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Politics for Poets

politics of the here and now

Trump, week one, Wednesday Afternoon

Illegal tweet?

oh, no. They said no one with a green card either could come back. But, seemingly, that was more false news. Not fake, because 'news' is often false. For the purposes of propaganda.

An Iranian national, who was on a cruise out of Florida was detained after he arrived back in port in Broward County, Florida. Three hours later he was released. So the fears tht green card holders won't be 'let back in' seems yet another false claim. Here is a link to the story from Miami Herald today.

We have people freaking out over nothing.

The whole world is watching

 yes, the whole world can see, in 
 the little video, you're
 blocking the sidewalk
 in a hostle way.
 It's not a protest.
 It's a violation of a right of way.
 Right of way: it's provided so that
 powerful people can't prevent juset
 the ordinary passer-by 
 from using commonly used paths, trails, routes,
 roads, passageways, access, beach right, water rights.
 Rights. 
 We all have them.
 Don't claim that we are part of some giant tyranny
 meanwhile being unaware of the
 tennets of Common Law and
 the concept of 
 Public way
 and right to pass, and public sidewalk.
 
 The tyranny that you endure you create
 in your own mind.
 We can't live our life within strictures
 that are crafted from your misinterpretations
 of events
 and with ignorance of common decency.
 
 and you call for them to be arrested 
 because he wants his wife to pass
 and your blocking her?
 
 And, no, the whole world is not watching.
 That's maybe indicative of a god-complex.
 But enough of us did see you, and
 how you behaved.
 
 You might think that wearing a mask makes you
 anonymous.
 That doesn't absolve you from being decent.
 You can't bait strangers 
 and then claim oppression.
 
 You need to come in from the cold.
 Protest yourself.
 Get over your self importance.
 Instead of blocking hte people, you
 should have been polite and given them some pertinent message
 of joy, and you righteous cause.
 But where was it?
 You just chanted along with the megaphone guy
 like you were in a zombie chorus.
 
 We'll forgive you, years from now.
 We'll not bring it up if it becomes a problem for you.
 Most exprotestors have a story or two to tell. 
 Mostly it's about how agitators
 tried to get them to do things
 and they didn't
 but broke off
 and went home.
 
 we'll do unto you
 the minimal.
 
 If you think about it,
 forgive in the way that you'd forgive.
 Do unto
 not doing.
 Doing.
 Sometimes the right thing to do with bullies 
 is to charge them with assault.
 Forgiveness is great,
 but sometimes 
 officers
 can't just look away
 like some had been told to do
 these last few or so years
 during the retrograde era
 of reversed and inverted purpose of governance.
 
 If you are on the street and have something real to share
 then everyone likes to hear about a great new trend.
 If what you do is act like a choir for some guy with a megaphone?
 And don't deal one-on-one with those who happen along, and show interest
 and be engaging and friendly . . . 
 
 being friendly is about as pro as you can get.
 Life doesn't always have to be a test.
 And you can take a hit or two, when you disagree 
 with megaphone charlie.
 You might just be able to walk away
 if Charlie lets you.
 
 Take a Silver Dollar
 Take a Silver Dime
 Mix it all together
 in some allegator wine
 
 All you protestors, get over yourselfs.
 If you cry the sky is falling the sky is falling
 who will believe you 
 when you actually have a righteous cause?
 You loose your credibility, and
 you waste your efforts.
 If you have energy to do good things,
 then pick good things to do!
 Blocking highways and sidewalks
 is what bullys do.
 Some would say 'If I'd have acted like that I'd
 have wanted someone to smack me
 to snap me out of it'
 so that would be "doing as you'd have done to you"
 But we don't want anyone smacking anyone
 on a public sidewalk, or anywhere.
 So don't block the street.
 My point: if you provoke a
 truculent biker to 
 defend his wives right to pass
 and attend a public and government
 sanctioned activity, you
 really can't expect any
 trooper or officer to
 see your side of it
 no matter how truculent a husband 
 might get
 to protect his wife.
 
 She glows
 along the fence
 where they are leaning
 her
 strands frazzled,
 his hips ache.
 She makes him feel young.
 They drove a long way to be here.
 She's got her own worries.
 Sometimes even she
 has irrational fears.
 She didn't deserve to be disrespected
 She's always helping everyone
 even bedraggled
 crazy mouths
 to stupid to know who really loves ya.
 
 She's his saint,
 you can hold her, pin her down,
 be very mean.
 but you can never stop her.
 Her cause always succeeds
 because she always makes it pure
 and trusts her husband 
 when he tells her not to worry
 when she said
 that maybe they shouldn't go
 they'll be too much buzzkill.
 It's supposed to rain really hard.
 And we've heard
 that some want to cause trouble.
 
 He's like, they'll be no trouble.
 He, was, of course.
 And, no, the whole world didn't see.
 But enough of us did
 to see jerks being jerks.
 
 If you really needed his help, and hers
 that guy would be right there for you,
 doing good, performing true service.
 If your worst fears were true?
 He would be your righteous friend.
 
 when did you stop 
 believing in people
 to think that we'd all
 let bad things happen
 that you delude.
 that won't 
 did you take some bad acid?
 are you on pills?
 
 did they give you pills 
 to go to the demonstration?
 
 who, exactly, am I talking to?
 oh, ya, the imaginary jerk protestor
 like the ones I saw in the video
 saying that the whole world is watching.
 No, they are not.

Madonna

We all know she was being hyperbolic . . .

I wrote all about it, and about how Hydrangae get better with age when you ignore them and let them grow fallow, kind of like a mid-life rock-star looking for relevance, just blooms like clock work as long as there is rain, and that kind of describes Madonna too.

Why do they hate the PresiDon?

I wrote all about it, but I gotta edit it first which ought to be policy here, but I'm not a business.

Maybe I'll post it later.

draft

Jan 15, 2017

 
  
 
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Sean!

  

They collect
environmental fines
to fund their lavishness

    
    
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these can get you banned from school?!:
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Here is today's pretty poem:

  

The whole world is not watching.
      

    

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Blathertational


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glossary of what's next
 ♥♥? : 

Be nice to yourself and others. What other choice?

Your waste land
spirit quest
hallucinations
aren't coins.
Why explain away
what you delude to be
failures of being,
your excess,
kicking in the door
of some strangers SUV
at Venice Beach, October
2014?

out of your mind
or at the end of mind?
being inhuman
or being infantile?

raving at a 'them'
urges, needs,
crappy
understanding.

society
of the wider world
of wind and waves.

Your better now, by now.
some time for a while away.

Your better now, 
and I didn't ask
tats, bars, stars, gang signs,
old mixtapes, 
a morbid mural
on the ceiling in your basement.
markings on the hardwood handle.

What we have done
What we have failed to do.

Wake up!

wake up and be unaware of being the Buddha

♥♥ Praise ♥♥ the ♥♥ Lord ♥♥ !!

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