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| Poetic Justice (Dont burn the flag. Wash it!) |
| Poetic Justice (Dont burn the flag. Wash it!) is a political poetry blog. Original political poetry, photomontage, anti-war plays, and video...A new post (or several) daily. Poetic Justice promises you a blog that stands out. Unique in its approach to political jousting. |
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| FETID NATURE (6-29-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-06-29 12:06:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Truck bomb kills 7 people near BaghdadThe surge is working, flew the eagle.The course is dead, soared the seven souls.O! The fetid nature of disagreement! US escalating covert operations against Iran: reportBoom bam and a rat a tat tatListen for “war” inside of thatA rat a tat boom boom bamCover thy ears, people of Iran(America’s coming to free you) Election May Tip High Court's Judicial ScalesShroud these arbitrators in sacred vestments,Cloak them in mystery, anoint with holy waterand deliver this newfound land from its wickedness. Army Study Blasts Post-Invasion Efforts in IraqThe aftermath stumbles on unsteady legs.Neither the heart nor soul can end its drumming step.It doesn’t list...
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| RUSH RUSH II |
| 2008-06-18 22:36:00 |
Limbaugh: I want to know. I look at Iowa, I look at Illinois—I want to see the murders. I want to see the looting. I want to see all the stuff that happened in New Orleans. I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans. I see people working together. I see people trying to save their property…I don’t see a bunch of people running around waving guns at helicopters, I don’t see a bunch of people running shooting cops. I don’t see a bunch of people raping people on the street. I don’t see a bunch of people doing everything they can…whining and moaning—where’s FEMA, where’s BUSH. I see the heartland of America. When I look at Iowa and when I look at Illinois, I see the backbone of America. (More on Crooks and Liars.)-LETTER TO RUSH LIMBAUGH...
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| UNPRECEDENTED |
| 2008-06-04 13:00:00 |
It is of this moment that we will be remembered… In our lifetime we’ve neared several impossible dreams but none quite like this; the dream of one man, one nation rising up to heights that were once unheard of, seemingly insurmountable. Now a new struggle begins, the precedent’s been set, and it’s up to us and the nuance of history to construct an even greater one. Yes. Yes. The unprecedented height of Martin Luther King Junior’s dream wrapped in immense struggle, awash in the blood of the black man, is now so tangible and so very near; unparalleled in the history of these United States where men and women are “free”, where they have the vote, where freedoms ring, where- Wait!Hold on one goddamned second!Son of a bitch! I think the film is rolling backward?Or maybe the script...
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| ROAR (6-02-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-06-02 12:41:00 |
Judge orders return of sect childrenYes, a thing yet spoken, not yet language,Can extinguish expectation; fill one’s throatWith dewdrops of dread. Best we use it,This wordless wish, before it howls.Danish Embassy Attack in Pakistan Kills at Least 6Waiting by the curb, eyes wide in life…There it is. Statuesque. Resilient. Breathing.The rodent on the ground is no match for the eagle.After Tense DNC Meeting, What Happens Next?Damn! It certainly makes for some great television!Entertainment meant, intended to distract, deflect the truth.Holy Christ! A reality show of adulterated democracy!A game of cat and mouse leading us further from the nub.Home from Iraq a Marine is Fatally WoundedRage, the world’s brute, isn’t merely for warand warring. Rage can climb out of its makeshift marginsA...
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| LIFT OFF (5-31-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-06-01 00:00:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Shuttle Discovery lifts offThe executioner lifts his wrath-shaped blade that sprayed our limbs;All that worship this; death’s enraged use, are given an eyeless mongrel,One that cannot gaze upon man’s achievement, only rumble that he not live.Aid appeal for Ethiopian childrenIt’s a tall shame that we spend so much time spending.A towering shame we do not ration more of it openhanded.How long must we witness this? Endure it? Allow the foul air to churn?We’ve seen their pitiable expression for too many Goddamned fly-ridden years!How many more shall pass before their faces turn out to be ours?One soldier dead and 6 wounded in Afghan suicide blastGood news, American Empire. Good news indeed.Out of the six blast-shredded flesh that were sent tapping,None em...
