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‘…. and now, here’s Rick with the latest Market news…’ ‘Val, trading was very brisk today, with a number of influences that set the market off to some defined trends and statements. Of course, the Human Virtue Exchange always seems to rely on the volatility that resides ‘between the ears’ as noted by the veteran brokers on the floor, but the sharp ranges of prices offered versus profit taking has set the bar very high in the relative value of Basic Human Virtue. Now to the numbers: Courage [WHOME], Patience [PP], and former market darling Perseverance [GULP], all varied widely today on news from Washington that their value was doomed to fall in the light of the expected growth of Persistence [IAM] which history has shown to be a marked drag on just about everything. Outside of the self –efficacy bazaar, old standbys Ambition [HVY], Curiosity [WDF], Industry [HAHA] and Temperance [BFD], continued their free fall into uncharted areas of cost and return. Some analysts feel these virtues could be a real bargain in the future despite their history of poor performance. Could a comeback not seen since collapse of the Protestant Hypocrisy Era be in the works? We’ll see as the lack of movement in the Kindness-Generosity-Forgiveness-Compassion Index [FARAWAY] leads many to believe that the end of Politeness [UPYRS], Un-pretentiousness [ME-ME], Self Control [NWAY] and Sportsmanship [LONGONE], may lead to a complete miss-understanding between casual market players and devotees to the cause. The ratios cannot lie. But without a doubt, today’s big winner was Self Respect [YUP] which jumped and amazing 40 points before active trading ceased at the bell. So people feel real good about themselves for reasons that cannot be explained by the Ego File Indicator alone; this causes this reporter to predict that Naval Gazing [MOM] remains a ‘Hot to Trot’ stock fund and the Vanity market is always a good bet. Now, here’s Carl with today’s Human Emotion Exchange report……’
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Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 12:19 PM UTC
Two Forms of Nonsense
‘…. and now, here’s Rick with the latest Market news…’ ‘Val, trading was very brisk today, with a number of influences that set the market off to some defined trends and statements. Of course, the Human Virtue Exchange always seems to rely on the volatility that resides ‘between the ears’ as noted by the veteran brokers on the floor, but the sharp ranges of prices offered versus profit taking has set the bar very high in the relative value of Basic Human Virtue. Now to the numbers: Courage [WHOME], Patience [PP], and former market darling Perseverance [GULP], all varied widely today on news from Washington that their value was doomed to fall in the light of the expected growth of Persistence [IAM] which history has shown to be a marked drag on just about everything. Outside of the self –efficacy bazaar, old standbys Ambition [HVY], Curiosity [WDF], Industry [HAHA] and Temperance [BFD], continued their free fall into uncharted areas of cost and return. Some analysts feel these virtues could be a real bargain in the future despite their history of poor performance. Could a comeback not seen since collapse of the Protestant Hypocrisy Era be in the works? We’ll see as the lack of movement in the Kindness-Generosity-Forgiveness-Compassion Index [FARAWAY] leads many to believe that the end of Politeness [UPYRS], Un-pretentiousness [ME-ME], Self Control [NWAY] and Sportsmanship [LONGONE], may lead to a complete miss-understanding between casual market players and devotees to the cause. The ratios cannot lie. But without a doubt, today’s big winner was Self Respect [YUP] which jumped and amazing 40 points before active trading ceased at the bell. So people feel real good about themselves for reasons that cannot be explained by the Ego File Indicator alone; this causes this reporter to predict that Naval Gazing [MOM] remains a ‘Hot to Trot’ stock fund and the Vanity market is always a good bet. Now, here’s Carl with today’s Human Emotion Exchange report……’
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the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also,with the church’s protestant blessings daughters,unscented shapeless spirited) they believe in Christ and Longfellow,both dead, are invariably interested in so many things— at the present writing one still finds delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles? perhaps. While permanent faces coyly bandy scandal of Mrs. N and Professor D ….the Cambridge ladies do not care, above Cambridge if sometimes in its box of sky lavender and cornerless,the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
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The Cambridge Ladies Who Live In Furnished Souls
There once was a black man... Old at heart, he fought verbally and accordingly with bold words, which abbreviated and arbitrated great art! He spoke of activism. Not just racial, and economic racism. He fought against demonic injustices for you, yes, made me see. He stood for principles of non-violence. Acknowledged corrupt government mileage, European knowledge and college. A philosopher, teacher and preacher as well as a civil rights leader. When he spoke his words of fire indeed chiseled and inspired. Causing some to conspire and also perspire! Born January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Named in honor of the German protestant Martin Luther. Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. Making a mark in doctoral studies, systematic theology. June 5th 1955 This King married Corretta Scott in Heiberger, Alabama for many to see. Proceeding with four children: Yolanda, Martin Luther the 3rd to be! Dexter Scott and Bernice to increase the peace. Despite the European police, the movements and stressed protests, the silence, ****** and racial violence. The segregation and interrogations in force, instead of integration of course. Black mishaps, lack of differences in relapse perhaps! Plagiarized and slandered, demised by some of the wise. Accused of communistic ties. Blinded by others’ eyes and of our world’s twisted lies. Montgomery, Georgia bus boycott, 1955 was the year. However, forever in disguise, our fear of tears was apparently adhered. From here to near, also all those dear. Mere letters he wrote, from Birmingham jail I quote! From the slums, some of sums, hail and prevail! A creation prevailing into a deriving and thriving nation. Mr. King’s vision of a dream, mission, opposition, optimism and truism, on our wars, welfare and more. I suppose this sounds honest and fair. Mr. King’s theories and worries in emotionalism, evangelism, humanitarianism, racism and socialism. Nobel Peace Prize won in 1964. Regretfully, you may have heard of this before. Government conspiracies and indecencies. Assassination and discrimination, allegedly, by James Earl Ray. On April 4th, I almost choke, because for him, his blood did soak. Some thought this **** was a thrill or forced by will. Others still procrastinate in hate! However, forever Martin Luther King was and still is one of the late greats.
