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Establish a research and development facility tasked with recycling 100,000 commonly used household goods or packaged products back into the original base material needed to remake it into new product packaging. Pass legislation requiring all companies selling products with packaging to buy their source materials from a registered public-private venture allowing any firm willing to participate to do so. Companies must then manufacture packaging locally using source materials supplied by one of the public-private companies. Companies will also be required to hire locally using a diversity and economic income model incorporating or locating the participating companies in the poorest rural counties in the state. Society grows great when Old Men plant trees.  -Socrates
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Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 at 7:46 PM UTC
Recycling Thesis
When the bakery was bought, For the sake of novelty, uniqueness, etc, Called it ‘bitter’ Laddu was bitter Jalebi ws bitter Cherry was bitter Bitter, bitter What bitterness, said people The servant got bitter Sir, There are no bill collectors to turn away Flies mock She at home Serves bitterness While sharing the alienation Which novelty and uniqueness supplied, With eatables, Biscuit said Let’s add the salt of tears, Eatables will not sell If bitter ‘Please give me something old” When the sound of a beggar Intervened Myself, who stood for novelty and uniqueness Told him ‘ you can have this bakery’
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 12:31 AM UTC
Bakery
A fashion designer has defended models who were labelled as "gaunt and unwell" on Facebook. Andrea Moore's I AM range is sold at Farmers, and an image from its current campaign was posted on that company's Facebook page on Friday. The picture features Chiara and Norina Gasteiger, who are twins represented by Clyne Model Management. Farmers customers did not react well to the now-deleted post. "They so look gaunt and unwell. I'm really disappointed," Newshub says Anna Webster commented. "You cannot look at these girls with their bones sticking out and believe that they are a good role model for a family store," Jo Austwick wrote. "I have enough trouble with body image arguments with my daughters without these images being depicted. They do not look healthy." Moore said the imagery had never been intended to cause offence, and that she felt for the Gasteiger twins, who have worked with the brand for three years. "The twins are actually healthy, fun models who are busy university students... We love working with them because of their sense of self-worth and uniqueness as twins," she said. "We have been in touch with the models and they were most upset by the whole thing. Fortunately, they have received a lot of support from their peers. "The campaign was about preppy grunge, print with an edge. [It was not] about promoting unhealthy body types [or] anything else," Moore added. Farmers posted the following statement on Facebook after deleting the I AM image: "Dear valued Farmers customers! We appreciate you taking the time to send us your comments and concerns on a recent post for I AM. Please know it is not taken lightly and we in no way mean to promote an image for women in NZ to follow that could be regarded as unhealthy. "We understand that no two bodies are the same and we always seek to show a range of body types throughout all our advertising. These images were supplied by the brand Andrea Moore as part of a wider campaign and were published by us. We will endeavour going forward to work closely with all our partners to ensure an appropriate image is portrayed. "Thank you once again for your valued feedback." Clyne Model Management have been approached for comment.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/cocktail-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/one-shoulder-formal-dresses
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 10:30 PM UTC
Designer Andrea Moore defends models called 'gaunt and unwell'
A fashion designer has defended models who were labelled as "gaunt and unwell" on Facebook. Andrea Moore's I AM range is sold at Farmers, and an image from its current campaign was posted on that company's Facebook page on Friday. The picture features Chiara and Norina Gasteiger, who are twins represented by Clyne Model Management. Farmers customers did not react well to the now-deleted post. "They so look gaunt and unwell. I'm really disappointed," Newshub says Anna Webster commented. "You cannot look at these girls with their bones sticking out and believe that they are a good role model for a family store," Jo Austwick wrote. "I have enough trouble with body image arguments with my daughters without these images being depicted. They do not look healthy." Moore said the imagery had never been intended to cause offence, and that she felt for the Gasteiger twins, who have