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Millennials at Work and War Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us Now thrown into the existential struggle Surrendering their youth and taking up life They muster in the fields and factories And in their elders’ undeclared, shadowy wars Uniformed in an unappreciated sense Of duty and dignity while scorned by those Who take their ease upon the couches of sloth And fling cheap mockery at millennials Who take up tools and work and love of life Sometimes to die in deserts still unmapped While generals dismiss their casualties as light Despised as snowflakes by keyboard commandos Who never got closer to any war Than a John Wayne ketchup-bloody movie. Some work long double shifts through university In a sawmill, shop, or fast foodery Only to be dismissed as slacker layabouts, But expected to trust those who condemn them For not being the greatest generation As defined by those who never served at all And while being criticized they will grab A quick cup of coffee for the night shift Staffing the hospitals and police patrols That keep their sneering critics alive and safe They drive the trucks, they man the ships, they work They drill for oil, these useless millennials While idlers lounge long in the coffee shops And YooToob computered jokes about them Millennials have no time for coloring books Or comfort animals or revolution For they are weary with study and work The best of them make no demands, but, sure A little respect, hard-earned, would be nice If only the scripted singer-songwriters Would pack up the tired old stereotypes And see millennials as they truly are But darkness falls – they must go back to work On the eleven-seven, the graveyard shift They do not burn draft cards or Medicare cards Instead through work they illuminate this world And build it up with continued sacrifice Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us
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Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016 at 4:39 PM UTC
Millennials at Work and War
Millennials at Work and War Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us Now thrown into the existential struggle Surrendering their youth and taking up life They muster in the fields and factories And in their elders’ undeclared, shadowy wars Uniformed in an unappreciated sense Of duty and dignity while scorned by those Who take their ease upon the couches of sloth And fling cheap mockery at millennials Who take up tools and work and love of life Sometimes to die in deserts still unmapped While generals dismiss their casualties as light Despised as snowflakes by keyboard commandos Who never got closer to any war Than a John Wayne ketchup-bloody movie. Some work long double shifts through university In a sawmill, shop, or fast foodery Only to be dismissed as slacker layabouts, But expected to trust those who condemn them For not being the greatest generation As defined by those who never served at all And while being criticized they will grab A quick cup of coffee for the night shift Staffing the hospitals and police patrols That keep their sneering critics alive and safe They drive the trucks, they man the ships, they work They drill for oil, these useless millennials While idlers lounge long in the coffee shops And YooToob computered jokes about them Millennials have no time for coloring books Or comfort animals or revolution For they are weary with study and work The best of them make no demands, but, sure A little respect, hard-earned, would be nice If only the scripted singer-songwriters Would pack up the tired old stereotypes And see millennials as they truly are But darkness falls – they must go back to work On the eleven-seven, the graveyard shift They do not burn draft cards or Medicare cards Instead through work they illuminate this world And build it up with continued sacrifice Scorn not the snowflake who stands watch for us
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all of America’s gubmint hatin yahoos, pining to get their country back, should grab yer rifles, stock up on ammo and giddy up down  to Texas to join the secessionists headin out of the Union Rick Perry promises to keep his promise to close all the gubmint departments he can't remember the names of Ron Paul will finally be liberated from the tyranny of his federal paycheck and can return to his district to practice medicine unencumbered by the acceptance of medicare payments Ted Cruz will move to coronate his Cuban born daddy as Viceroy for life of the western hemispheres newest banana republic the last act of of the Compartment of Education will be to turn every public school into a Holy Ghostin Jehovah meetin house Judicial magistrates will criminalize poor people or just make them slaves and all prisons will be turned into profit driven plantations, overseen by the local Sheriffs who will be paid time and a half and 15% of all profits unfortunately the Cowboy’s will lose it’s moniker as America’s Team if rattlesnake booted Jerry Jones can’t make a deal to turn his stadium into a sovereign independent territory as a protectorate of the USA To assure national purity Texans will build a Jericho style wall to define the boundaries of their heavenly kingdom and outlaw all trumpet playing within earshot of their perturbed borders The Eyes of Texas as the state anthem will need to be reworded The final stanza will be changed to "Until Gabriel blows his nose" keepin the ungodly out and the chosen people safely insulated within the shining Lone Star State will rise again as a solitary confederacy of dunces Music Selection: The Eyes of Texas Oakland 11/18/13 jbm