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Mar 26, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 at 12:53 PM UTC
Poem Entitled: "Martin Luther King"
There once was a black man... Old at heart, he fought verbally and accordingly with bold words, which abbreviated and arbitrated great art! He spoke of activism. Not just racial, and economic racism. He fought against demonic injustices for you, yes, made me see. He stood for principles of non-violence. Acknowledged corrupt government mileage, European knowledge and college. A philosopher, teacher and preacher as well as a civil rights leader. When he spoke his words of fire indeed chiseled and inspired. Causing some to conspire and also perspire! Born January 15th 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Named in honor of the German protestant Martin Luther. Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. Making a mark in doctoral studies, systematic theology. June 5th 1955 This King married Corretta Scott in Heiberger, Alabama for many to see. Proceeding with four children: Yolanda, Martin Luther the 3rd to be! Dexter Scott and Bernice to increase the peace. Despite the European police, the movements and stressed protests, the silence, ****** and racial violence. The segregation and interrogations in force, instead of integration of course. Black mishaps, lack of differences in relapse perhaps! Plagiarized and slandered, demised by some of the wise. Accused of communistic ties. Blinded by others’ eyes and of our world’s twisted lies. Montgomery, Georgia bus boycott, 1955 was the year. However, forever in disguise, our fear of tears was apparently adhered. From here to near, also all those dear. Mere letters he wrote, from Birmingham jail I quote! From the slums, some of sums, hail and prevail! A creation prevailing into a deriving and thriving nation. Mr. King’s vision of a dream, mission, opposition, optimism and truism, on our wars, welfare and more. I suppose this sounds honest and fair. Mr. King’s theories and worries in emotionalism, evangelism, humanitarianism, racism and socialism. Nobel Peace Prize won in 1964. Regretfully, you may have heard of this before. Government conspiracies and indecencies. Assassination and discrimination, allegedly, by James Earl Ray. On April 4th, I almost choke, because for him, his blood did soak. Some thought this **** was a thrill or forced by will. Others still procrastinate in hate! However, forever Martin Luther King was and still is one of the late greats.
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Because the thirst wouldn’t simmer; it ruptured cities into boils, turned cultures into armies, an armageddon of cheeky stubborn Irish Catholics and thick veined Germans couldn’t imagine a world without their stout hearty headed pint. Because white dry protestant angels thought crime existed in a vacuum, in a filthy saw-dusted saloon, the hub spawn of evil. Because twice as many of those saloons were ******* by unlicensed blind pigs, not through free swinging doors on the streets, but in the domestic sphere; in the dark crept crevices of household sanctuaries.   Because bootlegging capitalist princes turned the industry into a stenchy liability with their home brewed distilled poisons. Alky cookers wrapped the commodity fetish and dubbed it moonshine. Moonshine – spirits for the poor and blind. Because this social reform was a moral reform lost in the oblivion of politics, lost in the timeliness of progressive spring-cleaning referenda’s. Because the ragged, toothless class had to be scold, striped clean of their traditional barings, because wisdom is everything and they’re spirits ran vilely wild.
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Sep 26, 2010
Sep 26, 2010 at 6:57 AM UTC
Why the 18th Amendment was a Joke
Aesthetician stares deeply into the center of a tulip             tears stream as we cry          but the earth doesn’t ethereal spectors flow about religion Washington did live in a racecar, palindrome *** Wisdom! Meowth! I haven’t since the 90’s had a soul estaban caresses his lover his wife prepares a pineapple tapeworms infest ****** inside of a colonic protestant whipped into shapely curves once withheld by the likelihood ferrari Pro-lifers are only just a fad or fling cloudy like the soft color of pink union between man and ***** Nicole smith I hope you go to h e l    l Awesome is he with a fatty slimeball foil wrapped burger SASQUATCH GONE WORLDWIDE Santeria love making ends with regret! Nay, Disgust!
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 3:46 PM UTC
Hark! The Mind Reels
About a mile out of town Past the village in the mist Sits a tiny Country Church Not found on any list It's for Catholic and Baptist It's for Protestant and Jew It's doors are always open This church is here for you The town is near two hundred The Church a few years more There are tales about this building That are part of local lore The church is small in stature But large in who it serves It's a place to go and worship It's a place to calm your nerves The pews are hard and narrow Carved by hand you see One has crumbled through the years So in all there's thirty three Seventeen pews on the left side Sixteen on the right Hand carved with love by someone And all are painted white At Easter and at Christmas The Church is full as it should be And as one of those who enter I say, it's something you should see The pews seem so much whiter When the voices sing so loud If it could be witnessed by it's builders I know they would be proud There are carvings in the church pews Left by many through out time On the second one in on the left Is my brothers name and mine The pews are worn in places They've supported many souls Who have come in here for comfort They have come to be made whole The one pew that is broken Was fixed but once more broke It was decided then to leave it By the elders, local folk The minister in charge then Stood and told those who were there "To fix what keeps on breaking" "Wastes time, we could better share" "Besides, look all around you" "The pews, there's thirty three" "To you, it should hold meaning" "Think hard, and you will see" "Remember, Christ our Saviour" "Think of his age on his last day" "Thirty three, that is the number" "Now, think on that next time you pray" "The Church pew that is broken" "Can't be fixed, so let it be" "It's as though it was intended" "To help give strength to you and me" The Church out in the Country Will stand longer than me And will witness many Christmas' From church pews ...all thirty three.
