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"legislating" poems
Concrete full of blood Skies, smoke-filled clouds Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold Incubators, landfills For Food deserts Soul Scavengers Bullet and knife showers Parentless parents Starving children Hotbeds for addiction Metropolises Harvesting humans like ants Where democracy manufactures Oppressed consumers out of the masses Majority starving for death Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold Those borders you revere Hijacking your body and mind Legislating no burning of the flag Where they clean their blood-drenched hands on Can you tell what side your on When you agree, they hold a different nationality When can there be actual solidarity? Profets of freedom, alienating OUR power to be When in doctrine, legislature, and policy Hierarchizing who deserves to be free In contempt, not compliance In pain, not numb Reactive, not inactive Burning, boiling, shivering Out of injustice Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold How can you keep suffering, When you face the truth
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM UTC
INDUCING VOMITING (Of Every Freedom You Hold)
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate? Why do the senators sit there without legislating? Because the barbarians are coming today. What laws can the senators make now? Once the barbarians are here, they'll do the legislating. Why did our emperor get up so early, and why is he sitting at the city's main gate on his throne, in state, wearing the crown? Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader. He has even prepared a scroll to give him, replete with titles, with imposing names. Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas? Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts, and rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds? Why are they carrying elegant canes beautifully worked in silver and gold? Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle the barbarians. Why don't our distinguished orators come forward as usual to make their speeches, say what they have to say? Because the barbarians are coming today and they're bored by rhetoric and public speaking. Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion? (How serious people's faces have become.) Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, everyone going home so lost in thought? Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come. And some who have just returned from the border say there are no barbarians any longer. And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate? Why do the senators sit there without legislating? Because the barbarians are coming today. What laws can the senators make now? Once the barbarians are here, they'll do the legislating. Why did our emperor get up so early, and why is he sitting at the city's main gate on his throne, in state, wearing the crown? Because the barbarians are coming today and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader. He has even prepared a scroll to give him, replete with titles, with imposing names. Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas? Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts, and rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds? Why are they carrying elegant canes beautifully worked in silver and gold? Because the barbarians are coming today and things like that dazzle the barbarians. Why don't our distinguished orators come forward as usual to make their speeches, say what they have to say? Because the barbarians are coming today and they're bored by rhetoric and public speaking. Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion? (How serious people's faces have become.) Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, everyone going home so lost in thought? Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come. And some who have just returned from the border say there are no barbarians any longer. And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.
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In the billow of mercurial cataclysms Sharp as the pyrexia of igneous pebble stones Upon my hindquarters I was cast The circles that were established Branded my skin with cancerous nightmares Crafting the twisted love song ******* my throat Through the lavender haze I tread Threatened by a medley of conundrums The tongue legislating such echoes ‘tis the element I so daringly seek
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Sep 7, 2012
Sep 7, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
The ****** Diaries I
For just over two thousand years we've held to the thoughts of the past Followed teaching, and the preaching that professed faith to all whom asked Dare we ever question that faith we find ourselves mired in pain Be-seeched by those, one might suppose to be blessed or somehow ordained Legislating morality has never worked and never will you can't force folk, under a yolk of privileged who sit top a hill Eating from the tree of knowledge perhaps we found our sanity We need be fair, man's self aware one can't deny humanity The religious right will survive behind glass in a museum An oddity, commodity for all those who want to see them
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Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 3:25 PM UTC
Oddity Commodity
Sorry said the merry man, adjacent on his way, I've gone and ticked you off while I've been out tramping today And in my careless frolic I seem to have stole your heart What brutal lust you blow towards me, gushing like a **** But I'm not la-da-dee-da-dee, a manly bearded sprite Jingle though my stirrups do like dormice held too tight I'm a serious enterprise, a man deeply invested In stacking stocks and picking prices, if you're interested? She danced reluctantly to him, unnatured to the rhythm But with a wink she start'd to slink and jim-jam along with him The two then picked their sandals up and shuffled down the street And drank and laughed amerrily at all they chanced to meet To the bank they wandered, legislating they did go In government, in finance, in high station to and fro Each day they yawned and gargled on a fresh new tonic smell And went on down the street to make a fresh mismanaged hell Soon agiggling and adultering they fell down in a mess Holes and tears ashaming his and her once modest dress There they lay and blocked the road till bobby picked them up And once they'd laughed their fill of him they bribed the greasy pup He took them to the city square and let them borrow his hat They gave out fines and sentences for being thin or fat They stood on boxes, had ideas for rent for half a pence And sat gracefully cross-eyed on the splintering picket fence Then donned a mitre, did a dance, their pageantry displayed, They became gods, just for a laugh, the vicarage dismayed When down from heaven lightning bolts, shot with a holy hum Came buzzing like a hornets' nest and shocked them on the *** A **** of smoke, a whiff of cheese, the townsfolk breathed release Gone at last those terrors past, they could return to peace Then up from high a saintly sigh two angels billowed down Golden halos greasy and no pants beneath their gown The townsfolk wept and cried aloud, their stomachs plopped and churned To see the pair of villains there, so gracefully returned Blessed be the kingmakers the two of them agreed Until next weekend, Duw my dear, and until then, God's speed.