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 12:25 AM UTC
The Eyes of Texas
all of America’s gubmint hatin yahoos, pining to get their country back, should grab yer rifles, stock up on ammo and giddy up down  to Texas to join the secessionists headin out of the Union Rick Perry promises to keep his promise to close all the gubmint departments he can't remember the names of Ron Paul will finally be liberated from the tyranny of his federal paycheck and can return to his district to practice medicine unencumbered by the acceptance of medicare payments Ted Cruz will move to coronate his Cuban born daddy as Viceroy for life of the western hemispheres newest banana republic the last act of of the Compartment of Education will be to turn every public school into a Holy Ghostin Jehovah meetin house Judicial magistrates will criminalize poor people or just make them slaves and all prisons will be turned into profit driven plantations, overseen by the local Sheriffs who will be paid time and a half and 15% of all profits unfortunately the Cowboy’s will lose it’s moniker as America’s Team if rattlesnake booted Jerry Jones can’t make a deal to turn his stadium into a sovereign independent territory as a protectorate of the USA To assure national purity Texans will build a Jericho style wall to define the boundaries of their heavenly kingdom and outlaw all trumpet playing within earshot of their perturbed borders The Eyes of Texas as the state anthem will need to be reworded The final stanza will be changed to "Until Gabriel blows his nose" keepin the ungodly out and the chosen people safely insulated within the shining Lone Star State will rise again as a solitary confederacy of dunces Music Selection: The Eyes of Texas Oakland 11/18/13 jbm
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The result of privatization Is a loss too great to bear Government bowing to Industries Leading us towards despair Industries teach our children Whatever whim they choose While government stands in shackles It'll happen while we snooze Gamble with Social Security Until there is nothing left The brokers will have the money While leaving us all bereft Take elderly off of Medicare Give them a voucher instead When the market costs too much Who'll pay for their hospital bed? When people remove a government What will come in its place? The wealthy, the prideful, the arrogant Will take charge of the human race Didn't we fight for our freedom To break from the monarchy? Privatization rules through business For the elite to rule with greed
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Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016 at 6:31 PM UTC
Privatization
(almost) 60: So what? It’s only   a lonely number, A digit,   A widget   A speck        At 60: Some are happy But some, alone   Without a home   Others widowed, Divorced   or forced   into Invisibility. We are who we are. Some poor, some rich,   some think it’s a *****   Black or white, gay or straight   love or hate.   Life is what we make it Growing older has its perks. There’s Social Security,   more maturity,   AARP. Medicare,   blue hair,   Sr. Discount @ McDonald’s Replace a hip.   Botox a lip.   The knee’s arthritic,   the stomach acidic.   Life is fragile, And just like that!   Snap!   It could be gone! Meandering down the road of life. Oblivious.   Lascivious.     A relationship, or two. Stopping for a beer,   having a career, driving with the top down. Then… SLAM…. brick wall ahead….SIXTY! Screech of brakes.   For God’s sake.   Sixty’s the new forty? ********   Deal with it.   Get your head on straight.   It was Pete Townsend who penned, “I hope I die before I am old.”   Truth be told?   Older makes wiser.   Wiser makes sense.   Truth to dispense,   and still a lot to learn, Growing old “gracefully" is an art in itself. From middle age   to Sage,   we step into our skin, and rejoice   our voice   is heard   I will be thankful! I’ll thank the Lord each day! For my three gorgeous girls,   the best friends in the world,   and a job that pays the bills. Wealth, My health To love myself At 60. Sixty is **** If I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s. (maybe a **** or two would help though)
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Feb 14, 2010