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Dec 24, 2018
Dec 24, 2018 at 10:49 AM UTC
The Country Church
About a mile out of town Past the village in the mist Sits a tiny Country Church Not found on any list It's for Catholic and Baptist It's for Protestant and Jew It's doors are always open This church is here for you The town is near two hundred The Church a few years more There are tales about this building That are part of local lore The church is small in stature But large in who it serves It's a place to go and worship It's a place to calm your nerves The pews are hard and narrow Carved by hand you see One has crumbled through the years So in all there's thirty three Seventeen pews on the left side Sixteen on the right Hand carved with love by someone And all are painted white At Easter and at Christmas The Church is full as it should be And as one of those who enter I say, it's something you should see The pews seem so much whiter When the voices sing so loud If it could be witnessed by it's builders I know they would be proud There are carvings in the church pews Left by many through out time On the second one in on the left Is my brothers name and mine The pews are worn in places They've supported many souls Who have come in here for comfort They have come to be made whole The one pew that is broken Was fixed but once more broke It was decided then to leave it By the elders, local folk The minister in charge then Stood and told those who were there "To fix what keeps on breaking" "Wastes time, we could better share" "Besides, look all around you" "The pews, there's thirty three" "To you, it should hold meaning" "Think hard, and you will see" "Remember, Christ our Saviour" "Think of his age on his last day" "Thirty three, that is the number" "Now, think on that next time you pray" "The Church pew that is broken" "Can't be fixed, so let it be" "It's as though it was intended" "To help give strength to you and me" The Church out in the Country Will stand longer than me And will witness many Christmas' From church pews ...all thirty three.
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The minutia of cotton fledglings, I play them over and over In my head, the most enjoyable, a layer of dynasty added to The mallard kingdom. And a rocking horse swims across Each pond too, its head heaves and nags creating massive, huge, Undulating circles around circles. One more coat of gesso and then Even I, in my speckled red paint Commune jeans, and holy holy Protestant tee shirt, I can travel the world; maybe even brush up on my Cuyp. Whipping through the sedge-brook grass, busting out, shooting Through the other mucilaginous nimbuses rolling Outward first, then fled upward into the beacons of the heavens- Shouting, whistling, oozing albicant heraldic pillars and shields. Twenty more colours to mix. Together, the mallards and ewes and rocking horse, and I; prancing, little dots, filing into order. Where nursing Against the sunken pillows of grain, I enter each round of This papyrus jungle. Neatly folding my hands around each Milky white shade, rushing out  into the aurulent sunglow. .
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Apr 10, 2014
Apr 10, 2014 at 6:40 AM UTC
Cotton-Duck Weave
It’s hard to intervene when people fight. Recall being thumped for “bullying” a lad Who’d harassed ME. So hard to tell Who’s right or wrong. Who made the first jibe Or struck the first blow? The same with global conflicts too: Irish Catholic or Protestant? Israel or Palestine? Communist Country or Capitalist? The list goes on… Best keep out of it if you can. Do not make judgement, Just mediate as best you can. Preach fairness and conciliation: Do your best to facilitate Peace. Paul Butters
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 4:33 AM UTC
Rights and Wrongs
there is an old jewish hermit crab spending his sunsetting years in Boca. after all these years he still finishes his beers, but now he takes his coke with cola. he's gotten so old, his heart's grown so sour, that he believes himself to be protestant; remembers meeting ****** as a third-placing contestant on Walt Disney's variety hour. growing bored with the Lord he fancies the shuffleboard, though he quickly grows tired of being pushed over rough cement; never invited to play-- he just came along whenever they went. now he never thought he'd make it this long, he thought his heart should have died from being broken; so he may not have much longer in life, but he'd like to spend it wide open so with polish for chrome he shines up his dome and makes haste to leave his humble home. he will sell his timeshare --afer all, who cares? and finally embrace his freewheeling spirit; --the West? he'd never even been near it well he didn't get very far at all no, not even down passed the bar and all when he was smashed by a car-- rims, tires, and all.
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Oct 18, 2011
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:49 AM UTC
the Old Jewish Hermit Crab
This town is too small for secrets The sidewalks are adorned with names and dates Of couples whose love dissolved twenty years ago While moss oozes out of the letters. This town is too small for secrets Through windows at night The citizens play out their dollhouse lives And dysfunction is locked away in grandmother’s armoire. This town is too small for secrets Where bars close at seven in the morning and open an hour later And the tenders are purveyors of free psychiatry Who put advice in bowls between stale peanuts And place them on the counter. This town is too small for secrets Every hour the two churches compete for the loudest bells But the protestant one always wins And the Catholics having mass ignore its pleading voice But whisper politely in each other’s ears About the scandalous protestors out on Main. This town is too small for secrets With its coffee shops littered with youth Who deny their wealth through coffee steam And discuss the state of countries they can’t place on a map And slowly leach out in to the frigid rain Back to new cars and million-dollar homes Where daddy pays the bills. This town is too small for secrets The college students drink their scholarships in red plastic cups And scuttle towards their shared flats Collapse in to bed too tired to sleep Stare at the ceiling and wonder why they didn’t transfer Three semesters ago. This town is too small for secrets With its gated communities of retirees Where the homes are manufactured And the walls papered with the smiling faces of clean-cut grandchildren And the rebellious ones packed away From the neighborhood gossip’s prying eyes.