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Nov 28, 2020
Nov 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM UTC
God's Speed
Sorry said the merry man, adjacent on his way, I've gone and ticked you off while I've been out tramping today And in my careless frolic I seem to have stole your heart What brutal lust you blow towards me, gushing like a **** But I'm not la-da-dee-da-dee, a manly bearded sprite Jingle though my stirrups do like dormice held too tight I'm a serious enterprise, a man deeply invested In stacking stocks and picking prices, if you're interested? She danced reluctantly to him, unnatured to the rhythm But with a wink she start'd to slink and jim-jam along with him The two then picked their sandals up and shuffled down the street And drank and laughed amerrily at all they chanced to meet To the bank they wandered, legislating they did go In government, in finance, in high station to and fro Each day they yawned and gargled on a fresh new tonic smell And went on down the street to make a fresh mismanaged hell Soon agiggling and adultering they fell down in a mess Holes and tears ashaming his and her once modest dress There they lay and blocked the road till bobby picked them up And once they'd laughed their fill of him they bribed the greasy pup He took them to the city square and let them borrow his hat They gave out fines and sentences for being thin or fat They stood on boxes, had ideas for rent for half a pence And sat gracefully cross-eyed on the splintering picket fence Then donned a mitre, did a dance, their pageantry displayed, They became gods, just for a laugh, the vicarage dismayed When down from heaven lightning bolts, shot with a holy hum Came buzzing like a hornets' nest and shocked them on the *** A **** of smoke, a whiff of cheese, the townsfolk breathed release Gone at last those terrors past, they could return to peace Then up from high a saintly sigh two angels billowed down Golden halos greasy and no pants beneath their gown The townsfolk wept and cried aloud, their stomachs plopped and churned To see the pair of villains there, so gracefully returned Blessed be the kingmakers the two of them agreed Until next weekend, Duw my dear, and until then, God's speed.
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coyote           tried to take a girl           sunk his teeth in to that girlflesh           and ran shot dead            by the cops in less than a day strange            that we are judge            jury executioner lawmaking legislating binding             animals to our humanity when they know              nothing of our lives             the girl lived        bearing the mark of teeth forever the coyote perished             for human vanity revenge             reciprocity
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Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 11:21 AM UTC
teethmarks
There's a segment of the Christian fraternity arguing vehemently to reject modernity saying we should be one way for eternity until it's their turn to go to the infirmary then stop worrying about things infernally and start rationalizing things internally. They exacerbate Christianity's misuse on legislating social issues imposing their will through force and **** then when they see people leaving the church they don't think it's from all the pain and hurt they think it's a ******* problem with the music or the youth group maybe people don't want to go somewhere that'll abuse you. They reject modernity because modernity rejected them and yearn for a time when society favored men yearning for a culture that would favor them more and share their hatred of the person next door. They conflate traditionalism with regression to give off the impression they've just been taught different lessons and are part of a harmless collection but it's all the same **** in different packaging in this society they've run savagely did they think that after all that ravaging we'd forget through apathy? Why plunge us back into primal schisms? Could it be they're just fans of tribalism? They feel their side has the right numbers yet they're rapidly diminishing they want the giant to awaken from its slumber for a genocide finishing. These people need to find a better way to live which is apparently something Jesus can give but I'm not seeing that on the end of their shiv pointed at me to make me not sin so that their side can win at something that isn't a game I wish they'd see it the same. They can grow a beard and work out they may be able to dish the hurt out but the simple phrase "reject modernity" simply reflects their immaturity.
