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Aren't we going to be late for the dentist? What are mom and dad talking about on the phone? Why is Dad swearing so much? How come we can't go to my dentist appointment anymore? What's on TV? .. Why is that building falling? Why aren't the news reporters talking? Why is dad crying? "Why won't you let me watch the TV, dad?" Am I supposed to be crying? What's happening to us? Why is everything bad? How did we let this happen? Why does everyone hate everyone? ------ Why would she call me while she's at work? Doesn't she know we're going to the dentist? "What?" Why would she joke about this? Why is she crying if she's joking? ... Why is that building falling? Dear god how did this happen? ****** why am I crying? Are those people jumping out of windows? Why are they killing themselves? Someone will save them, right? Why is my daughter still watching this? Why am I watching this? How could someone do this? Jesus, is that a second airplane? How many people will they save? How many will die?
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Feb 15, 2015
Feb 15, 2015 at 6:44 PM UTC
A Five-Year-Old's Dentist Appointment
viewer discretion is advised. The following program has graphic images that may not be suitable for all audiences The television stains my eyes I can barely see myself in the mirror While steady reporters shed not one tear Don't you see the dead behind you? Don't you feel the pain of their families While you just "tell the story"? 27 dead, most of which young children, in a school shooting The sickness creeps into my bones Its impact rattles my spine Debilitating me, confining me to a stupor Why? Why? Why end such bright futures and presents? Do you not see the damage that you've done? Do you not feel the blood pouring from Your own body? Do you? back to you, overpaid talking man A three minute blurb That's it Hundreds of people have been forever changed Millions more afraid And all you can do is harass them Beg for interviews While they still are in disbelief? But beyond that You show it over and over and over All with the political lean Of your respective stations Could you not stop for once And let mourners mourn?
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Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 10:27 PM UTC
Viewer Discretion Advised
The gurgle of the coffee maker, The clink of your spoon on the frigid counter, The sizzle of bacon residue in a frying pan, and an egg cracking over it. The murmurs of the news reporters on the tv, The distant roar of a train in the background, The dive into sensory pleasure, while reality dissipates. The smell of hazelnut creamer and cinnamon, The taste of a waffle with buttery syrup, The warm sun on your face through the window, today is good; today will be different. The giggles of the waffles and coffee, The light conversation and hard laughter, The feeling of home... within them, a sudden shift in atmosphere. The sharp loss of appetite The grieving of what wasn’t lost The shared remorse for nothing you’ve done they tell you that you’re pathetic. The despair in your mug dropping into the table The swallowed tears and screams The chaos that covers every square inch of you distance between you and hope still stands. The ***** kitchen and your empty stomach The distressing moonlight that creeps in the window The anger in thinking you’re liberated this time sounds of an empty home stir. The cold seats that have accompanied nobody The wallowing roar of silence The jacket of despair that wears you your average day.
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Feb 3, 2021
Feb 3, 2021 at 4:37 PM UTC
Your average day
hole in the sky. tap tap, the empty vessel flows out. a weightless sink. the hour goes, blaring swell of humidity, and the jug lukewarm, leaven oft in the barred space. I return to my room. I drink the cold milk on the sill. I finish the third wretched spill of the journey to Olympus. Downstairs a howl, a wind slam SOLOM OBSERVATIONAL MATRIX STRUCTURED TASKS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY TO ASSIST WITH INSTRUMENTAL DECISIONS. I close the door I close the door I close the door I close the In this uneasy slumber, the bed shakes, the windows rattle, the sky splits, the earth floods a red simpering capitulatory spasm of earthly flesh. Here is the circuit, the tired nervous tic of inaction, I shrink back from the outstretched hand, a condition which recommends two pills in the morning to mask the double image beneath my hands. i have slept through the week again, this pathetic flesh obeys nothing, where are my pills inescapable ******* dullery THE JUG IS HOT. I return to my room. I close the door two pills on the sill to go down with the milk THE DOOR SLAMS GALL BUCKLING FIT ODE BREATHLESS CLOSER CLOSER CLOSER BUT THE SOUND REMAINS Figures muffled by the walls. There are guests in the house, the looming presence of multiple species with incomprehensible intentions. In a bout of uncharacteristic curiosity, I slip my sight through the crack of my door. UNDER RCG IT WILL BE MANDATORY FOR ALL CUSTOMS CARGO REPORTERS IN THE AIR SEA AND ROAD INDUSTRIES TO SUBMIT REPORTS TO SARS ELECTRONICALLY. I am unmoved by such perceptions. I prepare the final climb to Olympus. the cyclone is ended. the front door is barred. the jug is cold. the yard is littered with unmoving shapes.