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Nov 30, 2013
Nov 30, 2013 at 7:59 PM UTC
Too Small for Secrets
This town is too small for secrets The sidewalks are adorned with names and dates Of couples whose love dissolved twenty years ago While moss oozes out of the letters. This town is too small for secrets Through windows at night The citizens play out their dollhouse lives And dysfunction is locked away in grandmother’s armoire. This town is too small for secrets Where bars close at seven in the morning and open an hour later And the tenders are purveyors of free psychiatry Who put advice in bowls between stale peanuts And place them on the counter. This town is too small for secrets Every hour the two churches compete for the loudest bells But the protestant one always wins And the Catholics having mass ignore its pleading voice But whisper politely in each other’s ears About the scandalous protestors out on Main. This town is too small for secrets With its coffee shops littered with youth Who deny their wealth through coffee steam And discuss the state of countries they can’t place on a map And slowly leach out in to the frigid rain Back to new cars and million-dollar homes Where daddy pays the bills. This town is too small for secrets The college students drink their scholarships in red plastic cups And scuttle towards their shared flats Collapse in to bed too tired to sleep Stare at the ceiling and wonder why they didn’t transfer Three semesters ago. This town is too small for secrets With its gated communities of retirees Where the homes are manufactured And the walls papered with the smiling faces of clean-cut grandchildren And the rebellious ones packed away From the neighborhood gossip’s prying eyes.
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Mother Media, Has strapped us to her highchair of lies, And spoonfed us, What she believes is best, Despite our protestant cries.
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Jan 30, 2011
Jan 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM UTC
Mother Media
What is an American? Is it decided by the timber of our voice, the strength in our limbs, the blood in our veins, or the color of our skin? Tell me, for I do not understand, unfold your thesis, inundate my mind with statistics, be it quantum blood measures, origin or sociological constructs of the creature in question. Tell me, what it is to be an American? This umbrella term, I just do not understand, is it to be a thief? A country founded on stolen land, and stolen labor, sage bushed bills, backed by gilded structures and systems of debate and seizure, is being an American drowning in leisure? What does this term mean? I find myself confused, it is difficult to quantify the qualitative, and breath life into lifeless chiseled forms, found in squares and plazas throughout, a country split by hard wired ferocity, quicksand laden dividing lines, the vocal deciding what it is to be, and what it isn't. *Careful lad, there is such a thing as too much, too much individuality, so put up your hair, put away the paint, put away that sign, sheath your weapon, old boy, this isn't your fight, and besides, what can you do with a toy?* I don't know what America is, land of the free, where is that? I see only industry, a dying morality, drowned in ethics, a protestant-core built on overt inequality. What does it mean to be an American? I can't tell you what it means to you, only what it means to me, and so I say dust off the document upon which this term was built, and realize that the past is not what you should use, just as anything else of import, use judgement, agency, the ability to choose, uphold the  freedom that suffocates in the back of your mind, to the flame inside your chest, to the weakness in your legs, down against the sole of your shoes. America is a country founded on rebellion, a little man, underdog all grown up, and now he's the one throwing punches, a story paralleled by Davidic tales, and though he may not be perfect, and is often reviled, I love him still, his rough edges, for we are still part of the experiment, ongoing, the American dream. Though the gates may be weighed down, the hinges rusted, a country of sojourners, soon a country of minorities, cultural pluralism, though flawed, I like it better this way, a techni-colored mirage of what once was, and if we must meet our end, so be it, guide me home, for is it not true that all roads eventually wind home?
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Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 2:54 PM UTC
America the ________?
What is an American? Is it decided by the timber of our voice, the strength in our limbs, the blood in our veins, or the color of our skin? Tell me, for I do not understand, unfold your thesis, inundate my mind with statistics, be it quantum blood measures, origin or sociological constructs of the creature in question. Tell me, what it is to be an American? This umbrella term, I just do not understand, is it to be a thief? A country founded on stolen land, and stolen labor, sage bushed bills, backed by gilded structures and systems of debate and seizure, is being an American drowning in leisure? What does this term mean? I find myself confused, it is difficult to quantify the qualitative, and breath life into lifeless chiseled forms, found in squares and plazas throughout, a country split by hard wired ferocity, quicksand laden dividing lines, the vocal deciding what it is to be, and what it isn't. *Careful lad, there is such a thing as too much, too much individuality, so put up your hair, put away the paint, put away that sign, sheath your weapon, old boy, this isn't your fight, and besides, what can you do with a toy?* I don't know what America is, land of the free, where is that? I see only industry, a dying morality, drowned in ethics, a protestant-core built on overt inequality. What does it mean to be an American? I can't tell you what it means to you, only what it means to me, and so I say dust off the document upon which this term was built, and realize that the past is not what you should use, just as anything else of import, use judgement, agency, the ability to choose, uphold the  freedom that suffocates in the back of your mind, to the flame inside your chest, to the weakness in your legs, down against the sole of your shoes. America is a country founded on rebellion, a little man, underdog all grown up, and now he's the one throwing punches, a story paralleled by Davidic tales, and though he may not be perfect, and is often reviled, I love him still, his rough edges, for we are still part of the experiment, ongoing, the American dream. Though the gates may be weighed down, the hinges rusted, a country of sojourners, soon a country of minorities, cultural pluralism, though flawed, I like it better this way, a techni-colored mirage of what once was, and if we must meet our end, so be it, guide me home, for is it not true that all roads eventually wind home?
