They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her
Handcuffs to secure her
And only God knows what else,
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As most Nigerians remain ruefully lukewarm
about President Buhari's second term bid;
an ever-increasing multitude of potential
voters across ethnic divides, seem to be
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Genius is not a generous thing
In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover
And it resents fame
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Life has many twists and turns,
To this, there is no doubt.
Sometimes Fate steps in to find
What we can't live without.
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I worked so long in the shadow of Bob Menzies,
that I was surprised when he did step down.
After a caucus vote, I stepped up to become
the seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia.
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Sing the song of noisy Ninny - hang the Muses - spit it out!
(Tuneful Nine ye needn't help me - poet knows his way about!)
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Now Jordan's land of promise is the burden of my song.
Perhaps you've heard him lecture, and blow about it strong;
To hear him talk you'd think it was a heaven upon earth,
But listen and I'll tell you now the plain unvarnished truth.
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You doubtless read the papers,
And as men of observation,
Of course you watch the progress
Of Chinese immigration--
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Get on the wheelchair
Bypass the immigration mire
Have your way swift
Through security check
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Oh! the shearing is all over,
And the wool is coming down,
And I mean to get a wife, boys,
When I go up to town.
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Oh dear it’s haircut day
I guess I should be grateful –
she comes round to the house
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I.
Although Tía Miriam boasted she discovered
at least half-a-dozen uses for peanut butter-
topping for guava shells in syrup,
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A Honduran man left his kids and wife
To give them all a better life
Of no more hunger, no more thirst
No more waiting on misery to spread worse
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On 17 June 2022 Mikhail Muzintsev,
head of the National Defence Control
Centre of the Russian Federation said:
'since the invasion 307423 children
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on this earth
I'm a traveler of two days like others
here I strongly believe
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China will be declared part of the Peoples Republic of Tibet;
Somalia will send food parcels to the Swiss and the Mexicans will build
a fence to prevent illegal immigration from the United States. There
will be a Queen in Saudi-Arabia and Pussy Riot will be elected to
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A spiteful Loser lost an election one November years back
And he was also responsible for the Jan. sixth Capital attack
He knew he needed to finance the perfect plan for his return
To get back into office with alternative facts he would discern
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. the round table
the round table painted in black
black why black
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For Eisenhower, lack of moderation
discernible on every front
was typical not for our chosen nation,
but Scandinavia, where the c-t,
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Mahalo was the greeting that is said in the 50th state,
What has occurred with the number of homeless people in Hawai'i could make Pele irate.
It is apparent that the homeless are not dumb.
The homeless in Hawai'i are a lot more than a 'beach bum'.
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Wonder how gross gun lobbies can get,
Trump trumpets: people kill— those that hate—
Violent video games,
Let media share the blame,
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Immigration
is a passage to existence
we leave as sperms
from testes
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Sophisticated being orator
in his ''Atticas Noctes''
illuminated with rhetoric's presents many,
even earth's personas mighty.
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The candle extinguished but I see,
still not dark, many candles were lit,
a living candle, a source of light,
let the candles lit, we need it.
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People immigrate for food, shelter and clad,
It brings sometimes sorrow sometimes glad.
For immigration they do leave native place,
Some do with a hope to get wealth and bless.
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Hollow-eyed shades
of human beings,
human beings
...
On the road are
The army
The police
The custom
...
Is it possible?
We all have forgotten our all identity,
The only identity stands is the human,
There is no land, no border,
...
I was a wolf north of the Arctic Circle
when I read Broken Fang.
I was Joe Hardy with a bomb at my feet
when I read While the Clock Ticked.
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Year Y 2 K demon
Let loose by I.T. domain
To attract talent world-wide
For the riches of the paradise
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A tall, slim and brown boy from Tamil Nadu,
Sold his ancestral home to go to England,
Pockets of Tamarind rice he didn’t need any more,
Bottles of ancient pickles in his mind,
...
What is it about cats and paper?
Right, I'm out on the lawn
Minding my own sweet
Business and reading this garbage
...
I'll tell you why.
To survive
the onslaught of religion.