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Oct 1, 2021
Oct 1, 2021 at 5:02 AM UTC
Reject Modernity
There's a segment of the Christian fraternity arguing vehemently to reject modernity saying we should be one way for eternity until it's their turn to go to the infirmary then stop worrying about things infernally and start rationalizing things internally. They exacerbate Christianity's misuse on legislating social issues imposing their will through force and **** then when they see people leaving the church they don't think it's from all the pain and hurt they think it's a ******* problem with the music or the youth group maybe people don't want to go somewhere that'll abuse you. They reject modernity because modernity rejected them and yearn for a time when society favored men yearning for a culture that would favor them more and share their hatred of the person next door. They conflate traditionalism with regression to give off the impression they've just been taught different lessons and are part of a harmless collection but it's all the same **** in different packaging in this society they've run savagely did they think that after all that ravaging we'd forget through apathy? Why plunge us back into primal schisms? Could it be they're just fans of tribalism? They feel their side has the right numbers yet they're rapidly diminishing they want the giant to awaken from its slumber for a genocide finishing. These people need to find a better way to live which is apparently something Jesus can give but I'm not seeing that on the end of their shiv pointed at me to make me not sin so that their side can win at something that isn't a game I wish they'd see it the same. They can grow a beard and work out they may be able to dish the hurt out but the simple phrase "reject modernity" simply reflects their immaturity.
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These white men are sick These white men are ill Someone call the doctor! Control. Control. Control. I said hey man stop oppressing me They said hey boy. we make the rules She said hey man, stop legislating my body They said hey girl, it's God's will. He said hey man, I'm just making ends meat They said hey boy, get that *** to work I said hey man, your profits are from misery They said hey boy, if you don't like it leave She said hey man, I just want fair wage They said hey girl, its a man's world He said hey man, you stole this land They said they boy, my rifle says otherwise Someone call the doctor! These white men are sick These white men are ill Control. Control. Control.
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Dec 7, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 at 8:35 PM UTC
White Men
The carts rolled out of the warehouses And trawled each single street, Each drawn by a giant Clydesdale with Those massive hooves and feet, They creaked along, and they struck a gong That excited furtive looks, While the men that day, who rode the dray Called out, ‘Bring out your books.’ They watched the shimmer of curtains as The people peeked outside, For many were loth to show themselves, All they had left was pride, The law brought in by the ****** left Trapped all but the pastrycooks, For they could retain their recipes At the cry, ‘Bring out your books.’ They said they were saving forests from The pulp mill on the bay, There wouldn’t need to be paper with The pads we have today, And too many things were incorrect Had been printed on a tree, Were sitting on people’s shelves, defunct In ideology. The people set up resistance, they Had loved their tattered tomes, And many a shelf was burdened in The meanest of their homes, ‘The government’s trying to dumb us down,’ Was the universal cry, ‘Go out and save the forests, but If they’re already printed, why?’ The spread of ideas is dangerous They could rot you to the core, And too many things on liberty Have been printed, long before, Perhaps it would have been better if The people couldn’t read, Taking away the books at last Might take away the need. The drays that rumbled along each street They had stacked the books up high, But there was the odd revisionist Who complained, and grumbled, ‘Why?’ A squad broke into each suspect house Where the owner locked the door, And tore the books from his fevered grasp While screaming, ‘It’s the law!’ But mine, I hid in the garden shed And buried the others deep, They wouldn’t be getting their hands on them The ones that I wished to keep, There’s so many fake and useless things That they’re legislating for, But to take our books and our liberty Would be like declaring war. David Lewis Paget
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
The Gathering In...