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Hand on the good book that I never read, I swore my loyalty though you know I like to fib, Even as your see the guilt gushing beneath my skin, I’ve been holding the prosecutor’s hand, with another on the switch, A spineless snitch waiting for the green light to fry you for what Benjamin did, So sorry this couldn’t have been different, But the chair only seats one according to our governance, And I’m not the victim with a scheme preached as providence So sorry for the inconvenience But I want to feel the pulse of the pompous cease, And watch the stillness of eyes that once blinked, When they found the oval throne of a tyrant Instead of the virtuous, The one who was to lead us, So who’s stopping me from strapping you to that seat? Since my crime caused the scene Since your fathers where the ones who put your sons to sleep Coming from the cranial cracks of the insane, Those that tried justified slavery while promising us all equality I am the reason they put price tags on humans And why this isn’t the land of the free I’m the governor forcing your loyalty Or I tell everyone you’re a traitor before finding you guilty, I’m Uncle Sam’s mistress, The thought process of social unrest, When the enemy was a homegrown threat, When Plymouth protest turned to disobedience, I was with the Protestant, I’m the crack in the Liberty Bell, The judge, jury, and judicial jezebel, The King, the colonial, the freedom fighter, the insurgent I’ve once facilitated your independence, I was your lust for a better existence Since the struggle against a parliament I’ve been dealing you an idealistic hand, Since the election of the forty-third, I am the notion that this isn’t the promise land Like a revolutionary remedy I am the idealistic ****** The enemy of our mentalities The thought of defying the constraints this reality
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Apr 6, 2012
Apr 6, 2012 at 2:38 AM UTC
Ideolo-psycho (II)
Hand on the good book that I never read, I swore my loyalty though you know I like to fib, Even as your see the guilt gushing beneath my skin, I’ve been holding the prosecutor’s hand, with another on the switch, A spineless snitch waiting for the green light to fry you for what Benjamin did, So sorry this couldn’t have been different, But the chair only seats one according to our governance, And I’m not the victim with a scheme preached as providence So sorry for the inconvenience But I want to feel the pulse of the pompous cease, And watch the stillness of eyes that once blinked, When they found the oval throne of a tyrant Instead of the virtuous, The one who was to lead us, So who’s stopping me from strapping you to that seat? Since my crime caused the scene Since your fathers where the ones who put your sons to sleep Coming from the cranial cracks of the insane, Those that tried justified slavery while promising us all equality I am the reason they put price tags on humans And why this isn’t the land of the free I’m the governor forcing your loyalty Or I tell everyone you’re a traitor before finding you guilty, I’m Uncle Sam’s mistress, The thought process of social unrest, When the enemy was a homegrown threat, When Plymouth protest turned to disobedience, I was with the Protestant, I’m the crack in the Liberty Bell, The judge, jury, and judicial jezebel, The King, the colonial, the freedom fighter, the insurgent I’ve once facilitated your independence, I was your lust for a better existence Since the struggle against a parliament I’ve been dealing you an idealistic hand, Since the election of the forty-third, I am the notion that this isn’t the promise land Like a revolutionary remedy I am the idealistic ****** The enemy of our mentalities The thought of defying the constraints this reality
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My ancestors (i hesitate to even call them such) came to this land centuries ago they came with nothing hoping to start a new life but this is not about my proud heritage not about immigrants following the American Dream (Nightmare would be more accurate) No my ancestors my White Anglo Saxon Protestant ancestors descended upon this pristine landmass like so many parasitic WASPs injecting their prey (the people, the land) with venom laying their eggs that would **** the hosts upon hatching No my ancestors who helped perpetrate an ethnic cleansing the likes of which 20th century fascists could only dream of did so under the title of Manifest Destiny divine right their religion masking opportunistic genocide No my ancestors laid the foundation for the greatest country in the world where ALL (White, English, Heteronormative, Cisnormative, Land-owning, Slave-Owning, Women Hating , Native-American-Murdering, Capitalistic, Perverted) MEN are created equal No my ancestors partook in genocide condoned slavery oppressed women (and every other divergent identity) destroyed the environment and did so with such arrogance such unheard of righteousness No my ancestors were the lifeblood of America the lifeblood of oppression and that blood runs through my veins the screams of American-Indian Warriors of African Slaves of Women labeled Witches and Gays and People of Color and anyone who opposed the hideous behemoth, anyone who dared to be different their screams echo in my head and i am ashamed
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 12:11 PM UTC
shame
My ancestors (i hesitate to even call them such) came to this land centuries ago they came with nothing hoping to start a new life but this is not about my proud heritage not about immigrants following the American Dream (Nightmare would be more accurate) No my ancestors my White Anglo Saxon Protestant ancestors descended upon this pristine landmass like so many parasitic WASPs injecting their prey (the people, the land) with venom laying their eggs that would **** the hosts upon hatching No my ancestors who helped perpetrate an ethnic cleansing the likes of which 20th century fascists could only dream of did so under the title of Manifest Destiny divine right their religion masking opportunistic genocide No my ancestors laid the foundation for the greatest country in the world where ALL (White, English, Heteronormative, Cisnormative, Land-owning, Slave-Owning, Women Hating , Native-American-Murdering, Capitalistic, Perverted) MEN are created equal No my ancestors partook in genocide condoned slavery oppressed women (and every other divergent identity) destroyed the environment and did so with such arrogance such unheard of righteousness No my ancestors were the lifeblood of America the lifeblood of oppression and that blood runs through my veins the screams of American-Indian Warriors of African Slaves of Women labeled Witches and Gays and People of Color and anyone who opposed the hideous behemoth, anyone who dared to be different their screams echo in my head and i am ashamed
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Paddy met a ********* at a Pedestrian crossing with a Poodle Painted green on Patricks Day Pretending to be Catholic but he was a Protestant because he walked on the Orange and got Bradley injured by The Secretary of State Karen a Unionist to a Papal Propaganda meeting in Portadown attended by Paisley-ites Pronouncing Phonetic Parables in Portuguese.
