tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4037606888180813012024-03-08T04:02:54.659-08:00Venusian Airlibramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.comBlogger557125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-39460520654589992042021-05-13T17:53:00.001-07:002021-05-13T17:53:11.040-07:00healing through dance<p> <span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; font-size: large;">Healing through Dance</span></p>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">Laurie Corzett </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le
mouvement, c'est la vie.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">("Dance is movement, and movement is
life.")</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">--Ludmilla Chiriaeff (Founder, Les Grands
Ballets</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">Canadiens)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">What is is about dancing, in a group, with
an intimate other, or</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">alone, that can give us that mystical rush
and promote wellness on so</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">many levels? Is it the pre-cognitive memory
of the rhythm of the</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">heartbeat keeping us safe? Is it the
emotional-spiritual connection</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">to the natural world we feel when moving
pleasurably in our animal</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">body? Is it some atavistic source of
healing from our primal days?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">This is my quest -- to discover the healing
properties of dance and</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">how to best use and promote this simplest
and most profound gift of</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">our physical being.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">Throughout our history, dancing has
functioned as a healing and</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">balancing component, a form of social
communication and transcendent</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">spiritual ritual. Though patterns and forms
vary, expressive</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">rhythmic movement is a very basic means of
relieving emotional</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">tension and has from the beginning been
associated with religious</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">ritual and healing. We celebrate by dancing
at weddings and</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">festivals, and join others in dance as the
quintessential romantic</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">experience. Dancing alone, feeling the
rhythmic sway and getting in</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">touch with the extension and contraction of
muscles in a pleasurable</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">context, is uplifting, healing. Dancing
definitely helps to bring up</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">my mood and promote more sane reflection.
When I can get so caught up</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">in the dance that I no longer feel separate
from the music and can</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">move within it, it seems to free something
very profound within me.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">I have been working with dance as a
self-healing resource and looking </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">intuitively </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">and through on-line research to open my
knowledge and </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">understanding into the possibilities
</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">and realities of healing through
dance.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">My work is based on the intuitive
feeling I have been developing </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">for quite some time about dance.
</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">There is something very primal,
</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">very basic in regard to our species and
dance, involving healing </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">in the holistic sense and the intrinsic
energies of life/form/time. </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">In every culture there has been
</span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">an emphasis on dance in not only
entertainment, </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">but as a healing force. And, then,
entertainment </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">is of course part of
</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">healing and cultural
unity.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">In my search I am finding a wide variety of
healing modalities,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">spiritual activities and holistic therapies
based on our natural</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">expression of energies through dance, as
well as community and</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Segoe Print; font-size: medium;">individual art projects promoting
creativity and wholeness.</span></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-40999519212324212582021-01-02T15:14:00.002-08:002021-01-02T15:14:17.568-08:00January '21<p> <strong style="color: #00788c; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: x-large;">JANUARY</strong></p>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Emotionally digesting
holiday mayhem.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Stuff stuffed
down.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">People so sad, and
angry.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Angry to be so
sad,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">watching their lives seep
down</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">some irrevocable
hole.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">It was supposed to be
better.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Supposing life face
drowning in</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">sweet, lush flowers,
flopping back</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to watch movies in the
clouds.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Angels and wizards and
clowns</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">smile simply, wave
past.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Grown up at
last,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">equipped with legitimating
ID</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to enter the grown-up
places</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">— where is the
promise?</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">“When you get older you
will understand.”</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">No reward of freedom for
following the rules;</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">after endless stringent
days in schools,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">no wisdom to replace those
wasted years.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Fragmented by fear and
aggravation,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">ambition and
futility,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">unable to command fluidity
into</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">structured bones, or the
wage</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to repay required
loans.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Conversation always turns
to want,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to depression of what was
meant to be.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">The burden, not a
gift,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">weight of a world awaiting
revelation.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Wasn’t it enough, the sky
snow bright</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">one Winter
night</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">out in a world alive in
celebration?</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Breathing clear crystal
cold,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">warmed by deep blood
flow</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">under our
skin.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;"><strong>1/1</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Whose prophecy is worthy to
invest our hearts, hands, minds?</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">If our world makes a circle
— no end or beginning —</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">may we slip between a then
and now?</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">The weight of the
world</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">The sadness of
oceans</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">The endless pain of life
a’borning</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">This is a year of
prophecy.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Abandon hope all who
enter,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">oracular oratory
sings</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">through collective inner
ear.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Remember reason. Remember
Preacher.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Fall into whispered
memory,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">the best of scenes in
dreams, in ether.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">No time left for
hope.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">It’s do or die
unsung.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">One scene at a
time.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;"><strong>New Year
Prayer</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Let go</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Feel the caressing
beauty</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Let it Be</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">I allow,
opening</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to effervescent
imagery</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Shimmery waves
of</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">sound, light, scent,
texture</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">lifting my
essence</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">I allow</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">in reverie, in
grace</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Bursting
through</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">a stale
chrysalis</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Feeling</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">ecstasy</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">in the beating</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">of my wings</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;"><strong>Prologue</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Sun and Moon
embrace</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">as one</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">for brief
eternity</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">all mystery
within</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Black and
White</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">create
gradation</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">radiate kinetic
energy</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">We can achieve</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">believe, begin, begin,
begin</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Gardeners, planting
flowers,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">planting food,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">planting souls
in</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">nurturing soil</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Healers</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">perceiving
wounds</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to be sewn</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">relieving
loneliness</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">revealing pain</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">held in,
denied</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">twisting ardent
toil</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Teachers</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">admiring their
wards</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">finding with
them</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">questions, keys and
doors;</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">realizing history is only
destiny</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">when explorations
cease;</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">invitations from space and
time</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">come complete</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">with choices</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">A choir of
voices</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">from softest
spark</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to fervent
blaze</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Troops of effervescent
players</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Symphonies,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">drums at dawn</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Inspiration and
instruction</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">carried forth through song
and stage</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">vibrant murals painting
onward age to age</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Taking up the challenge of
the tale</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">that twists, turns,
meanders</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">providing kaleidoscopic
opportunity</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">ever to begin
again</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><strong>RINGING THE
CHANGES</strong></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"> <em>welcome to another
year,</em></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>spiral voyage around
this plane</em></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>yet one more touchstone
day</em></span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>to feel the depth of
time</em> </span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Echo after light, Sun
lapsed into peaceful lull.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Quiet of new dusting; cold
blanket edges trees, roofs, road.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Gentle twilight, before
revelers’ night, before frieze of laughter,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">bubbling spirits, high
hats, beaming, desperate to ignite,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to touch ice to ice and
become.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">New Year searches forward,
blind drunken eyes behind,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">leaking distilled tears
denied. We are jolly good one and all.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Ballads, broken lyrics,
misremembered, misunderstood;</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">gladly clapping hand
against back, strapping together to</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">keep upright, sloshing
through traffic mottled snow</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">slipping together, sliding
to raucous tune,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">old fools’ show,
commemorative legends to pull out over</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">brandy and
fire.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Resolutions and
revelations.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Mesmerized, shimmering
glass, sparking visions.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Clean star twinkles ask
not, glory in terpsichore.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">No written lines obscure
hope’s sky, open beyond horizon’s</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">misty expanse rolling into
sea. Drink the season,</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to oblivion, to ecstasies
bequeathed, excess emotion</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">released. Amniotic,
amnesia of expectation. Breathe —</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">vestigial gills
awaken.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">This is the first measure
of the first movement.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">A pirouette, a dervishly
delight-filled whirl.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Cast upon this rocky
estuary, future’s spell.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Inner wise</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">third eye calls dawn to
destiny.</span></div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div><span style="color: #00788c; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Peace to you all in this
Year of Prophecies (may all your world ends hook up to better worlds
beginning)</span></div>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-69997306007982118452020-05-30T17:24:00.001-07:002020-06-05T17:10:14.933-07:00astropoetry Mercury (work in progress)<div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;"><strong>Mercurial
phase.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Practice magic expressed as habit.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Impeccably design unbinding spells.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Slip
and slide in scintillating sound bites,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>encrypted tones of Temple bells.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Silly
Buddha tricks</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>are for
kids, hand in fist with cheap</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>extemporaneous thrills.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Ratiocination,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>solitary
skill.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Search
cascading signs,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>divine
clues.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span></em> </div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Silly
me, to contradict</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>your
view.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>When we
met, I was still</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>so
new.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em></em></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>I spy for
gutter snipes,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>smoke to
assuage hunger.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Haven’t
you?</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span></em> </div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Mercury
Trickster</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>lithely
larfing pixels and waves,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>scatters mayhem silly and brave,</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><em><span style="color: #1e7564; font-size: 13.6pt;">leaps between </span></em></span><span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>wandering worlds,
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>with
the flick of a dial,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>beams a cheshire cat smile</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>to
the lips of a beaten down child.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Fleeing
outside the scene</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>to
quicksilver change,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>out of
range</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>of
censor or brute,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>soldier
or suit,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>then
sneaks back to give 'em the boot.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Immortal mixer</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>in
mundane affairs.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Unattached to plebian
cares,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>playing
musical chairs</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>or the
game of the day.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Merry
and gay --</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>spreading that sunny moonshine</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>then
dancing away.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span></em> </div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Trail
of effervescent Mercury's abandon.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Charming trickster,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>trips
deftly on quicksilver surf.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Disarms
in soliloquy,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>untethered to memory...</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Exhale
old air’s detritus.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Inhale </em></span><span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>chaos mirth.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>This phase
relaxes — sings out for fun.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"><em>Unwind! The
next track looms ahead.</em></span></div>
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libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-19761519236591530532020-05-29T16:48:00.001-07:002020-05-30T19:23:34.040-07:00astropoetry (work in progress)Trail of effervescent Mercury's abandon.<br />
Charming trickster,<br />
plays upon seasoned winds -- Quicksilver surf.<br />
Exhale old air’s detritus.<br />
Inhale and whoosh,<br />
under sea-change brew.<br />
Sentimental, far from gentle,<br />
whirlwinds gasp; ambitions,<br />
expected conditions,<br />
wavering memory,<br />
caught up in flying breeze.<br />
Blown out to wailing ocean,<br />
forgotten gills respond --<br />
mer-mind wakes.<br />
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Stories are conversations,<br />
characters revealed through<br />
relationships.<br />
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Mercurial<br />
taking on colours<br />
Plutonic, ambient dark<br />
encrypted in the depths<br />
of Father Saturn<br />
as in in death (and the meta)<br />
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>You hurtled me into a faithless dream</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>All my demons I'd thought I'd quietened</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Sent my thoughts down a lustful stream of music</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Gemini eyes talk of treacherous love</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>and I'll never win</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Gemini eyes false promise of love,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>and I'm caught again</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>How can I hold you?</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>The time was weak, my body hurting</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>It's a time I'm sure the years will soften</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>You offered all I wanted to need and I wanted</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Your Gemini eyes to talk to me of love,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>and I'll never win</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Gemini eyes, please answer mine with love</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Oh, I'm caught again</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>and I just want to hold you</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>and let the passion melt my tears</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Tear the demons of all my fears</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Tear me to destruction, Gemini eyes,</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>cause I'll never win</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Your Gemini eyes got me caught again.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"><em>Please let me hold you.</em></span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folie à deux</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Me and you</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a world of two</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t skip a beat</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">out on the street</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in our non-discreet</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folie à deux</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep it clean</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[Queen to Queen</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You make a mean</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folie à deux]</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m not fine</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun don’t shine</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unless you’re mine</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folie à deux</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Love that style</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hypnotic smile</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bewitched, beguiled</span></div>
<span style="color: #1e7564; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: medium;"></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border: 0px; color: #c81e00; font-family: "tunga"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Folie à deux</span></div>
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Astrologer’s Key<br />
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<br />
The future descends<br />
from fear-embroidered skies.<br />
A vision of holocaust -- when everybody dies.<br />
A new day is dawning, but is it sun or storm?<br />