Feb 14, 2010 at 7:18 PM UTC
I Lived Through the Sixties/I Can Live Through the 60's
(almost) 60: So what? It’s only   a lonely number, A digit,   A widget   A speck        At 60: Some are happy But some, alone   Without a home   Others widowed, Divorced   or forced   into Invisibility. We are who we are. Some poor, some rich,   some think it’s a *****   Black or white, gay or straight   love or hate.   Life is what we make it Growing older has its perks. There’s Social Security,   more maturity,   AARP. Medicare,   blue hair,   Sr. Discount @ McDonald’s Replace a hip.   Botox a lip.   The knee’s arthritic,   the stomach acidic.   Life is fragile, And just like that!   Snap!   It could be gone! Meandering down the road of life. Oblivious.   Lascivious.     A relationship, or two. Stopping for a beer,   having a career, driving with the top down. Then… SLAM…. brick wall ahead….SIXTY! Screech of brakes.   For God’s sake.   Sixty’s the new forty? ********   Deal with it.   Get your head on straight.   It was Pete Townsend who penned, “I hope I die before I am old.”   Truth be told?   Older makes wiser.   Wiser makes sense.   Truth to dispense,   and still a lot to learn, Growing old “gracefully" is an art in itself. From middle age   to Sage,   we step into our skin, and rejoice   our voice   is heard   I will be thankful! I’ll thank the Lord each day! For my three gorgeous girls,   the best friends in the world,   and a job that pays the bills. Wealth, My health To love myself At 60. Sixty is **** If I lived through the sixties, I can live through the 60’s. (maybe a **** or two would help though)
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Open up, Eyes I've given you the prize to see again. Darkness. Let me feel you with my fingertips Okay good, but dear doesn't anyone have a light in here? Darkness Get up, feel around. This place seems familiar. Look up, look down Figures become linear Darkness Click! There it is. Man, I should have cleaned the place Oh, and everything is just where I left it Great! Rusty orange, forest green Common colors that I'm used to seeing. Look to my left Bingo! There's John, Paul, George, and Ringo Take a step creak creak creak Floorboards never cease to make a squeak Open the door, what do you see? So much more than before I went to sleep. Darkness What's that there? Medicare? The UNITED states? What is this place? So much for us coming together. I wonder if it had not been better if I had slept forever? Darkness Change is constant. Diamonds are litter. The warm and sweet now cold and bitter. Streets swarmed with people wearing collars of blue, wait a minute.. Our president is black too? Darkness Hollowed eyes, Songs without melody Selfish men disguised as hearts with harmony. Arrogance, ignorance Obliviousness, incompetence In this future I shall only reminisce. Oh, what did I miss? Darkness Slaving like slaves, working like elves. This is not what I wished before 2012. It's the end of evolution but lets find a substitution! Oh won't anyone help me look? No even a trace? Not even a sprinkle? I'm living the life of Rip Van winkle. Darkness Man oh man, nothing's changed And i used to think ****** was deranged. So much for coming together. I wonder if it had not been better if I had slept forever?
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Feb 23, 2012
Feb 23, 2012 at 9:31 PM UTC
Mrs. Rip Van Winkle
Open up, Eyes I've given you the prize to see again. Darkness. Let me feel you with my fingertips Okay good, but dear doesn't anyone have a light in here? Darkness Get up, feel around. This place seems familiar. Look up, look down Figures become linear Darkness Click! There it is. Man, I should have cleaned the place Oh, and everything is just where I left it Great! Rusty orange, forest green Common colors that I'm used to seeing. Look to my left Bingo! There's John, Paul, George, and Ringo Take a step creak creak creak Floorboards never cease to make a squeak Open the door, what do you see? So much more than before I went to sleep. Darkness What's that there? Medicare? The UNITED states? What is this place? So much for us coming together. I wonder if it had not been better if I had slept forever? Darkness Change is constant. Diamonds are litter. The warm and sweet now cold and bitter. Streets swarmed with people wearing collars of blue, wait a minute.. Our president is black too? Darkness Hollowed eyes, Songs without melody Selfish men disguised as hearts with harmony. Arrogance, ignorance Obliviousness, incompetence In this future I shall only reminisce. Oh, what did I miss? Darkness Slaving like slaves, working like elves. This is not what I wished before 2012. It's the end of evolution but lets find a substitution! Oh won't anyone help me look? No even a trace? Not even a sprinkle? I'm living the life of Rip Van winkle. Darkness Man oh man, nothing's changed And i used to think ****** was deranged. So much for coming together. I wonder if it had not been better if I had slept forever?
