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Politics for Poets

My we all be free from the influences of over-bearing egotistical leaders when those seek to harm others. May the age of stupid religious wars finally be at an end.

We have enough troubles in the world and these endless wars are not solving them. I have no solution for any of my readers but just to say that you must still look at all of these happenings with a skeptics eye. This is not a time to be celebrating.

Better to say nothing than to sound stupid.

~ OK Now.

May 2, 2011

The Susquahanna River, Pennsylvania from
last fall.


  The wind
    seemed cold then
  but it was just how I felt
      by what he had said.

  The lake
     had spray on it.
  Rainbows just above the waves.
      Mosquitos all blown away.

   Wordbomb
      revelations
            using concern for the troubles
              of a beloved friend
      like a weapon
  inducing the big sad
      just to feel less broken yourself.

  Turn around, turn around this boat.
     I can not cross the great water with you.
     Bring me back to the bay.



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