worked with the brand for three years. "The twins are actually healthy, fun models who are busy university students... We love working with them because of their sense of self-worth and uniqueness as twins," she said. "We have been in touch with the models and they were most upset by the whole thing. Fortunately, they have received a lot of support from their peers. "The campaign was about preppy grunge, print with an edge. [It was not] about promoting unhealthy body types [or] anything else," Moore added. Farmers posted the following statement on Facebook after deleting the I AM image: "Dear valued Farmers customers! We appreciate you taking the time to send us your comments and concerns on a recent post for I AM. Please know it is not taken lightly and we in no way mean to promote an image for women in NZ to follow that could be regarded as unhealthy. "We understand that no two bodies are the same and we always seek to show a range of body types throughout all our advertising. These images were supplied by the brand Andrea Moore as part of a wider campaign and were published by us. We will endeavour going forward to work closely with all our partners to ensure an appropriate image is portrayed. "Thank you once again for your valued feedback." Clyne Model Management have been approached for comment.Read more at:http://www.marieaustralia.com/cocktail-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/one-shoulder-formal-dresses
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And, now one and all, step inside! Make way for the latest attraction: The greatest & latest new carnival ride Filled with excitement and action!! And nobody knew what was in store as they buckled themselves in tightly. And it twisted and turned & so much more as the lights all around flashed brightly. And they screamed with delight due to the thrill of the ride and they came back each night to go back inside. and again & again they came back for more because of the joy it supplied until the carnival was no more and they missed the great carnival ride. © 1997
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Jul 3, 2012
Jul 3, 2012 at 11:17 PM UTC
The Carnival Ride
there is something suspicious about you every time I channel a wish through you it all goes rather askew last year when I sent you a special SOS to tell you I wanted a nice red dress instead of making good on my request you supplied me with a green vest that would have been okay for Jill but it didn't quite fit my bill Fair Godmother if you don't get my wishes straight we'll be parting company and there will be no debate may this short note be read and properly understood make sure all my future wishes are by you made good
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 7:03 AM UTC
Dear Fairy Godmother
Lucid, abusive Tongue in cheek divine Stupid, elusive Lost soul of mine A snap of orchestral fingers to summon the suave illustrator Mohawk punks and minions to smash the limp masturbator Loveless, acquiesce Arpeggio flutter ripples Convalesce, Fancy dress ******* with perky ******* One or two drinks, make it three then five Keeping the blood warm and love alive Visceral, peripheral Dark raven hair Liberal, scriptural I couldn’t even care. I adored her all, her everything, her gleaming demeanor The subtle wink of her eyes, the glow; even greener Exotica, ex machina Street amazon of desert glass sand No drama, rural karma Flesh sweating like the heat of Sudan Dead singers like Cole and Morrison sing of paper moons and Crystal Ships The mixed CD segues to U2, Pulp, and then a full disk of The Flaming Lips. "Nightingale", minor scale The saxophonist played under the street lamp outside Folktale female “Another drink?” she abides, two glasses and wine supplied On her balcony we watched and listened, to the call of urban passion The wordless music we adored, a testament to our mutual attraction.
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Apr 16, 2013
Apr 16, 2013 at 5:07 AM UTC
After Hours
This candlelight has been witness to both hatred and love To shouts of anger born from throats reddened raw Smashed mugs and smashed china and half-mended smashed hearts But to passion, forgiveness, old flames both rekindled and small. Candlelight lit from matches or flint Such lovely low light supplied to romantic nothings (“Does it really matter which?” you’d asked me then, eyes to the sky. And I’d nodded, because it did.) And I remember the first time I saw you by candlelight. Shattered bulbs had left us with nothing but flames under stars And I’m glad I first found you by such unforgettable light Not lackluster memory that passed me by Because now, alone beneath imaginary hatches You light up the room by candle wax and boxed matches.
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Oct 29, 2014
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:26 PM UTC
Candles and Constellations
Regurgitation of the spoon fed, unintelligible dribble supplied by the media is not intelligence.