The carts rolled out of the warehouses And trawled each single street, Each drawn by a giant Clydesdale with Those massive hooves and feet, They creaked along, and they struck a gong That excited furtive looks, While the men that day, who rode the dray Called out, ‘Bring out your books.’ They watched the shimmer of curtains as The people peeked outside, For many were loth to show themselves, All they had left was pride, The law brought in by the ****** left Trapped all but the pastrycooks, For they could retain their recipes At the cry, ‘Bring out your books.’ They said they were saving forests from The pulp mill on the bay, There wouldn’t need to be paper with The pads we have today, And too many things were incorrect Had been printed on a tree, Were sitting on people’s shelves, defunct In ideology. The people set up resistance, they Had loved their tattered tomes, And many a shelf was burdened in The meanest of their homes, ‘The government’s trying to dumb us down,’ Was the universal cry, ‘Go out and save the forests, but If they’re already printed, why?’ The spread of ideas is dangerous They could rot you to the core, And too many things on liberty Have been printed, long before, Perhaps it would have been better if The people couldn’t read, Taking away the books at last Might take away the need. The drays that rumbled along each street They had stacked the books up high, But there was the odd revisionist Who complained, and grumbled, ‘Why?’ A squad broke into each suspect house Where the owner locked the door, And tore the books from his fevered grasp While screaming, ‘It’s the law!’ But mine, I hid in the garden shed And buried the others deep, They wouldn’t be getting their hands on them The ones that I wished to keep, There’s so many fake and useless things That they’re legislating for, But to take our books and our liberty Would be like declaring war. David Lewis Paget
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“Social­ism is a phi­los­o­phy of fail­ure, the creed of igno­rance, and the gospel of envy, its inher­ent virtue is the equal shar­ing of misery.” “I do not at all wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries, that what used to be called the ‘submerged tenth’ can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their level…” Socialism isn’t equality. Why should we be equal anyway? Who thought that up -well St-Juste and Robespierre, who created a tyranny based on terror that furnished the blueprint for communism. You have the ruling elite who control everything and the general public under their thumb so the elite can stay in power. Venezuela is a beautiful example of where socialism leads. Leftists are always hung up on theories and fantasies but never want to look at cold, hard reality. ” You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it” “If a man is 20 and not a Socialist, he has no heart. If a man is 40 and not a Capitalist, he has no head.” We do not want gangster POLITICS or Gangster Politicians Use your head to vote let our dear Reds seize the minds of the youths and make them failures, bullies and street thugs and hooligans Red Loonies always want us all to suffer together THEY CALL IT SOLIDARITY, THEY CALL IT PEOPLE'S POWER
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May 5, 2021
May 5, 2021 at 7:09 PM UTC
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure...” – Winston Churchill
it's a bit like watching a bunch of retards trying to say the word: hello. honestly... the **** are you on about? you serious? you think that by wearing suits and tying your shoelaces, you can argue **** up to, then, legislate and then feel? when your arguments are based on the focus of, altruism / autism? what, a, bunch, of, retards! you're trying to legislate "correct" grammar? what, so english is no longer english because you think that there's a way of speaking the language, as being "offensive"? let me rephrase it... law is guided by a thesaurus... being? by a dictionary... if you're going to invent a word... make sure it's a chemical... some form of an antibiotic... what the **** are you retards doing, mutilating a language to such staged, courtroom case extremes? this isn't a spectacle for law... it's a lesson in grammar... you're making the basis of legislating a law, something out of grammar school observation? pronoun, correct... what?! huh?! the **** is this? is this some sort of joke, are these seriously attired people talking about this ******** it's a joke, right? these people can't be dressed-up to look so serious, and then be reduced to talking about, well... either blah; or nothing.
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May 19, 2017
May 19, 2017 at 5:45 PM UTC
canada's bill c16 discussion