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| TWO...ONE...FORTY |
| 2008-05-28 17:06:00 |
Two wars- forty years remindedOne nation- still blindedTwo men- forty years aloofWords- forty years removed…This world thrashing in sleeprecoils of such flattering speechin the hell of man’s making.A nameless, penniless peacestands weeping at the purblind rakingof histories misguided providence.Howling as the dying howl,alone and hopeless in the faint gorge,unmoved by the useless patter of war,nodding in disbelief,she begins her throbbing journeyunnoticed, lunging into the throesof such frequent pursuit.She thinks she glimpses light aheadbending on the way to her throatand lets slip hope in harmony’s sky…© 2008 mrp/tpm
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| JOHANNESBURG BLADE |
| 2008-05-19 10:57:00 |
(Arnold Böcklin)Some 6,000 people have fled a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa, which has left at least 22 dead, aid workers say."This is a classic refugee situation," Rachel Cohen from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) told the BBC.Many of those who have sought refuge in police stations, churches and community halls are Zimbabweans, who have fled violence and poverty at home.Up to three million Zimbabweans are thought to be in South Africa.The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Johannesburg says the immigrants have become a scapegoat for social problems, such as unemployment, crime and a lack of housing.(Read more...) JOHANNESBURG BLADEThey arrived that morning, in their ragged and born souls,Slipping through the tall grassland like murmuring insects;Fearless, save for that which remaine...
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| I WAS JUST THINKIN' THE SAME |
| 2008-05-16 12:58:00 |
(After listening, I was inspired to write a song.)O I was just now thinkin’ the sameThings, O things’ve gotta changeO yes I was just thinkin’, thinkin’Things, O things’ve gotta changeMan, man, man stepped upon the moonNow he’s just waitin’ for somethin’ to changeMan, man, man, man, man, man, man’sJust waitin’- lookin’ up, waitin’ for some changeO we the people, people, we've been lookin' upLookin' up `n lookin' up ‘n thinkin' it ain't happenin'O we the people, people, we've been lookin' upAnd we're still a lookin’, just lookin’ up `n waitin’O I was just now thinkin’ the sameThings, O things’ve gotta changeO yes I was just thinkin’, thinkin’Things, O things’ve gotta changeMan, O man invented, man invented manO he’s imagined, we’ve imagined that ...
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| And We Stand Still |
| 2008-05-14 14:44:00 |
And we stand still,Seemingly unmoved by it all.And we stand still,Force the broken rubble together,To the crimson clay and gray maggots we leave our breathing,Feet stuck down in the red earth.Do we know what it is that we have done?Forgive me... We know not...Writhing limbs beneath the groundUnmoved of the dulled shanking sorrowBroken by the distant flow of murderDejected of all the slighted affectionsReplaced by a programmable worryStruck anesthetized of bone-shrieking painVanished by the good God damned dashPushed back to the very dread filled endTrampled flat by the gush of skinStopped short of inhaling lethal shameTurned off from what’s not the sameBlinded by the inundation of laborWrought immobile by the last quaverSuccumbed to hunger and greedPaled of piercing a blood-red deedDo we...
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| TRAGIC STRENGTH (5-13-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-05-13 00:21:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)‘No Hope’ for Children Buried in EarthquakeO the People’s Republic severely tremble;Children from the caverns shriekanxiously… unheard.Bangladesh ferry capsize kills 32Everywhere it seems things are tipping-the ground, the sky,the occupied.McCain runs strong despite low Bush ratings: pollStrongandheadlongare not the same.Plunging us all along withis not a strength we can afford.McCain Differs With Bush on Climate ChangeNo. We are all in the same mess.Shatter the tall untidiness downand the whole lot will end.Racism Alarms Obama Backers"Hang that darky from a tree!""White people look out for white people, and black people look out for black people."Do not fear such blind hatred or waver at such ignorance.Carry our humanity forward with your seekingand ...
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| COSTS TO VETERANS, GAZA BLACKOUTS, CYCLONE AID, ROVIAN UPSTART, CEASE-FIRE |
| 2008-05-11 23:15:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Cost of veterans' care set to soarThe wounded moved along the gorge,Down the path where silent vulturesSpanned their patient circles. Anxious to arrive,Their legs carried on until the sun doused its candle.Gaza blackouts as fuel runs lowThey call to each other across the gloom,The brave and long worn faces whoseHope is eaten away by the shadows.US flying cyclone aid to "outpost of tyranny"The gods and their tempest-spilled calamitySang their rages upon the border of crueltyAs mortal Achilles moved swift to dispatch Troilus.The Pundit Analyzing Obama? Some TV Upstart Named RoveThe swine of wretched dishonor still councilsHis treasonous lips upon the air with cunning;A viper offering snakebite r...