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Jan 31, 2018
Jan 31, 2018 at 11:19 PM UTC
OLYMPUS CORPOREATION IS A JAPANESE MANUFACTURER OF OPTICS AND REPROGRAPHY PRODUCTS
hole in the sky. tap tap, the empty vessel flows out. a weightless sink. the hour goes, blaring swell of humidity, and the jug lukewarm, leaven oft in the barred space. I return to my room. I drink the cold milk on the sill. I finish the third wretched spill of the journey to Olympus. Downstairs a howl, a wind slam SOLOM OBSERVATIONAL MATRIX STRUCTURED TASKS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY TO ASSIST WITH INSTRUMENTAL DECISIONS. I close the door I close the door I close the door I close the In this uneasy slumber, the bed shakes, the windows rattle, the sky splits, the earth floods a red simpering capitulatory spasm of earthly flesh. Here is the circuit, the tired nervous tic of inaction, I shrink back from the outstretched hand, a condition which recommends two pills in the morning to mask the double image beneath my hands. i have slept through the week again, this pathetic flesh obeys nothing, where are my pills inescapable ******* dullery THE JUG IS HOT. I return to my room. I close the door two pills on the sill to go down with the milk THE DOOR SLAMS GALL BUCKLING FIT ODE BREATHLESS CLOSER CLOSER CLOSER BUT THE SOUND REMAINS Figures muffled by the walls. There are guests in the house, the looming presence of multiple species with incomprehensible intentions. In a bout of uncharacteristic curiosity, I slip my sight through the crack of my door. UNDER RCG IT WILL BE MANDATORY FOR ALL CUSTOMS CARGO REPORTERS IN THE AIR SEA AND ROAD INDUSTRIES TO SUBMIT REPORTS TO SARS ELECTRONICALLY. I am unmoved by such perceptions. I prepare the final climb to Olympus. the cyclone is ended. the front door is barred. the jug is cold. the yard is littered with unmoving shapes.
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chaos. death. destruction. the winds are rich grains of economical gain blown on the wind grains, pieces of remainders of ruined lives; ripe for reaping reporters can smile their toothy grins (pretending they don't love it- or the boost in their ratings) politicians will preach and smile their equally fake smiles- heads dancing with sugarplum visions power hungry to bask in the warmth of the schism - politicians and reporters smile looters loot as figure heads kisses victims heads in style oh what a lovely mess it is so completely human for a natural disaster
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May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015 at 6:05 AM UTC
Aftermath of the Storm
A mob boss for president… Yikes! That's what we've got-- One who profits from crime Without a second thought; Who keeps his family close by; Who's close to each paisano; Who looks less like a Lincoln, And more like Tony Soprano; Who praises convicted felons, And pardons them as well; Who cares less about country And more about his cartel. Loyalty is his mantra. His underlings owe him all. He sounds like a mobster when His back's against the wall. He'll rip you a new one if You ever decide to flip And prove that you're a rat, Or try to give him the slip. "Flipping should be illegal," He brazenly repeats. Without it he knows there'd be More crooks on the streets. A power-hungry bully: It's his goal to be one. Listen to his rhetoric: "I know a rat when I see one." His fixer threatens reporters And does the boss's bidding. But when he seeks revenge, The boss isn't kidding! Driven by ambition, Egomania and greed, He lets mob ethics guide him To always take the lead. He's the kind of guy You read about in books. Watch how he surrounds Himself with other crooks. Those who cooperate With law enforcement will find That he retaliates If ever he's maligned. Top decision maker, He gets such a thrill Promoting or demoting Anyone at will. Having a no-good mob boss As leader strikes a nerve Because it's hard to accept That that's what we deserve. -by Bob B (8-25-18)
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM UTC
The Mob Boss
In a distant dystopia, it towers above all. It radiates a dim blue glow, that Transfixes eyes and minds alike. Pulling with the gravity of 20,000 suns, Its force cannot be rivaled. An irresistible, iridescent abomination, and An admonition unto the autonomy of thought. Weaving tapestries of illusory illustrations, Into the indigent intellect of its unsuspecticng viewers. It's images penetrate the psyche like magic, as Minds are manipulated into the madness, of Mass consumption of manufactured "needs." Its reporters replace reason with rhetoric, for Objectivity is no obeject in an age of sound bites. It demonizes difference, distracts, and desensitizes. Apathy becomes queen, and facile pleasures become king. Remember your vigilance.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 4:40 AM UTC
The Tyrannical Screen