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You think it's nifty turning sixty You even yearn for sixty-five So you can go on Medicare At last good healthcare will arrive Until that year 2020 gets here Don't miss those moments fleeting Eat your kale for roughage To keep that strong heart beating Uncle Sam will send your social security So you begin a life so rare But why wait-retire now For you can get Obamacare
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Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:00 AM UTC
Celebrating Sixty
**** I slipped and fell backwards. Stood up on my own two feet so as not to look awkward but I staggered with an Obama like swagger. I beg of you, **** please, can we go a lil faster? For my life expectancy I am not the master. I got kids and bills legacy of a broke ******* If I was Cancer it'd be a disaster cause Medicare don't take kindly to me I owe badly. Sadly, it's the truth and I'ma King and yet still get treated like I don't have a dream! Beams of light hit this planet so beautiful and amazing and yet we still take it for granted having all these babies without no savings. Gotta steal and not **** to get by lately. Call my creditors maybe hopin' to get a better rate on my **** cravings. Feel like I'm from K-Pax stuck like Kevin Spacey. Hate me if you want. I don't give a **** You can live my life I'll take yours and run a muck! Dear Abby, please don't confuse this I really don't wanna do this suicidal thoughts are useless. Proved foolish clueless is what I am to sucka's actin' dufus! Radio Raheim, I know he rocked two fist. My Mama could really give two ***** I'm too ****** Abused by a **** she ain't taken no **** She too ruthless. You can call her Brutus. If I'm taken too long then go to another booth den (then)! Two pens, write with both hands. Call me Ambidex-trian. (Ambidexterity) If you Mexican maybe you can request again. Send me back from Iran holdin' two cans. Livin' on the streets beggin' like po man. Served this country and can't get a helping hand. Take a stand! Remember when we used to believe in Unite We Stand? Yeah right! What a joke we plan! When words spoken to those just a slogan. Big ups to Joe Rogan! Knockin' nigga's out wit' one blow man. These words I deliver like the local post man. So-cam I mean So-com That's my sons favorite game...
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Jun 17, 2011
Jun 17, 2011 at 1:34 AM UTC
My Thoughts
**** I slipped and fell backwards. Stood up on my own two feet so as not to look awkward but I staggered with an Obama like swagger. I beg of you, **** please, can we go a lil faster? For my life expectancy I am not the master. I got kids and bills legacy of a broke ******* If I was Cancer it'd be a disaster cause Medicare don't take kindly to me I owe badly. Sadly, it's the truth and I'ma King and yet still get treated like I don't have a dream! Beams of light hit this planet so beautiful and amazing and yet we still take it for granted having all these babies without no savings. Gotta steal and not **** to get by lately. Call my creditors maybe hopin' to get a better rate on my **** cravings. Feel like I'm from K-Pax stuck like Kevin Spacey. Hate me if you want. I don't give a **** You can live my life I'll take yours and run a muck! Dear Abby, please don't confuse this I really don't wanna do this suicidal thoughts are useless. Proved foolish clueless is what I am to sucka's actin' dufus! Radio Raheim, I know he rocked two fist. My Mama could really give two ***** I'm too ****** Abused by a **** she ain't taken no **** She too ruthless. You can call her Brutus. If I'm taken too long then go to another booth den (then)! Two pens, write with both hands. Call me Ambidex-trian. (Ambidexterity) If you Mexican maybe you can request again. Send me back from Iran holdin' two cans. Livin' on the streets beggin' like po man. Served this country and can't get a helping hand. Take a stand! Remember when we used to believe in Unite We Stand? Yeah right! What a joke we plan! When words spoken to those just a slogan. Big ups to Joe Rogan! Knockin' nigga's out wit' one blow man. These words I deliver like the local post man. So-cam I mean So-com That's my sons favorite game...
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Holy Crap, They Sold My Name! No big deal, your name, your email, bought n' sold daily, Like a baseball card, your picture and vital stats are on the internet, Your credit card in the fine print tells you they love you much, But the data they collect, might get credited to such and such. You're fair game if your sign up for anything. Now I know I am getting on in years, Tho spry rhymes with die, I flatly deny Any notion that My great beyond is just around the corner! But Holy Crap, They Sold My Name! Got a color brochure Suggesting that when my travels are over, A nice place to rest my head might be St. Michael's Cemetery. St. Michael's Cemetery 7202 Astoria Blvd, East Elmhurst (718) 278-3240 Friday hours 7:00 am–5:00 pm In case you want to check it out too... Tho I live not in the Borough of Queens County, My zip code but a hop, skip and jump away, The cemetery adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway Which is actually quite thoughtful of The mass marketer who dreamed up this scheme (And got paid a plentiful amount of bounty). My kids could wave as they drive by, On the way to LaGuardia or JFK, (airports) And say, guilt free, they visit me regularly! Sadly, their plot foiled, I will be buried in New Jersey soil, Near to my pop, who liked the Wide open spaces of suburbia And shopping on Route 4, Where the selection is great And there is no sales tax. But Holy Crap, They Sold My Name, And I am now target marketed, Niched, pretty soon the boys from AARP Will come calling, reminding me of the gap Tween Medicare and the poor house! Ok ok,  grow up you say, tho your hair is full, And not even a hint of baldness shines forth, Nonetheless, its color is zebra striped gray, And when someone says they got my back, I think, please, please take it and keep it.... Oh yeah, Dear St. Mikes You might ask for some of your money back, Cause this sily scribe is a member of the tribe, Some call "those ***** (hint: it rhymes with Mikes)," It starts with K and ends in yikes! But thanks for thinking of me anyway.