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May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012 at 3:06 PM UTC
Intelligence
In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond. In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin. Where broods the dove, linnet And swan. Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones. Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew. O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons. In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 2:07 PM UTC
Dublin Poem
In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond. In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin. Where broods the dove, linnet And swan. Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones. Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew. O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons. In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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"Son can you play me a memory I'm not really sure how it goes But it's sad and it's sweet And I knew it complete When I wore a younger man's clothes" Billy Joel lyrics from "Piano Man"* ~~~~~~~~~~~~ when I was very young I wore Levi jeans and white Hanes cotton T shirts my mother bot me, my feet, Ked clad, red from the kid's "department" store on Central Avenue, the Main Street of my small town when I was a young lad, I wore workingman's cargo jeans and white Hanes cotton T shirts under red plaid wooly shirts, itchy affairs, that I bot for myself in a real Army Navy store, desert colored suede boots, laced up high, upon my feet when I was of middling years, my jeans were khaki pants, Gap supplied, and my Gap T shirts, faded like me, a non-descript color, made in a gap of pale pastel colors from Bangladesh or Vietnam, pale pastel, like me so as I slide~decline into my nursing home years, I wear unbranded jeans and white cotton no name T shirts with matching white disposable slippers, that the Purchasing Department bot for me, cause they know, I like, a younger man's clothes and the memories that play all day lost in day dreaming of a life well dressed 2:01am
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Aug 9, 2014
Aug 9, 2014 at 4:31 PM UTC
A younger man's clothes
Have I left you all dry, With a throat I’ve supplied With the words of a poet Who slips a poem inside. Receiving your mail, You handsome, dark male, You sat in a chair With woozy head as you stare. Painting her body, prepared, For you to meet her and share. The words of her letter, Forms the pierce of her stare, Her full body in view, She arches her back up for you. Pulls up her long, cascading hair. Moves to her rhythm, You watch her, ensnared. With her own ink she’s shared, Dancing for you with words placed with care. Your body feels weak, your head feels so light, The pumping of blood supplies you with Your want for the night. You stare at her words, in the shape of her curves, Her lips parting in pleasure, her eyes shooting arrows, You study every seductive trace of a dot, Coming to life in every detail she’s got, She’s sent herself to you, you can smell her perfume, Sprawled out on your page, she beckons to you.
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 1:10 AM UTC
A Love Letter
the fountain of poetry e'er threatens to dry up yet the inspirational words of Beryl Dov Lew re-supplied my dwindling cup with his advice duly given my expression's reservoir fills to capacity in a most generous flow of endless verbosity had he of not encouraged me to keep the pen's ink spilling my Hello Poetry pages would be empty of shilling with a mentor of Beryl's calibre positively re-invigorating my oft dry fountain   I am ever assured of a verse brimming unto the highest mountain
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Dec 21, 2014
Dec 21, 2014 at 7:50 PM UTC
Mentor
Modern athletes, strong and buff, These days are tested soon and late just to prove their skill and strength are free of anabolic taint. Ryan Braun, the M.V.P. was tested thus occasionally. He didn't seem the type to me to boost his skills unnaturally. Thus imagine my surprise to learn the ***** he supplied contained synthetic Testosterone Brewer fans emitted groans. Now it seems he's off scot free based on a technicality. He will not have to serve the ban imposed on many a lesser man. Opening day, reserve the date; Braun will be there at the plate His many fans will come to see Ryan Braun, the M.V. ***
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Feb 25, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM UTC
Ryan Braun, the M.V. ***
The excursion of a mother commences when she EMBRACES the child as a boon, A life long relevance emanated from your WOMB.. To enter into this wicked world i took a gap , To comprehend the despicable i stayed in your lap.... I ****** her blood, changed her appetite I was no more than a PARASITE She supplied me TONES of calcium All my skeleton , all my FLESH she owns She ENDURED those mood swings , Nausea, vomiting that i brought He was expecting his heredity, his PRIDE She was HAPPY that i exist, She loved me from very start I stole her breathe , but she embraced my heart...... From 1st trimester, because of her my heart is BEATING If i didn't love her back that would be a CHEATING A sense of TRUST that can't be broken , A depth of love sometimes UNSPOKEN.... You SACRIFICED yourself to evolve me like our heart as ONE ,,,, A link that can never be UNDONE...