I drank musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter one night And his face had the shining light of an old-time Quaker, he spoke of a beautiful daughter, and I knew he had a peace and a happiness up his sleeve somewhere. Then I heard Jim Kirch make a speech to the Advertising Association on the trade resources of South America. And the way he lighted a three-for-a-nickel stogie and cocked it at an angle regardless of the manners of our best people, I knew he had a clutch on a real happiness even though some of the reporters on his newspaper say he is the living double of Jack London's Sea Wolf. In the mayor's office the mayor himself told me he was happy though it is a hard job to satisfy all the office- seekers and eat all the dinners he is asked to eat. Down in Gilpin Place, near Hull House, was a man with his jaw wrapped for a bad toothache, And he had it all over the butter millionaire, Jim Kirch and the mayor when it came to happiness. He is a maker of accordions and guitars and not only makes them from start to finish, but plays them after he makes them. And he had a guitar of mahogany with a walnut bottom he offered for seven dollars and a half if I wanted it, And another just like it, only smaller, for six dollars, though he never mentioned the price till I asked him, And he stated the price in a sorry way, as though the music and the make of an instrument count for a million times more than the price in money. I thought he had a real soul and knew a lot about God. There was light in his eyes of one who has conquered sorrow in so far as sorrow is conquerable or worth conquering. Anyway he is the only Chicago citizen I was jealous of that day. He played a dance they play in some parts of Italy when the harvest of grapes is over and the wine presses are ready for work.
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Fellow Citizens
I drank musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter one night And his face had the shining light of an old-time Quaker, he spoke of a beautiful daughter, and I knew he had a peace and a happiness up his sleeve somewhere. Then I heard Jim Kirch make a speech to the Advertising Association on the trade resources of South America. And the way he lighted a three-for-a-nickel stogie and cocked it at an angle regardless of the manners of our best people, I knew he had a clutch on a real happiness even though some of the reporters on his newspaper say he is the living double of Jack London's Sea Wolf. In the mayor's office the mayor himself told me he was happy though it is a hard job to satisfy all the office- seekers and eat all the dinners he is asked to eat. Down in Gilpin Place, near Hull House, was a man with his jaw wrapped for a bad toothache, And he had it all over the butter millionaire, Jim Kirch and the mayor when it came to happiness. He is a maker of accordions and guitars and not only makes them from start to finish, but plays them after he makes them. And he had a guitar of mahogany with a walnut bottom he offered for seven dollars and a half if I wanted it, And another just like it, only smaller, for six dollars, though he never mentioned the price till I asked him, And he stated the price in a sorry way, as though the music and the make of an instrument count for a million times more than the price in money. I thought he had a real soul and knew a lot about God. There was light in his eyes of one who has conquered sorrow in so far as sorrow is conquerable or worth conquering. Anyway he is the only Chicago citizen I was jealous of that day. He played a dance they play in some parts of Italy when the harvest of grapes is over and the wine presses are ready for work.
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The radio clicks the worn out song of days gone by and governments gone wrong. Its static, the rolling of clouds before a thunderstorm. The newsreaders rustling papers, High pressure systems on the move. The hush of the people as they gather to listen Breath bated, held back by obedient tongues The bulletins are nicotine bullets, they're so incredibly easy to get hooked on. News comes down the wire like commuters on the tube Jostled and shunted along. Through underground networks it spreads With absolute efficiency And yet the platform on which it departs is more than often wrong. Outside the park swings are empty, There is nothing unusual about that But the kids sit by speakers with their hands over their ears The high frequency waves dance around them. This day is marked down as one they wish they could forget. The headlines blazed into their minds, More dead. Oppressed. Injustice. Religion. Elections. Disasters. Tornadoes. Politicians flustered. Corruption. Famine. And Hollywood Blockbusters. And now we move on to the traffic Two hundred more just come in from Pakistan They say there's a pile up in Europe There's an awful lot of wreckage on the road and now they are left with no place to call home. The M1 is running slow again, no surprise in that Row after row of red brake lights Join them together to make constellations And you have your very own metropolitan galaxy. Because who needs the stars when we have brake lights! And who needs the moon when we have Big Ben. Down the telephone lines comes a battalion of lies “Honey... I'm going to have to work late.' If you listen very closely to the nine o'clock news You can hear the reporters wristwatch And every five seconds that tick on top of his pulse Marks another slice of news coming in. The little hand chases the big hand You cannot tell the time with just one. The details escape somewhere between The real world and what's put down in papers. The trouble with black and white Is that you miss all the shades of grey And if you've never seen stars Then brake lights, are just brake lights And disaster is just another day.