We have a chance to make our mark,<br />
but is it right or wrong?<br />
The military marches,<br />
the anti-warriors too.<br />
We take our stand in battle,<br />
the many and the few.<br />
Spinning tales of magic, of wizardry and fate;<br />
we want to know just how it ends before it's all too late.<br />
We sing our song too late.<br />
We right our wrongs too late.<br />
We want to know the date.<br />
To find a better fate.<br />
<br />
Can I tell you?<br />
Can I help you to understand?<br />
Can I utter words of prophecy that will make you see?<br />
Standing here before you, I want to take your hand<br />
to swirl up into a magical dancing,<br />
divine worlds of beauty entrancing,<br />
to give you the will and wonder to set you free.<br />
Can you see me?<br />
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<br />
<br />
20 minutes into the future<br />
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<br />
Mercury Trickster<br />
lithely larfing pixels and waves<br />
Happy adventure<br />
creating mayhem silly and brave<br />
wandering worlds, leaping between<br />
with the flick of a dial<br />
bringing a soul feeding smile<br />
to the lips of a beaten down child<br />
slyly ass-kicking evil demeanors<br />
dancing outside the scene<br />
to quicksilver change<br />
flickering out of range<br />
of censor or brute<br />
soldier or suit<br />
to give 'em the boot<br />
when their attention is taken<br />
up in their infernal machine<br />
Immortal mixer<br />
in our mundane affairs<br />
playing at musical chairs<br />
or the game of the day<br />
unattached to our daily cares<br />
merry and gay<br />
spreading that sunny moonshine<br />
then dancing away<br />
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Astrology is a study ever so much more complex than sun signs. It is also not a belief. It is a philosophical practice, a way of describing and analyzing, a theoretical tool.<br />
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What is "science"? It's not what scientists do, or what we have learned in science class. It is a method to achieve knowledge. As is astrology, which may be classified as a proto-science by some. There is observation and notation and calculations and theorizing and observation, etc. What your average astrologer is doing, like a cook, is using "scientific" principles in practical commonplace application.<br />
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Astrology, if nothing else, is one of many symbolic systems which categorizes and in a sense embodies reality. Thus, when we access that language and find wonderous, creative, even scientific ways to express our world with it, we are using the map to better understand, communicate, and expand the territory.<br />
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The conceptualization membranes or frames that we place around our world views allow us our individual tools for creating meaning. Thus, for those of us whose frame is astrologically colored, astrology truly does provide a usefully meaningful system of categorization and metaphoric sense. We do not owe any proof to those whose frames are not ours. There is so very much to know and see in our multiverse. Individual framing allows for a greater diversification of views.<br />
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We each do create our own reality in that we are each operating on<br />
our unique systems of experience and self. We perceive based on<br />
these systems. We have no idea what "reality" in some objective<br />
sense would be. This does not mean that we create everything that<br />
happens. There are many, many realities operating out there, and<br />
they interact in sometimes unpredictable ways. Like astrology (as<br />
above so below) wherein there are all these bodies and angles<br />
interacting and acted upon by even more forces than those of which we<br />
are aware. We look, interpret based on our own level of perception,<br />
but can never account for all the factors.<br />
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Astrology was originally observation of the sky, was the proto-science that astronomy was based upon, much as alchemy branched out into chemistry. Science, any science, is merely a method of observations, speculations, theorizing, testing, more observations, more speculations ... It is not anything so grand as to think of calling something a pseudo-science or nonscientific a denigration. Then, whatever astrology is, it is not a pseudo-science, which would be a fake science. It is an amalgam of scientific observation and metaphysics. Metaphysics is not nonscience either. It is, as you started here, another way of looking at information.<br />
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The universe may well, among many other possibilities (the universe as I understand it is quite large and inclusive of so very much we have no knowledge of), act as some kind of hologram. As to "stars" impelling as opposed to compelling, it isn't really either. I don't have any idea of the physics involved, but the astrological chart is kind of a metaphoric map of energies as they manifest in the being the chart represents. Thus, discovering the workings of the particular archetypal energies in our lives better allows us to move the expression of those energies into an awareness state that gives us greater conscious input into the direction of experiences so energized. Of course, there are many other methods that individuals have discovered for that kind of personal empowerment.<br />
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Every astrological influence, pretty much like most influences in life, can be interpreted in many, even varied, ways. Thus, for example, a cap moon in the 10th can express as inheld emotion used to better gain ambition's goals; a career involving public traditions; a cold public demeanor to protect against the slings and arrows the business world; building public structures for the protection of families; and on and on. It is very difficult, and pretty counter-productive, to spend your energy trying to be false to your true nature. But just what is the truth of that nature? Doesn't it change with experience? Yet the changes are still true to the original. Sometimes I have kind of psycho-drama internal dialogs between the different influences in my chart, figuring out how we can better all get along.<br />
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If we are talking about the astrology of fear, I believe that is the province of Saturn. And what is Saturn's role -- not to scare us to death but to give us pause, caution, learning from pain to keep your hands off that hot stove. Fear is a warning. It is not a barrier unless we use it as such. Saturn's barriers are there to be our ultimate friends, to teach us, not really to control -- more like a good parent sets rules/barriers to give us a useful structure in which to grow. Then, when the lessons have been learned, we are free to use them as best suits us. So, fear is not our enemy, but our concerned friend. We are grateful for our friend's concern, and listen to the warning. Then, we decide how to proceed. As they say courage is not about a lack of fear, but about fearing and acting anyway.<br />
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As far as the most painful emotion, that would be grief. I believe that is in the province of Pluto.<br />
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Astrology is not something to "believe" in. It is a system of knowledge, very complex, yet very simple. It can be a lifelong obsession. It can be a source of information to check out along with other information to make decisions or plans. Mostly, I like the insight it gives me into people's complex motivations and diverse ways of being.<br />
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I get totally obsessed with a character, learn all I can about them, live with them as a parallel reality until they are like true old friends. As I have a strong background in astrology, I create astrological charts for them which helps me to keep in mind exactly who they are.libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-25923011883708790132020-02-21T14:51:00.001-08:002020-02-21T14:51:30.918-08:00my back pages<div>
<span style="color: #5c0fff; font-family: Sitka Text; font-size: medium;">My Back Pages - a collection
of links to my work online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="http://dreamsjourneys.blogspot.com/2013/03/dreams-and-other-journeys-by-laurie.html"><span style="color: #007777; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"><strong>http://dreamsjourneys.blogspot.com/2013/03/dreams-and-other-journeys-by-laurie.html</strong></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">a collection of poetry,
short stories and thots from my late teens through my early 50s</span></div>
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010502215135/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8401/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://web.archive.org/web/20010502215135/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8401/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">my geocities page (from
last century -- links mostly obsolete)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/laurie-corzett/words-from-the-sky/ebook/product-18613483.html"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">http://www.lulu.com/shop/laurie-corzett/words-from-the-sky/ebook/product-18613483.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Philosophic and
inspirational poetry and poetic prose. Notes from an ongoing journey of
transformation, using language to capture visionary imagery. Complex,
metaphysical, reflective -- pieces embroidered in faery dust, others engraved in
lead that alchemically turns to gold. Words from the Sky God, Uranus, progenitor
of us all and grand inspirer through the chaos of change.</span></div>
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<a href="http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">emerging
visions</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">MOVING FROM THE VISIONARY'S
IMAGINATION INTO VIEW THAT ALL OF US MAY LEARN TO SEE FURTHER</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">an online 'zine displaying
various visual and written visionary art connected into a derivative artistic
statement. It is free for anyone who wants to view it</span></div>
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<a href="https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t1215"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t1215</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Root of Desire</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">working with a gaggle of
characters in conversations, back stories and poems from their
perspectives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://venusianair.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://venusianair.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Venusian Air</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">partial
compilation</span></div>
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<a href="https://om2317.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://om2317.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">poetry </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://windsongmyths.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://windsongmyths.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">chapbooks, cycles, montage
pieces </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and myths personal
and reimagined</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://windsongmyths.wordpress.com/evening-dionysian/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://windsongmyths.wordpress.com/evening-dionysian/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">working title: [evening
dionysian] - performance of imagination:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Dancers dance</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">musicians play</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Enchanting sylph narrates
stories</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">while seductively moving to
sinuous</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">back beat, tick of
chimes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Occasionally emphasizes
subtle percussions</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">with intense expressions,
leaps, cunning</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">stumbles, falling to crawl
into spellbound speech.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Scheherazade myths,
archetypal passion</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">escapades, poignant weeps,
salient shouts</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">to power. Exquisite
meditations on mystic</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">climes, spirit and form.
Merry masks,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">sparkly costumes, paint and
glitter as</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">embellishment to the
tellings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Theater as intimate
ritual.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">Anything could
manifest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://lunaramble.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://lunaramble.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">lunar rambles, random acts
of sharing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and works in
progress</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://yprophecies.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://yprophecies.wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">seasonal writing and other
journeys</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://yearprophecies.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://yearprophecies.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">blogbbook word
opera</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://postapocalypse13.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://postapocalypse13.tumblr.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">the night's pages precurser
and random thots</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="https://nightspages.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://nightspages.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">night's pages</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8b0093; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: medium;">{patchwork narrative} a
flash fiction serial following the story of a child vampire, the eternal child
monster working out that existence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #374f00; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Something Sacred
online</span></div>
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<span style="color: #374f00; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">experimental metafiction
scif fi fantasy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<a href="http://caelastory.blogspot.com/?zx=c0685d9c70ddcc67"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">http://caelastory.blogspot.com/?zx=c0685d9c70ddcc67</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/libramoon/writing/25981754-something-sacred-metafiction?asc=u"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://www.redbubble.com/people/libramoon/writing/25981754-something-sacred-metafiction?asc=u</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.redbubble.com/people/libramoon?ref=account-nav-dropdown&asc=u"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">https://www.redbubble.com/people/libramoon?ref=account-nav-dropdown&asc=u</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://libramoon.deviantart.com/art/Acts-of-Desolation-1-671429065"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">http://libramoon.deviantart.com/art/Acts-of-Desolation-1-671429065</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://libramoon.deviantart.com/"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">http://libramoon.deviantart.com/</span></a><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">prequel - Acts of
Desolation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: large;">from: Acts of
Desolation</span> </span><a href="http://caelastory.blogspot.com/2009/03/acts-of-desolation-when-battlefield.html"><span style="color: #008282; font-family: Bahnschrift SemiBold; font-size: medium;">http://caelastory.blogspot.com/2009/03/acts-of-desolation-when-battlefield.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">When the battlefield
torn by mines is all the school or playground in which to grow,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">how can the children be
taught to know, to understand a lexicon of peace?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Bitter hatred permeates
mother’s milk and what there is of grain,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">permeates the very
rain, gathered in barrels since the wells ran red</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">with poisoned blood,
since the holiest of sites became blackened</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">with pestilence and
shame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Rumors expand on who is
to blame; not much else to go around..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">I like to walk the dark
empty streets. Late at night, the city becomes its own. The smells, the
silence, the stark black and white, shadows and streetlamps, without the people
the city can become comforting, peaceful. But never for long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">It was a cold night,
early in January. It hadn’t snowed much, but there were icy patches where
puddles refroze after the hours of the traffic’s warmth. She was huddled in a
threadbare shawl, moving at a pace some compromise between care for the ice and
keeping blood from coagulating to avoid frostbite. I don’t like to get
involved. In the end you can only lose.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Sure enough, a large,
somewhat threatening looking, guy appears, yelling after her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">I keep to myself
against the reassuring bricks and steel, and watch the drama ensue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">But maybe I’m not as
sheltered as I thought, since the next thing I know I am waking with a
monumental headache in a far different place. Bright lights, loud noises,
sterilized activity, I am propped up against a wall in an overcrowded ER, a
place where my disheveled, disoriented presence is sure to cause no
alarm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Then, I see her on a
gurney. She is deathly pale, still. I am starting to wonder if this is all a
dream, or some superdrug hallucination, but the sensory qualities are all too
real, and distasteful. I hate when that happens. Now I’ll have to deal with
all this gross stupidity without the benefit of knowing what it’s all
about.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">A nurse’s aide comes
over with a form for me to fill out about insurance and next of kin. I motion,
slur, get him to understand that I am concerned about the young woman on the
gurney. He probably thinks she’s my sister or girlfriend, and tells me she’s
lost a lot of blood, but they will be transfusing as soon as the right blood
type comes up from storage. It may be touch and go, but she’s in good hands.
He tells me a physician’s assistant will be calling me shortly to examine my
contusions and lacerations, and I should tell her what drugs I am
on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">I see the guy from the
street come in while we are talking. Should I try to hide or get away? Or is
he just here because of her? I was just an inconvenient by-passer, after all.
I can’t get my legs to work under me anyway. May as well just let it play
out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Sure enough, he sidles
over to her, whispering something in her ear as the life drains out of her.
Like I say, I don’t like to get involved.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">I waited for my body to
figure out how to cooperate, and got out of there. Back home, I’m hammering
this out on my antique manual typewriter. There’s no electricity here in the
hole. Thankfully, there is a working fireplace, and places to scavenge
wood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #640064; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">The city’s got a
million stories. I like to squirrel them away in these recordings I keep typing
and filing. You can see them unfolding, refolding, just out there, everyday.
The hard part is not getting sucked in, becoming the story yourself.</span></div>
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provocateur</span></center>
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<span style="color: #336600;">Violence is learned as the appropriate reaction
to anger and frustrations. In the media and on
the streets, violence is glorified and rewarded.
Poverty both material and emotional is endured,
but not quietly. Violent reactions are visited
especially on the families and neighbors
themselves subject to these brutalizing environments,
as well as upon those who are materially better off,
in the form of all manner of violent crime.
The criminal justice system seems to only reflect and
propagate the brutalizing conditions which do nothing
to ameliorate the hate, pain, frustrations in an
endless cycle of violence, victimizing victims and
perpetrators and numbing the sensibilities of the
professionals who attempt to work within the system.
The education system fails to educate in most of the
areas that we need to understand to function in our world.
How much do we learn in school (or even at home or on
the streets) about basic health and safety, financial
management, childcare, legal rights and responsibilities,
building meaningful relationships, building self-esteem,
building and maintaining a home? Instead, most of what
our young people learn in the schools that they must spend
most of their formative years attending seems to be more
destructive and counterproductive than truly useful.
The quality of life we can look forward to is the quality
of life we teach our children to expect and produce.
And in the present we live out the expectations we are
producing today. Yet, what am I doing to promote a better
world? I see the misfortunes around me, and feel hopelessly
frustrated, beyond any attempt at change. "I am, after all,
only one relatively powerless person," I say, and go on
with my daily chores, which, after all, leave me little
time or energy for doing battle with the powers that shape my
surroundings.
I have come up with several ideas which I believe would,
if implemented, result in a happier world. I do not
expect you to agree with my ideas. In fact, I would be
highly gratified if you would disagree, and in your
disagreement develop or expand ideas of your own which
you might share, thereby increasing the energy expended
toward positive change in opposition to the apathy or
uselessly expended anger against vague or inappropriate
targets which, I fear, are overwhelming our healthier impulses.
And, if by chance you do agree with any of my ideas,
perhaps you could expand on them or help to devise more
effective methods of implementation than I have yet been
able to imagine. It is said that imagination can be a
powerful tool toward change. Perhaps the opening of channels
of communication for our positive imaginings might help us to
create a world in which we could be prouder and happier to live.
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<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;">As one who is socially libertarian and fiscally green, I wish to see a
minimalization of governmental interference in our daily lives, and for
any such interference to make sense, to promote the conservation of our
shared natural environment and a healthy shared eco-system, and to take
account of the true costs in terms of the environment and individual human
needs. That is the way to add a spiritual dimension to our shared culture.</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;">I have a suggestion which would include highly informative and
electrifying television/web coverage which could help to
ameliorate some of the strife in various world trouble spots.
Possibly sponsored by the UN, or other groups which are
interested in promoting dialog, in centers of troubled areas
town-hall-type meetings (such as had been made popular by
President Clinton) could be organized to allow regular, every-day
people who represent the various sides in their controversies to
speak and dialog on live, international television. Strict
security would make sure that no weapons would be allowed in the
venue, but there would be no holds barred on what these people
could say so that all issues could be expressed as well as any
suggestions for working out these issues. In coordination with
these meetings, a web-page could be dedicated to the project with
transcripts of the meetings and a forum for anyone to respond
with their comments and suggestions, possibly including a live
chat room. Alongside these town meetings, videoconferences could
be arranged to air live on international television for leaders
of the various groups in the controveries. The transcripts of
these videoconferences and opportunities for comment/suggestions
could also be provided on the web-page.</span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> Just about whenever a proposal is made to improve social/
ecological conditions by making changes in some industry we are
subjected to a ballyhoo about the potential loss of jobs which
may ensue. It would make more sense and be more sensitive to the
needs of both our world and the individuals concerned if
provisions were generally available to make involuntary
unemployment less hazardous. For instance, various jobs become
obsolete as new technology or new perceptions of consumer needs,
etc. emerge, which also can lead to the creation of new classes
of jobs. All that is needed to bring the employee from doing job
A to job B is training in the new job. Contrary to the popular
myth that long years of schooling are necessary to learn skills
relevant to employment in most fields, most actual
day-to-day job skills are learned on the job. Whatever
background knowledge is needed can generally be learned
concomitant with job skills in on-site training classes or in
specific job-related training programs. These need not be
particularly expensive and could be funded as part of employer
overhead along with lower salaries while the employee is in
training and perhaps tax advantages or other public incentives.
