I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
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Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!
May Heaven augment your blisses
On ev'ry new birth-day ye see,
A humble poet wishes.
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a woman, a
tire that’s flat, a
disease, a
desire: fears in front of you,
...
the vultures at the zoo
(all three of them)
sit very quietly in their
caged tree
...
Surely I will be disquieted
by the hospital, that body zone-
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With pomp and style we are entering a new era
We have pimped our vehicles
We have painted the vehicles- attractive
We have sewn the campaign regalia
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This is now--this was erst,
Proposition the first--and Problem the first.
I.
On a given finite Line
...
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We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
Well, such you are,—but well enough we know
How thick about us root, how rankly grow
Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend,
...
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day,
As they met and exchang'd salute-
(Squire Corn in his carriage so gay,
Poor Cotton, half famish'd on foot) :
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Well I've been spendin' my life lookin' for a shoulder
To rest my head when the nights get colder
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I scarce believe my love to be so pure
As I had thought it was,
Because it doth endure
Vicissitude, and season, as the grass ;
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Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise
And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise?
When they pay the same taxes as you and me,
I consider they ought to have the same liberty.
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The twentieth century has often fooled us.
We've been squeezed in by falsehood as by taxes.
The breath of life has denuded our ideas
as quickly as it strips a dandelion.
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THE chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the
field:
To these the master of the seven-fold shield
Upstarted fierce: and kindled with disdain.
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Thomas
To India! Yea, here I may take ship;
From here the courses go over the seas,
Along which the intent prows wonderfully
Nose like lean hounds, and tack their journeys out,
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The town was taken--whether he might yield
Himself or bastion, little matter'd now:
His stubborn valour was no future shield.
Ismail's no more! The Crescent's silver bow
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Hist, but a word, fair and soft!
Forth and be judged, Master Hugues!
Answer the question I've put you so oft:
What do you mean by your mountainous fugues?<*1>
See, we're alone in the loft,---
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We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
Well, such you are, -- but well enough we know
How thick about us root, how rankly grow
Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend,
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The casualties are not only those who are dead.
They are well out of it.
The casualties are not only those who are dead.
Though they await burial by installment.
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I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,
Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;
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Sun a shine but tings no bright;
Doah pot a bwile, bickle no nuff;
River flood but water scarce, yawl
Rain a fall but dutty tough.
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In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the seed, counting
the cellar's portion out,
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Give us your deprived, your malleable muddled masses
hoping for a gentler taskmaster
Welcome to the multi-trillion dollar industry, Poverty
A.K.A, cheapest labor force
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Nothing so difficult as a beginning
In poesy, unless perhaps the end;
For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning
The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend,
...
BY MICHING MALLECHO, Esq.
Is it a party in a parlour,
Crammed just as they on earth were crammed,
Some sipping punch-some sipping tea;
...
O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly
Around us ever, rarely to alight?
There's not a meteor in the polar sky
Of such transcendent and more fleeting flight.
...
I.
'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout
All countries of the Catholic persuasion,
Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about,
...
First you're born - and I'll be bound you
Find a dozen strangers round you.
"Hallo," cries the new-born baby,
"Where's my parents? which may they be?"
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PRELUDE
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
...
DEGENERATE Douglas! oh, the unworthy Lord!
Whom mere despite of heart could so far please,
And love of havoc, (for with such disease
...
In pious times, e'er Priest-craft did begin,
Before Polygamy was made a sin;
When man, on many, multiply'd his kind,
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COMMUNISM LEFTOVER AND MARXIAN LOGIC
Communism today
a mere leftover of
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‘We are 'ere met together
in this momentous hower,
Ter lick th' bankers' dirty boots
an' keep the Bank in power.’
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Harley, the nation's great support,
Returning home one day from court,
His mind with public cares possest,
All Europe's business in his breast,
...
Is Education A Business
Is education a business
Or should it even be?
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LOST--near the 'Change in the city,
(I saw there a girl that seemed pretty)
...
THERE once was a pirate, greedy and bold,
Who ravaged for gain, and saved the spoils;
Till his coffers were bursting with bloodstained gold,
And millions of captives bore his toils.