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Sep 21, 2013
Sep 21, 2013 at 9:46 AM UTC
Brake Lights
The radio clicks the worn out song of days gone by and governments gone wrong. Its static, the rolling of clouds before a thunderstorm. The newsreaders rustling papers, High pressure systems on the move. The hush of the people as they gather to listen Breath bated, held back by obedient tongues The bulletins are nicotine bullets, they're so incredibly easy to get hooked on. News comes down the wire like commuters on the tube Jostled and shunted along. Through underground networks it spreads With absolute efficiency And yet the platform on which it departs is more than often wrong. Outside the park swings are empty, There is nothing unusual about that But the kids sit by speakers with their hands over their ears The high frequency waves dance around them. This day is marked down as one they wish they could forget. The headlines blazed into their minds, More dead. Oppressed. Injustice. Religion. Elections. Disasters. Tornadoes. Politicians flustered. Corruption. Famine. And Hollywood Blockbusters. And now we move on to the traffic Two hundred more just come in from Pakistan They say there's a pile up in Europe There's an awful lot of wreckage on the road and now they are left with no place to call home. The M1 is running slow again, no surprise in that Row after row of red brake lights Join them together to make constellations And you have your very own metropolitan galaxy. Because who needs the stars when we have brake lights! And who needs the moon when we have Big Ben. Down the telephone lines comes a battalion of lies “Honey... I'm going to have to work late.' If you listen very closely to the nine o'clock news You can hear the reporters wristwatch And every five seconds that tick on top of his pulse Marks another slice of news coming in. The little hand chases the big hand You cannot tell the time with just one. The details escape somewhere between The real world and what's put down in papers. The trouble with black and white Is that you miss all the shades of grey And if you've never seen stars Then brake lights, are just brake lights And disaster is just another day.
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Oh, if we live by public opinion. Then many of us would be convicted cause of an accusation. Evidence wouldn't be required. We be required to answer questions. Just to prove to others rather we are innocent or guilty. Just because, it has been said. Don't mean its true. Just because it has been told. Don't be its so. Many has been torn apart in the press. Investigated and bully by reporters to confess. But, what if? The situation was directed back upon them. Remember even they has a past filled with scandals. We are consider innocent until proven guilty.. The evidence must be shown. And level correctly for a conviction. And if you are not sure. Watch what you mention?
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Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 9:09 PM UTC
Innocent Until Proven Guilty
it’s simply awesome how much energy is spent to document the newness of the news no matter how repetitive may be the words of the reporters the hype needs to be built no matter whether right or stilted driven by fear the topic might be wilted a minute later and half an hour later you hear the same with minor variations adorned with various speculations so that the viewers may get the illusion it’s NEW – though it is old, and just repetitive an endless loop of hyped-up trivialities of who did what and when and why maybe with whom or not makes you aware that even new banalities rarely include what really matters to the majority of people on this globe
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Jul 8, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 at 5:10 PM UTC
the newness of news
Life endures in loosing and gaining, backstabbers and supporters. Whether you enjoy drama in your life and the connection with reporters, the news you tell them will just be announced for entertaining - The media all around you, the friends you thought stood by you. I’ve been through those obstacles, the times from when people choose to leave. When I needed someone most, to listen and not be posted in articles, all I got were blank responses, not once showing that they believe. The trust I need towards certain people are now gone, and that just gives me one strength, to move on. True friends. It’s funny how the saying goes, in time you really discover who your real friends are. That being said - take a moment, and think; are the people in your life, the ones you can truly keep? People who won’t judge or go around talking behind your back? Around you all you get are stares, now you will know who caused the act. I want you to open your eyes and see the reality, I won’t lie or torture you, it’s like one of your family. You deserve someone who you can trust at anytime, give or take within every situation, every time. I believe in you, so I give you permission to converse, I promise I won’t hurt you - the emotion of feeling your worse.