Small businesses could be funded to train or retrain unemployed
people for the jobs they need filled. Unlike large corporations,
small businesses would find it difficult to pay for job specific
training, thereby limiting their employment opportunities to
those already having specific skills. Since most new jobs are
with small businesses, people laid off from other work or
otherwise unskilled in the specific areas needed by these small
businesses are at a disadvantage in gaining employment. Job
training funds could be distributed through tax incentives, local
jobs-related agencies, the Small Business Administration, or even
retraining grants given directly to the job seeker through
unemployment compensation offices. Projects beneficial to
communities could be undertaken by local small businesses and
paid for by government grants, including monies for hiring and
(re)training workers. The businesses would then be able to
complete these projects, and still have their systems in place
for continued employment of people for other, private or public,
projects. For those who may lose highly paid positions, a
private unemployment insurance investment might be advised. For
those in low-paid, high-turnover jobs, the public schools,
community centers and other groups might provide low or no cost
training linked to local business needs. In fact, high school
job-training programs linked with local businesses could provide
incentive for teens to stay in school and give them opportunities
for immediate earning power, which could have the added benefit
of lessening teen crime. Another system for job skill and
readiness training could be overseen by private enterprise.
Private employment services providing career counseling, personal
empowerment counseling and interface with agencies to provide for
the clients' needs both while in training and while in transition
to employment, along with specific job skills training and
general employment skills training could become commonplace in
every community where employment is an issue. These services
would be available to anyone needing them and paid for by the
individual clients, either through their own resources or through
government loans (to be repaid when the client obtains
employment, at a fair rate). These employment training services
would only be eligible for government loans if they could prove a
consistently high percentage of their clients had success in
obtaining and keeping employment. The training offered should be
in a variety of job skills keyed to individual aptitudes and the
kinds of jobs generally available or projected to have a high
potential for availability. The employment training services
could negotiate contracts with members of the business community
to train for specific jobs with guaranteed employment to
qualified graduates. They could also provide business skills
training to help and encourage entrepreneurial talent.
Meanwhile, it would behoove we-as-society to provide a cushion of
financial resources to get all of us who for any reason may face
financial instability through our individual crises without
turning to crime, begging or a condition of hopeless
homelessness. The current social services complex and
unemployment insurance system are not working; and neither is the
current attitude of holier-than-thouness towards those of us
without financial resources. Perhaps, rather than acting as if
those with jobs were entitled to keep them no matter what the
social cost, we could develop an attitude of real economic
consciousness and plans to safeguard everyone's right to a
livelihood, not as charity but in the original sense of insurance
to provide against calamity. We could also aim toward more
flexibility in employment-employee relationships, more community
awareness and involvement and a real commitment to
community/work/industry/ economics as if both the Earth and the
individual mattered. For instance, it would be universally
beneficial to do away with the standard 9 to 5 work hours. Many
industries already have shift work, flexible hours, etc. Use of
resources generally could be more efficient and workers'
individual schedules better accommodated if individually-based
work hours were the norm. We could certainly do away with the
rush-hour traffic situation we all loathe. Those who function
better at certain hours of the day could work during their hours
of peak performance. Childcare arrangements could be more easily
accommodated. In that regard, there are many jobs which could be
done wholly or partially in the home, allowing for both dependent
care and paid work, geared to the mutual convenience of the
worker and employer. For site-specific jobs, on-site dependent
care would certainly be helpful. Currently employed workers
could also benefit from flexibility allowing for expanded skills
training to prepare for a greater variety of possible jobs. In
other words, it's time for flexibility rather than rigidity in
the structuring of our work lives. Tangentially, why not make it
simpler, easier for independent small businesses to get going --
simplify the regulations, not in regard to true safety or
environmental standards, but in regard to economically engendered
standards. Keep the rules clear and simple and easy to access,
understand and implement. Make it easier for people without
means but with ambition and ideas to get low cost loans, business
management training and whatever other foothold they need to
develop truly local, community businesses keyed to the
community's needs and desires. </span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> A framework of so-called "12-step programs" has
been developed to help people deal with addictions to substances.
However, at least part of that framework could be modified to
help people to deal with the hot buttons in their lives that
lead to committing violent acts. I am thinking of some group
maybe called Violence Anonymous which could be initiated in
various community settings, staffed by volunteers (who would
eventually be long-term program participants but initially could
be people who are concerned about these issues, maybe from law
enforcement or religious groups or just community volunteers),
available 24/7 for anyone who finds themselves fighting violent
urges and needs somewhere to go, maybe to talk to others who
have experienced/are experiencing similar feelings, maybe to
listen to those others vent and share their feelings and
experiences, maybe to just have a good old-fashioned "time-out."
Once the groups are formed, members could sponsor each other as
in AA, to be available to talk one-on-one until the need for
violence passes. I don't know about the actual "12 Steps."
Maybe they could be adapted to this new forum. And judges could
mandate VA sessions to family batterers, people involved in
public brawls, etc. -- for a specified amount of time and then
as needed once the erstwhile defendant has had a chance to work
with the group and find out how it works for them. An adjunct
program could also be developed, VV -- Victims of Violence --
for, obviously, victims of violence, where they could find
others who understand, to whom they could vent their feelings,
from whom they could hear others stories and coping mechanisms,
or to just have a safe place to go when needed. There could be
made available in the community setting where the VV groups meet
referral resources for shelters, medical help, legal help,
whatever is seen as needed. Volunteers could make sure the
setting was staffed at all times with someone who has had
training in working with trauma victims, and eventually staffed
with long-term participants. The focus of VA and VV would be
not in blaming the perpetrator of violence or the victim, but
in joining together as a community against the common enemy,
the violent behavior itself. </span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> The issue of a right to life is certainly more complex than the
media image that right-to-life groups portray. Totally apart
from the issues of women's rights over their own bodies and the
morality of sexual activity, there remains the very compelling
issue of quality of life. I am speaking here not only of the
quality of life potentially available to the unwanted yet to be
born child or the potential quality of life for the mother to be
and other members of her family, both very important issues
indeed, but also of the quality of life for us all in the
extended family of society, including those children who are very
much wanted. I am talking about finite resources and how they
are to be distributed. I am talking about child abuse and its
far-reaching effects in the escalation of violence and misery. I
am also talking about the messages we give to people, young girls
of child-bearing age in particular, but all the rest of us as
well, about our responsibilities, to our children, to ourselves,
to our communities, and to our world. There are, of course,
many reasons why a particular pregnancy may not be appropriate
for a particular person at a particular time. Among these are
the age and health of the prospective mother, the circumstances
surrounding the conception (such as incest or rape), the career
goals that may be shattered, the existence of other children or
dependents whose demands of time and energy may be usurped, and,
certainly, economic factors precluding the proper care of mother
and child. Regarding these economic factors, a question I think
appropriate to ask those who carry the banner of right-to-life
is, who is to pay these costs to create a real life for these
children that you say should be saved? Some may be adopted into
families who have the means and desire to raise them, but
certainly not all. I know I would have a great deal more respect
for these crusaders of conscience were they to contribute a
sizable percentage of their formidable resources -- time, energy
and cash -- toward a right to quality life campaign for these
children: providing quality childcare options, quality living
spaces, quality medical care, quality educational opportunities
for both children and parents, quality nutrition including
prenatal nutrition, quality counseling for troubled families,
etc., etc. Can you do that? Can you truly take responsibility
for your beliefs? Or is the extent of your commitment merely to
make life more difficult for those already facing insurmountable
challenges? And, you know, the sword of governmental interference
cuts both ways. There have been many cases of women forced to
end their pregnancies against their will by legal fiat. This is
obviously a very personal issue, over which only the individuals directly
involved deserve to have control.</span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> I have already written to the tax authorities about allowing us
a line on our tax forms to tell them of particular government
expenditures we do or do not want our individual tax bills
subsidizing -- ultimately it would probably all cancel out and
the resultant budget be no different, but at least we would have
a chance to make our preferences known in a more specific way
than by the ballot -- of course this has not been done. However,
I suggest a much more sweeping reform than this. I suggest that
we do away with personal income tax and personal property taxes
on single family primary residences.
I suggest that we try financing our governmental projects via
sales tax. After all, we do have at least some control over what
we spend in terms of keeping within our family budget. Certain
necessity items would be exempt from taxation: food, basic
clothing (say items under $100 retail), medical supplies, heating
fuel, childcare, education. Items in a luxury category might be
taxed at a higher rate. All commercial transactions involving
nonexempt items, at all levels along the process from manufacture
to retail, could be taxed, as well as all service transactions
(excluding necessary services, such as medical care, etc.).
Business people already must keep tax records and many states
already have sales taxes, so the recordkeeping aspect should not
be a problem. Regular wage earners, as opposed to those who sell
products or services, would no longer need to be plagued by the
need to keep records of all their financial transactions, nor
would employers need to keep tax withholding records for their
employees. High duties on major purchases brought in from other
countries could help to keep those with the means from buying
abroad to avoid taxation (or perhaps other countries could also
adopt this means of taxation). Savings on the government's end
might be effected by doing away with subsidies for certain
groups, such as farmers and oil producers, when they have the
advantage of tax exempt products and fewer taxes to pay in
production. Hopefully, this would also result in lower prices in
general for such commodities at the consumers' level. Therefore
we could have a turn around of the present system of the lower
income people supporting the higher in terms of tax liability. </span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> Another suggestion I have would add greatly to the national
income and lower the high costs of prisons, courts, law
enforcement, and social services.
We have been hearing for quite some time about drug abuse and the
so-called war on drugs. Governmental interferences in our lives
of absurd proportions have been suggested and implemented in this
mad campaign. In response to those who blame illicit drug users
for the growth of the "drug problem" on the demand side, you are
entirely missing the point. Look into history or psychology and
you will clearly see that people have always used the substances
available to them to ease their anxieties, self-medicate for
chronic or medically untreatable pain, relax, recreate,
celebrate, become more sensitized to art/beauty/relationships,
become less sensitized to poverty/ugliness/hunger, search for
spiritual fulfillment, change their consciousness in one way or
another. For most of history this was an incidental aspect of
human behavior. The problem with the illicit drugs (not to be
confused with the drugs this society condones, for whatever
accidental reason) is the profit motive resulting from their
artificially inflated prices (a direct result of the laws and
enforcement of same against their use or sale) which lead to
bloody battles among those who want to make those profits, and
between the profiteers and the law enforcement personnel who
harass them. What most people who complain about the "drug
problem" are afraid of is the violence and street crime resulting
from this profit motive. Profit-driven violence is only being
exacerbated by law-enforcement's efforts to crack down on drugs.
To lower the incidence of serious abuse of drug use, wouldn't it
be more practical to control the legal use of these substances?
We could heavily regulate sales centers for those substances we
choose to designate. Perhaps limit the number of such centers in
each given area, regulate their locations (say not within a
certain distance of schools or other chosen community
facilities), regulate the age of patrons with mandatory ID
checks, regulate the amount to be sold per transaction, regulate
the prices while still keeping these prices well below those of
the current illicit market, include heavy taxation and use tax
revenues from the sale of these substances to fund various
treatment centers, substance use/abuse education and medical
programs (after which any additional tax revenues may be used to
help pay for other desired programs), disallow advertising of
these products, stringently disallow public use and driving under
the influence (along the lines of current policies against drunk
driving, we could have laws against driving under the influence
of any debilitating substance with stringent penalties like loss
of the driver's license and car and substantial fines). Drug
bars could be licensed to give people a legitimate place in which
to enjoy these substances with others, and regulated to disallow
minors, require that sales be only for on-premises use, etc. (We
could also require for the staff of these drug bars expertise in
controlling and mitigating conflicts, both physical and
psychological. It would benefit both the community and the
customers of these bars to maintain a positive environment.)
Through tax revenues our government programs would benefit from
those who desire these products, rather than organized crime.
Meanwhile, a system of highly regulated legal distribution would
allow for the kind of knowledge and control which is impossible
under the existing situation of uncontrolled illicit
transactions. Educational programs against drug use could be
refined and expanded. Minors would not be pressured into drug
use or sales by criminals seeking expanding profits or seeking
less legally liable dupes to do their work for them, or by their
own desires for otherwise unimaginable wealth; and people in
general who use these substances would not be forced to deal with
profit-hungry, unscrupulous criminals and possibly tainted
products. Drug treatment programs could be made much more
available; and without legal considerations some secret drug
users might be less intimidated about going for treatment. More
room would be available in prisons and courts for other kinds of
criminals if less were taken up by drug-related crimes; and there
would be less violence in our communities without drug-profit
related crimes. If we like, harsher penalties could be
legislated against criminals who commit crimes while under the
influence of drugs (including alcohol) to both prevent these
criminals from trying to use their drug-induced misjudgment as an
excuse for their crimes and increase the general idea of
responsible use of mind-altering substances. Public resources
now being desperately and ultimately ineffectually thrown into
the anti-drug "war" would be available for use against the social
problems we all recognize such as homelessness, poverty,
intrafamilial violence, lack of quality education, et al., the
root causes of addiction. Furthermore, a more enlightened
attitude toward drug use might allow for those who do choose to
make recreational use of drugs to be better informed about the
consequences of their choice and, therefore, allow them to pursue
these activities more safely and responsibly. </span><br />
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"> About the criminal justice system generally, our societal
response to crime: Crime can be divided into the distinct
categories of violent and nonviolent -- to be handled in very
different ways. People who impose violence on others when
considerations such as self-defense or defense of others are not
involved are dangerous, and in most cases need to be removed from
society. People who break laws made for the protection of
society or various groups within the society, but who do not
impose violence on others, can be dealt with in various
noncustodial ways, depending on the circumstances of the
individual cases. Within the framework of these two distinct
categories, there are various levels of seriousness which should
lead to various levels of response. On the other end of the
criminal-victim dyad, is the currently underrepresented victim.
For true justice to be effected, the needs of the victim need to
be addressed and redressed. We speak of criminals "paying
their debt to society." Wouldn't it make more sense in terms
of justice, retribution, punishment and deterrence (theoretically
the reasons for criminal prosecution) for them to, in a very real
and financial sense, pay their debt to their victims? As part of
their sentence, perpetrators could be required to return to
the victim that which their crime took from him or her (to the
extent possible). One way to do this might be to include
crime-related debt, as some child support payments are handled,
within the purview of the IRS (which seems better equipped than
the criminal justice system to see that payment is made). In any
case, society must see that the victim is taken care of, as
an integral part of the criminal justice system.
In regard to preventing crime in the first place: most schools
have "guidance counsellors" to help students plan for careers,
choose courses, and sometimes with personal problems. Why not
expand this service to truly provide guidance for people in a
community who may have personal, family, health, psychological or
just growing up problems of all sorts. These counsellors could
be primarily community volunteers who are trained as active
listeners and equipped with referral sources, but who are
basically there to be there, to give people somewhere they can go
easily, with no fuss or embarrassment that might be associated
with seeing mental health professionals. We could provide space
in the schools and hospitals and whatever places in the community
people gather. School children would be given an orientation
about these counsellors and told to use the service frequently,
whenever they just need to talk. Expense in funds, space, etc.
would be comparatively small, could be paid for through community
fund-raising efforts, and would certainly be repaid many times
over in the help to stop potential problems when they are still
in formative stages. This program could deal with dispute
mediation between neighbors or within families or between
students and school personnel, etc. Letting people know that
their problems and disputes are being taken seriously, that their
community cares, in itself could do alot to diffuse antisocial
feelings. It could also help to bring together people into
community, in contrast to the current seeming disassociative
trends, which could spiral into all kinds of intracommunity
projects for the improvement of lives and society in general.