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| MOTHER'S DAY, MAY 11th, 2008... |
| 2008-05-11 00:12:00 |
READ THE POEMS +/- (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Happy Mother’s Day…Much of what has been given I’ve taken for granted,And yet your arms have remained open like the oceans.Moonlight dances on the water and asks for nothing in returnAnd all I can do is stand slack jawed at its mystery.In my hurry, this truth has oftentimes been forgotten,Lingering near everything that had made me.Only as I sought my heart’s beginning,Vanquished of its ego, did IEver truly understand this brilliant gift.Yesterday’s come and gone,Ocean tides moved without noticeUnderneath the light, I see you clearly...~WifeMany a time I have marveled at you,I’ve not the imagination to reach suchCompleteness, such commanding triumphsHeld within your astounding spirit.Each time I dream of trying I’mLeft with a c...
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| DEBRA'S ASHES (a one-act play) |
| 2008-05-06 00:32:00 |
Visit handmaiden at Furry Friends to read the inspiration for this play.pre-show music +/-(Preshow music…Neko Case)CHARACTERS:John McCutcheon- Fifty-four.Stephanie McCutcheon- Thirty-two.Debra Jameson- Forty.Matt Jameson- Twenty-two.TIME:From September 2005 to the present, between two next-door living rooms in the U.S., one in the present, the other memory. Each scene spills into the next seamlessly.PLACE:Stage left is the living room (in the present) of JOHN MCCUTCHEON’S home. A fireplace center with a whiskey bottle on the mantle, a television facing away from the audience, a couch sits right, next to a window that hovers beside the fireplace.Stage right is the living room (and bathroom) of DEBRA JAMESON’S home. A freestanding front door sits left. The bathroom, upstage right of th...
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| HONORABLE (5-5-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-05-05 01:05:00 |
Lawyer says Austrian incest father "a broken man"Within the walls of an unheard from grief,amidst a father’s breaking, stood the truly broken;flesh and blood, children and grandchildren,spirits ridden to stillness, broken like horses.Hezbollah Trains Iraqis in Iran, Officials SayA rat a tat tat boom bam clangListen for the drums againA rat a tat tat boom bam clangHezbollah trains in IranA rat a tat tat boom bam clangListen for the drums againA rat a tat tat boom bam clangEmpire aim’s for the IraniansA rat a tat tat boom bam clangNow listen for the drums again.Girl has mother killed to save honorO child, was there any honor in the deal you madeto have your mother sent to grave?It wasn’t a family’s honor you sought, it was its love.(It would seem your mother had more.)USS Cole Plotte...
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| NEXT TO SLEEP (5-2-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-05-02 19:30:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Twisters hit central US, 7 dieThen a light flipped through the shattered beam,Seven lay spent in this; natures shock and awe.And the light flipped through the shattered beam.Wreckage could not hold back nature’s assessmentStanding tall, marveling of such fine work.We’re more akin to her than we’ll confess.US jobs data eases fearsThe exhausted numbers settle in from their dawdleAs the money masters ready the windswept cradles. Sleep now. Sleep. For tomorrow you needs riserested, ready, full of breath, and wide-eyedto swoon the disbelieving tide.Bush details extra $70 billion for wars in next fiscal yearThis is for the heirs of angst whose limbs will feel its wealth.This is for the martyrs whose voice is marked for death.T...
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| CRUEL EXCUSE (5-1-08 head-lines) |
| 2008-05-01 18:33:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Memphis Principal Outs Gay Students to School, ParentsWhy don’t we end this now;say goodbyeto cruel excuses of piousness,holier than thou righteousnessbefore whatever will soon befall usbefalls us? In doing sowe’ll make our parting such a better thing.'DC Madam' Confirmed Dead in Apparent SuicideAs we consider this let us also consider fate.Some might say she got what was coming,others, her line of work brought her to it,and others still, they had her killedfor what she did.Death seizes unaware and has murder as its henchling,…suicide… is… measured..., fate shrugs.Iraq suicide bombing hits marketSo will this be how she is remembered,given the outlook of her late fortune,as a trembling crater of flesh?My heart sorely aches for her people,yet quakes l...