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Jul 11, 2021
Jul 11, 2021 at 11:43 AM UTC
Mother
1128 These are the Nights that Beetles love— From Eminence remote Drives ponderous perpendicular His figure intimate The terror of the Children The merriment of men Depositing his Thunder He hoists abroad again— A Bomb upon the Ceiling Is an improving thing— It keeps the nerves progressive Conjecture flourishing— Too dear the Summer evening Without discreet alarm— Supplied by Entomology With its remaining charm—
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These are the Nights that Beetles love—
The twisted silk, weighted, The river unridden. Please, Moon, might I learn this untied. With struggle's arousal, I've grown with my hands bound. Ancestral's teachings have lied. I cherish the kneeling, And towering Venus. This muse has my lust so supplied. As a coin in bed, flipping, This boy's heavy lifting. Which will win here, My lust, or my pride?
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Sep 12, 2010
Sep 12, 2010 at 6:50 PM UTC
Discipline
Beauty out in the open, light falls on linoleum tiles like heel-worn stones Windows to a sunny world sit at the end of locker-lined tunnels, beckoning beyond fluorescent mazes Clotted with conversation, upperclassmen stroll like the elderly Young blood doge or cling to the sides, scared of the critical runway that is us Windows to a sunny world sit at the end of locker-lined tunnels, beckoning beyond fluorescent mazes Eyes from all sides, thinking nothing yet are supplied by our own thoughts Young blood doge or cling to the sides, scared of the critical runway that is us Finding refuge in educational terrariums, an ecosystem that saves me from the weight Eyes from all sides, thinking nothing yet are supplied by our own thoughts Finding solace in stairwells, sealed off by doors and hold awkward opportunities Finding refuge in educational terrariums, an ecosystem that saves me from the weight Clanging like a child’s cry releases stress like floodgates, another trip into the shark tank Finding solace in stairwells, sealed off by doors and hold awkward opportunities Open doors that are actually closed; they are like aquariums – no tapping on the glass please. Clanging like a child’s cry releases stress like floodgates, another trip into the shark tank The longer I stay the more I wish to leave, away from substituted confrontations Open doors that are actually closed; they are like aquariums – no tapping on the glass please. Prejudice like heavy rain beats at my skin and soaks my clothes - but I know it was I who brought the downpour The longer I stay the more I wish to leave, away from substituted confrontations Must comparisons be so obvious when I walk alone, unprotected? They are lucky to have such equals to act as parents; they hold each other’s hands to keep from drowning Prejudice like heavy rain beats at my skin and soaks my clothes – but I know it was I who brought the downpour They pull like vultures at flesh; I am not allowed to wrap myself in hurricanes while out in the open Must comparisons be so obvious when I walk alone, unprotected? They are lucky to have such equals to act as parents; they hold each other’s hands to keep from drowning Ignorance is bliss, they say, and truth that is here – the less you know the less hate you bear the weight of. They pull like vultures at flesh; I am not allowed to wrap myself in hurricanes while out in the open Look down, one foot – and then the other! Ignorance is bliss they say, and truth that is here – the less you know the less hate you bear the weight of. Anger and sadness, guilt and fear turn like Viewmaster slides lit up by the sun Or am I on my own here? Each boy's path runs along each other like long-exposure stars, leaving streaks between the darkness.
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Jun 26, 2010
Jun 26, 2010 at 10:48 PM UTC
Repercussions.