To outlive
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The Chance Operations Of Short History And Features Of The World Literature Into Verse Paragraph
20 January, 2019
World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. Often used in the past primarily for masterpieces of Western European literature, world literature today is increasingly seen in global context. Readers today have access to an unprecedented range of works from around the world in excellent translations, and since the mid-1990s a lively debate has grown up concerning both the aesthetic and the political values and limitations of an emphasis on global processes over national traditions.
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On data available
What is misuse of press freedom?
The reporting is done on the basis of wisdom
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Illegal migration
O my dear sons of soils
Try to avail
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The biopsy it doesn't say that he is a poor creature.
Perhaps the pot bellied immigration officer may inquires of his legal papers.
What else he could produce unless a tattered certificate of birth
That belongs to his poor loving parents?
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It happened during a new's conference
In the Rose Garden on the 24th of May
When the president stood near the podium
As reporters' questions rambled away.
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I have not known the
Salty taste the ocean
Leaves settled in the
Mouths of drown victims
...
Why do we go without eating,
Sitting here in plastic seating?
Waiting for our futures to unfold...
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Like the Italian one, my family’s rebirth
spawned masterpieces, caused a breakdown
like the civil wars of the Reformation
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[North] American literature has always been immigrant.
- Salman Rushdie
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We are the one whose synonyms are more,
Many tribes, continental, and geographical,
All differences along with the faith and phono,
We're one- the son of Adam-yet there is sore.
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A hatred without true reason
Fed my media outlet
Or politicians playing for power
Feeding on the fear
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A NEW HABITAT IN ANTARCTICA
Poet Chan Mongol
December 8 of 2019
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Education is a lucrative corrupt market BUT offered as a method of transmitting knowledge and insight,
Freedom is torture and terror BUT defined as the right to do and say what you like,
Truth is manufactured by powerful leaders BUT regarded as the opposite of falsehood,
Honor killing is an abominable heinous practice But adored as an honorable glorious event.
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flashback time truth testing
contemporary third term presidential
list orchestrated litany of lies
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Chabi Maenga bought me a chicken. It took two, three hours to cook in the big black pot and was still tough as our leather boots. A goodbye gift to me, upon my leaving the district, leaving the passenger seat by his side.
Chabi had met me in Gaborone with a newly-issued 1978 model Toyota, a boxy thing that bounced crazily on the dirt tracks but was considered state of the art at the time. We drove north until the paved road ran out, then north east across the remote reaches of the Northern Kalahari to my new duty station in Maun. We slept half-way at Serowe, at the 'we are working together' cooperative hotel, under thatch. On the second day we skirted two of the four long walls enclosing the richest diamond mine in the world and tracked the elongated fence that separated buffalo, endemic with foot-and-mouth disease, from cattle. We swung north once more as we reached the side of the 'vanishing lake', Ngami, that in some years confirmed its presence on the standard maps, and in others was simply no-where to be found. All depended on the rains in distant Angola.
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To Comrade Leon.Trotsky!
Today is the May Day isn't it?
I dreamed last night the mass rallying in my poor heedless island for solidarity.
This may be a soliloquy my dear comrade.
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When I woke up this morning, sweet,
I looked at empty space.
Your covers still were straight and neat,
your nightie flashed its lace.
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Trump's temporary ban on 7 countries is based on
Obama's policies, correcting Barack's moral de-
ficiencies that empowered bigots and fascists
while disarming their victims
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Well, I think home spat me out, the blackouts and curfews like tongue against loose tooth. God, do you know how difficult it is, to talk about the day your own city dragged you by the hair, past the old prison, past the school gates, past the burning torsos erected on poles like flags? When I meet others like me I recognise the longing, the missing, the memory of ash on their faces. No one le
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I am an African living in Alaska
An immigrant in heaven
I miss the sun
Shivering with cold
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They fled those who treated them like scum
Bees they have become; flying rose to rose
From across the world these poor souls have come
Working like slaves with sweat upon their brows.
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Well, an alive and very active 70,000 member internet pedophile ring,
"Operation Rescue" identified 670 suspects, investigation continuing,
230 known abused children in 30 countries rescued now in a safe place,
How in the world could 70k operate anything for years without a trace?
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I 'stepped out' of the box today,
and to my absolute surprise,
there was a guy looking at me...
with hunger....in his mean eyes.