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| WRECKED 9 |
| 2008-04-28 23:27:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) (click to enlarge image)The ACLU Dissappointed With Supreme Court's Voter ID DecisionSupreme Court's Worst: 1. Bush v. Gore 2. McCulloch v. Maryland 3. Wickard v. Filburn 4. Kelo v. New London 5. Buckley v. Valeo 6. Central Hudson Gas v. Public Service Commission 7. Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence 8. Korematsu v. U.S. 9. Baker v. NelsonFor the wrecked resistance of our minds,They confine us and with their decreesCall out to the fearful, worn, and discardedPeople with bent heads, bodies twisted,Buckled under labor and misuse;They say, “Bow down! You're free!”We should be unwilling of their control!We must lift our weary heads aboveThe clatter of poverty and the clang of war!Cease this; our alarming and pathetic modesty!Goddamnit! Rise up, and with the people’s mightBend the mighty pillars of justice upright again!© 2008 mrp/tpmRolling along ""...Zelle's Blog
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| FRENZIED AUTHORS (4/28/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-28 01:32:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) (-click picture and see what jumps out at you-)Obama declines Clinton challengeSpared such a spectacle of tit for tatthe relieved electorate enjoy the silence...breathe easier...for now.~UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels'As for the moans of anguish,they would thereafter sidle alongwailing with a gait of monstrous deformity.Man witnesses, but does nothing.(Who are the misshapen again?)~Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of stormLike large carrion birds they come,These scavengers do not feed on carcasses-they feed off of them.~Female suicide bomber kills 3 in IraqIf song were a suicide bomb it couldn’t sing,Not so tightly wrapped...Only later,After the music ends,The humming dies.~Election Day may end up looking oddly familiar. According to independent el...
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| DISNEY LAND TROOPS (4/26/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-26 00:00:00 |
Justice Scalia Defends Bush v, gore RulingThe ears and eyes of Justice, flesh deadened flesh,A steamy odor of wax smoldering inside tearsGhost the fringes of exhaustionScreeching on in these grief-stricken years…RAND study: 300,000 U.S. Vets Have Mental Problem, 320,000 Have Brain InjuriesThe count, like a metronometicking off reason’s death,Drifts up and up… unheard, seen.New embassy in Iraq short on bedsWhere shall you put your feet up tonightas the hoary smoke paints shadows outsidefuriously trying to find you.Ship hired by US military fires warning shots in GulfHit men, marauders; pirates floating oils proximity,Unloading their weighted calculation,Urging hostility, itching for a reply.NY Police Acquittal Sparks AngerThe oak can support the added weight of blackbirds.But these bi...
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| MIDEAST TOEHOLD (4/23/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-23 16:32:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Gen. Petraeus to lead Mideast commandThen the blindfold was removed from Liberty’s eyesrevealing two seeping wounds, the rot of injustice and warflowed down the corpse lined streets of Iraq.Lead on general…Ethiopian troops 'took children'Directly spoken to the Ethiopian troops: Your darkmanifestation of cruelty and murder will not remainon the throats of the innocent you cut open like farm animals.No.It will twist in you, a tapeworm infesting your witsand you’ll wish you’d loved.Carter says Secretary Rice "not telling truth"The peacemaker runs exactness headlong into the ship.The bow cracks.Trickling red seas flood her depthsas truth ascends the liar’s lips,too late.McCain visits "war on poverty" Kentucky coal townWelcome, Senator.The backdrop is se...
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| ONE NATION (MOVE ON) |
| 2008-04-21 23:51:00 |
The following piece is my MoveOn.org Barack Obama Video Contest entry.If you like it please follow this link and vote. While you're at it, and while you're on the vote page, you will see the video html emed code and the link code, please place the link code on your site for your visitors and if they are inclined to vote for it they can do so via the page that follows and it will count extra toward my video's chances of winning. There are 1,100 videos entered in the contest! Yikes! By the way... the incredible artwork you see in the video was rendered by none other than my dear friend and associate, Ben Heine.Thank you,Mark (thepoetryman)
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| HIDDEN MESSAGE (4/21/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-21 00:00:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(click on montages to enlarge)Obama readies 'swift boat' defenseThe Bay Hap River, a swift boat,The banks of the Tran Thoi village.A dry day, no rain.A Viet Cong soldier, a rocket,Lt. Kerry fires his weapon,Ba Thanh is slain.A six year old smiles at his mother.Rice in Iraq, violence surges after Sadr threatShe entered with the moorings of night,Staggered to find that she’s unwelcome-Not one flower. Message Machine: Gitmo- The Pentagon’s Hidden HandThese are the criers, the aged and brassy men of warringThat congregate in Cuba, charting the king’s defense.They only know the one breed of war. A House of a Different ColorThe mournfully blue shutters hug the sunriseAnd the pale reflection evaporatesGiving rise to a new color.Report: Mogadishu battles leave ...