Beauty out in the open, light falls on linoleum tiles like heel-worn stones Windows to a sunny world sit at the end of locker-lined tunnels, beckoning beyond fluorescent mazes Clotted with conversation, upperclassmen stroll like the elderly Young blood doge or cling to the sides, scared of the critical runway that is us Windows to a sunny world sit at the end of locker-lined tunnels, beckoning beyond fluorescent mazes Eyes from all sides, thinking nothing yet are supplied by our own thoughts Young blood doge or cling to the sides, scared of the critical runway that is us Finding refuge in educational terrariums, an ecosystem that saves me from the weight Eyes from all sides, thinking nothing yet are supplied by our own thoughts Finding solace in stairwells, sealed off by doors and hold awkward opportunities Finding refuge in educational terrariums, an ecosystem that saves me from the weight Clanging like a child’s cry releases stress like floodgates, another trip into the shark tank Finding solace in stairwells, sealed off by doors and hold awkward opportunities Open doors that are actually closed; they are like aquariums – no tapping on the glass please. Clanging like a child’s cry releases stress like floodgates, another trip into the shark tank The longer I stay the more I wish to leave, away from substituted confrontations Open doors that are actually closed; they are like aquariums – no tapping on the glass please. Prejudice like heavy rain beats at my skin and soaks my clothes - but I know it was I who brought the downpour The longer I stay the more I wish to leave, away from substituted confrontations Must comparisons be so obvious when I walk alone, unprotected? They are lucky to have such equals to act as parents; they hold each other’s hands to keep from drowning Prejudice like heavy rain beats at my skin and soaks my clothes – but I know it was I who brought the downpour They pull like vultures at flesh; I am not allowed to wrap myself in hurricanes while out in the open Must comparisons be so obvious when I walk alone, unprotected? They are lucky to have such equals to act as parents; they hold each other’s hands to keep from drowning Ignorance is bliss, they say, and truth that is here – the less you know the less hate you bear the weight of. They pull like vultures at flesh; I am not allowed to wrap myself in hurricanes while out in the open Look down, one foot – and then the other! Ignorance is bliss they say, and truth that is here – the less you know the less hate you bear the weight of. Anger and sadness, guilt and fear turn like Viewmaster slides lit up by the sun Or am I on my own here? Each boy's path runs along each other like long-exposure stars, leaving streaks between the darkness.
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815 The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury ’twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me In whatsoever Presence makes Till for a further Food I scarcely recollect to starve So first am I supplied— The Luxury to meditate The Luxury it was To banguet on thy Countenance A Sumptuousness bestows On plainer Days, whose Table far As Certainty can see Is laden with a single Crumb The Consciousness of Thee.
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The Luxury to apprehend
All I can see is a wasteland of stone, glass, metal, and wooden rubble in an open air prison where children are living. Six thousand bombs, stirring up thick clouds of grey dust, obscuring the horrors people are enduring. The attackers are barely even warning people to move on. The exits are blocked. The power and water is off. The suffering doesn’t stop, and these civilians are unable to leave. How are you unable to see the hell spring of grief that is burning human beings, the furnace that still cooks even when no one bothers to look because all of the crooks were just waiting for the perfect excuse to make the news with a justified genocide. Mass ****** and more oppression with the weapons America supplied, and guess what, another child just died, more parents got radicalized, and if they survive will you be surprised if hate is the new demoncont. that wears their tired red eyes. The rich guys lied and decided that unequal retaliation is perfectly justified, so we are on a road to the extinction of human decency as the world murders our collective humanity. Crack, boom, the sound of thunder blooms orange heated chaos, breaking the foundation an entire building. A whole family line gets an early burial, as what’s left of my heart gets carried inside, popped in a box to be buried alive, because their beat was the same as mine. Nothing I write will change the minds of those unwilling to listen and see people who are close to total annihilation, as deserving of love, and compassion, but even so I am still asking. Help, please, help!?! Instead we get beheadings, mass shootings, ****** assault, retaliation, and the expectation of more tragedy to come. I can easily condemn violent actions taken, but I need to understand the origins of this rocky foundation, and potential solutions, because I can’t stand the horrors I am facing without eventually breaking.