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;">I have a lot of problems with the US school system and have
long thought that a better way to educate our kids and
ourselves would be more on the 60's "free school" model
-- community storefront schools where people teach what
they know and learn what they want to learn. A lot of so-called
laziness is simply nonengagement in boring lessons without much
immediate relevance to the student. A lot more is probably general
fatigue from lack of exercise. Kids should be out moving, actively
building energy and neuronal connections doing and playing,
engaged in hands-on learning.
Actively working together on projects, teaching each other as
they go along, would exponentially increase learning, as we know
that one of the best ways to learn is to teach. Furthermore,
community in general would be greatly strengthened by having
this kind of helpful, enjoyable, sharing interaction and a
place for such gathering.
Any group that considers itself a community could put this
kind of thing together, even in a small way. We could just develop
workshops/learning groups (however the individual group wants
to conceive it) in our homes with our cohorts and teach and
learn what we are interested in. We could use the home
schooling exception to compulsory education to teach our kids
the way we know is best for them. Even if we send our kids
to public schools, we can provide these kinds of experiences
for them during their off-school time. We might even consider
converting the public schools into community schools -- without
federal money or mandates -- to be run by members of the community
(however they conceive themselves) to teach real skills and
learning tools as well as cooperation through a variety of
individual and group projects, field trips, lectures and
demonstrations, interactive workshops. A series of tests could even
be provided to measure acquirement of basic skills like reading,
writing, arithmetic, citizenship, basic health care -- for a
certificate of graduation -- to be taken at whatever age the
individual feels ready to graduate. This schooling would not
be limited to people of a particular age group, but available
to the whole community.
Even if we have no such community project available,
we certainly have the opportunity to teach our kids the truth
and how to find it for themselves as a normal part of our
daily relationships with them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;">Why do we assume that it is the height of virtue to be
"hard-working"? Certainly it is a great good to uphold one's
responsibilities as a member of a community -- to be reliable,
trustworthy, and conscientious, to carry one's fair share of the
weight. But lauding someone as "hard-working," implying
industriousness well above the norm, implying that by virtue of
those extra hours, that extra push of energy directed toward
labor, one becomes deserving of ... what? A larger share of the
communal pie? Extra consideration and privileges? A ready
excuse for any and all activities that cannot be accommodated due
to the extra time and energy given to that hard work? Whatever
that work may consist of? Is that the message, the prioritization
that we truly want for our community? That hard work trumps
loving kindness or easy-going goodwill or all or the kinds of
play that leads to discovery or artistic imaginings or
camaraderie or taking joy in life? Or inspiring others to be
happy, loving,spiritually attuned? Yes, hard work can be it's
own reward, when one is working hard at somethign personally
meaningful, or something of great public value. But is it really
the virtue to which we most want to aspire?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #336600; font-size: medium;">As we know, money is just a symbol agreed upon within the socio-
economic structure of society. Governmental bodies have as part of
their role the creating, distributing, evaluating of this eco-
symbol. We have seen monies based on gold or other precious
commodities, but these commodities are also in this sense symbols for
a rate of exchange. We do not need these commodities, or even
printed paper, to have a rate of exchange. It is all symbolic. It
is all in our heads, our collective agreements. In fact, to a large
extent today our economic transactions are based on computer files in
cyberspace. We have evolved a credit economy with an awful lot of
accumulating debt on national, business, and personal levels. Much
more Neptunian than Saturnian. Are there good reasons not to, are
here not excellent reasons to, overhaul the underlying economic
structure to create one to better fit with the goal of creating and
distributing goods and services? Instead of collecting taxes to pay
for their workers and projects, why should government not simply pay
their own workers (and here I refer to civil servants, not politicians.
I believe political office holders should serve temporarily, even
part-time, with no pay beyond a stipend for expenses, but that's
another rant.), pay for needed materials, with funds created by the
government for this purpose -- to arrange for the creation and
maintenance of a proper infrastructure? The symbolic means of
exchange could then be distributed through these workers (trickle
down with a twist)when they pay for goods and services of the
private market. If the true wealth of a nation is the value of the
labor of its citizens, this would be a more logical and effective
method in accord with that consensus reality.</span></h4>
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libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-49891314772705219602018-08-25T19:26:00.002-07:002018-08-25T19:26:24.497-07:00grand earth trine?Fate, Fate, Fate<br />
too late, late late<br />
eras ending without sending a better place in their stead<br />
no wonder so many of us feel we’re better off dead<br />
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8/25/18libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-65876540072298496272018-08-03T16:25:00.001-07:002018-08-04T15:49:07.592-07:00season of the Sun (in progress)<div dir="ltr">
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Sun greets Earth</div>
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a hearty slap</div>
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hot and sassy</div>
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Leo </div>
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Heart strings</div>
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playing in the sunshine.</div>
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Nobility</div>
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out standing star sublime,</div>
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to set each day in tune.</div>
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Lilting aria of blessing, rising</div>
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glow of precious light</div>
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expresses pure and true.</div>
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Brilliant notes pour, glisten, through</div>
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radiant delight.</div>
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Enchanted child-king exuding golden hue.</div>
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That's how I think of you.</div>
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In wild’s kingdom</div>
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all manner of creatures</div>
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thrive, explore, as before</div>
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the invasion.</div>
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Eagles soar.</div>
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Lions roar.</div>
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Whales sing.</div>
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Humans open </div>
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veiled third eye.</div>
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Sun Rise</div>
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Early pinks ascend from eerie violets.</div>
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Sun’s lifting eye twinkles like a happy kitten,</div>
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tummy exposed for adoration.</div>
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Omens, prophecy, hope for enduring happy returns</div>
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blossom to a </div>
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rhythmic peak</div>
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sending out, sending out, sending out</div>
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radiant vibration.</div>
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Stars, sunrays, miracles ablaze. </div>
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Loved and protected by gods, smitten with ecstasy. </div>
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Fortune favors elegance, grace of presence, </div>
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true nobility beyond codes of legend. </div>
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Borne on Sun's warm rays, a'smile,</div>
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a welcome lift for all hearts’ desires.</div>
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Festivities, sparkling lights and</div>
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generosity</div>
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bless time of joyful grandiosity.</div>
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Rise in salutation to this Summer star.</div>
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Celebration waves through the streets, with drums,</div>
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lucid bells, a call to play</div>
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Carnival cheer brings heat to flame</div>
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Chants blend to sing with drinks and games</div>
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Grand gestures expand, to applaud such a day </div>
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fueled by smiling Sun.</div>
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Strum gallant minstrel, of wander's ways.</div>
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Tumble</div>
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into </div>
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song singing hallelujahs,</div>
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place of play, haunted</div>
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by pretty memories</div>
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tinged gold in sunshine.</div>
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Midsummer twilight,</div>
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fairytales brought back from sleep.</div>
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Sprinting across that abyss</div>
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beauty simple, profound. </div>
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Like a warm evening on the beach, all woozy from sunshine. </div>
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Tingle of sea breeze, that ocean scent of the wild.</div>
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As the sun recedes, cooling, refreshing, yet still a lazy summer eve.
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Oh that luscious feeling, that overflow of quiet release. </div>
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Move inward</div>
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as Sunlight descends.</div>
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Cob-webbed lantern, too weak to flame, </div>
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forgotten among rusted childhood trains, stranded tinsel,</div>
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abandoned hero’s fantasies.</div>
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</div>
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Loyal Leo will lick your wounds</div>
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refresh with nature's might</div>
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All our world a whirl of sound</div>
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love and luck will soon rebound</div>
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Charmed music fills the air with glee</div>
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Play, dear gypsy, wild and free</div>
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No fears to scale your flight</div>
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All in a Summer's night</div>
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If the sky could, it would dream of stars nova bright raining through
galactic clouds.</div>
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ebbing outward </div>
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gentle ripples </div>
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bathed in sunshine ease </div>
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Eyes burn with hazy summer wine and wilding</div>
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Feet connect dust to sky -- but only in designated</div>
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spheres, with designated peers, self-selected inhibitions</div>
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Sweat out poison into the ground; now, eat the bounty</div>
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Midsummer farce, far from honor, far from sunrise,</div>
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counting out the chimes as if time were treasure</div>
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Silly summer madness as if what matters</div>
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is so circumscribed, so predictable</div>
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I need to tell a tale</div>
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of fantasy and careless</div>
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leaning into tall grass,</div>
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fruited trees, languid leaves,</div>
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brilliant sunshine warming</div>
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soporific </div>
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melting melodies</div>
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receptive to pleasure;</div>
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balming luscious nectars,</div>
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warm melt of sunshine,</div>
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elation, charismatic exultation.</div>
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I am in awe, a true believer;</div>
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not on my knees in supplication.</div>
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Supine, welcoming grace.</div>
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hero</div>
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Pearls iridescent from the Sun</div>
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Diamonds extracted from the Moon</div>
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Gold-dusted silks from</div>
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exotic worlds.</div>
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Valued in danger, chances of doom in transit</div>
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from there to here.</div>
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Fine old wood,</div>
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mellowed wisdom</div>
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tasting of Earth,</div>
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eloquently regales with tales</div>
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sage and pure.</div>
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</div>
<div>
Young Percival took knight’s oath seriously. To protect and to serve King
and country.</div>
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The old King afflicted, declining, perhaps dying. Soul sickness they
said.</div>
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Crops fail to thrive. Floods, droughts, oppressive climate. The peasants
too sicken,</div>
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die, live while they do hungry with poverty, disarray.</div>
<div>
In a vision, Percival beholds the Holy Grail – dazzling jewels upon a
golden chalice,</div>
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generating elixir of immortality.</div>
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Filled with such reflection, he hastens in the direction of adventure. He
leaves the dying kingdom</div>
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to its decline, in search of a promised land’s magical curative power.
Thinking not of King or country, </div>
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roused by urgent ecstatic pounding he knows to be</div>
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his own heart.</div>
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</div>
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Where do you ride, fair Percival?</div>
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Off to find the healer's Grail?</div>
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Learn your song and tell your tale.</div>
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Become a son of Sky and Earth</div>
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and rain</div>
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to return with the wizardry you gain</div>
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some wondrous day.</div>
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Break the curse.</div>
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Expel the kingdom's pain.</div>
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</div>
<div>
He seeks the skills of seers, demons, subtle sorceries and charms. Growing
ever</div>
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stronger, healthy exercise, happy purpose enrich his will. Over terrible
trials </div>
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and deceptions, treacherous opposition, ever nearer his divine prize
appears.</div>
<div>
These trials are key. They test mettle while bestowing lessons,
confidence,</div>
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resource acquisition, glimmerings of wisdom. The prize glitters, shines,
glows</div>
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brilliantly in auric distance, delineates focus, a clear point, fixed star
to contemplate</div>
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through twisting, turning, misty mythic roads.</div>
<div>
Sometimes the brick is yellow. Some paths are more intuitive, furtive
steps in dark,</div>
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brambly forest, hostile terrain.</div>
<div>
Percival knows what a hero does. A hero perseveres. A hero scales the
tower to free</div>
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the enslaved damsel; goes where others dare not tread because fear is his
worthy companion.</div>
<div>
Trudging, fighting, sometimes dazed, momentarily forgetting his quest, he
perseveres.</div>
<div>
He need but give pause, look beyond to see his Grail shining, calling him
forward.</div>
<div>
Of course, he reaches the Grail, discovers the codes, incantations,
ensorcels dragons,</div>
<div>
defies giants, generally blazes through to capture his destiny.</div>
<div>
Returning triumphant, he brings joy to the kingdom, drop-kicks the curse,
cures the old King</div>
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of soul malady, is gifted the throne to wisely guide his subjects into
delightful prosperity.</div>
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So the story goes.</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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pure essence to ignite.</div>
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Saddened, enraged, radiant,</div>
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tempered to exquisite artistry.</div>
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The man who would flow with the forces </div>
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of nature,</div>
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in touch with combust eternity,</div>
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child of the Sun.</div>
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Walk to the Sun </div>
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<div>
When I was a child, it was an old shaman </div>
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in our village who told the story. </div>
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"We used to walk to the Sun. </div>
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We would bring back gifts for the grain. </div>
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Everyone was happy. </div>
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Today, no one walks to the Sun. No one tends the grain. </div>
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No one is happy." </div>
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</div>
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Lately, I understand that </div>
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it was not the actual Sun in the sky </div>
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of which he spoke. It was that shining </div>
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place in our heart that lets us know how to do what is right.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
I’m taking a walk to the Sun; want to come along?</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
<div>
Welcome arising in our hearts,</div>
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Anointing our many-colored soul.</div>
<div>
Take in the day</div>
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Rejoice in the sunshine</div>
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We are alove and strong</div>
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In primeval paradise</div>
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Upon a windswept beach</div>
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Our eyes, our arms</div>
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Raised in blessing</div>
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Totality is ours</div>
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There is no darkness.</div>
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<div>
I walk softly in the morning.</div>
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Drink awakening dew, sunbeam blessed.</div>
<div>
I take what has always been mine,</div>
<div>
cherish magnificence</div>
<div>
and leave rough visions</div>
<div>
of apocalypse to human eyes.</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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prides </div>
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</div>
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</div>
<div>
Titania rises on her heels</div>
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claps her hands with glee</div>
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to see royal rangers clear the field</div>
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for her jamboree.</div>
<div>
Her noble guests arrive at last.</div>
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Grand table's set to break their fast.</div>
<div>
Lavish feast for this ravenous class</div>
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to exalt their victory.</div>
<div>
The royal band breaks out in waltz</div>
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for revelers’ employ.</div>
<div>
Nary a note may ring out false.</div>
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We're all here to enjoy</div>
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a raucous tribute to our fleet.</div>
<div>
So raise your voices, stamp your feet,</div>
<div>
privileged as renowned elite</div>
<div>
to treat our vanquished as a toy.</div>
<div>
To those who watch beyond closed gates</div>
<div>
silly revelers at play</div>
<div>
feeding the fire of long held hates</div>
<div>
this is a different day.</div>
<div>
"Fiddle dee dee" partiers bray with scorn,</div>
<div>
mocking the starving and care worn.</div>
<div>
But soon they'll rue the day they've borne</div>
<div>
as their world turns dank and grey.</div>
<div>
As a new star ascends over fields and trails,</div>
<div>
sparks audacious fete of change.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Heart strings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">playing in the sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nobility</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">out standing star sublime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ability to set each day in tune.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A lilting aria of blessing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Air of precious light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">singing pure and true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Brilliant notes pour, glisten, through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">the shade.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A melody, a glade of golden hue,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">that's how I think of you.</span><br />
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In wild’s kingdom</div>
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all manner of creatures</div>
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thrive, entwine as before</div>
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the invasion.</div>
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Eagles soar.</div>
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Lions roar.</div>
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Whales sing.</div>
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Humans open </div>
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veiled third eye.</div>
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Sun greets Earth</div>
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a hearty slap</div>
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hot and sassy</div>
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sun rise</div>
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sending out, sending out, sending out</div>
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radiant vibration</div>
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Early pinks ascend from eerie violets.</div>
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Sun’s lifting eye twinkles like a happy kitten,</div>
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tummy exposed for adoration.</div>
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Omens, prophecy, hope for enduring happy returns,</div>
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Celebration waves the streets, with drums,</div>
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lucid bells, a call to play</div>
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Carnival cheer brings heat to flame</div>
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Chants blend to sing with drinks and games</div>
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Grand gestures expand, to applaud such a day </div>
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fueled by smiling Sun</div>
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Strum gallant minstrel, of wander's ways</div>
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Loyal Leo will lick your wounds</div>
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refresh with nature's might</div>
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All our world a whirl of sound</div>
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love and luck will soon rebound</div>
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Charmed music fills the air with glee</div>
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Play, dear gypsy, wild and free</div>
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No fears to scale your flight</div>
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All in a desert's night</div>
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beauty simple, profound. </div>
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Stars, sunrays, miracles ablaze. </div>
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Loved and protected by gods, smitten with ecstasy. </div>
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Fortune favors elegance, grace of presence, </div>
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true nobility beyond codes of legend. </div>
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Borne on Sun's warm rays, a'smile,</div>
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a welcome lift for all our hearts’ desire.</div>
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Festivities, sparkling lights and</div>
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generosity</div>
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bless time of joyful celebration,</div>
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rise in salutation to this Summer star</div>
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song singing hallelujahs,</div>
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place of play, haunted</div>
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by pretty memories</div>
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tinged gold in sunshine.</div>
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Midsummer twilight,</div>
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fairytales brought back from sleep.</div>
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Sprinting across that abyss,</div>
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If the sky could, it would dream of stars nova bright raining through
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Move inward</div>
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as Sunlight descends.</div>
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Cob-webbed lantern, too weak to flame, </div>
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forgotten among rusted childhood trains, stranded tinsel,</div>
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abandoned hero’s fantasies.</div>
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Like a warm evening on the beach, all woozy from sunshine. </div>
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Tingle of sea breeze, that ocean scent of the wild.</div>
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As the sun recedes, cooling, refreshing, yet still a lazy summer eve.