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| PURIFICATION (4/20/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-20 01:06:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Iraqi cleric threatens 'open war'Five years in fury continues to eat what feeds it,Grief flows through oily veins.Rage isn’t vacant... it’s occupied.US Church needs purification, pope saysUS church? That’s not all, your holiness; your church,Your collusion, your cleansing, our war, our apathy,Our worship of you.Rice asks neighbors to offer Iraq debt relief, tiesAsking to borrow sugar from your neighborsIs a custom I can comprehend, appreciate.Asking for their home isn’t.No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It DownMusic, you noisy bully, earsplitting thug,You’ll deplete us of our beloved auditory sensations,A mother’s unbearable grief,A father’s hell-dipped shriek,A child’s startled cry,War’s rise.Southern Border Fence May Impede WildlifeThis underscores the need to keep the wildlife at bay.We must be clever, persistent and vigilant animals!This country can ill afford to have the ardillasAssimilating with the squirrels...© 2008 mrp/tpm
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| NEWS OF A FEATHER (4/19/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-19 01:08:00 |
Texas Sect Kids to Remain in CustodySomething is with them, the children,placed tenderly down and puffed with shame-the sins of their fathers.Carter in Hamas 'ceasefire call'Communication ferried over the sea.The pillars of peace glow dimly over their warring,stillness eclipsing.McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’Time passes and all this ailing noise escapes,war, terror, starvation, grief, gloom.One hundred years can change a world.DNA Tests on Texas Sect ChildrenIn the tiny cribs juvenile mothers sang to them,lullabies of righteousness and accordon the road to surrender. Labor.States React to Court's Lethal Injection RulingI’ve said before that belief should be richer than the murder-mortal wounds- bludgeoned, injected, or bombedare not ours to administer. Seems I was wrong.Crude Hits Record $117 per BarrelWhere our slippery adoration of oil stirsalong the passageway of such machinesstand the shadows of our architecture.© 2008 mrp/tpm
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| FOR SHAME (4/18/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-18 00:11:00 |
British PM: Bush owed 'a huge debt of gratitude'Listen there are children whose breath’s been cleaved,Mothers and fathers split like lumber, hatred boiling…Huge debt’s an understatement.Pope Meets with Victims of Clergy Sex AbusePale, dry hands of sacrament to fall upon the children,Pouring harshly over and over their naked souls,Unprepared to return the desire.Embassy in Baghdad Is ReadyThe rain now falling, comforting the beheaded grass.The monstrous structure, dwarfing all that came before,stands complete. The second hand begins to move.Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising AngerThe lyricists are going home now, recedingto the unforgiving landscape. Breathless,music surrendered.Suicide Bomber Kills 50 at Iraq FuneralThe music makers have returned, red-faced,Staring, stunned at ...
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| KNOTTED FACE |
| 2008-04-16 00:07:00 |
I was wondering when my muse was going to lift my hand to the Zion Ranch story. It seems she had to control her anger. She loves children. She knows they are precious.First, a bit of history on the FLDS.FLDS - Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations and one of America's largest practitioners of plural marriage. The FLDS Church emerged in the 1930s when its founding members left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy The FLDS and the LDS Church are distinct and separate religious denominations, having no currently existing ties.FLDS headquarters are in Hildale, Utah, possibly shifting, as of late, to Eldorado, Texas, where the raided temple was built by FLDS members.Warr...
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| SHALLOW END (4/15/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-15 00:53:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Iraq’s Free Ride may be OverSand. Rivers. Palm trees.Iraq. The freedom ride’s come to an end.What have you been doing these last five years?When you’re occupied you do not lollygag about!You ignore the dead and dying, you tough it outAnd get back to work!Sand. Rivers. Palm Trees.China ‘Now Top Carbon Polluter’Black airFinally has found the ashen lungs of another's livingTo fill in the shadows.Wal-Mart to Film Gun Sales in Bid to Fight CrimeThe mammoth’s face grins over the interstate.Made of brick with a sightless gapeIt drains us of its plans.Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of BankruptciesBehind the smiling clerk’s teeth, like the noiseOf a rodent in a trash can,The words hide in the bottom of the mouth,“For God’s sake! Buy something!”M...