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 3:24 AM UTC
Prexit.
Jesus wore only a robe and needed only a mount to speak to those around him. And yet his words, his wisdom, his divinity have lasted over two thousand years. But look at what has become of his legacy? Have you been to Vatican City? Have you seen the Basilica? What does it have to do with Jesus' core message?:  Love one another. The collective wealth of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches around the world is so massive that it cannot be determined. But Jesus wore only a robe and needed only a mount. Jesus would find upon his return a sight obscene:  a colossal monetary worth of those who were supposed to carry on his teachings! Jusus would scream:  "Sell all your worldly possessions! Sell the Basilica! Sell all the priceless and precious objets d'art in your collections! Sell all your churches! Give all your money to the poorest of the poor! Do you not remember what I did when I entered the sacred temple and found money-changers? I turned over their tables! I threw their coins on the floor! I threw the money-changers out! I found corruption instead of holy caring! What was my crucifixtion for? Pray to God and care for your fellow human beings. Do it in a vacant lot. Call it the Cathedral of the Sky. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Aug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020 at 2:51 PM UTC
CATHEDRAL OF THE SKY
#Anonymous  (1730s ?) In good King Charles's golden days, When Loyalty no harm meant; A Furious High-Church man I was, And so I gain'd Preferment. Unto my Flock I daily Preached, Kings are by God appointed, And Damn'd are those who dare resist, Or touch the Lord's Anointed. ***And this is law, I will maintain Unto my Dying Day, Sir. That whatsoever King may reign, I shall be Vicar of Bray, Sir!*** When Royal James possessed the crown, And popery grew in fashion; The Penal Law I hooted down, And read the Declaration: The Church of Rome I found would fit Full well my Constitution, And I had been a Jesuit, But for the Revolution.  And this is Law, &c. When William our Deliverer came, To heal the Nation's Grievance, I turned the Cat in Pan again, And swore to him Allegiance: Old Principles I did revoke, Set conscience at a distance, Passive Obedience is a Joke, A Jest is non-resistance.   And this is Law, &c.; When Royal Ann became our Queen, Then Church of England's Glory, Another face of things was seen, And I became a Tory: Occasional Conformists base I Damn'd, and Moderation, And thought the Church in danger was, From such Prevarication.   And this is Law, &c.; When George in Pudding time came o'er, And Moderate Men looked big, Sir, My Principles I changed once more, And so became a Whig, Sir. And thus Preferment I procured, From our Faith's great Defender, And almost every day abjur'd The Pope, and the Pretender.   And this is Law, &c.; The Illustrious House of Hanover, And Protestant succession, To these I lustily will swear, Whilst they can keep possession: For in my Faith, and Loyalty, I never once will falter, But George, my lawful king shall be, Except the Times should alter.   And this is Law, &c;.
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Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 11:06 PM UTC
The Vicar of Bray
#Anonymous  (1730s ?) In good King Charles's golden days, When Loyalty no harm meant; A Furious High-Church man I was, And so I gain'd Preferment. Unto my Flock I daily Preached, Kings are by God appointed, And Damn'd are those who dare resist, Or touch the Lord's Anointed. ***And this is law, I will maintain Unto my Dying Day, Sir. That whatsoever King may reign, I shall be Vicar of Bray, Sir!*** When Royal James possessed the crown, And popery grew in fashion; The Penal Law I hooted down, And read the Declaration: The Church of Rome I found would fit Full well my Constitution, And I had been a Jesuit, But for the Revolution.  And this is Law, &c. When William our Deliverer came, To heal the Nation's Grievance, I turned the Cat in Pan again, And swore to him Allegiance: Old Principles I did revoke, Set conscience at a distance, Passive Obedience is a Joke, A Jest is non-resistance.   And this is Law, &c.; When Royal Ann became our Queen, Then Church of England's Glory, Another face of things was seen, And I became a Tory: Occasional Conformists base I Damn'd, and Moderation, And thought the Church in danger was, From such Prevarication.   And this is Law, &c.; When George in Pudding time came o'er, And Moderate Men looked big, Sir, My Principles I changed once more, And so became a Whig, Sir. And thus Preferment I procured, From our Faith's great Defender, And almost every day abjur'd The Pope, and the Pretender.   And this is Law, &c.; The Illustrious House of Hanover, And Protestant succession, To these I lustily will swear, Whilst they can keep possession: For in my Faith, and Loyalty, I never once will falter, But George, my lawful king shall be, Except the Times should alter.   And this is Law, &c;.