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 5:32 PM UTC
Holy Crap, They Sold My Name!
Holy Crap, They Sold My Name! No big deal, your name, your email, bought n' sold daily, Like a baseball card, your picture and vital stats are on the internet, Your credit card in the fine print tells you they love you much, But the data they collect, might get credited to such and such. You're fair game if your sign up for anything. Now I know I am getting on in years, Tho spry rhymes with die, I flatly deny Any notion that My great beyond is just around the corner! But Holy Crap, They Sold My Name! Got a color brochure Suggesting that when my travels are over, A nice place to rest my head might be St. Michael's Cemetery. St. Michael's Cemetery 7202 Astoria Blvd, East Elmhurst (718) 278-3240 Friday hours 7:00 am–5:00 pm In case you want to check it out too... Tho I live not in the Borough of Queens County, My zip code but a hop, skip and jump away, The cemetery adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway Which is actually quite thoughtful of The mass marketer who dreamed up this scheme (And got paid a plentiful amount of bounty). My kids could wave as they drive by, On the way to LaGuardia or JFK, (airports) And say, guilt free, they visit me regularly! Sadly, their plot foiled, I will be buried in New Jersey soil, Near to my pop, who liked the Wide open spaces of suburbia And shopping on Route 4, Where the selection is great And there is no sales tax. But Holy Crap, They Sold My Name, And I am now target marketed, Niched, pretty soon the boys from AARP Will come calling, reminding me of the gap Tween Medicare and the poor house! Ok ok,  grow up you say, tho your hair is full, And not even a hint of baldness shines forth, Nonetheless, its color is zebra striped gray, And when someone says they got my back, I think, please, please take it and keep it.... Oh yeah, Dear St. Mikes You might ask for some of your money back, Cause this sily scribe is a member of the tribe, Some call "those ***** (hint: it rhymes with Mikes)," It starts with K and ends in yikes! But thanks for thinking of me anyway.
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The flames surrounded him in orange and red That’s when he realized that he was dead. They had sent him the other way, for his crimes he had to pay. He had abused children, men and women During the time that he was living. He had no feelings, no emotions of any kind For the almighty dollar made him blind. He would do anything to amass his fortune Even charging for illegal abortions. He robbed Medicare for all that he could get And hadn’t been caught yet. He was described as a healer, but sold prescription drugs To addicts and dealers. In him the public had put their trust and faith But it was a little too late. He had already lost his soul, as the devil took control. He finally reached his bitter end, when he turned His back on family and friends. Now he finds himself in the flames of hell Where for eternity he will dwell. He screamed and cried to the fathers son Asking for forgiveness for all that he had done. Why is it that we wait until it is too late? As we stand at the judgment gate. © L . RAMS
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Feb 3, 2014
Feb 3, 2014 at 9:11 PM UTC
healers judgement day
We are suffering today From a disease called hypocrisy. And it is the basest enemy Of freedom in democracy. It substitutes a dollar amount For lives and souls and hope And tantalizes the population With TV, ***** and dope. By the time the population Wakes up and catches on A new batch of crooks exist The old got rich, moved on. Every campaign promise They will fail to deliver. They will lie to your face And sell you down the river. Our women are widows Our children are orphans The churches want money For larger pipe organs. They wring their hands Subject abortion to scorn But, abandon them to penury As soon as they are born. They say they want nobody To receive free ride Medicare Then freely give corporations Un-needed trillions in welfare. The chant against big government Is a perennial marching tune. They’ll decide the kind of *** And have control over wombs, The world is a place today Where the dollar comes first And the children of the poor Are usually treated the worst. We are suffering today From a disease called hypocrisy. And it is the basest enemy Of freedom in democracy.