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Oh that luscious feeling, that overflow of quiet release. </div>
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ebbing outward </div>
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gentle ripples </div>
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bathed in sunshine ease </div>
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Eyes burn with hazy summer wine and wilding</div>
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Feet connect dust to sky -- but only in designated</div>
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spheres, with designated peers, self-selected inhibitions</div>
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Sweat out poison into the ground; now, eat the bounty</div>
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Midsummer farce, far from honor, far from sunrise,</div>
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counting out the chimes as if time were treasure</div>
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Silly summer madness as if what matters</div>
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is so circumscribed, so predictable</div>
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I need to tell a tale</div>
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of fantasy and careless</div>
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leaning into tall grass,</div>
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fruited trees, languid leaves,</div>
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brilliant sunshine warming</div>
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soporific </div>
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melting melodies</div>
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Pearls iridescent from the Sun</div>
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Diamonds extracted from the Moon</div>
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Gold-dusted silks from</div>
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exotic worlds.</div>
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Valued in danger, chances of doom in transit</div>
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from there to here.</div>
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Fine old wood,</div>
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mellowed wisdom</div>
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tasting of Earth,</div>
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eloquently regales with tales</div>
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sage and pure.</div>
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Young Percival took knight’s oath seriously. To protect and to serve King
and country.</div>
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The old King afflicted, declining, perhaps dying. Soul sickness they
said.</div>
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Crops fail to thrive. Floods, droughts, oppressive climate. The peasants
too sicken,</div>
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die, live while they do hungry with poverty, disarray.</div>
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In a vision, Percival beholds the Holy Grail – dazzling jewels upon a
golden chalice,</div>
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generating elixir of immortality.</div>
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Filled with such reflection, he hastens in the direction of adventure. He
leaves the dying kingdom</div>
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to its decline, in search of a promised land’s magical curative power.
Thinking not of King or country, </div>
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roused by urgent ecstatic pounding he knows to be</div>
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his own heart.</div>
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Where do you ride, fair Percival?</div>
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Off to find the healer's Grail?</div>
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Learn your song and tell your tale.</div>
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Become a son of Sky and Earth</div>
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and rain</div>
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to return with the wizardry you gain</div>
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some wondrous day.</div>
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Break the curse.</div>
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Expel the kingdom's pain.</div>
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He seeks the skills of seers, demons, subtle sorceries and charms. Growing
ever</div>
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stronger, healthy exercise, happy purpose enrich his will. Over terrible
trials </div>
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and deceptions, treacherous opposition, ever nearer his divine prize
appears.</div>
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These trials are key. They test mettle while bestowing lessons,
confidence,</div>
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resource acquisition, glimmerings of wisdom. The prize glitters, shines,
glows</div>
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brilliantly in auric distance, delineates focus, a clear point, fixed star
to contemplate</div>
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through twisting, turning, misty mythic roads.</div>
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Sometimes the brick is yellow. Some paths are more intuitive, furtive
steps in dark,</div>
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brambly forest, hostile terrain.</div>
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Percival knows what a hero does. A hero perseveres. A hero scales the
tower to free</div>
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the enslaved damsel; goes where others dare not tread because fear is his
worthy companion.</div>
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Trudging, fighting, sometimes dazed, momentarily forgetting his quest, he
perseveres.</div>
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He need but give pause, look beyond to see his Grail shining, calling him
forward.</div>
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Of course, he reaches the Grail, discovers the codes, incantations,
ensorcels dragons,</div>
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defies giants, generally blazes through to capture his destiny.</div>
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Returning triumphant, he brings joy to the kingdom, drop-kicks the curse,
cures the old King</div>
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of soul malady, is gifted the throne to wisely guide his subjects into
delightful prosperity.</div>
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So the story goes.</div>
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receptive to pleasure;</div>
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balming luscious nectars,</div>
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warm melt of sunshine,</div>
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elation, charismatic exultation.</div>
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I am in awe, a true believer;</div>
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not on my knees in supplication.</div>
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Supine, welcoming grace.</div>
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pure essence to ignite.</div>
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Saddened, enraged, radiant,</div>
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tempered to exquisite artistry.</div>
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The man who would flow with the forces </div>
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of nature,</div>
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in touch with combust eternity,</div>
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child of the Sun.</div>
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Walk to the Sun </div>
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When I was a child, it was an old shaman </div>
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in our village who told the story. </div>
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"We used to walk to the Sun. </div>
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We would bring back gifts for the grain. </div>
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Everyone was happy. </div>
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Today, no one walks to the Sun. No one tends the grain. </div>
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No one is happy." </div>
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Lately, I understand that </div>
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it was not the actual Sun in the sky </div>
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of which he spoke. It was that shining </div>
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place in our heart that lets us know how to do what is right.</div>
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I’m taking a walk to the Sun; want to come along?</div>
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Welcome arising in our hearts,</div>
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Anointing our many-colored soul.</div>
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Take in the day</div>
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Rejoice in the sunshine</div>
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We are alove and strong</div>
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In primeval paradise</div>
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Upon a windswept beach</div>
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Our eyes, our arms</div>
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Raised in blessing</div>
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Totality is ours</div>
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There is no darkness.</div>
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I walk softly in the morning.</div>
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Drink awakening dew, sunbeam blessed.</div>
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I take what has always been mine,</div>
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cherish magnificence</div>
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and leave rough visions</div>
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of apocalypse to human eyes.</div>
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prides </div>
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Titania rises on her heels</div>
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claps her hands with glee</div>
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to see royal rangers clear the field</div>
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for her jamboree.</div>
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Her noble guests arrive at last.</div>
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Grand table's set to break their fast.</div>
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Lavish feast for this ravenous class</div>
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to exalt their victory.</div>
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The royal band breaks out in waltz</div>
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for revelers’ employ.</div>
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Nary a note may ring out false.</div>
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We're all here to enjoy</div>
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a raucous tribute to our fleet.</div>
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So raise your voices, stamp your feet,</div>
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privileged as renowned elite</div>
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to treat our vanquished as a toy.</div>
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To those who watch beyond closed gates</div>
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silly revelers at play</div>
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feeding the fire of long held hates</div>
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this is a different day.</div>
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"Fiddle dee dee" partiers bray with scorn,</div>
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mocking the starving and care worn.</div>
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But soon they'll rue the day they've borne</div>
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as their world turns dank and grey.</div>
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As a new star ascends over fields and trails,</div>
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sparks audacious fete of change.</div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">God of Sky and Rain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Women hold up half the
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">In His world</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">women hold up the
sky.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Men sit around, masturbate, watch
football,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">occasionally,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #640a32; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">go out and rape</span></div>
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<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Rose Red</span></div>
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<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I am prickly,
admittedly.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I come by it rightly.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Organically evolved defensive
weapon</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">(note, no offensive weapon
attached).</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">You must approach me with
care.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Feel the velvet of my vibrant
leaves, gently.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">My flower, radiant in grace and
wonder.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Musical poetry wafting, my
enchanted perfume</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">calling for the discerning
touch.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">But grasp too hard, too
clumsily,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">without reflection, a thousand
tiny cuts </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">push you far away.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">In no time, you will
heal,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">leaving me to bleed
forever,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">attempting to clear from my
system</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #910021; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">your poisonous
residue.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Bitter Dregs</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">You don't get it.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">You don't want to.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">It would be too much to
bear</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">if you let your thought go
there.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Briefly unconscious, awakened
to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">hard concrete ground
surrounded</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">by heels and toes,
amazing</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">they don't crush me, but
no,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">like clockstep they walk
around</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">though occasionally a(n
unmeaning?)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">shove -- I'm not a
someone,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">just a minor obstacle</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">unnoted in their busy
day.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">No worries.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Not like shoved down
under</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">hard muscle, jutting
bone,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">stinking of beer and
rage;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">or waking from too brief
oblivion,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">broken pain, bleeding</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">tears, torn, bruised,
a</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">colorful toy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">made for pleasure.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Then the voices,
echoes.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Harpies and Sirens,
Furies</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">and sad old women.
Fingers</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">shake in
disapprobation.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Shrill voices call me
beautiful,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">in the way that ugly things
are.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">So bad, so pitiful,
cardinal</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">status among the
neverweres.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Struggling shadows,
whispering</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">curses demurely lest
anyone</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">notice and throw them
further</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">down, below duration.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Never easy, confessing
degradation.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6c002c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">The sin adheres. No one wants to
know.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">logic of rape culture</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I don't know. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Would it be morally acceptable to
destroy a person's mind </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">while they sleep, because they'll
never know they had one? </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Would it be morally just fine to
cruelly use people's lives </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">while keeping them unconscious
without consent or prior knowledge, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">because unexplained pain won’t
rise to legal proof? </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Is there value placed on personal
integrity? </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Must boundaries that make
individual beings </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">complete with self-control,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">define a zone of self to be
respected?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Do conscious beings own a right to
privacy,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">a zone of personal
integrity,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">sacred space for
self-discovery:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">“This is mine. This is
me.”</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">When we choose to agree for common
utility,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">what inner prize do we remember to
defend?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Or do we prefer to behave as a
bunch of random beasts, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">subject to convenient moral rules,
precepts to defend</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640a3c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">hierarchy of self-proclaimed
reasonable men?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #9b3200; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I am beginning to think that this
whole anti-abortion, anti-contraception idea is about rapists who want to
impregnate their victims and then have access to torture them for life. Mighty
big hate on.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a4005a; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Dazzling glitter of star
light</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a4005a; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">is doing its job:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a4005a; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">distract and divide
while</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a4005a; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">they rape, kill and
rob.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #80004d; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Ascending spiraled steps in hope
of eventually reaching a solid surface, more a chore than a mission as we
continue inexorably day by day. Or is that eternity by eternity? There's not
much choice, as these stairs, though solid and seemingly endless, do not provide
enough solidity, enough surface, for other sustained activity. There is not
even room to climb by twos, thus enabling the solace of close companionship.
