"tariff" poems
When to grab I'm not sure
Not when Time is tariff
Barely making of Future's contour
Space and fate in Miscellany
But perhaps I Must grab,
for that remaining Flickering seconds--
before Regret stabs my back
of once-in-a-blue-moon's Wasted Opportunity
Sep 25, 2018
Sep 25, 2018 at 4:46 PM UTC
~
***TRAVEL TIME TROPICS TRIP TOURIST TOWN TUNNEL TOLL TICKET TAKER
TAXI TOKEN TRANSIT TRAIL TRANSPORT TRUCK TRACTOR TRAILER
TRAIN TRACK TROUBLE TEST TERROR TRAP TRIBAL TURF
THINK TALK TRY TRANSLATE TONGUE TIED
TEMPER TAMPER TIMEBOMB TICKING TRINKET TRADE
TARIFF TERMS TWINKLE TAX TREASURE TOTAL THEFT TAKEN
TWISTING THROBING THIRSTY THROAT TECATE TAVERN TWO TEQUILA
TRES TACOS TASTY TORTILLAS TEN TEQUILA TABLE TAB TIP TINA
TAWDRY TROLLUP TATTOO TABOO TOE TAP TICKLE TEASE
TERRIBLE TUNES TENOR TONES TRUMPETING TROUBADOURS
TWENTY TEENS TICK TOCK TARDY TIME TIRESOME TESTIMONY
TOTALLY TRANSGRESSED
TUMULTUOUS TRAVELER***
Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
There is a work of art in the proportions of your body; a song in the rhythms of your movements. You can't see it, I know you don't believe me, but you are the most extraordinary creature I have ever had the pleasure of being acquainted with. If I were able, I would show you the beauty in your shoulder length auburn hair, and how it flows over your shoulders like a waterfall of silk. I would show you the steely grace in the strong chords of your neck as they slope downwards into your perfect breast, and laugh when you protest that it might be compared to that of a twelve-year-old boy. I would show you the delicate loveliness of the lines creased deep in your palms, like a map of all that you have touched or felt in the years leading up to this moment; lines that I would follow to the ends of eternity, if only you would allow it. If I were able, I would study you. I would take notes with my fingertips on the tender skin of your spine and pay a kiss to each vertebra, like a tariff to a toll booth on the road of your body. If you would let me learn you, I would be the most studious attentive student there ever was; keen and detailed when practicing my new-found knowledge. Yet somehow, you are blind to this. But oh how I long to show it to you. Oh how I long to show you all the ways in which I want you. All the ways in which I wish you were mine. You cannot see your own perfection, listening more to the voices of doubt and insecurity more than to those of love and self-confidence, but oh how I wish you could see yourself in all the ways I do. And someday, I will make you see it. This, I promise.
May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM UTC
Watching clouds on top of Cherry Hill
telling the midwife of flowers, the Daisy
how blessed and beautiful she is to me
with petals white and tender
it's slender stem with the slightest curve
it's popularity is nothing less then deserved
It's diminutive heads pop up all over the ground
peeking over it's lush vivid green companion
there to be picked and made a circle of glory
for delicate hands full of promise will bend them
all that are the hosts of Cherry Hill
will call to others saying, humanity is not over
The children of Earth are not as bad as they think
and the heavy tariff of making them mortal
some think this was unfair
somewhat slightly immoral
see how sweet, so not distant they are
so liken to us as young foolish stars
Give them a chance
come stand in the circle
know they maybe small
but what might within
so come and hold me
in the circle of Daisy's
By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 5:34 PM UTC
When the monkey
came to stay
he ran away
with the Earl Grey
When the snail
came to stay
he left a trail
When the frog
came to stay
he started his own blog
When the giraffe
came to stay
he charged me a tariff
When the magpie
came to stay
he ran of with a glass eye
When the parrot
came to stay
he ate my last carrot
When the cat
came to stay
he ate my welcome mat
Next time their
coming to stay
I’ll be gone away
Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 10:28 AM UTC
Hath mighty gods placed ye among the stars?
Those heavenly eyes that gaze down at us?
Those stitchings of ethereal pale scars?
Nay, I see the moon only, its beams combust.
Wherefore art thou the one we don't deserve?
Thou shouldst be soaring as an angel soars.
Then I would espy, if I had the nerve.