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 6:41 PM UTC
IGNOBLE CAUSE
Broke the Rules... Left some clues... I'm a fool... Now...Living in a cesspool... I hear the economy is bad... And getting worse each day... Although it hasn't affected me in any way.. I can even keep Kosher if I choose. So what do I have to lose ?... I get three meals a day.. And sometimes a snack... Clean clothes everyday I put on my back.. Exercise is a daily routine.. that I choose to do ..and it keeps me lean.. My quarters are small..but after all.. We have a room with a big color TV... And a place for family and friends who visit me... Healthcare ? not a problem you see.. As I don't pay for insurance like thee... Problem with teeth...rectified Education, Degree, I can even be Certified.. Because unlike you, who lives outside.. You need to work to survive... Now I'm a part of the system you see.. And have it much easier than any of thee.. I broke the law and now pay the price... But I'm still better off than your lousy life... And when I'm released, I will qualify for... Medicaid, Medicare and even more... So you may have done it different than me... But in "old age ", we're equal you see...
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 9:00 PM UTC
Stress and Strife...NOT in MY Life...
I know two older men that I used to care about, that go to the ER about 100 times each per year. Costing 100's of thousands of dollars to medicaid and medicare. As far as I know they never really paid taxes, which really doesn't matter to me. They go to the ER, only to be sent home, as their insurance is billed. One of the men, went to a local doctor 4 times in past two months...the 4th time they said they found a spot on his lungs, and he needed to come back and have it checked. He went yesterday to have it checked, and I am sure they will find it has gotten worse. Anyhow, he was at the ER twice today with breathing problems and high blood pressure. I had told him two years ago that if he keeps going to the doctor, they will find something. What we choose to think about always becomes more intense. If it is disease we think of, we get disease. He is all to pieces and I can't say I care, since this man watched me stop taking heart meds that they claimed kept me alive, and that was two years ago. He uses the local Catholic charity constantly to get free food, and then ends up at a Catholic hospital, sick. We manufacture sickness and wellness within ourselves. No faith needed...just belief. Our biology is what we believe it is. We are the only animal who can supposedly die of millions of different diseases. Think.
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Jul 27, 2022
Jul 27, 2022 at 12:11 AM UTC
We Get What We Look For, or What They Look For
Who says being a Senior Citizen makes us old? Put on the brakes with a moment of hold We have worked all our life We should be retired and relax in stride We earned our Social Security which is our expenses that Social Security provides Senior Citizens do have rights We are designated and don’t have to act polite It is god that redeems our light Washington, DC wants to take away in thinking we don’t need Social Security and Pensions is how we proceed We are not asking the House of Representative to do a good deed We do have Medicare power It is our provider regardless of the hour All Washington, DC wants to do is be sour Washington, DC has no plan of its own The Senior Citizens just want to be left alone The Multitude of Seniors voices that want to wake up the Capitol It’s a battle worth communicating about “Seniors in strength, and voice having an Old Age High” We are the why and we are in Washington, DC’s face in the “I” Don’t touch what you don’t understand This is the Senior Citizen demand Our fight has been going on throughout the land So President Trump recognize us Senior Citizens You are a Senior Citizen yourself We will not allow you taking away It is not ok No you cannot have your own way We Senior Citizens have the experience and endurance Our voices conclude being our assurance.
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Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017 at 3:43 PM UTC
A SENIOR CITIZEN’S VOICE
This year, my darling love, you’ll receive more than flowers Jewelry, candy, candles, gifts, kisses and chocolate bars You will also get your AARP letter and your Medicare card It’s vital that you take good care of yourself going forward. Since you’re now sixty-five years old, you should feel blessed Lucky, privileged and chosen. Please, please never get depressed Age is always a good number, as long as you’re very healthy And funny. The Almighty God is now watching over you regularly. Eat well, drink more water, take your medications and vitamins daily You’re now a senior, that’s a major step forward and a serious promotion Since you’re retired, take a walk once a while. And that’s not being lazy. You’ve worked all your life and have earned fair and square your pension Your grandchildren and family will come to visit and spend time with you I wish you a Landmark Birthday. Dear love, a blissful life is awaiting you. P.S. This poem is dedicated to the sweet friend of my heart and soul. Copyright © August 2025 Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.