Certainly there is no room to make love between, stair to stair, to find what
respite or pleasure such loving might provide. Perhaps for some of the more
daring an occasional rearguard rape may be accomplished, coming from behind as
it were, never seeing the face of the victim, so that's alright. A temporary
digression from the rote work, hand over hand, leg up and leg up, monotonous
unfulfilling dance.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">The land, when we found her was
warm and inviting.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We felt safe, supported,
encouraged to grow.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We ate of her fruit, fish,
herds.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We built with her trees, stone and
clay.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We drank from her beautiful
streams</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">which we soiled with our
waste.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Gaea was saviour and
womb.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We repaid her with
rape.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">We didn't understand,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">thought her merely
land,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #973800; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">thought ourselves masters from
afar.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #960028; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Perhaps it is not so much a war on
women as another front in the war on people with lesser means. I mean, how dare
a woman be raped if she can't afford her own treatment?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8c003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Women are raped by husbands,
strangers, dates, bosses, family members, often seriously injured or killed in
the process. Implying we have nothing more serious to protest about than "glass
ceilings" is a macabre insult.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Small girlchild, rags and dust –
follow</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">her morning of traverse, this tiny
world allowed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Each tent flap reveals fester of
wounds deep</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">and shallow, ravage
disease.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Senses, thought, subsumed to beat
of breath</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">outside rational
context.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Stuck in the dirt, her worth a
hole where</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #620038; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">she bottoms out, tributary blood
expelled.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #770068; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">It could be rape; it could be
terrifying violence. But you got it wrong. You blamed yourself. And the reasons
you got it wrong go back to that world, not to you.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640028; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Cross Purpose</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">At time's crossroads, Reason
drowns</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">in rage, pain,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">radiated rain, treasonous
air.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Weary of care, of
punishing,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">bottomless anger, of sobbing
men</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">robbed of their right to give
birth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Taken from Mama's warmth,
from</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">the cave, to play
brave.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">And it's ladies' choice as you
squirm</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">in fool's corner.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Such a chore -- kissing at
this</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">and that for a chance to
score</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">the shame, the blame from
stuck-out</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">tongues, the bloody
laughter</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"I could bite off that little
thing -- make</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">you squat to pee." </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Wired to fight, at any
cost,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">because, of course, the Cross
proclaims</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"We're right. They are inherently
wrong."</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"Those below must be taught to
obey</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">our superior tools, to be
broken,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">that we may ride."</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Against our better fate, our race
divided</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">along strict lines, by difference
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b004e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">nature instilled to make us
strong</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Our Gang</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Outrage</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Depression facing
outward</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Taking power to give it
away.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">This entrained
impulse</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">See them crackling,
jangling</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">puppets at puppy
play,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">bite, bark, entangle,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">grab and tussle,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">growl, muscle in for the
kill.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Bloodlust arousal.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Natural as puke, as
death,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">violation as violent
orgy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">violation as ecstatic</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">initiation to the
brotherhood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Life elevated to dreams, goals,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">careful weighing of coin and
hours,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">dependable plans, actions that
honor can favor,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">love, duty, allegiance to the
rules of sanity</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">and kind regard</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">have no purpose here.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Men of blood and battle fluid
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">need no fine speeches, no valor
--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">only food and
receptacles</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a003c; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">for their waste.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Capital Crime</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Sweet old daddy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Doing his will in the
night</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Keeping the mamas
afright</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">for the plight of
each</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">beloved child, so
tender</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">so young</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">He really oughta be
hung!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">so say the neighbors,
clicking</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">their tongues</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Take him to the
magistrate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Fill his ears with the voice of
hate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">while he's tied, defanged,
prostrate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Let our will be done!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Tie him down in a prison
cell</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Make him feel the wrath of
Hell</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">'til we all are bloody
well</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">exhausted of our fun.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">No need to delete old
daddy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">sweeping shit and burning
bones</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">any toil we deem
atones</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">to repay society's
loans</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">of wicked sowing days</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">assuring he damn well
pays</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">for the pain and loss his wicked
ways</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #710030; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">marred our happy
homes.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Trial</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">It was said, everyone knew, some
whispered in my presence, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">that I was born a bastard of
rape.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">My mother, a pious maiden, in
penance gave me </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">into servitude to the
Brotherhood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Thus she was allowed to return to
her Sisterhood’s </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">life of humble
ministration.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I never knew her, or have no
memory </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">of such an early time in my
life.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I knew nothing of the treasured
childhood that comes with family.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I was a low thing, circumscribed
by duty.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I was educated, taught to read,
write, do sums, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">memorize long passages of
scripture, sing in the Holy Choir, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">take my part in ceremonies, taught
for useful service.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I was taught to please my masters
as my only worth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Any modification to please their
plans was my sacred duty to undergo.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Any master. Any metamorphosis. Any
mutilation. Accept.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">When he bit me, as the fast-acting
soporific emitted from his fangs</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">entered my artery, I hoped this
was my end.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">It wasn’t. He did not drain me,
but woke me to force his blood</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">into my sagging mouth to remake me
in his image:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">immortal, powerful, supernatural,
outside of the laws of man.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I learn to create my own sacred
place, free of duty, free of the yoke of belief.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">I am my own silent sanctuary
beyond the touch, the reach of their world.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">What good am I, have I, what good
does it do me to have a conscious me</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">apart from my puppet role,
plaything of powerful forces and men?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Perhaps after all the trials of my
journey, it is enough to have a </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">consciousness that knows me so
well and feels a kind of comforting love.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Perhaps the kind of love a mother
feels for a child she never wanted,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #95007e; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">who is yet of her, a companion to
her trials.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">They arrive, enter a door next to
a large glass window decorated in bright colored paint. It is a portrayal of a
man on a cross. Bloody red holes mar his hands and feet. A thorny green crown
sits on his head.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Inside are cakes and hot black
drinks on a short table. A few others are also eating and drinking. On the
floor, next to a large, tattered chair, a woman sits, rocks, dirty and worn
looking. Her shaking hands make attempts to feed coffee to her lips, but more is
spilled on her worn and spattered dress. She has been mumbling incoherently. She
is getting louder. Renata starts to make out words.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"They fill yer belly with their
babies. No more babies. They hurt and make me so sick. The men, they fill me
with their nasty liquid babies. They make them grow in me, take over my body,
make me sick, and cut so hard to get out. I won't take them, horrid demons. So
they throw me back in the street for the men to fill me again, hurt me again. It
hurts, it hurts, it hurts. No more babies. No more pumping out their nasty
babies. I won't. I won't go there. You can't make me leave." She burbles, gasps,
cries, mumbles, and repeats her litany. She rocks her body, suckles on her
fingers and strands of long, lank hair. She seems in a trance, perhaps poisoned,
perhaps cursed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">From further back in the room, a
man dressed in black, prominently carrying a black book, approaches the group
around the table.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"Don't mind Betty. She's a hard
case. We can't find anywhere that will take her." He seems perturbed by this
inconvenience, embarrassed by this woman's plaint.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #6e0055; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Thoughts of keeping still while
learning how to blend in have flown from Renata's mind. She goes quickly, yet
with gentle motion, to sit beside this Betty. Close up, she is surprised to see
this woman is young, certainly no longer a child, but not the old used up hag
she had appeared to be. Her burbling snot and tears mixed with spilled coffee
and older stains make her an unappetizing sight. Yet, there is something so
fragile, so sad and affecting in her defiantly defeated form, Renata can not
help but reach out her arms to comfort.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #690740; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #690740; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #690740; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64063d; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Nobody likes to talk about Betty;
but you can bet we cream over her (secretly, all cozy in our beds, in our heads
and groins).</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64063d; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #64063d;">Nobody likes to admit what
casual cruelty we are capable of. Gang-raping children because we can doesn't
appeal to our desired self-image. Her mother allowed it in exchange for food, a
place to sleep, the blessed drugs to keep away the pain of knowing the endless,
hopeless misery life had become. Or, she was alone on that dark street, lost and
frightened, with nowhere safe to go, no one protecting her just then. Her
sexuality tempted me, in all that frenzy of bonding blood cries, heightened
primal energies, hot insistent bodies falling under ritual spell. She is but a
sacrifice, a holding cell for sin. There is no freedom for will to grow within
her, only unwanted, tainted seed, thrust outward from the nauseous collective
psyche to poison her potential. Does she need to be defined by what has been
done against her nascent will? Is there salvation in finding a slim, hiding,
healthy cutting from her core, carefully planted and watered in hallow
grounding? And what of all those other sacrificial lambs? What cosmically
sympathetic vibration can be turned to healing, calling forth a will to grow
whole, to become one's own desired destiny?</span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Mothers' Night</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">cascading shards </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">uneasy </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">echoes falling </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"It's our calling." </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Rape of Earth, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">hot spurts of words </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">savage knives </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Abiding Mothers, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">sacred and mundane </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">twist into harridan </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">cold stars </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">wail, hurtling waves </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Sad, old, crust of ages
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">sliced, screwed, carved up for
profit </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"It's not the color of the skin,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">the culture of the smile"
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">the scent of danger, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">the inborn stranger --
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">all excuses for Us (superior)
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">and Them (inferior) </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"They are not like we;
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">but lower curs." </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">we may harm with unfettered glee
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Cursed to be cut to our
requirement. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Borders clear </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"Here, fear fences in
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">our livelihood and wives."
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Leave THEM to putrid pits
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">cunning jabs, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">our pleasure. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Thus, all treasure that might
regale, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">heal, reveal true worth,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">of man and Earth </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">sold for pittance of potash
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #912821; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">to dance a weary jig </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Post-trauma</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">A child of my own</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">rape, it shaped me, made
me</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">less and more</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">Memories stored, to </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">when I can't go on
implore:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a00096; font-family: Narkisim; font-size: medium;">"You'll feel better</span></div>
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libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-90964593242479107692017-10-13T14:25:00.001-07:002017-10-13T14:25:14.430-07:0013<div dir="ltr">
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<a href="https://yprophecies.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/acts-of-desolation-13/" rel="bookmark" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype;"><span style="color: #6c0099; font-size: 27pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;"><em>Acts of
Desolation</em></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #003300;">#13</span></span><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="color: #003300;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our
struggle is becoming immortalized in mainstream discussions of what history
will find salient in the late 21st Century, Common Era, along with advancing
space mining and explorations and our developing global/local system of
self-governance. We have opened eyes to a greater need for vigilance in
securing our common goals of liberty.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The
mercs are defeated. Those who survived are rounded up and put into
rehabilitation camps much different from those they had envisioned for their
prisoners. Torture and acts of cruelty against prisoners are strictly
prohibited. Heavy physical labor and psychiatric rehabilitation techniques,
including mind-altering drugs and public confessions, are now their just
reward. They are secured for the rest of their lives in maximum confinement,
without possibility of escape.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The
rebels are honored as heroes everywhere. We are given full citizenship as
quickly as the workings of bureaucracy can manage it. Even Reag, proudly,
admits we are far from abominations. Having at last arrived on the other side,
welcomed into our diverse human family, we are proud to be part of these
exciting times. We are discovering uses for our hard won strengths in the
greater human community. Still, most of us find we prefer to settle in
low-density population areas, where the incidence of psychic impressions is
easier to manage.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;" /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #003300; font-size: 9.8pt;">Several of us
are building a kind of mini-compound out here in a fairly secluded mountainous
area. We are very happy to be free, living a relatively quiet life. We even
forgive Calinda and Reag for being insufferably proud expectant parents. Little
Freedom, as we are already calling her, will be the first freeborn of our
people. We can’t wait to tell her her story. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Thirteen Wizards Shall Guide You,
rotating in 7s, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">to be chosen from a wizard test
administered at regular intervals</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">to any who wish to
apply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Each wizard shall serve at his/her
pleasure -- until they decide to move on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Any wizard may return by retesting
and getting the highest score amongst</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">those currently in line at the
time of a vacancy, like any other candidate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">The test to be devised by a wise
pre-council to ascertain qualities of </span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">wisdom, compassion,
responsibility, integrity and clarity of communication.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">The test may be reviewed and
revised at any time that the full council agrees</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">to do so, based on evidence of
better result to be gained.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">The wizards do not make the
laws.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Laws are made by direct democracy,
after a sufficient period of debate when</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">an overwhelming majority of
consensus seems likely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Wizards do have veto
power.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">Wizards do not control the
economy. That is the province of the market.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">The wizards do oversee the use and
conservation of common resources.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">They do oversee a social
infrastructure that assures everyone a comfortable, secure</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">livelihood. They do oversee
disputes to assure that everyone is treated fairly</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">in the course of commerce, and in
the course of community life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">They are not paid an outright
salary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">They are given comfortable living
conditions that their minds may be free</span></div>
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<span style="color: #642864; font-family: DaunPenh; font-size: large;">of personal want.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">slap the beat Friday the 13
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">There's always steel-eyed suspicion. Especially when yer
poor, automatically suspect, haven't got the fashion or manners expected. Though
there's plenty of blame to go around, it gets stuck right here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">Stuff happens everywhere. Those
involved get special prayers, funds raised in school fairs, helping hands
clapped across their back. Unless they live across the sacred track, have papers
that don't quite pass inspection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">Of course, we get what we
deserve. If we live beyond the pale, whatever be our tale, it's up to us to
serve in silent awe. Our cross to bear, because we're born impure. It's lovely
that your source can be so sure. Insurrection</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">can't be condoned, nor endured.
Suffer in contrition for the condition of failed dreams, unseemly scraping by.
'Tis not I who makes these rules. Thus it's ever been, will be, until we choose
to honor freedom,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6a0035; font-family: CordiaUPC; font-size: large;">admit reality into negotiations
for solutions, until we can agree on this experiment's conclusion. The power of
fusion surpasses the power of dissolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Small girlchild, rags and dust –
follow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">her morning of traverse, this tiny world
allowed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Each tent flap reveals fester of wounds
deep</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">and shallow, ravage
disease.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Senses, thought, subsumed to beat of
breath</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">outside rational
context.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Stuck in the dirt, her worth a hole
where</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">she bottoms out, tributary blood
expelled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Government
happens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Power differentials are
natural</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Makes sense to attend to these
matters</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">consciously,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">rationally.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Hot heads, coarse tongues, flail of
arm,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">crush of foot, outthrust chest,
rancorous</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">demands</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">lively show and
tell;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Yes, such forceful yell might get
bells</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">ringing, choirs singing, merry
pageantry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">After roaring Sun’s descended,
crowds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">disbanded to bars and
beds</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">to dream lusty victories or
private</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">histories, nobody charged to
watch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">for this twinkling of
time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Without law, there is no
crime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Without rules, no crown
ascends</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">by common call – but only
by</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">all against all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">in squall of
terrors,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">contests of survival,
games</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">scored in
blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Muses dance,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">explore motion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Segue to and
fro</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">two steps back; a flurry
forward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Satin cats, tails
a’fling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">pirouette, scurry
choreography.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">No tomorrow. No scheduled glee
for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">public
appearances.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Time’s a’clanging, impatient
clamors</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">for unknown
seasons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Rainstorm
howls,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">cleanses,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">sends tidings, murky repentance
and</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">beard for
tears.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Savage rain
tip-tapping</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">rhythms and
blues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Barrels for dipping, for
ritual</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">washing, for tribal hydration,
replenishment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Agriculture,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">hunger, health, hygiene. Sordid
rain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">ashen water, terror, pain,
diluted</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Storm warnings advise
caution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Cover yer windows and
blinds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Hide in cellars and
pray.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Find salvation in fearsome
company.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Oh, Hell – give in! Cave into slippery
ground;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">swallow and be
swallowed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">The rains came, carried fortune to further
shores</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">and supplicants.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Long into unspoken
tomorrows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Dread – crusty needles eject embalming
poison</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Stiff, rusted shut, ooze tarnished prison
door.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Electrified to molten
waste.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Lost wastrel, chased into rough
wood.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">How could good ever tough
through?</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Seethe tooth and
fang.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Anger will tighten screws,
coils.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">No mercy to win when cardinal sin is
innocence.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Don’t chatter of
cruelty,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">turn red in
shame.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Remember the wise one winked “No
blame.”</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">while wheeling outside reach of
stage.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">There are no great
secrets,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">barbed network of
lies.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">There is this blood
bludgeon</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">of power wielded by minions and
slaves</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">with too little to
win.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">If a moonlit beach at midnight called
siren songs,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">embracing melody, calming waves
--</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">if urgent desire brokered
change.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Cypher</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">O’ evil Man</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">It is not your gods who make you
so.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">They laugh at their celestial
balls,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">silly little mood
slaves</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">primed to vomit sour
wine,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">feast after bloody
binge.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Who is the moral
gatekeeper,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">the celebrated purveyor of
righteousness?</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Who the masked
scoundrel,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">cross-dressed wolves and
lambs</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">in demonic jig?</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">A lively game to wile away
some</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">vague eternity.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Our children obscured in
armament.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">So many souls to
devour.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Tonight’s
Impression</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Dig, deep into unlikely
crevices.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Unsightly
blemishes</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">covered in mud, old crusted
blood,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">more suffering than
shame.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">If none know my
name,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">can they curse
me?</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Always rehearsing
for</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">untended curtains,
productionless</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">plays.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Gospel</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Sally, won't you
go</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">downtown</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Pick up some teabag
party</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">clowns</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">We'll teach 'em tricks of
trade</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">from streets walled in
by</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">degradation</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Ain't this nation
grand</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">for glad hands raised in
celebration</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">of shames we dare not
name.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Hallelujah
Hallelucinations</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Hallowed ground
baptized</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">in blood</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Saved from the cleansing
Flood</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">by sticking to our
kind</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">however we're defining us
today</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">If we were meant to
live</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">a different way</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">wouldn't He have told
us?</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">(Hollow) Theme
Party</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Bleeding across the
page</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Not pretty</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Naked self-pity</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">a turn off</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">better passed
by</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Rather, let us speak
of</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">solitude, the
advantages</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">of wealth</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">kept to oneself</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">No beasts lessen my
load</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">No supplicants beg to
share</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Luxuriously wrapped in my
lair</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">laughing and dancing on
gold</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">acutely aware of thin cold
urchins</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">out on a distant
plain</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">They are no kin to
me;</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">out there for
atmosphere</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">I am Deity within this
domain</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">blood you see
splattered</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">on this page</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">fell from other
veins</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">some poor
unfortunate</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">released from
pain</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">How pretty! Let's
party!</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">A gala affair,
enraptured</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">alone in my
lair</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Our Gang</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #29303b;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Outrage</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Depression facing
outward</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Taking power to give it
away.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">This entrained
impulse</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">See them crackling,
jangling</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">puppets at puppy
play,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">bite, bark,
entangle,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">grab and
tussle,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">growl, muscle in for the
kill.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Bloodlust
arousal.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Natural as puke, as
death,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">violation as violent
orgy</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">violation as
ecstatic</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">initiation to the
brotherhood.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Life elevated to dreams,
goals,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">carefu weighing of coin and
hours,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">dependable plans, actions that honor can
favor,</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">love, duty, allegiance to the rules of
sanity</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">and kind regard</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">have no purpose
here.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">Men of blood and battle
fluid</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">need no fine speeches, no valor
--</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">only food and
receptacles</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: DilleniaUPC;"><span style="color: #64002d; font-size: 18pt;">for their
waste.</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #320055; font-family: SimHei; font-size: medium;">13. What face do you put on to face your
fears?</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-49549249960295734122017-10-07T13:20:00.001-07:002017-10-07T13:20:50.863-07:0010/1-6/17<div>
Isn’t that what we all want?</div>
<div>
A good beat we can dance to?</div>
<div>
Adrenalin rush-release</div>
<div>
renewal</div>
<div>
a solid shake</div>
<div>
a chance that’s true</div>
<div>
a chance to do, to let go,</div>
<div>
flow with volcanic force?</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Not broken brains</div>
<div>
or bad genes</div>
<div>
but understandable though inadequate response</div>
<div>
to insane environments</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
the gods got bored</div>
<div>
and changed up the game</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-88458144512986450182017-09-30T13:42:00.001-07:002017-09-30T13:42:44.671-07:009/24-27/17<div>
You’ve got to honor yourself</div>
<div>
Everyone says: be humble</div>
<div>
Humbug! Trying to keep down the </div>
<div>
competition.</div>
<div>
If you expect to be valued, you have to</div>
<div>
value you, your worth, out there and first.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Organically find the story in conversation.</div>
<div>
Team-Project oriented education</div>
<div>
Basic Income keeps us housed, fed, </div>
<div>
basic floor to stand on.</div>
<div>
People with leadership skills to promote,</div>
<div>
develop useful public projects, advertise online</div>
<div>
and gathering place for desired skills/materials.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Beyond contractual arrangements,</div>
<div>
Noone owes anyone anything</div>
<div>
except</div>
<div>
we each owe ourselves to do everything</div>
<div>
we can to be the person we want to be.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<br />
<div>
9/24-27/17</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-81554869784440292552017-09-22T15:44:00.001-07:002017-09-22T15:44:37.472-07:00Libra Ingress<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Autumn Calls a Prologue to
Fall</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Autumn Falls</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Ever deeper, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">into setting Sun, call of leaves.