And you'd tear my mask, the one I once wore.
Wouldst thou grace me with thine beauty, seraph?
or wouldst thou blind me with effervescence?
Wouldst thou judge me, in hand your black tariff?
Or wouldst thou make mineself evanescent?
For now, I dream within my dream, my love.
And I glance upward, smiling at you above.
Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM UTC
Ill **** the ink right off the hemp of the constitution
Just to spit dark remarks like coked up John Belushi
at officials ass-hats enduring constant mood swings
as the hormone pendulum
signifies a revolution
war drone generals,
pimps for hire, lefty tool kits.
hefty duties levied on the public, getting flooded
yes I shot the tariff, but I never quit consumption
off fake happiness
so apathy's getting toothy
Lucidly
give historic figures
clues through dream.
Now thats nifty networking who do you know?
A yeti befriended a spaghetti monster
and got together to spin a blue globe.
Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 12:11 AM UTC
Price rises in spate
So is not earned buck
Hits me hard market
I fall like sitting duck.
Home’s need for grocery
Rises so too price
My call for austerity
She finds not at all nice.
Goes up quickly tariff
Not my meager earn
Life is pretty stiff
With bump and ugly turn.
Still I breathe carefree
Though my poems don’t pay
With her as company
Look to another day.
Jul 15, 2014
Jul 15, 2014 at 6:28 AM UTC
I told you the ticking madness was enough to turn it into a panic race, so detached from all that we are made of, we become nothing we are made from. Now ingesting genetically assembled seeds - that don’t deserve the name seed at all. For seed is life, she belongs to mother earth, not a synthetic corporate beast.
A patented man made pill that sprouts an idea of life, a deception, that when ingested in it’s varied shelved forms and assimilated, draws us further and further away from nature, and our nature, and man, now part robotic manifestation through assimilation alone.
And they come with their chains and capitalist whips to break the backs of the earth reapers and sowers who fed yesterday, who fed their fathers, chaining them into a prison unbreakable, suffocating beneath a system controlled by paper. But surely man, his free thought, seed and crop, is more valuable than paper slavery?
And our brother labours in pain, all but to produce a good, or a bad that the unsuspecting haggles for, all because their growing inner robot has a dogmatic pining to be more than nature itself. He seeks supernatural, he seeks fame and status, and to be a god, but that “god” has no concept of the cosmos he was set forth to know, to praise and to be praised by, so instead he worships artificial idols.
And the fight continues. And the madness ticks on, debilitating the organic ones; seed robbery after seed robbery, crop seize and acquisition after policy, after policy, after tariff after bill and there is no bailout. It’s all woven into a web of intricacies, leaving no room for natural, no room for humble.
Then they say the meek shall inherit the earth, and I wonder when, and by question alone I am reminded of the ticking madness. I am reminded that natural, never questions time.
Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 5:19 AM UTC
Sometime I’ve to snap
Something has to give
The way I have been
Is just no way to live
Out there in the black
Somewhere in my blue
Lies my way back, to
Where my dreams knew
Shackles are gilded, in freedom
But mediocrity serves as key
Here brave are usually lonesome
And genius oft on its knee
I did not ask them directions
Still they put blinders on me
Now my ride is insurrection
And tariff of payback is free
Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 9:39 AM UTC
Words ..are free...they.have no friends
Nor harbor enemies.
Thoughts bear no physicality nor tethered weight...have no owner
They fly free .they ask no leave
Nor license.
Expression is amorphous requires no tariff no adjudicator.
Freedom sprouted from the will to be..
No Petri dish consortium.
We.walk.we fall.
We creep.we. crawl
Words are freedom
Thoughts are.free.
FREE
FREE.
Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 5:14 AM UTC
The Coalition floated to the top
surely they are not as talented.
Political stealth shuns the warmth
but even with a slice of toast
its our Winter indoor's
I can hardly believe the cheapest energy tariff
won't congeal us soiled people
promises made by this peculiar hue.
Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM UTC
Your Youth. Your Time. Your placed Investiture
So did these Ringers let your Throne announce
With fresh commentary spring your Boys pure
And clasp their Spirits for Victory enhance
Now there's the Go! Humbled yet so Pronounced
To apply Punctuations for your Team's End
Which the Lion roars their Thoughtful Doubts bounce
And Mark every Tariff they could Append
When most Nations laugh, they Green in Despair
Why his Coloured Mane kept whipping the Waves
Perhaps Leisure, his fleeting Vice repair
Kept hard-earned Fortiments from Woes and Slaves.