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| FORTIFIED (04/14/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-14 14:29:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Israel Declines Security Help for CarterThe Fox is loose in the Barnyard and Peace comes to visit.Armed with The Nobel and the Audacity of Truth,It strides up to the Heavily Armed gate.Sadr Demands Forces be ReinstatedSomeone demands something in occupied Iraq, knows the price of thunderA rocket is fired, abomb ignites, America plundersA child walks home from schoolHamas Cleric Predicts 'Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam'If you listen closely you’ll hear. Perch your ears upon the air.Can you hear it now? It is not a US fighter jet, or rescue,Or the droning lips of angels… It is the maddened blowbackOf madness marching on the wind.White House: Bush Concerned About Food ShortagesThe lack of sustenance boils and splatters.Two point one billion in 2007 was give...
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| TALL TAILS |
| 2008-04-14 00:24:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) Wrangle Over Words and Beliefs A candidate forum devoted to issues of faith and justice became another flash point for Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to spar in their intensifying nominating fight, with the candidates exchanging frosty glances Sunday night as their paths briefly crossed on stage.Mrs. Clinton comfortably adopted the language of a Christian believer in addressing a question about how faith guides her in life. “You know, I have, ever since I’ve been a little girl, felt the presence of God in my life," she said. "And it has been a gift of grace that has, for me, been incredibly sustaining." She said she had felt God’s grace as she faced unfaithfulness in her marriage as well as in more uplifting moments in her life. “It...
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| LETS GIT IT ON! (04/13/08 head-lines) |
| 2008-04-13 23:49:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Clinton Accuses Rival of Elitism After Obama Says Some Voters are BitterStewards of prosperity narrow their eyes at our despair,A wrinkled desire for our failure folded under their brows.It is with harsh certainty that they will pawn our dreams.No. Failure’s not purchased like bread.Deadly Blast Strikes Iran MosqueAnd with its isolation comes human surrenderhovering near the crater left by religion’s perplexity,wars clarity.Regional Leaders Urge Fast Zimbabwe Poll ResultYes. Hastily now, for her people,Heirs to South Africa’s grief,Her soul’s expedience.Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms OrdersWhat can we learn from history?The hue of deception? The burnish of truth?Yes.Britain Warns Terror Threat is WorseningHatred comes from fearing.Death come...
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| THE SKY IS FALLING |
| 2008-04-11 14:46:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) READ TODAY'S HEAD-LINE POETRYRolling along "O"...◘ Open Letters to George W Bush - Objectivist v. Constructivist v. Theist - Odd Neighbor - Of course, I Could Be Wrong - Old Hack - One Million Blogs for Peace - One Million Peace Signs - One Tenacious Baby Mama - Only In America - Open Left - Orwell's Grave - Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus - Overcoming Bias
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| ALL HEAD-LINE RUSH |
| 2008-04-10 18:58:00 |
China says it Foiled Terrorist Plot to Kidnap OlympiansGinkgo trees wrap their arms `round the Middle KingdomLike a great-grandfather’s bear hug;A massive grip, a balmy embrace.They’ve seen things…then the winter…Candidates Respond to Voters Economic FearsRattled by rising debts.Looking for a savior;Old man of the air, fair queen, black knight,To whisk away despair…A modern day folk tale.Military Strained by Suicides, Long DeploymentsHave we failed along the way?Are we no more than this, an arrangement of cubiclesBeset on all sides by wretchedness?The grand experiment’s gone awry, the bogey men we seek have our face.Two Camps Trying to Influence McCain on foreign PolicyWhen we entrench ourselves,Warriors on one side, pragmatic schemers the otherAnd naught behind or ahead, save ...
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| FAILING STATE |
| 2008-04-10 11:16:00 |
While I struggle, happily, to finish my latest one-act play, Glenda's Ashes, I find only time to offer you some new photomontages and my newfound slant of poetry located on the new page, Head-Lines.The play has grown more complicated than I had first imagined. My muse didn't find it necessary to inform me that she would make me start over six times! She is having her fun with me. Toying with my patience, dangling carrots in front of me. What am I, her mule or something? Prodding me until I near insanity, then, pulling back with her signature chortle, a grand and cynical guffaw!I would say, if all goes as planned, the play will be presented here relatively soon... In the mean time enjoy the montages and the new fare on the new page.If I say new one more time I may need medical attention!(A ...