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Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free, As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I’ll give to thee. Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree; Or bid it languish quite away, And ‘t shall do so for thee. Bid me to weep, and I will weep While I have eyes to see; And having none, yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee. Bid me despair, and I’ll despair Under that cypress-tree; Or bid me die, and I will dare E’en death to die for thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me; And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.
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To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything
(n) Ebenezer 1. Summer-Fall The hands on the pews beaded in Summer sweat. The whiskey whispers fall off the praising tongues of the Presbyterian choir filling the sanctuary and beating at the stain glass windows that a bird hit last week leaving a crack and when the congregation saw it’s blooded feathers we said oh, dear and poor soul and then climbed into our pickups and minivans and forgot and left to eat a Sunday feast of Mexican food and rest, Sabbath naps are Biblical. 2. Winter-Spring The robin rotted by November but the frost killed the ground too soon for the bird to be laid to rest back beneath the protestant grass and stones that the pastor claims are as powerful and rich of a blessing as the stones the Jews of old inscribed with scripts wrought deep with pleas for rescue and wails for salvation and scripted too with reminders of trials and tribulations because trials end and Christ will reign so we drive over the bones of robins and grass, tires kicking up our own Ebenezers.
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Nov 28, 2012
Nov 28, 2012 at 1:41 PM UTC
Protestant Dictionary
Hegel’s Hero in Dream Hegel’s Hero appeared with video of heroes To teach me Ideas and dialectics in society; I saw there, Lions and Foxes of Machiavelli Fighting , growling , springing from bushes. Aimless Dame Fortune moves in history past Politics of India, snowy, foggy, and shadowy! Shivering men squat passive keeping “ID card” As Greek slaves, before the Democratic Lords. General Will ,as Rousseau says ,forms society, Nation, Governments based on Ideas extant. Lords, and the wealthy ruled rudely the ruled In the past, as history moved as cruelly as fast. God’s own Universe sans universal concept On Peace; builds walls around each groups. Religions fail to link the parted and parched People who worship vicious Cain and Mammon . Marx, Engels , and Mao came with the legions Stumbled, humbled and stifled by the Mammons. Buddha, Christ and the Prophet Mohammad Told of Love, Grace, Patience and of Pardon My Lord, why, we fail to wipe tears and fears? “Sambhavami yuge yuge” says hazy, Hegel fades. parithranaya sadhunam/ vinasaya cha dushkritham/ dharmmasamsthapanardhaya/sambhavami yuge yuge. When in India can we expect such a Hero:Kalki,in Kali? To be trapped, jailed as terrorist protestant, really!
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Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013 at 10:26 PM UTC
Hegel's Hero in Dream
The Bells of Notre Dame called out “Come fill my Center Hall” “Come Catholic, Muslim, Hindu and Jew; Come with no faith at all” The Mothers of the Murdered came, united in their grief. For bullets and I.E.D’s cannot sort us by belief. One woman in a hijab had come here from Verdun. Like the Protestant beside her, She had lost her only son. Both were strangers to this place, Unfamiliar with the prayers But, having no place else to go; They found some comfort there. The Highborn and the famous came with those of low estate Some came here to find peace of Soul; to put an end to hate. Some sought shelter from the world; to find sanctuary. But the figure on the Cross proclaims we all face Calvary. We all face the same sentence; all perish in the end. We know this evil must be stopped but know not how or when. The Bells of Notre Dame call out “Let us begin again.”
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Nov 18, 2015
Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM UTC
Sanctuary
We paint our lives on color film Absorbing familiar reflection And we watch as we live So little in color film We love, we **** We bleed, we die Do we think God is watching? Do we think we are the reflection Why are we watching? Mountain sides and Lilly beds Prairies and the mighty ocean Now held in our hands Nobody is there Is anyone here What is everyone watching? Loneliness painted in window sills Plasma radiation gleams on White, pictureless walls Millions Watching sunsets And passions flame Lust pervert Warm golden skin Radiates tangerine And the lonely feel Vicarity Painting red On Blank slates And fill with vacant desire Million of on lookers Alone, watching Watching the world burn Watching mothers cry Watching beaches sludge Watching deserts snow Watching brave children die Watching brothers betray Watching love fail Watching countries fall Watching debts paid Millions of miles of tapes and bits Project a millions of protestant cries Endlessly, eternally Do we think God is watching? Do we think? While we're watching Bathing in radiation Children don't know how to read Live their lives on A television screen A whole generation Living vicariously Do we think? Millions of gray souls And avid voters Watch angry men spout nostalgic redirect Watch their children live their lives Watch game shows and advertisements Watch the six o' clock news Watch police shoot children in the street A million beautiful, lonely people Watch red carpet vanity Watch million dollar celebrity parties Watch the American dream lash the Backs of the fuedal and disenfranchised Watch depraved souls sacrifice self For the company of fame Meanwhile children don't read Do we think? A thought original Is there any thing left to believe Everyone so sure there's nothing they haven't seen Nobody leaves their house Nobody can bear to read Just watch the world slip into insanity Ignorance is the greatest weapon Yet all I see is guns blazing 80 billion dollars to dry the desert Not a one for education American families gather Around their TV screens They can't stop watching They're afraid of what they see Do they think God is watching? I hope God isn't watching