Still on still, these Songs by Splashes carry
Another Batch-of-Stamps; To Home they tarry.
Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 10:06 PM UTC
DJT:
I want to buy Greenland.
Hey, this is fun!
I will turn the island into
State fifty-one.
They say ice is melting.
Bah! That’s okay.
When you mine and drill on the land,
Ice gets in the way.
I am going to buy Greenland.
You just wait and see.
I dare anybody
To say "NO!" to me.
I can’t wait to get my
Hands on all that gold,
Oil, copper, lead, and zinc.
I WON’T be undersold.
I plan to buy Greenland
With all its wolves and seals
And polar bears and penguins.
I’m so good at deals.
Polar bears will make terrific
Rugs. I don't care!
What? You say there are no penguins?
I will bring some there.
So I want to buy Greenland.
Is THAT unorthodox?
It should be so easy;
You know money talks.
Tell me: how could there be
Objections to my plan?
The whole world loves me;
I’m their favorite man.
I am buying Greenland.
I'm sure you've heard reports.
I'll construct my tower AND
I'll build some big resorts.
Greenlanders will love being
Part of my domain.
If anybody loses here,
Their loss will be my gain.
I can’t wait to buy Greenland.
This is not a ruse.
I’ll give them an offer--
One they can’t refuse.
If the Danes say "No," I'll
Do what I've done before:
I'll just have to start another
Blasted tariff war.
I want to buy Greenland,
Greenland,
Greenland….
-by Bob (8-24-19)
Aug 24, 2019
Aug 24, 2019 at 8:36 AM UTC
Tempest triumph turmoil tomb
Seeketh life or seeketh whom
Ashes, bones lay beneath me
Humble yourself, so you can see
A wide range of locus holograms
Pinched around like metal prams
Escape none to route a way
Knuckles grit, sinking everyday
Dark puffed, stuffed grey matter
Auction solidarity is no better
Speech of silence, clouds of rain
Piercing pledging pleading pain
Thy grace, I praise as heavens open
Not above but a voice has spoken
Walk the steps downs, the voices called
Come to us, you belong to our world
Pushed dragged and pulled a few miles
Clowned faces, greet with smiles
Mummified shrouds hang like dolls
Eyes spring out like the tennis *****
Dredged with stinkful skillful spills
Rainbow colored infinite pills
Wide-eyed blinks match the flurocent
Contour light lights up the magnificent
Bridges burn birthing ashes
Torn ripped ***** worn sashes
Two hands praying, Lord save our nation
Two legs walk, it's another fashion
Rotten forgotten the limpage lives
All hands stuck in the money hives
Online tariff tragic traffic terror
Highlights viral vital error
Known unknown captured in doubts
Strapped bodies spillage by mouths
Shots of needles through my veins
End of life, foregone with pains!
©sim
Feb 18, 2018
Feb 18, 2018 at 7:54 PM UTC
for all trade, a tariff- for all debt, a war
in my hand, the future and a **** to its door
under my hand, dear empress,
now you must understand
under my will, this nation
under my will- this land
a strongman's ire
to those who oppose
tear down the bulwarks
- who dare arose
Orwell, dear prophet
your tales of future design:
"you delusional *******
This nation, a reign of infamy,
this nation of mine
for you, dear empress-
costs any you dare
for your comfort, o empress
no expense to spare
Apr 10, 2019
Apr 10, 2019 at 3:57 AM UTC
He’s a peculiar star
he comes from TV
ambition is his sphere
and his every line is a trick
all know him a notorious liar
whose business is schadenfreude
but many curry his sweet favour
for he has the cowards fury
and an actors need to be flatter'd
He has no quality worthy of entertainment
but we must see him every hour
for he is an hourly promise-breaker
for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery
the world has noted, he has no historical equal
In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey
the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers
he straightway began to strip away, by tariff
too late their despair they will proclaim
but the misery will be well earned
.
.