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Jan 12, 2011
Jan 12, 2011 at 7:52 PM UTC
The Status Of Your People
Pulsating honor doth corroded hearts impound A blustery breeze echoes cries from each, preceding battleground A recurring, eager parade of reporters, gawkers freely roam distant mound Below, fatigued, tidy mass of steeled infantry; to death's throes bound Neighing horses conditioned to mayhem the pageantry doth confound On opposite ridges, mounted turrets prepared hell's fury to expound On signal, a synchronized, concussive chorus doth its dark melody propound Scraps of metal shards initiate; commencing another, toilsome round After lengthy barrage, wits collected a more lethal volley to stound Familiar, urgent order to charge christens hallowed ground With youthful ardor a wide-eyed bugler doth the bridled expanse unbound Shrieking rancor from recoiling rifles; a familiar anthem doth resound Recurring cacophonous medley, weathered nerves drowned Once more, a mass of flesh surges into the abyss with mortal hopes crowned Anon, shattered limbs; gory wounds misery's cache compound
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 9:59 AM UTC
Civil War Battlefield
The papers said she was a small-town girl from Massachusetts, an aspiring actress with the looks of Hedy Lamarr or Norma Shearer. The boys, they liked her minced walk, those black curls and tight black dresses, But it was the smile that won you: An aphrodisiac painted deep red. The picture didn’t do her justice. I examined her body on a cold slab on metal: Black curls, upstairs and down, matted with Dirt and blood. Body, cut clean in half. I bent over to get a look at those eyes: Death hadn’t yet stolen their blue. Folks say she didn’t care for school, but studied Movies religiously. She was determined to be known by the world—one day, With bags and ambitions, she fled To California. Reporters called her a vagabond amongst Other Lost Angels; no permanent address, though her mother received letters every week. When the cops brought her in to identify the body, I pardoned the girl’s condition; I had not yet Stitched up the sides of her mouth. I hear the leeches got to the daughter first, Calling up the poor mother With some cockamamie story that her Little Betty had won a beauty contest. The mother answered their questions proudly, Never the wiser, never know she was Ghostwriting her own daughter’s obituary. Betty’s pretty picture was soon plastered across Headlines and the evening news: I could still hear the mother’s shrill screams From a few hours before. I had kept the girl’s Severed body draped, to give her Some dignity, but I couldn’t hide her Glasgow smile.
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Jul 14, 2010
Jul 14, 2010 at 6:32 PM UTC
The Mortician
The papers said she was a small-town girl from Massachusetts, an aspiring actress with the looks of Hedy Lamarr or Norma Shearer. The boys, they liked her minced walk, those black curls and tight black dresses, But it was the smile that won you: An aphrodisiac painted deep red. The picture didn’t do her justice. I examined her body on a cold slab on metal: Black curls, upstairs and down, matted with Dirt and blood. Body, cut clean in half. I bent over to get a look at those eyes: Death hadn’t yet stolen their blue. Folks say she didn’t care for school, but studied Movies religiously. She was determined to be known by the world—one day, With bags and ambitions, she fled To California. Reporters called her a vagabond amongst Other Lost Angels; no permanent address, though her mother received letters every week. When the cops brought her in to identify the body, I pardoned the girl’s condition; I had not yet Stitched up the sides of her mouth. I hear the leeches got to the daughter first, Calling up the poor mother With some cockamamie story that her Little Betty had won a beauty contest. The mother answered their questions proudly, Never the wiser, never know she was Ghostwriting her own daughter’s obituary. Betty’s pretty picture was soon plastered across Headlines and the evening news: I could still hear the mother’s shrill screams From a few hours before. I had kept the girl’s Severed body draped, to give her Some dignity, but I couldn’t hide her Glasgow smile.
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To my friends whose hearts I'm about to break, know that my left cheek will shatter first before your hearts does. I hope that's comforting enough to hear. I've always liked the angle of the right side of my face better, therefore the papers and reporters shall see just that. I hope that's relieving enough to see. To my other friends whose eyes I will be leaving swollen ugly for days on end, España's rain and floods shall hydrate you back to life. I know because I have blessed the skies with my own tears on the nights prior. Dapitan's dust and smog shall breathe air into your lungs, but not into mine. I know because I won't he here tomorrow. I hope that's alleviating enough to know. Over the last month, I have never figured out if I liked España or Dapitan better. But I suppose it's the former, for it shall have my sorry excuse of a body for the very last time. It's a bad metaphor for a feigned and forced liberty, as with this country that I lived in and loved better than the pretentious and lifeless cities I've traveled to. Singapore is but a fleeting fling. Tickles your fancy but will leave you tired and in resentment. Hong Kong is just another plaything. Everybody would tell you she's good and all that, but she lost to your tastes still. Macau is the lover that never gives but keeps on asking, she was never the safest bet nor can you lie and tell her she's the best. Johor is just as frustrating. She would be the hardest question in the test, the one you've thought of over and over but still stood miscorrect. Bangkok, I have kept her dearly in my heart but ended up forgetting still. My other lover from the farther west, but still wouldn't compare to the best. But Manila, she lives in me. She is me. It's a shame, I will never see her prosper and bloom in her waiting heydays, whenever that may be. But do I deserve to witness that? I have never done anything to help pitch in her movement. But it's a bigger, even better shame to have lived in this age of technology. Forgive me for leaving too soon, Manila. Welcome me tomorrow around high noon, España.   Forget about me like you did with your history, my beloved Philippines. To the headlines, I am diving in headfirst. To the tabloids, I beg of you to once more tickle the funny bones of a dead girl.