...
It was only a little house of two rooms --
Almost like a child's play-house --
With scarce five acres of ground around it;
And I had so many children to feed
...
Once I beheld the fairest of her kind,
And still the sweet idea charms my mind:
True, she was dumb; for nature gazed so long,
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A Word about Vermillion*
The Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader
Often presents our fair city
...
My list of things to do
just seems to keep growing longer.
Keep your office clean,
make Bill's coffee stronger
...
When I was young and full of faith
And other fads that youngsters cherish
A cry rose as of one that saith
With emphasis: 'Help or I perish!'
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Finally, it’s time to go,
All day I’ve pushed peddles with my feet,
I’ll hurry to the bus stop,
Being sure to get a good seat.
...
(After a Black & White Photograph by Jared Carter)
Who alive remembers who lived there
seventy years ago? A family
...
Fragrant breezes in the South
melt to melodies round small fires
mount tree limbs
with bodies black
...
CHEERFUL on this holiday,
Welcome we the merry May.
...
My wedded life
Must every pleasure bring
On scale extensive!
If I'm your wife
...
' When Adam delv'd, and Eve span,
' Who was then the gentleman?'
...
In times when princes cancelled nature's law,
And declarations which themselves did draw;
When children used their parents to dethrone,
...
Once on a time, there lived a kind
and pretty girl, completely blind
outside the town of Maladise,
inside a shack of tiny size.
...
It is a tall order to look the history of these institutions and their impact historically and currently on this country. But let's have a go nonetheless.
Let's start with first principles with some basic history and definitions:
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After I had attended lectures
At our Chautauqua, and studied French
For twenty years, committing the grammar
Almost by heart,
...
From my high castle I look at the town below
Where the natives of Pa cluster like a swarm of flies.
How can I govern these people and lead them aright?
I cannot even understand what they say.
...
The place was buzzing, the scene was set,
People were pouring in, everything was perfect,
The decorations were delightful, the food looked appetising,
The groom was handsome, and the bride was blushing,
...
How well he knew the wives of publicans,
come-hither smiles beneath the crumbling arches,
the lingering scent of unattended cunts.
He too was half mad, fond of <i>garum</i>, March's
...
It's a mystery to see me--a man o' fifty-four,
Who's lived a cross old bachelor fer thirty year' and more--
...
You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River,
When Chase Henry voted against the saloons
To revenge himself for being shut off.
But none of you was keen enough
...
People in this city come and go
Buildings walk away
Carried to the landfills
...
There is much pity when we see a beggar man
Others who see him and are filled with contempt
But if we were to see things their way if we can
It will not be anything like you have ever dreamt
...
So, you are smoking, drinking & doing drugs,
'That is right and I should not because'?
Our bodies are a Temple, to the Sanctuary of Christ,
They are only on loan due to His sacrifice.
...
I
The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods
Opened its door, a dozen children ran out
And saw on the narrow road between the dense trees
...
Call for amazed thoughts, a wounded sense
And bleeding Hearts at our Intelligence.
Call for that Trump of Death the Mandrakes Groan
...
The bible, usually thought of in religious terms actually has far more dimensions other than the religious one. The bible in 'Lilith, ' as well as in the NOVA special on these topics, makes the point that the document was written over hundreds of years, was and is, the attempt to institute a radically new kind of society, one which had been previously unknown in the world.
Conflict over the bible's religious aspects has obscured, its, perhaps, greatest contribution to Western thought-if not to world history-ideas revolving around egalitarianism, freedom, justice, moral righteousness, social organization and the place of hierarchies in human society.
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Face Value
John Wayne hated horses. Took a truck whenever he could.
Esther Williams hated water.
...
I saw a Christian, a temperance man,
Casting his ballot one day at the polls:
One who believes he does what he can
...
I go from a mixed bag of Halloween candy,
to a "mixed bag" of poems, dandy.
Soon I move East for six months at least,
to give N. Carolina a taste of this poetic beast.
...