Fool by bôa
TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar
Who Let the **** out of the Bag by Tape Five
Mar 4, 2025
Mar 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM UTC
In Greenland, another billion tons of ice were dropped in
The drink, this time it melted in less than a day, recently,
No way! Our king-kong sized terrible-two just dissolved our
Nation's humanitarian program in USCIS, which allowed kids to
Stay because of severe medical needs, where's the republican's
Hearts?, the world at large, and everyone of us should, bay!
Still ineffectively addressed by the dinos, impeachment,
Grows more necessary to defend our country and the world.
The tariff war, which is only a growing tax on each US
Citizen by the republican conspiracy and the Trump
Organized crime family, shout out, we the people
Will not stand for tariffs that are only taxes on us!
To top it all, at the G7 Summit, RumputiN/vlad-the-impaler
Tried to get them to let Russia come back in next year's one?
They didn't go for it so he stated that he wanted the next
Meeting to be at his Miami resort, not only so he could
Make a killing over-charging everyone for everything, but,
Also so he could just allow vlad in against All wills, never!
Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 11:45 PM UTC
a gasp
that favored
curves where
this wasp
hunchback would
assuage their
forbearance that
wailed beyond
purchases in
which this
game with
their entitlement
was flatulence
but the
herd where
proportions were
beyond gases
Jun 20, 2018
Jun 20, 2018 at 7:31 AM UTC
I do not like them
not at all
I refuse to pay, take the fall
Oh Dear Canada please build us a wall
I tried to cross the border
no success, they said I have to pay
what?
tariffs they said
oh my, oh my for me? why?
you are ugly
we have a 25% tariff on ugly Canadians
I was shocked, as that's a lot
I showed them my passport again
please reconsider?
they looked and said *** do you not have a mirror?
for you is times three, 75%
All my mirrors broke and cracked long ago
what could I say?
No Ugly America for me
Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM UTC
A circumpolar
walrus to
fit tariff
and a
Chinese auction
was message
in limbo
so raspy
in Hong
Kong with
elevation in
the autumn
of yesteryear
flux this
political story
of trade
and humanity
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019 at 4:10 PM UTC
1.
In the minds of global leaders
$20 million is all it takes
To restore a world
Assaulted by negligence,
Grown by kneecapping the world,
All the while, spending
$1.71 trillion to ensure the worst offenders
Pay for their dreams of global dominance,
$20 million is all it takes
To undo two hundred years
Of the colonialist mentality
To aright wayward ******** of harlot empires
Who could only learn from neoliberals
In the bordello of the Western Hemisphere—
$20 million is all that it takes
To restore a world, a space far too big
For the imperial mind to encapsulate,
For they are too worried about
What is beyond space, what is in heaven
In glorious economic **********
There is no peace, no trumpeting
Communal values under whose auspice
The world over will achieve
The neoliberal dream:
The arena, the coliseum,
Where the sword, the tariff, the trade war
Are the proper lingua franca
Of the entrepreneurial class,
Suppressing popular uprisings
Is the front-line infantry
Of the entrepreneurial class—
2.
We are the Global West
Subsumed under the rancher,
The cowboy capitalist,
On the wilds of his destiny.
He’s tried his best,
To drag the whole herd with him,
Handed enough bootstraps
To hang itself with
As it ***** up water and rest,
At such a premium in the hard desert of
The industrialist’s heart, putting a stop
To what the herd wants—
It needs to make it beyond the pass
Into the uncertain future of
Coyotes and hazards aplenty;
The only certainty is, though,
Inequities between the rancher
And his livelihood,—
But, ah! That’s what makes
The Wild, Wild, Global West
So tempting to those whose numbers have been
Decimated by it in the early years,
Its growing pains; it’s simple, really:
War makes money, suffering is
The only commodity that defies the laws
Of supply and demand,
Its value rises as we tap more wells,
More wellsprings, as it bubbles to the surface
Of every sweating, stress-sickened face
Whether migrating or on the assembly line.
Our ranches must become bigger,
More accommodating to the cattle,
And, if possible, to make ranchhands
Of our rival ranchers at any cost,
If even the only subordinate is the earth itself.
Sep 29, 2019
Sep 29, 2019 at 12:33 PM UTC
Every freebie
has a tariff.
When you pray for rain
be prepared for mud.
When you pray for sun
be prepared for drought.
And when you pray for peace
be prepared for war.
Every granted wish
carries a price.
Oct 8, 2017
Oct 8, 2017 at 6:47 PM UTC