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the 4th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
'to me, time is
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The 10th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
alone
on Chinese New Year
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1)
Time is infinite
Time is a canoe
Time is a winged dove
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There is a place where we will all some day go
No immigration checks or hassles as before
No permits, stamped visas or pass ports
And nothing to declare at that ornate door
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Mister Chairman; - er - ah - when
We right-thinking business men
Are treated with much scant - um - er - civility,
I say the time has come
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My boss, I fear she is delayed to-night.
Already it is past the hour, and yet
My ears have reached no sound of wheels; no note
Melodious, of long, luxurious oaths
Betokens the traditional dispute
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Things I'd like to see
A congressman with cojones
A president with pride
A government less regulated
And no agendas to hide
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tune Elvis' Heartbreak hotel (Chorus 1) [Chorus 2]
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We are told that we have got freedom yet not freedom to do as we like
There are places we are not allowed to walk in or where we cannot ride a push bike
Which means that our freedom is so called since we cannot even walk where we please
Ours is such a limited freedom we are not as free as a breeze.
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What Wordsworth terms “our ancient Dower, ”
describing heritage of Britain,
has faded like the fresher flower
of the USA. Unwritten
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As gifts to Solomon the Sheban Queen
brought lavish presents, Cushite gold
and precious stones and incense, clearly keen
to prove that she would not withhold
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English teacher said
Just wipe 'I used to be....'
out of your mind
walking home alone
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the first tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
a new immigrant
in the land of Snow White
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Brooding, the Devil studied his troops
Lying immobile outstretched in groups.
De-energised on Hell's burning plains,
Demoralised by unending campaigns.
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It has been always we few!
Wanting to make the world new! !
To bring all people together!
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I still fear the rise of UKIP.
Observe the same old bigots
With slick logos: in brand new guise.
How they self righteously stroke
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Meaning of love-
Freedom in possession,
Possession in freedom!
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The Corona virus' fears,
The global wars,
The real famines,
Global warming,
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City Council, mayor, ignoring the real issues of illegal immigration, passing the buck, blaming the feds for their inadequecies in dealing with them.
Building day labor camps instead to keep them off the streets, using taxpayers money to give to illegals instead of deporting them the way they should.
Jobs going to illegals as managers, general managers, district managers at fast food restaurants instead of arresting them and hiring legal citizens of America.
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Serious and yet serene, thinking about obama and what
he's doing to destroy America.
Causing mayhem, trying to cover his lies with illusions,
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Dr. Ben Carson quietly speaking, yet very inspiring,
filled with strength and conviction, wanting to secure
the United States.
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Watching videos, talking to people all over the nation about
all the cheating, lying and media collusion trying to hide
bad and evil things democrats are doing.
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Listening to politicians talk, Bill Montgomery talking now,
a great human being, a Veteran, Graduate of West Point, a
very direct and positive person!
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Standing against illegal immigration, putting forth the
truth about what the 14th amendment means in reality,
being chastised by Gowan and Bolding for not being di-
verse enough.
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Stepping into the future, watching visions of beauty
right here in the U.S.A. come to frutition.
Donald Trump our new President, undoing everything
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Failing to see any reason to not stop immigration and
close our borders to protect citizens of the United
States from all the usurpers of justice.
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The second tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
Mom once said
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written in response to the 'Made-in-America' Immigration Crisis
El Paso twilight
a body straddles
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the 5th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
inner émigré
rolling off my tongue...
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The 7th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
the Dear John letter
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The 8th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
My English words
Nothing's wrong, I'm fine
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The 9th tanka in the sequence, Politics/Poetics of Re-Homing
roof icicles
hold the first morning sun
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the 11th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
this attic reeks
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the 13th tanka in the sequence about diasporic experiences
'Mr. Lou
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for my first Canada Day, July 1,2003
Name: Chen-ou Liu (phonic) :
Country of Birth: R.O.C.;
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To Alexandre
Let me start with a fact
-I wish I never had to write this!
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Junk food crack cocaine
Cross border terrorism
Covert support to insurgents
Arms smuggling
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the tenth winter
since my immigration...
my shadow and I
stand by each other
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A Haibun
Since I opened the pages of 'Being and Time, ' his words, 'Death is a way to be, which Dasein takes over as soon as it is, ' have lingered in the back of my mind for a week, like a silent check on my immigration dream: being a poet who can write in an adopted tongue and find his own way by moonlight.
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