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Jul 17, 2019
Jul 17, 2019 at 5:36 AM UTC
Headfirst To The Headlines
To my friends whose hearts I'm about to break, know that my left cheek will shatter first before your hearts does. I hope that's comforting enough to hear. I've always liked the angle of the right side of my face better, therefore the papers and reporters shall see just that. I hope that's relieving enough to see. To my other friends whose eyes I will be leaving swollen ugly for days on end, España's rain and floods shall hydrate you back to life. I know because I have blessed the skies with my own tears on the nights prior. Dapitan's dust and smog shall breathe air into your lungs, but not into mine. I know because I won't he here tomorrow. I hope that's alleviating enough to know. Over the last month, I have never figured out if I liked España or Dapitan better. But I suppose it's the former, for it shall have my sorry excuse of a body for the very last time. It's a bad metaphor for a feigned and forced liberty, as with this country that I lived in and loved better than the pretentious and lifeless cities I've traveled to. Singapore is but a fleeting fling. Tickles your fancy but will leave you tired and in resentment. Hong Kong is just another plaything. Everybody would tell you she's good and all that, but she lost to your tastes still. Macau is the lover that never gives but keeps on asking, she was never the safest bet nor can you lie and tell her she's the best. Johor is just as frustrating. She would be the hardest question in the test, the one you've thought of over and over but still stood miscorrect. Bangkok, I have kept her dearly in my heart but ended up forgetting still. My other lover from the farther west, but still wouldn't compare to the best. But Manila, she lives in me. She is me. It's a shame, I will never see her prosper and bloom in her waiting heydays, whenever that may be. But do I deserve to witness that? I have never done anything to help pitch in her movement. But it's a bigger, even better shame to have lived in this age of technology. Forgive me for leaving too soon, Manila. Welcome me tomorrow around high noon, España.   Forget about me like you did with your history, my beloved Philippines. To the headlines, I am diving in headfirst. To the tabloids, I beg of you to once more tickle the funny bones of a dead girl.
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*The unexpected snow, disruptive, in ways more burdensome, than mere fender benders and swapping travelogue commutation miseries ah, the tv reporters regale with snow tales, human fails, but where do you hear of the children burnt once by fire then again, now, again! burnt by snow. here, hear, listen here technology moves forward, grafting new shells of skin on burnt children, but tonite you're cozy thinking of your valentine's heart, not of the little ones, whose hearts are unprotected, by what we take so for granted beneath our protective gloves and coats, scarfs and boots, our prophylactic human skin, theirs, fire ravaged, now re-hazardous, by southern snows burning these children hurt, unexpectedly, cannot play in the snow that came so unexpectedly, lest it burn them worse* "in the children's burn unit, postponed all surgeries except 'emergency'.  Two days of outpatient clinic patients forced to reschedule,. That then, postpones their surgeries, second step grafting, etc. Our vents ran smoothly I heard via the generators, unlike last outage. We had to ambulance each individual patient. I dread going in tomorrow but small comfort, it will be warmer than my cold home." Life first, poetry second
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Feb 15, 2014
Feb 15, 2014 at 3:31 PM UTC
Snow Burn
Oh, you've seen them. They either in suits or a dress reporting upon some society's mess. Might be corruption, robbery, assaults and even ****** Some called reporters. I call them the robots. Dictated too. To report the news. Reading from a script that barely change. Some flubbing words and trying to explain. I only feel for the weather personnel standing in the storm of the rain. We aware the sports reporter could do the things the reporters news. But in away, they are robots too. With less stricter rules. But who reports upon them? We know once scandal hits. The competition avoids reporting these facts. Then again, they do have a "respect" pact. The robots reporting the news. Sometimes, I wish there was just one anchor. Then it would be better concentrating upon one person. But one gender will complain. That's how we got co-anchors in the first place? And this water down reporting isn't news in the first place.