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Dec 2, 2023
Dec 2, 2023 at 8:46 AM UTC
Untitled
All I can see is a wasteland of stone, glass, metal, and wooden rubble in an open air prison where children are living. Six thousand bombs, stirring up thick clouds of grey dust, obscuring the horrors people are enduring. The attackers are barely even warning people to move on. The exits are blocked. The power and water is off. The suffering doesn’t stop, and these civilians are unable to leave. How are you unable to see the hell spring of grief that is burning human beings, the furnace that still cooks even when no one bothers to look because all of the crooks were just waiting for the perfect excuse to make the news with a justified genocide. Mass ****** and more oppression with the weapons America supplied, and guess what, another child just died, more parents got radicalized, and if they survive will you be surprised if hate is the new demoncont. that wears their tired red eyes. The rich guys lied and decided that unequal retaliation is perfectly justified, so we are on a road to the extinction of human decency as the world murders our collective humanity. Crack, boom, the sound of thunder blooms orange heated chaos, breaking the foundation an entire building. A whole family line gets an early burial, as what’s left of my heart gets carried inside, popped in a box to be buried alive, because their beat was the same as mine. Nothing I write will change the minds of those unwilling to listen and see people who are close to total annihilation, as deserving of love, and compassion, but even so I am still asking. Help, please, help!?! Instead we get beheadings, mass shootings, ****** assault, retaliation, and the expectation of more tragedy to come. I can easily condemn violent actions taken, but I need to understand the origins of this rocky foundation, and potential solutions, because I can’t stand the horrors I am facing without eventually breaking.
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I went for an X-Ray the other day. My name was called and after the expected delay, I heard a nurse say Right knee? I said Yep! She said “Come this way… Can you get your trouser leg up to your thigh"? I said “No… these skinny jeans don’t go that high”. “In that case” she said looking me up & down... with a frown Pop in that cubicle… and put on this gown! For a start…it took me ages to get these trousers off… and force the rest of my stuff into the carrier bag supplied and then, when I saw the gown, I very nearly died! It would have fitted me just fine if I’d been 18 again but the gaps and bulges in the thing were a farce... and allowed everyone in the corridor to see my fat 71 year old **** I said out loud when I sat down again in the queue “You know…I had an inferiority complex before I met any of you. But this has definitely taken me down a notch. And I apologise about the view”. However, inside the X-Ray room with all the techie kit and Radiographer Rob, I felt better… The pain in my knee had almost gone apart from a distant throb. Then he said “You’re completely safe, just lie back calm, quite still…serene”. Whilst he clicked the shutter from the other side of his lead lined screen. (So he was alright then!) Well, I’m home again now, hobbling about… It’s bearable (not like childbirth ladies) but not great. I’m sitting here with my leg up waiting for the letter that will let me know my fate. Ah yes… men and pain! There is a well know fact about the differences between the sexes. It’s proven that, with men, colds become flu…and ailments:- epidemics… (No really!) So, here’s the letter… Now...will it be Ointment? Physio, to transform a permanent slouch? Or a keyhole flush with a catheter? Or - Oh no!… For me - it’s a titanium replacement knee!… Ouch! Somebody pass me that gown!!!
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Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 6:09 PM UTC
Hospital Gown
I went for an X-Ray the other day. My name was called and after the expected delay, I heard a nurse say Right knee? I said Yep! She said “Come this way… Can you get your trouser leg up to your thigh"? I said “No… these skinny jeans don’t go that high”. “In that case” she said looking me up & down... with a frown Pop in that cubicle… and put on this gown! For a start…it took me ages to get these trousers off… and force the rest of my stuff into the carrier bag supplied and then, when I saw the gown, I very nearly died! It would have fitted me just fine if I’d been 18 again but the gaps and bulges in the thing were a farce... and allowed everyone in the corridor to see my fat 71 year old **** I said out loud when I sat down again in the queue “You know…I had an inferiority complex before I met any of you. But this has definitely taken me down a notch. And I apologise about the view”. However, inside the X-Ray room with all the techie kit and Radiographer Rob, I felt better… The pain in my knee had almost gone apart from a distant throb. Then he said “You’re completely safe, just lie back calm, quite still…serene”. Whilst he clicked the shutter from the other side of his lead lined screen. (So he was alright then!) Well, I’m home again now, hobbling about… It’s bearable (not like childbirth ladies) but not great. I’m sitting here with my leg up waiting for the letter that will let me know my fate. Ah yes… men and pain! There is a well know fact about the differences between the sexes. It’s proven that, with men, colds become flu…and ailments:- epidemics… (No really!) So, here’s the letter… Now...will it be Ointment? Physio, to transform a permanent slouch? Or a keyhole flush with a catheter? Or - Oh no!… For me - it’s a titanium replacement knee!… Ouch! Somebody pass me that gown!!!