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Days diminish.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Secret scent sings grail quests,
startling mysteries, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">dense synchronicities.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">In ceremony gathering hunters leap
to frenzied victory, pray to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">coalesce blessing -- </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">crepuscular forest, deepening tales,
shadow deities.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Ritual brings chthonic beauty,
fierce death/wild rebirth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Energy dervishes, drunk from fruits
of Earth, swirl</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">into ecstasy; face becoming. Sun
dies </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">from Western skies.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #640046; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Realign.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Early autumn
firelight</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">reminiscent of witch
hunts, ghosts of cavalry,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">dire warnings and
endless hide and strike.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">The game, the
funhouse, turns deadly.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Sanctuary calls,
demanding sacrifice.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">The noble phoenix fed
on frankenseed</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">can not
rise.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Skies descend, dark
mirroring.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Smell the woodsmoke,
intoxicating, soft and sweet,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">masks the taste of
bitter bile, secret vomiting,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">starving despite
harvest's gay array of treats.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Faded, nearly blind,
falling in and out of</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">shamanic fever,
primeval native dancers beyond sight,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">ripple of tribal beat
at the periphery</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">ecstatic vision
dark/light/agony and brilliant breaks</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">starbright
constellations.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">I am
breathing</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">crisp air of autumn's
evening</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">I am
walking</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">mist obscures my
view.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Lost in a vision, in a
Van Gogh painting,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">hysterical laughter,
gut wrenching tears,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">a vision of weeping,
knees bent and falling</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">permission I grant
me.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Traversing
worlds,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">seasons, years,
moments of clarity.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #505a00; font-family: Arabic Typesetting; font-size: large;">Fall beyond need,
wish, to invent boundaries.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Life, the Universe and
Everything</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(for Patty)</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #8c0064;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #8c0064;"> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Let’s talk about life</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">the one you have and the one you imagined . .
.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">With all the world of
possibilities,</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">what have you settled for?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Waking up in the cool, cool
morning</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Autumn crisp — as your lungs reach for
air</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The sounds, the smells, the awaited
adventures</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Anticipation . . .</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Or merely another day?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Do you long for love in the dark, dusky
evening?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Do you count the countless
stars,</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">knowing a miracle is on its
way?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Has the chill of eternity captured your
imagination?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What anchors you to Earth?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">What makes you want to
stay?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">A journey of a thousand
destinies</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Written deep within your
soul</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Traveling daily through all the
possibilities</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #8c0064; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Which are the parts that make you
whole?</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #862263; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></span> </div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #862263; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></span> </div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #862263; font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">A Vignette</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">It was a simple house in a
simple town.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">The road was long and
winding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">Two men sat on the
road.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">They were playing
cards.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">One man had a bottle which was
occasionally passed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">They were not playing for any
stakes, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">But as an excuse for
companionship.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">It was a simple house in a
simple town.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">Old gnarled, stately tall trees
formed a woods</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> that lined the
roadway.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">It was noon, but the day was
overcast;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> not dark, but pleasantly
muted.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">It was autumn.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">The trees were proud of their
majestic leaves </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">of gold and magenta which
covered their branches</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> and sprinkled the
earth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">Small furry creatures
occasionally could be seen </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">amidst the trees, leaves and
earth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">The two men were aware of all
this in the</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> backgrounds of their
minds.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">They were also aware of the
pleasantness</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> of their peaceful
companionship</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> as they played cards, passed
the bottle</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> and made casual conversation
about this and that.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">It was a simple house in a
simple town</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> by the side of a long and windy
road</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> which was surrounded by
woods.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">A plane passed overhead
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;">and was briefly a part of this
scene,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"> before moving on to more
important places. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5a4600; font-family: JasmineUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #e65b00; font-family: Lao UI;">In deep field dreams </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e65b00; font-family: Lao UI;">rustic woodfire comfort</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e65b00; font-family: Lao UI;">blesses autumn morn</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00649b; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">love like breeze through
leaves,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00649b; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">song of future
longing,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00649b; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">autumn in the
wind</span></div>
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<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">Libra</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;"></span></span></span> </div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">The scales of
Justice</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">Yin and Yang</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">The interchange of
love</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">A world in perfect
balance</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">Twixt summer/winter
extremes</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">The perfect beauty of sun
shining</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">on rainbow
puddles</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">reflecting the brilliant
colors</span></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #8c0082; font-size: large;">of changing
leaves.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Entering into a joy of its
own</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">a love long forgotten, yet
never</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">denied . . .</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Deeply felt, deeply buried
in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">memory's tomb</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">deeply covered in resplendent autumn
leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Empty pockets of
longing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">temporarily filled by tears
which</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">tumble through.like
coins</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">through torn clothing</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">hard earned but never
spent;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">I weep for you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">I feel deeply the worn, spent
soul.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Entering into a joy of its
own,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">not looking back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">The creeping darkness of
Autumn</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Ancient gray,
descending,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24600; font-family: Segoe Print;">Awaiting fulfillment.</span></div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-3702340836294676902017-09-08T16:27:00.001-07:002017-09-08T16:27:06.222-07:00feel the Bern/political poetry<div>
<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">City silhouette,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">cut-outs for lighted
windows.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">Inside, stories are shared,
embellished</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">to suit the mood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">Mrs. Rio’s son flew into
combat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">See her so brave, civilly
smiling,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">wishing well to each partier who
greets her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">But don’t we all have our masked
anxieties,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">sorrows, shames? Civilly shaking
hands,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">breathing deeply to hold from
shaking</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">inappropriately. Please, more liquid
dullness,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">more chemical restraint.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">More strident complaint of political
--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">yes Our World’s gone to
hell!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">How dare THEY tell us how to
behave!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">I’ve a mind to blast them all into
atoms,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">to take a stand against whomever
crosses</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">my path without due
regard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">When did everything get so
hard,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">so unyielding, so thick?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">I know there was a once we made more
sense,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">gave more embracing
warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">There are stories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0dff; font-family: Raavi; font-size: medium;">What are yours?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Leelawadee;"><span style="color: #0042cc;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Leelawadee;"><span style="color: #0042cc;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Leelawadee;"><span style="color: #0042cc;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Leelawadee;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: medium;">politics</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: large;">infinite regression of change and
resistance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: large;">multi-rhythmed rhyme</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: large;">singing into the winds of change</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: large;">to move their vector more in
line</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #0042cc; font-size: large;">with where we wish to arrive</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0042cc; font-family: Gabriola; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #820078;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #820078;">so sick (in my gut, in my head, in my heart, in my arms) of all
the divisiveness. Men can't understand women. Whites can't understand blacks.
Rich can't understand poor. Left can't understand right ...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #820078; font-size: medium;" /><span style="color: #820078;">That's why we have language, art, long-term complicated
relationships, community projects and festivals and -- tell me your
story</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">If they were listening, I would
say:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">figure it out</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">but first, think about your
precepts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">and, most importantly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">where you want to be</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">(not where you should; or where you
could)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #a00078; font-size: medium;">on the other side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue;">It’s a self-fulfilling system, with plenty</span></span><br /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue;">of bad actors to go around.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue;">Theories for social distribution of power
(politics)</span></span><br /><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: blue;">or resources (economics)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue;">The privileged have the power of
wealth</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: #c9c0e8;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The
people have the numbers, and</span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue;">less and less to
lose</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #c9c0e8; color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">ive Revolution</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Revolution comes when it is
ready.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Sparks so many times seem sure to light, embolden
change.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Only when the tinder is sufficiently arranged will fire
take hold.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Blaze clear fidelity to this erupted moment, charging
forward.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">After images, ash flakes in settling dark, take
flight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">swirl within echoed breeze.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Readiness, relative to chaos, free range of human
whim.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">Revolution is but a shared anthem, parts of anger and
revenge,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">parts of reaching toward a new
religion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">In the aftermath of violent
schism,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas;"><span style="color: #96141e; font-size: medium;">what bright vision will sustain?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">New World Order</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Post-feudal society</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">obsessed with security and place</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">lock-step shuffle of obeisance</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">counting corners, counting on</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">science and leaders of order</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">counting on gospel served cold,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">filleted, and layered just so.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Fashionably secured, tied and</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">corseted, made up for easy
recognition.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! Buy me</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">the pretty fire." So mesmerizing,
so</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">certain to tell me who I am, how to
be.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Casting savage spells, they are,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">far and wide, telecommunication.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Tying up and tidying with vast</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">imaginary whips and wheels,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">spinning like a Pied Piper's
tales.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">No wonder.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">We get it wrong and twisted.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Throwing out the wheat to eat</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">the chaff. Poisoning the well</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">that no enemy may drink our
bounty.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Burning our bridges and tunnels</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">to save them.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Embarrassment of riches.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Gorging on fine cakes and</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">sugar water champagne.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">No wonder.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Eerie daylight marching</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">timed by mechanistic masters</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">armed with decisions directing</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">torture, incarceration.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">Power derived from the people</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">constrained of memory</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">mistaking some paranoid parody</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Nyala;"><span style="color: #284664; font-size: medium;">for a promise of life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #284664; font-family: Nyala;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #284664; font-family: Nyala;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power</span></span></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">What is
power?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power is a
word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power is an
idea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">The Word is
power.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">The Idea is
power.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power is a
distribution of energy, wealth, strength:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Physical, material,
mental, metaphysical,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">social.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power is that which
allows us,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Or we allow others, to
have</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">sway over their/our
actions, emotions, limitations.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">Power is a rush of
air, of water, of electrons,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">of
words,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">of weapons, of
will</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">-- the force behind
movement</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Simplified Arabic Fixed;"><span style="color: #384a26; font-size: medium;">or
stasis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Feudal Diffraction</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">It's not the color chart; it's the
hierarchy.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Hoarders of permission slips for
supplies</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">thereby decide what gets
prioritized,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">which brick gets laid, or even
fired,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">who lives well,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">who scrapes til they no longer get
by.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">It's not our genetic code that compels
stupidity.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Perhaps it's a kind of manic
compulsion,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">depressive obsession,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">mass psychosis,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">St. Vitus line-dance to a zombie</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">caller's tune.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">What to do?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Meme-web reconstruction in
increments</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">paradigm warping incidents</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">realign the pulse of
macro/microsphere</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">benign gibberish cy-phones
through?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Take back your time.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Take back your right to
self-valuation.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Take back your place</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">outside of the lines.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">If our needs, self-fulfilling desires,
greater</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">ecstatic glory and grace</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">are to be based</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">on solid infrastructure,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">on fruitful interplay,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">on free and freeing expression,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">let us take hands in</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">undulating, beatific dance</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">multi-rhythmed</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">direction.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">Let us be and do and feel</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">that which gives us permission</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Malgun Gothic;"><span style="color: #bb4200; font-size: medium;">to be whole.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="color: #bb4200; font-family: Malgun Gothic;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="color: #bb4200; font-family: Malgun Gothic;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<strong><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: x-large;">social net</span></span></strong></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<em><span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">to paraphrase that great
poet, Donald Rumsfeld: We work with the Congress we have, not the Congress we
wish we had</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">Yes, of course we ought be
fiscally responsible.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">Yet of far more import is
that we be rational.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">Hyperbolic apoplectic,
Apocalyptic rhetoric</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">reduces us from politic to
stagey raving maniacs.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">No need for such hysteria;
learn from recent history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">The flagrant ways of LBJ,
Reagan and GWB</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">found mitigation in
administrations following.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">The People, energized,
expand instead of wallowing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">Exciting industries take
hold, real worth -- not hollow gold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">The conversation we as a
nation need</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">is not a war of virtue
versus greed</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">or capturing the rules to
win a game</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">or playing catch with
sophistry and shame.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">We need to ask and answer
in sobriety</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arabic Typesetting;"><span style="color: #05405f; font-size: large;">Who we best can be as a
society</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">When the national project was stolen before our horrified
stares</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">When it became our duty to kill and destroy for the
convenience of profit</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">When humane policy became anathema, unworthy economic
drag</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">When the will of the gambling elite gamed the rule of law
to their pocket</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">Did you scream so loud that bitter blood poured from your
lungs?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">Did you set up mourning camps to gather
forces,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">to train grief and rage into worthy opponents against true
freedom's foes?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">Did you gaze into the cold eyes of propagandists and say
"No!"?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gabriola;"><span style="color: #29420f; font-size: large;">Or did you march along in the parade, assured: "First they
get theirs; then we get ours."?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Prophecy</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">And He became The One</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">as we all swarmed together</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">in His direction</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">anointing our Saviour.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">We, so impatient to be saved</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">from evil history</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">from slavery, hunger, hate</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">to make a better fate</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">for our kids</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">(and, don't kid yourself,
ourselves).</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Caught up, trapped, in the
trappings</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">of fashion, co-opted hypnotic</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">consciousness.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Drugs to cure us of our many
flaws;</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">because if you're not flawless
you</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">haven't got a chance.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">In marketplace fierce
competition,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">a youthful escapade can ruin you</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">for a respectable life,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">that adheres peers' and elders'