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 8:31 AM UTC
News(The Robots)
beats banging the bolts of your brains your mind slumped back with thoughts of genocidal terrorist gangsters polluting your countries veins, rocking lines like no way but did bush rock the planes, and **** did we really give al-Qaeda all that money 6.9 billion **** yeah that sounds pretty funny, but back in the day they were the backed boys in blue fighting off the the red corner for their freedom to be renewed, but that wasn't enough for them reunion of peace lost with the greed of the beast and the hate for the west and the hate for different beliefs, capitalism s bad but not bad enough for lives to be releived or taken, **** bugs me but im not shooting the lead at a different population. and im not conforming to 911 being binladen cause the videos shown give me the impression those attacks were a little more expensive than the planes on the rota, the truth covered up like ill put it under the sofa or they wont notice just tuck it behind the toaster, its not for common knowledge to be a pile of **** out off cnn's rosta does anyone remember Mcintyre whos stated on paper that he beleives the pentagon was hit by something different than whats printed on the usual reporters notepad soo whos the joker? the world needs answers now before this conspiracy is just another late night channel on the tv, or the page on the internet that no one sees xcept the fat man nursing a ***** and a bag of nachos with a little too much additional flavour bread cheese and cereal its all over his bed, forgotten how to live soo hes browsin instead, this mans a lost cause you stay tight to whats in your head and im not guna turn around and say that my rhymes keep your brain feeling alive ive used that space to save you time so you can see the things i see the way the world is lookin at me and this **** keeps my dreams infant and my body just another delinquent, reeling around in this filtered hypocricy with the love and humour on hold till this chapter unfolds
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Nov 29, 2011
Nov 29, 2011 at 12:59 PM UTC
conspiracy for my theory?
beats banging the bolts of your brains your mind slumped back with thoughts of genocidal terrorist gangsters polluting your countries veins, rocking lines like no way but did bush rock the planes, and **** did we really give al-Qaeda all that money 6.9 billion **** yeah that sounds pretty funny, but back in the day they were the backed boys in blue fighting off the the red corner for their freedom to be renewed, but that wasn't enough for them reunion of peace lost with the greed of the beast and the hate for the west and the hate for different beliefs, capitalism s bad but not bad enough for lives to be releived or taken, **** bugs me but im not shooting the lead at a different population. and im not conforming to 911 being binladen cause the videos shown give me the impression those attacks were a little more expensive than the planes on the rota, the truth covered up like ill put it under the sofa or they wont notice just tuck it behind the toaster, its not for common knowledge to be a pile of **** out off cnn's rosta does anyone remember Mcintyre whos stated on paper that he beleives the pentagon was hit by something different than whats printed on the usual reporters notepad soo whos the joker? the world needs answers now before this conspiracy is just another late night channel on the tv, or the page on the internet that no one sees xcept the fat man nursing a ***** and a bag of nachos with a little too much additional flavour bread cheese and cereal its all over his bed, forgotten how to live soo hes browsin instead, this mans a lost cause you stay tight to whats in your head and im not guna turn around and say that my rhymes keep your brain feeling alive ive used that space to save you time so you can see the things i see the way the world is lookin at me and this **** keeps my dreams infant and my body just another delinquent, reeling around in this filtered hypocricy with the love and humour on hold till this chapter unfolds
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Mirrors recur here frequently In verse and lyric. I'm reading obituaries and Seeing pictures of what will be. Death recurs here frequently, And pain, lots of it. Broken people too. It's like we're ambulance chasers, ****** reporters running down a story.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 10:33 PM UTC
Ambulance Chasers
Synthetic sympathy is like an epidemic across the surface of our baron horizon of sophistication, where predictable greetings and condolences are proclaimed with interpersonal detachment. An aperture is a hole through which light travels across a threshold of darkness. Gullible are those voters who strive for independence whilst firmly clamped in the jaws of proclaimed democracy, where reporters become lively at dramatic scenes of carnage and death. Oh sibling of the expanding universe - I implore you to project your voice across constitutional and cosmological municipalities. Let us run for office beyond the confinement of bureaucratic galaxies. After all, our modulations echo throughout solitary cells of our revered bedlam.
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 10:02 PM UTC
Screams of Restraint
They constantly on the television delivering the news for today. Love to grilled, quiz others but serious they contractual to say not a thing. They the reporters. But pay attention and notice. Once they retired or writing a book. Now they got an opinion about everything they have seen or support. Then the reportic robots act like their minds working. Go figure what a signed contract can do.
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 8:19 AM UTC
The Reportic Robot
a friend posed the question there is a first world and there is a second world, but where do you find the second world? and sadly i think i know the answer. the second world lives is the hidden shadows of the first. and is populated by.... .....those who live in the shells of architect designed houses, with no power running water, ..or worse live in cars or couchsurf. ....it is those  pensioners who exsist on tinned cat food and  teabags re-used   seven times. ....old people who wear their entire wardrobe in the winter cold. ....children with bad teeth and chronic health issues un-attended because they can't afford a doctor ...it is the man, who died the other day. hit by a train, while his children watched, retrieving some dropped groceries, he got from, a food drive van. ...it was the first food they would have had in 48hrs, the child stated for reporters. this ..... is the second world!!! right here .... mostly hidden from sight not even reminded by sad tv ads only when abject utter tragedy happens do we see a glimpse of the second worlder's desperate plight.