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Dec 17, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 at 5:09 AM UTC
Do We Think
We paint our lives on color film Absorbing familiar reflection And we watch as we live So little in color film We love, we **** We bleed, we die Do we think God is watching? Do we think we are the reflection Why are we watching? Mountain sides and Lilly beds Prairies and the mighty ocean Now held in our hands Nobody is there Is anyone here What is everyone watching? Loneliness painted in window sills Plasma radiation gleams on White, pictureless walls Millions Watching sunsets And passions flame Lust pervert Warm golden skin Radiates tangerine And the lonely feel Vicarity Painting red On Blank slates And fill with vacant desire Million of on lookers Alone, watching Watching the world burn Watching mothers cry Watching beaches sludge Watching deserts snow Watching brave children die Watching brothers betray Watching love fail Watching countries fall Watching debts paid Millions of miles of tapes and bits Project a millions of protestant cries Endlessly, eternally Do we think God is watching? Do we think? While we're watching Bathing in radiation Children don't know how to read Live their lives on A television screen A whole generation Living vicariously Do we think? Millions of gray souls And avid voters Watch angry men spout nostalgic redirect Watch their children live their lives Watch game shows and advertisements Watch the six o' clock news Watch police shoot children in the street A million beautiful, lonely people Watch red carpet vanity Watch million dollar celebrity parties Watch the American dream lash the Backs of the fuedal and disenfranchised Watch depraved souls sacrifice self For the company of fame Meanwhile children don't read Do we think? A thought original Is there any thing left to believe Everyone so sure there's nothing they haven't seen Nobody leaves their house Nobody can bear to read Just watch the world slip into insanity Ignorance is the greatest weapon Yet all I see is guns blazing 80 billion dollars to dry the desert Not a one for education American families gather Around their TV screens They can't stop watching They're afraid of what they see Do they think God is watching? I hope God isn't watching
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Protestant stand, pick up your cross and liveth - in the East. © S. Wesley Mcgranor
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Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM UTC
Religious Haiku #1
She was the only Non-Native On staff in a parochial school, Reservation in Montana... The school nurse, Working in her office, Fighter of colds and flu, Coverer of scrapes and bruises, Pre-medicine expert... A little girl stopped in to say, "You gonna come to Mass today?" "No, I'm a Protestant," Just then another student walked in: "You going to Mass?" "No! She's a ********** Said girl one. And so it goes....
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Jun 18, 2015
Jun 18, 2015 at 8:19 PM UTC
Mass no Mas
They cry about heaven Even as they transform skin Into sin, punishable by death Or **** or disfigurement Sent by the devil for sure Wearing tonsures and cassocks Causing their own brand of havoc Ruled by insensitivity Because we are the enemy No longer human, doomed To suffer the ravages Of their bad ***** training And lack of discipline Over and over again On playgrounds as kids. They did it all over again When in uniform, warmed By the glow of popular bigotry Idiocy blessed by some dope, Some Protestant proto-pope Who thinks God has time To engage in crime in his name So they can blame him instead. Little else in their head They steal land, and brand people Burn people, assault people And do their best to make them feel Their god, their way is not real And is not worth keeping. Sleeping at night, nobody knows how Now that they have shown their colors To their brothers and sisters; That they will **** mothers and fathers And babies and the land And think it just grand Because they got paid As they laid waste, Turned the gardens to paste Between the toes of evil. We the boll, they the weevil; They mashed us under their feet No thought of being discreet, We were fodder for their hatriotism. Not patriotism. That is impossible And totally improbable Once you’ve sold your soul To Old Nick and his minions, Hell’s hand-picked denizens Who look just like your neighbor; They labor at jobs, like you do And look a lot like you, too, Especially if you make excuses To commit abuses And blame it on god. Savor the rod And abuse the child. Isn’t hatred wild? Always on hand.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 9:38 PM UTC
THEATRE OF THE ****** FOOLS
They cry about heaven Even as they transform skin Into sin, punishable by death Or **** or disfigurement Sent by the devil for sure Wearing tonsures and cassocks Causing their own brand of havoc Ruled by insensitivity Because we are the enemy No longer human, doomed To suffer the ravages Of their bad ***** training And lack of discipline Over and over again On playgrounds as kids. They did it all over again When in uniform, warmed By the glow of popular bigotry Idiocy blessed by some dope, Some Protestant proto-pope Who thinks God has time To engage in crime in his name So they can blame him instead. Little else in their head They steal land, and brand people Burn people, assault people And do their best to make them feel Their god, their way is not real And is not worth keeping. Sleeping at night, nobody knows how Now that they have shown their colors To their brothers and sisters; That they will **** mothers and fathers And babies and the land And think it just grand Because they got paid As they laid waste, Turned the gardens to paste Between the toes of evil. We the boll, they the weevil; They mashed us under their feet No thought of being discreet, We were fodder for their hatriotism. Not patriotism. That is impossible And totally improbable Once you’ve sold your soul To Old Nick and his minions, Hell’s hand-picked denizens Who look just like your neighbor; They labor at jobs, like you do And look a lot like you, too, Especially if you make excuses To commit abuses And blame it on god. Savor the rod And abuse the child. Isn’t hatred wild? Always on hand.
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