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In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond. In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin. Where broods the dove, linnet And swan. Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones. Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew. O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons. In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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Mar 17, 2013
Mar 17, 2013 at 8:11 PM UTC
Dublin Poem
In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond. In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin. Where broods the dove, linnet And swan. Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones. Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew. O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons. In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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Bismillah IrrahmanIr Raheem. The sun and earth are in love, Their lifelong love properly, Supplied us with fields in the organic form of As being, we are traditionally kind farmers, Who return in common the love towards all, let’s us all, celebrate this love In this glorious day as a Pongal day!!!!! Wish you All Happy Pongal! Wish you Happy….. Makara Sankranti, Lohri, Sakraat & Makraat, Uttarayan, Suggi, Magh Saaji, Ghughuti, Makra Chaula, Kicheri, Pousha Sankranti, Magh Bihu, Shishur Sankraat, Makara Vilakku, Maaghe Sankrat, Tirmoori, Songkran, Pi Ms Lao, Thingyan, Mohan Songkran. May this day bring us all Happiness, Wealth and comfort to all struggling farmers around the world and to my native Tamil peoples. Let’s Celebrate this day as a start of every civilization with sweetness, courage and With New Hope. Allah Khair…..Khairul Rabul Alameen Yah Arrahmanur Yah Raheem Ummah Thurab – Badshah Khan. ©UT-BK 2019
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Feb 9, 2019
Feb 9, 2019 at 3:45 AM UTC
Happy Pongal
In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond.  In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin.  Where broods the dove, linnet And swan.  Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones.  Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew.  O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons.  In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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Sep 30, 2012
Sep 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM UTC
Dublin Poem
In rows like crumpled paper set, The way one might design a brooch, There sets a sparkle down so purely Capital, beyond reproach and sure She is the blackest flea who sits Upon an old green dog, now should You query, her name's a pond.  In Gaelic It's pronounced: Baile Átha Cliath— But in Irish she's plain, mightily named, Dublin.  Where broods the dove, linnet And swan.  Now take them pi'jons, they got Dank habits and linnets lament the silent Stones.  Sure, the goose gave out and took To the air, but the swans, they've landed, To roost, enchanted as 'Children of Lir,' And so becomes a changeling child's Fair city, for in her anointed proximity, Gracious white birds do bathe and molt, Supplied as I can tell, she looks black- Pooled in clusters, long side her creases. Stout nectar flows in near every nook And cranny, but yer man, he's never Busy, that malty fish, daftly avoids, Swimming spirals round like buggies Do on petals, he'd rather grace gardens By drinking their dew.  O Dublin town, She wends her ways and rows her houses Round-a-bout on cobbled shores in tribute To sprite, deary and fey, Anna Livia— Who like a stem of blood, stabs right To the heart of Dublin Bay— and proud As a crowned thorny, who once had reeked, She's bloomed large, into one grandeous Beauty, like a céilí so finely fiddled— A sandy, spirited, bombastic beach- Flower, she is, a flag so fitting upon The doons.  In dream, I flocked to her Like the wild geese and saw her coy'd Repose and there I spied, from mackerel Skies— one monstrous, Irish rose!
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dead bodies while alive poor Porphyria strangled by her own hair which could be no Fairy tale , jabberwocky, listens as does that famous semicolon concise; By Ezra Pound.   creepy innocence or infamous we all get to sooner. On to Popeye "Farm Implements......" title and poem supplied by Ashbury, hang  an albatross but don't shoot it Mr. Coleridge, it will hang around your neck.
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 12:53 AM UTC
attractive opposites