on life’s fringe.

A natural order is assumed
based on a bubble’s small contents
floating in the larger world
binding those found within
the swaying group may be small
or large enough to swamp the rest
it matters not when hate is found
at end of thoughts that classify.

The vagueness is disconcerting
a step away from normals felt
be they on one end or the other
of the ranged Kinsey scale
bias breeds from experience
society stamping upon the mind
asking thoughts to intersect
with hive mind of company.

The “I’d never” statements cut too deep
harm the target of phobic ends
with a net that’s spread to wide
pointed weapons press outward
with dispassion that violates
the golden rule most embraced
protective thoughts of the group
drive the phobia as a fault.

© 2017. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20170813.
“Phobia as a Fault” speaks directly to a discussion storm I’m aware of on social media, but I’ll stick with the broad outlines of a painful situation.   The poem is about the phobic thoughts inherited from the “hive mind”.   A phobic thought is one that is framed with “I’d never do X with Y” or “X is bad because they always do Y”.   Rejection is predeclared because of another person’s perceived state.    Any size group can promote phobic thoughts.  Groups at the receiving end of phobic thoughts can generate their own phobic thoughts.  Sadly, at their heart, the phobic directions may mean well with an intention of ‘protecting’ a group.  In practice they feed and imbue hurts that are beyond evil.
The most successful educational approach to the ***** is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." – Margaret ******'s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's "Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America," New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

Wayne Dyer praised Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou wrote of being a *******, a ******* madam, a communist and a lesbian. She hustled for racist/State eugenicist Margaret ******'s Planned Parenthood. Margaret ****** referred to negroes as human weeds. Planned Parenthood kills 1,400 unborn negroes daily. Maya Angelou supported the South African husband/wife terrorist team of Nelson & Winnie Mandela.

Dyer taught Alfred Kinsey's sexology, the same Kinsey who, with & his merry band of pedophiles & pederasts (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation), manually & ****** brought to "******" kids as young as 2 months old. Surely, ****** babies is bad but not really so bad as it has provided priceless insight into understanding the psychology of infants and their ****** responses when reamed, digitally sodomized & ****** fellated by men. The crapped-out charlatan Wayne Dyer was an amoral beast. People who eulogize this blood-lusting crackpot should bow their balding, bleached heads in shame. By the end, at the time of the end, in ending times, all will be revealed.

— The End —