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 11:26 PM UTC
the second world
“Nasty Woman” Olivia Leap In a society where a man can rise to power with statements like: "What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" When asked about military ****** assault, When he can claim that: "the look obviously matters...like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful." When talking to female reporters, And against powerful women, more qualified than him, one who decides to try and move against him, he mentions her husband "disagreed" with some of her positions, As if the husband had say over her actions. I am proud of my gender. I am a Nasty Woman. I am female and I am strong. I will not accept that one who is so offensive and unqualified as this has any power over my mind. I am a Nasty Woman, And I will stand with my fellow transgender sisters, my cis sisters, my queer and gay and bisexual sisters, my immigrant sisters, my black sisters, my muslim sisters, my minority sisters, my oppressed sisters and we will not step down. I am a Nasty Woman And I will not back down when approached by racists and sexists who believe that the future is somehow going to be better. I am a Nasty Woman Who will not forget that a man can say he would look a gorgeous woman in: "the fat, ugly face of hers" with no repercussions, That a man obviously racist, fascist and misogynistic can somehow sweep through our country and rise to power. I am a Nasty Woman Who is disgusted that someone who states he would date his own daughter if they weren't related Is praised as a powerful man. I am a Nasty Woman Who is deeply upset that people even think of supporting A man who states that all that matters is to have: "a young, and beautiful, piece of *** beside you That a man who obviously shows indifference and disgust for those different than himself and his ideal views, has so much power. I am a Nasty Woman, And I refuse to respect someone who has so little respect for me. I am a Nasty Woman And I can't wait for one year, two years, four years from now when The people will take back our country from a ***** grabber" Who couldn't respectfully hold a debate without dropping the "nasty woman" card, Which I am proud to now carry And will carry forever
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Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017 at 10:06 PM UTC
Nasty Woman
“Nasty Woman” Olivia Leap In a society where a man can rise to power with statements like: "What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" When asked about military ****** assault, When he can claim that: "the look obviously matters...like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful." When talking to female reporters, And against powerful women, more qualified than him, one who decides to try and move against him, he mentions her husband "disagreed" with some of her positions, As if the husband had say over her actions. I am proud of my gender. I am a Nasty Woman. I am female and I am strong. I will not accept that one who is so offensive and unqualified as this has any power over my mind. I am a Nasty Woman, And I will stand with my fellow transgender sisters, my cis sisters, my queer and gay and bisexual sisters, my immigrant sisters, my black sisters, my muslim sisters, my minority sisters, my oppressed sisters and we will not step down. I am a Nasty Woman And I will not back down when approached by racists and sexists who believe that the future is somehow going to be better. I am a Nasty Woman Who will not forget that a man can say he would look a gorgeous woman in: "the fat, ugly face of hers" with no repercussions, That a man obviously racist, fascist and misogynistic can somehow sweep through our country and rise to power. I am a Nasty Woman Who is disgusted that someone who states he would date his own daughter if they weren't related Is praised as a powerful man. I am a Nasty Woman Who is deeply upset that people even think of supporting A man who states that all that matters is to have: "a young, and beautiful, piece of *** beside you That a man who obviously shows indifference and disgust for those different than himself and his ideal views, has so much power. I am a Nasty Woman, And I refuse to respect someone who has so little respect for me. I am a Nasty Woman And I can't wait for one year, two years, four years from now when The people will take back our country from a ***** grabber" Who couldn't respectfully hold a debate without dropping the "nasty woman" card, Which I am proud to now carry And will carry forever
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Jose Escobar, 31 Deported: 2 March, from Houston, Texas Jose Escobar, from El Salvador, has a son, Walter, & a wife Rose Marie Ascencio-Escobar, a U.S. citizen, now home alone in South Houston, Jose Escobar moved to the US legally from El Salvador with his mother when he was 15, and both qualified for protected status. His mother erred in filing renewal paperwork when he was still a teenager, his protected status lapsed. Mr Escobar spent years trying to sort out  his status and received a stay of deportation from a judge in 2012. But with Trump   the deportation process started up again & he was detained at his check-in with Ice & flown to San Salvador. His family is devastated. "I'm begging President Donald Trump to look into my case and see if my husband is really destroying America," his wife told reporters.
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Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 11:39 PM UTC
Mr Escobar ... Deported