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Aug 12, 2025
Aug 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM UTC
More Than Flowers On Your Birthday
he chose to return home   to the familiar sights, sounds, smells   to leave the silent antiseptic Medicare paid vacation suite behind, for some other sinking soul   he chose to deny the “in home palliative care”   for he said it would be like a door to door peddler you allowed in , one who would never leave hocking her wares as if he got to keep them   when she would give the same calming commodities   to a stranger, the very day he was gone   they all said, he would be in pitiful pain, peeling his skin off pain without the magic potions of modernity, the ones that brought on Morpheus' sleep, and lapped up miles he had left he knew though,  he had no miles left   only a few steps, to the bathroom, perhaps, if his old soldier’s legs held out, perhaps he could make it to the yard again one time, to see the ivy he planted in lesser numbered years, the cool soft vines he watered and ignored, until the sun turned them a yawning yellow, then a brusque brown, perchance he could make it to their home one more time, before the last speck of green vanished in the dying light
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 10:26 PM UTC
when the ivy dies
If you think Congress is out of step With what the people desire today, Let the candidates hear your voice; It's time to send them on their way. Vote! If the past two years have been A nightmare from which you want to awake, And much of what you valued has been Shot to hell, for goodness' sake, Vote! If honesty and integrity Of a leader are important to you, And you believe in checks and balances, Then you know the right thing to do: Vote! If pre-existing conditions are Important to you, and lawmakers dare To weaken programs such as Social Security and Medicare, Vote! If you care about equal access, That citizens shouldn't have to fight Restrictive laws preventing them From voting, then please do what's right: Vote! If you think our leaders have been Leading us down the rabbit hole, And conflicts of interest and also major Corruption have gotten out of control, Vote! If far-right extremism Has no place in the White House, and when The president praises autocrats And scorns our loyal allies, then Vote! If you want an America That has BOTH jobs and heart, Where the leader's rhetoric Doesn't tear the country apart, Vote! -by Bob B (10-29-18)
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 10:38 AM UTC
Vote!
They gave themselves raises And the best insurance around. They’re taking down medicare To leave us on fallow ground. They stole from Social Security Then called it an entitlement And plan to steal it all from us And call it good management. Pull up your heads And look around. They’re stealing everything Even the soil in the ground. Speak up loudly Like you never did before. Only offshore bank accounts Will tell the honest score. We’re all in trouble, people And too few of us believe This is the time to throw them out And not a time for us to grieve. Doing nothing is how we got here Crooks have us by the throats. We need to be angry Rottweilers Instead of a herd of lazy goats. Pull up your heads And look around. They’re stealing everything Even the soil in the ground. Speak up loudly Like you never did before. Only offshore bank accounts Will tell the honest score.
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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 at 6:07 PM UTC
U.S. CONGRESS, 2018
Dancing and jiving to the sound of the heart monitor in the back Your seizing like a seizure and im beating like a heart attack Grandma's dead Dad shot her in the head and we’re Drinkin and dancin tonight I feel FINE And we can slide through the slick halls Flirtin with the white walls and sign that everythings always alrigh ****** all up in her feeding tube, Take a shot of anesthesia every time she makes a Cadaveric move Yeah grandmas livin it up tonight Now we’ll moonwalk into a birthing center just to step to those jarring screams You've got syringe glass in your hair. I'm sitting in the doctor's chair. Yeah, I'm dancing with the girl of my fever dreams!!! spike the ceyline bags with laughing gas, its so funny. not knee slapping funny just so funny. We’ll have a disco party in the medicare Weave some new bath towel from fallen cancer hair Yeah this ***** getting crazy and i'm with you **** who are you?