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| LIBERTY CACOPHONY (head-line poetry) |
| 2008-04-08 15:06:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Read the HEAD-LINE poetry... Rolling along "K"...Karen AK - Karmalised - Katrinacrat Blog - King of Zembla - Kommandos Project
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| KICK-ASS JESUS WRITES GEORGE A LETTER |
| 2008-04-06 22:58:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)George,K-A J here… So read this one!I recommend thou rethink the gutless reasons (lies)Thou hast given for thy countries grave sacrificeCome on! Cut thy bullshit!Come Spic-n-Span-clean with thy country.Drop all thy yak of double-u-emm-dee,Or mushroom cloud `n brutal tyrantOr bringing democracy to the Middle EastOr bin Laden’s al Qaeda or grand world peace.Die away thy hot airAnd bullshit gyration,Pierce the core andBe frank with thy nation.Come!Properly thrust to thy dark heart within,Split wide-open thy bloody raison d'être,Mad dash down the path of honest men,And tell the country once and for all.It’s rather simple, Mr. President,And it's much more reasonable;Thy war plans and thy intentAre MY TEN COMMANDMENTSAnd thou hast broken them all!~ 1Thou sha...
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| K-A JESUS (part 2) |
| 2008-04-05 23:22:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)"Pop culture is the latest tool in the campaign to spread the Word but critics say this just pits the trashy against the eternal." (Messiah as Superhero - The Manga Bible)"A world in turmoil.Corrupt leaders and crazed prophets.One day a stranger appeared.He cast out demons and raised the sick.The world - your world - would never be the same again.The stranger is robed, with a handsome, stern face. He goes up to a mountaintop in the wilderness with another robed figure with a completely blank face. They have a tussle of wills."You have won for now," says Satan, the blank-faced dude. "Until next time." And he vanishes to the sound of Wwwhooocosshhh!Welcome to the kick-ass Jesus of The Manga Bible, "God's Word as you've never see...
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| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (emerald dream) |
| 2008-04-04 16:26:00 |
I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington- August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.Men, wome...
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| 04/03/08 HEAD-LINES (msnbc - poetry) |
| 2008-04-03 13:14:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)China jails outspoken activist over Tibet viewsDissident jailed for using tongueShackled of seditious idiomsU.S. speechlessAl-Sadr calls for million-Iraqi rally against U.S.One million liberated flora marchingTo our one hundred forty thousandMore than enough blooms At least eight killed in Pennsylvania house fireWhen the heat of raging fire’s so intenseOne house will be consumed, resoluteOnly numbers remain ATA discontinues flights, files for bankruptcySeeing this I thought I’d been asleepThe god-awful roar of the recent pastStagnant oil rigsNATO backs Bush’s European missile shieldAgain with the ideas shielding pragmatismRoar of incoming freedom hatersHiss of outbound liberatorsChinese spying on the rise, U.S. saysShady secrets have a hard time sleepingWhen carried in official satchelsOver the sea © 2008 mrp/tpm http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.php
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| AWARENESS (Autism Awareness Day) |
| 2008-04-02 12:00:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Poem insired by Autism Awareness Day via Full-Soul AheadEnchanted is what they are,the autistic.All around us, angels, spirits,divine brightness, rescuers of the missing,the forlorn, the poor, the felled and falling.In this world, we call civilization,They are the living beams,the brittle bonedBringing us gradually `round to ourselves.There are the disbelievers,the cynics.Those that try the patience of good souls,those who stare in slack jawed aweat disparity, at oddity, at the brightnessof their own ignorance. I suppose theycannot help but gawk or scoff;untrained of such clarity in a world gone mad.If they but look beyond themselves,wipe the steam from their lenses,peer beyond the misgivi...
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| CONFESSION ZERO |
| 2008-04-01 00:45:00 |
(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Baghdad year zero:Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopiaby Naomi KleinIt was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single piece of heavy machinery apart from tanks and humvees. Then I saw it: a construction crane. It was big and yellow and impressive, and when I caught a glimpse of it around a corner in a busy shopping district I thought that I was finally about to witness some of the reconstruction I had heard so much about. But as I got closer I noticed that the crane was not actually rebuilding anything—not one of the bombed-out government buildings t...
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