When I was a bit too young to understand it well
An Irish family’s prince held the American Throne
He wished us to the moon before it all went to hell
And left a nation mourning and weeping for its own
...
5/17/12
JP Morgan is in the news announcing losses in the neighborhood of 3 billion dollars.The American press, in this case the NY Times, offers us the soothing response that this is not so bad and that everything will be ok.
...
Mother of plenty, daughter of the skies,
Sweet Peace, the troubl'd world's desire, arise;
Around thy poet weave thy summer shades,
...
Hangovers are a back-tax on fun.
To paraphrase T.S. Eliot:
'Can last night just belong to last night? '
...
A plain and simple ode (owed) for all
us middle class commoners-
Now, many of us wonder
...
Now Hillary is out the mix,
The Founding Fathers had idea back in 1776,
Emancipation Proclamation the plan Lincoln would have endorsed,
It coming to a fruition as it ran its course,
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Chapter 49
[Sheila Speaks]:
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Which country is this?
Why people are starving here?
Is it that the taxes are excessively high or corruption is letting the people high and dry!
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The deficit—alarming—
Exceeds the stratosphere;
We're headed for a fiscal cliff.
A Fiscal CLIFF? Oh, dear!
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Of those three prisoners, that before you came
We took down at St. John's hard by the mill,
Two are good masons; we have tools enough,
...
No one bans
Ignorance
Disrespect
Racism and affects,
...
Out in the world there is a magical plant
But, to grow it, to use it, the law says that I can't,
A law was created by greed and a Christian legislature
Though this plant was created by God, and Mother Nature.
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The poor become poorer each day
The rich turn richer every way
Corruption is the cause that may
Prevent a nation’s progress, Aye!
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Who has a thing to bring
For a gift to our lord the king,
Our king all kings above?
A young girl brought him love;
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Is Howie Mandel around here somewhere?
How did they do it?
Daschle, Killefer, and Geithner, Oh My!
How many democrats do you have to have before hypocrisy erupts?
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Too many boys!
Boys were being born in China outnumbered the girls in the last few decades.
I was in China back in 1996 and I became aware of the Chinese government's charades.
The Communist Government in China, Beijing,
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Poor remains
No Government can survive
Without making tax scheme to revive
...
Borrowin' over the water; I've seen it all before
Raisin' loans (said Old George Jones)
Was a trick we learned of yore.
Borrowin' over the water
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I now mean to be serious;--it is time,
Since laughter now-a-days is deem'd too serious.
A jest at Vice by Virtue's call'd a crime,
And critically held as deleterious:
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Life-poem-by Cauchy3.
Some Christians give one for ten.
Hundred thousands buck are for sakes.
With jails rural capes beg.
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Healthy patriotism flourishes only by religious harmony, democracy and unity;
To be so, corruption in all ways has to be eliminated in democratic countries;
Political corruption brings dishonest politicians to power to rule nation in bad way;
For that, people have to be careful in selecting candidates in elections forever!
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When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald,
In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field,
He called to him Hobdenius-a Briton of the Clay,
Saying: "What about that River-piece for layin' in to hay?"
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Rainy Day
It's 6 am and outside it's raining,
looks like a day for maybe reading a book,
...
There was a king in Brentford,—of whom no legends tell,
But who, without his glory,—could eat and sleep right well.
...
Said Statesman A to Statesman Z:
'What can we tax that is not paying?
We’re taxing every blessed thing—
Here’s what our people are defraying
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Education is our leaders spoiled system
they spend the money on other things that's not for education
they raise taxes on the people that can't afford it to get more money
and raise their own wages instead of cutting them as they should do
...
I want to tell a story of a love so true,
This happened to a dear friend I once knew.
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Wall Street 2008 crashes causes global downturn.
Verdict into shock cause January 2011 is finally out.
Taking too many risks. Ask questions whoever for?
No surprises corrupt bankers regulators politicians.
...
Could we all have it wrong?
that there was a man over two thousand years ago.
Who died for all of mankind's sins
and then to His Father in Heaven He rose.
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Bushes are pushed
Trees are subjected to satire
Why should they give shade?
Why not make it as trade?
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