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Dec 2, 2020
Dec 2, 2020 at 12:04 AM UTC
i took six shots of **** I can now confirm its not edible
Rain that melts the snow away in early May will never go away. Seems like that for several days here in March we've lost our ozone layer. "Big Deal" says the taxi-man in the big city with the fat wallet. Fat oil says, fat oil says, fat oil says, fat oil says goodnight. Eat green, eat fresh, eat lithium, just don't try to drink the tritium. High tide in the hackensack as the moon smiles down on the mosquitoes. Big daddy stepping on the little man again d.t.v. no good. Big daddy stepping on the little man there's no healthcare. Just say die. This year we can make believe there is health care. Temperature, pulse, blood pressure. That is all they do for you for those on medicare and medicaid I swear. Come back in ninety days we'll do it all over again. Foot bleeding It's probably fine, soak it in hot water or you could see a doctor. But you have to go to the e.r., then you wait for a specialist. This way they can charge for the higher rate the insurance can't cover. And that is what caused all those states to be bankrupt. American Ulcers. But the people who give half their pay to get insurance get to live.
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Aug 29, 2015
Aug 29, 2015 at 12:58 PM UTC
The American Sentencing
Okay, now they're at it again! Yep, and they aren't fooling. Trump and some Republican friends Are in support of a ruling To take away the health care from Twenty-one million souls. Destroying the ACA° has been One of their loathsome goals. Do you have a pre-existing Condition? If that's true, Finding affordable health care is Going to be hard to do. Dependents under twenty-six Who up to this point can Be covered on your policy will Be kicked off your plan. Are you perhaps on Medicare? Well, congratulations! You are going to have to pay More for medications! To roll back Medicaid expansion In thirty-seven states Means that millions of people are going To be in desperate straits. Did you hear that Trump has said-- Such hypocrisy!-- The real party of health care is going To be the GOP? He claims he loves America. It really seems as if Republicans don't care that he Is leading them over a cliff. -by Bob B (3-27-19) °Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
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Mar 27, 2019
Mar 27, 2019 at 10:15 AM UTC
They're at It Again!
One time, Now or in the future, Clear or blurred in dimness, Certainly I will go, Back to my origin, In which I was happily extant, Before I ventured in my mother’s womb Back to this realm I will gate-defy Leaving my skin an empty husk, And go there riding in a wagon of death, Pain and grief in dutiful caesura won’t be; My fellow passengers or sailers, Only oblivion to the past a sure pal, Kissing and messaging my bodiless me, From which I derive solace for my past, The life I went through on the crest of Extremes in goodness and matchless pale; Untimely demise coming in union with a kismet, Having me buried minus a coffin, a shroud. Perhaps, Not even a dirge or an elegy from eminent mouths, As my cadaver hangs in hermetic darkness; unlit hut, On a home-made catafalque, willow in stature like nothing, The man died of erstwhile sham diet and Medicare, Will be shelved and hanged like a fish on the rack, Hence am thankful do you death, Master of the un-mastered souls, My beautiful darling and love, Of my heart from bottom to brim And comforter of the hopeless, Thanks for taking me away In the way so miserly, In a beautiful out-beat To the truck terrorist Or the Suicide bomber Or the Guns of juba, Or the Ebolavirus Or Any In The Ilk…
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Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 4:42 AM UTC
Mourning Myself
Lawrence Hall [email protected]   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com                                       Untied Healthcare Your feedback is important to us important information Notices and Disclosures Provider Data Information [Opens in a new window] Legal Entities [Opens in a new window] Share My Health Data [Opens in a new window] Help & Contact Us SYSTEM ERROR Share Feedback LOGOUT [Opens in a new window] Medicare Complaint Form [Opens in a new window] SYSTEM ERROR Share Feedback LOGOUT Help SIGN IN I am not sure I understand / am able to conceptualize the issue I would recommend contacting Did you know, if you have any other questions Would you be interested in taking a brief survey clicking the Message Us button on the Help & Contact Us SYSTEM FAILURE Your call is important to us... (Can anyone who spells “health care” as “healthcare” Be trusted with anything?)
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May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 at 11:38 PM UTC
Untied Healthcare - from their cold, dead lips...
“We’ve been dreaming of this since you and I were drinking out of a keg.” Oh how sweet it must be, how sweet the moment, as it finally arrives, oh so breathlessly, so eagerly anticipated. This idea whose first beautiful dawning came as a bunch of youthful, oh so youthful & ambitious conservative white boys shared some beers together Saturday night & dreamed that one day, one day, poor folks would be kicked off Medicare ... oh how sweet it is ... the realized ambitions of eager & principled youth.
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM UTC
Paul Ryan gets his dream ... or It's Alright Ma, Paul is Smiling.