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Politics for Poets

People who are bold with lies don't deserve your trust or your vote.

Wake up!

Aug 8, 2012

well . . .

I think I've blogged enough today.

Life goes on.

Thank You Veterans!

~ OK Now.

 
 Discrimination
   is an ogre
  with a rune-spyke club
     rusty nails sticking out
 ready to jeer and accuse
      You
    of things that aren't crimes
   of just being yourself
      of being different.

 Discrimination
    hates himself the most
        and will always boast
   about how great he is.
       but it's just a mask
      he wears because of self-loathing.

  And if you tried
    to wrestle with him
  he'll wake at you
     and try to make you hurt
   with words, with half-truths,
    with mean facts,
 with spurious junk science.

  Nothing that means anything
   to real and careing people.

  Discrimination
    if you tried to take off his mask
 maybe it's been grafted to his face.
 no one can remember what the 
             real person used to look like.

     At the depot
  in the rain
      There was Discrimination
 telling him
    he couldn't get his ailing grandma
       on the train.
    And in the light of the moon
     with the sound of big surf
      he said 'No, no. We're getting on
 that train
       and I'm bringing my grand mother
  to Baltimore Hospital
          so we can get there before 3:30.
     We're not waiting for another train.

  So they got on that train
      and, low and behold, heard no one complain.

  After that they just let anyone ride who wanted to.
    If anyone had a hard time with it
     sometimes people would tell them, talk to them about
      it
   make a scene.
 
        
  Wild life out side the car
     but a fox in the yard
    running scared his
   big ears 6 AM.
 one less bunny?