expectations.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">And then where are you?</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">May as well be burning in
eternal</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">damnation -- at last.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">At least Satan wants you</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">for your sins.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">In a mythical colony,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">far from their petulant King,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">it is said a people</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">fought and died, and stood their
ground</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">for freedom.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">It is said such pageant plays</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">are widely performed today.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">"Freedom is not Free; but based</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">on blood sacrifice." They say.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Freedom dependent on militia,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">on strictly disciplined troops</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">firing into pregnant crowds.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Ancient wizards foretold</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">potent prophecy.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">We will not listen.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">We insist on martyrdom,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">worshipping, as we do,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">cults of murder.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">Thus human life leads inexorably</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">to eternal death,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">just as we demand,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">when we all come together</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Gautami;"><span style="color: #591e4a; font-size: medium;">anointing yet another One.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<strong><span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">We Didn't Know</span></span></strong></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Efficient development requires
deprivement.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">No profit, no playground to feel alive
in.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Those few groomed for career cheer,
mocking:</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">"Can't you hear; that's freedom
knocking."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">"Work for rent, or stay in school,
dude."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">You get no cake for being a
loser.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Orwell warned "Big Brother is
watching."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">We didn't know he meant on
you-tube.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">We didn't know our life was a
crime</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Sentenced from birth to pay all our
time</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Cast from the truck to the roadside to
rot</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Drawn outside of luck, all about what you're
not.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Media screams their revealed truth
feud.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Sell saturated garbage labeled
food.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">Orwell warned; we were warned:</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">"The best of you will be
co-opted."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: SimHei;"><span style="color: #41440b; font-size: medium;">We didn't know they meant on
you-tube.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">Freedom FOR Security</span></span></strong></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<strong></strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">Either, by nature, you're plagued with
paranoia</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">Or you've bought pervasive
propaganda.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">I do understand:</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">It was so cheap, and in your
color.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">It wasn't labeled "Propaganda."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">Sold as "News," common
knowledge,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">accommodation to the norm.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">And it fits your internal dialog so
well</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">"Danger is everywhere these days of
disorder,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">scary change."</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">Just like all the days</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">when Freedom seems such a flimsy
wage,</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">a cheap exchange</span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="font-family: Andalus;"><span style="color: #8d0673; font-size: medium;">for sham Security.</span></span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="color: #8d0673; font-family: Andalus;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="color: #8d0673; font-family: Andalus;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" style="background-color: #eeeecc;">
<span style="color: #8d0673; font-family: Andalus;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">So envious of the unwanted? Quit your lousy job, too taxed,
too overworked, too ignored.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">Surely you deserve better those under. Enjoy your natural
bounty, and all that our country offers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">Taxes? Ever it has been so in our culture. Jesus was born,
so the story goes, when his mortal parents</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">were on the road to pay required tithes of their
livelihoods. For the privilege of doing business,
trading</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">our time and skills for pay, the top takes their cut. We
pay our homage and percentage to our lord,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">and hope his armies will protect us from invading
hordes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">If you don’t like the system developed over eons for the
benefit of those who have forced their way</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">to be in charge, create a better one. Then (here’s the
trick) sell it to a majority; and make them care
enough</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">to follow through.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">Money will never be out of politics. It’s too attractive a
game. The only way around that is to make money</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">irrelevant. The people would need to understand and agree
on better leadership, better policies, that are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">personally meaningful to them. They need to feel a real
stake, real reason to believe it’s not all fixed</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AngsanaUPC;"><span style="color: #800040; font-size: large;">beyond their ability to make a difference. And, it’s got to
be easy to begin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #800040; font-family: AngsanaUPC;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #800040; font-family: AngsanaUPC;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #800040; font-family: AngsanaUPC;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: magenta; font-size: medium;">It's not about<br />black
or white<br />might is right<br />fuel to fight</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: magenta; font-size: medium;">It's not about<br />East or
West<br />who's the best<br />forget the rest</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #333333;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: medium;">It's
about<br />me and you,<br />if we so choose,<br />what we can
do</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">turn the protest into a
party;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc;">surround
the hate groups with flowers, and love<br style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 13px;" />Sing
and dance and make a racket<br style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 13px;" />They
won't know what to make of it<br style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 13px;" />They'll
try to shout out "HATE!" --<br style="font-family: "Bodoni MT Black"; font-size: 13px;" />drown
out their silly songs with roaring anthems</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">to peace and fun
~</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">Time for dancing in the street
to relieve stress</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc;">Time
to take a peaceful revolution to the people<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />Time
to recapitulate the 60's in the light of greater hindsight<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />and
foresight<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />and
vision<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />to
demand true freedom<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />first
of ourselves<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />then
with each other<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />people<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />united<br style="font-family: "Eras Light ITC"; font-size: 13px;" />to
wrest our best hopes</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">from
reality</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">I miss the space, open and free
and wild</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc;">I
miss the marvel in exploration of each child<br style="font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold"; font-size: 10px;" />I
miss the sky of stars unmarred by jets<br style="font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold"; font-size: 10px;" />I
miss a market based on trade instead of bets<br style="font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold"; font-size: 10px;" />I
miss people happily about their work<br style="font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold"; font-size: 10px;" />without
expressing through their inner jerk<br style="font-family: "Copperplate Gothic Bold"; font-size: 10px;" />I
miss sentimental time not on tv</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal;">I miss the way we thought by now
we'd be</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: teal; font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #996633;">The Earth
screams</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #996633;"><span style="background-color: #eeeecc;">People
die before their time<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Or
never get much of a life<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Species
die, their music silenced<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Crazy
theories of wealth<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />belie
obligation or simple seeing<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />the
laws of consequence<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Scream
Earth!<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Pierce
the cosmos with your<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />terrible
cry<br style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px;" />Acid
rain burning through gold</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #996633;">falls</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #996633; font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #996633; font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeecc; color: #996633; font-family: Georgia;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Government happens</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Power differentials are natural</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Makes sense to attend to these
matters</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">consciously,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">rationally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Hot heads, coarse tongues, flail of
arm,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">crush of foot, outthrust chest,
rancorous</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">demands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">lively show and tell;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Yes, such forceful yell might get
bells</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">ringing, choirs singing, merry
pageantry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">After roaring Sun’s descended,
crowds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">disbanded to bars and beds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">to dream lusty victories or private</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">histories, nobody charged to watch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">for this twinkling of time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Without law, there is no crime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Without rules, no crown ascends</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">by common call – but only by</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">all against all</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">in squall of terrors,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">contests of survival, games</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">scored in blood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Believe all people peaceful</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">if you just let us be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Walk among our brethren.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Tell me what you see.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">If human kindness is our cure,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">why do the poor stay poor?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">Truly self-governing civility would</span></div>
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">so obviously</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #71285a; font-size: medium;">transcend ills of political
governments.</span></div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-46544993178813205312017-08-26T16:34:00.002-07:002017-08-26T16:34:21.559-07:00woman<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Earth Goddesses</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Ceres, mother of the
Earth</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Athena, of cerebral
birth</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Juno, queen of all the
gods</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Vesta, pure against all
odds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Virgo woman, life bequeaths
you,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Standing proud amongst your
sheaths,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> Wisdom, loving gifts of
grace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> In all fields is your
place</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> To give of virtue, mind and
soul</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> You plant the seed. You help it
grow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> You till the soil and prune and
weed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> You are the soil. You are the
seed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> A snow-white light on field's
relief</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> To countenance divine
belief.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> The image of a wishful
star:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> A steady shine -- but still so
far.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> The nights of hope; the days of
pain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> And on and on, that old
refrain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> We are the heart, the soul, the
spleen</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> We are all we've known, done and
seen</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> We are the time that marches
on</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"> With much to do before we're
gone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Your Philosophy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em>movie plot as object lesson
</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em>boys find valuable object
</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em>boys lose valuable object
</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em>boys fight to get valuable
object back</em> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I am woman born </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">no source of father's pride
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">too early in my days, they
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">track my aroma </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I know not to hide </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">use me in some back room
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">until my womb rises with a new
slave </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">for their diversions </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I am sacred mother </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tit tied to feeding, always feeding
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">(agonized bleeding in secret shame)
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">No more than a tether, a trough,
and </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tantalizer of the profane. I am a
wrecked </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">train, a vehicle left to rust,
blamed for </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">slatternly stagnation,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">never quite thrown away.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Reject me; reject hard truths,
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">long trod diamonds, scuff-polished,
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hidden like icebergs in paleolithic
mud. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Dismiss prophetic exaltation, work
songs, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">labyrinthine gardens, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">we who are only dreams in your
philosophy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">You may well be better
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stuck in your own </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">wheel of clay. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">My lesson, when I am ready,
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">is to leave you to your way;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">cleave to the ecstasy </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">loose, lost, subjective
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">heroic</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Scrying on the Moon (for
Brigid)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em>~twilight of the goddess, call
to song to aery dancing, lady fair your fiery trance rewinds our souls; enjoy
these offerings of fancy: all art is yours ~</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"><em></em></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">By sibylline light</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">images I recognize,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">creviced captures of my
life.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I know her judgment to be my
own.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">"Nourished by Moon
rivers</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">mythical cavern blooms</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">unseen by sunlight</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">glow green." </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Thus she sets the
scene;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">becomes the prophecy.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">"Purest white
simplicity</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">curved to suggest
fragility</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">faith fed maiden ready for
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">plucking,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">given in bondage to womanly
woes,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hard rows to hoe</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">for that human hug through
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">crying of night.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Fate of mortal soldiers, sacrificed
to lust.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Seeking relief, beg for the boon of
drama</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">high adventure</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">sneaking into sad
hotels</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">for a fix or a tumble.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Laughs,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">deadly play,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">danger, a real chance.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Barefoot in the snow</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">icy roads</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">winds so strong</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I could not make you
hear.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I thought you were my
destiny.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Crazy thoughts, far from
clear;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">but I believed</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">song lyrics from Saturnine
deities</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">would not lie, leave
me</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">dying, fading into winter's
grey</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">drifting clouds,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">endless sorrow endured for
naught.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Lost on this careless
corner,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">dreaming of oblivion, intent on
visions</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">like rain</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tapping against
eternity's</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">vast windowpane.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Scenic serenity.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Nature's gradations of
green</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">soothe tired eyes,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">trembling nerves, throbbing
veins.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Slivers of moonlight
reflect</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">in withered refrains, unearth
secrets</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">embedded in song</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">effervescing through cool pure
air</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">cleansing the uprising
nestling</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">set aflame</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">resurrected</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tempered mettle,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">pure, wise, tested</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">engorged with the will</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to rise"</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Lady Moon</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Masked Lady Moon
shines</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">into my room</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">speaks of fantastic
adventure.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Dare I question her</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">abundant concern?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I a masked gypsy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">painted in gloom,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">a taste for wry
humour,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">impossible promises,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">resplendent terrain.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">A woman insane,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">taken in by the Moon</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">fair sister, sparkling
cold</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">so far</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I wander without home</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">but that clear, quiet
salvation</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hiding like Moonlight</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">unmasked in my mind.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Athena's Valentine</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Athena fair</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stalwart daughter of
Zeus</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">graces her time and
place</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">with divine knowledge.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Today unlined face,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">silken hair,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">robust yet fragile
form</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">are proclaimed as the
graces</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of womanhood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Athena, lost in the
pantheon,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">whispers to the
nightears</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of her faithful,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">saying: "True woman's
mind</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">inclines to wisdom."</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">But Daddy's girl</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">wants more recompense</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">for loneliness.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Bride</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">She awoke in a body, young,
womanly, driving consciousness</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">on hold somewhere like dreamless
sleep.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">It was her occasional brief
invasion to feel in touch with</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">mortal concerns.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">She is to be a bride, again.
Foolish, innocent yet of so many</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">regrets and betrayals to come. She
is ready to exult in the veil</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">and it symbolic lift. Happy to
perform, darling of her audience</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of familiars. Happy day, swept
clean of trepidations, of all</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">yesterdays and their burdensome
effluvia. Today is always hers.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">These ceremonies, traditional
duties and pleasures, bind her to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">cults, cultures, accumulated lore
and intuition. Not creature, but</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">weaver – still she is inseparable
from the story.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Today she again assumes bridehood.
Tonight, awash in festivities, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">again she removes her spell of
possession.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">This new bride returns to a
familiar world, changed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">No longer civil child nor spiritual
supplicant, she has ascended.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">People see her differently, treat
her with more deference, more</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">distance even as they proclaim her
their precious chosen intimate,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">ply her with cherished secrets as
if her allegiance would add value.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Her bearing carries an air, an
enhanced spirit, a subtle awareness,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">unspoken by any inner
voicing.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Language is a human
art.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Here at the bar again</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Here at the bar again, bar nothing
to me.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Deepest Scorpio, gusts tinged
icy.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Onward toward Chumley's 2 pm
Village poetry reading.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Searching outside book stall for
bargains, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">found a Paul Goodman</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">with cat and dog and baby
photographs</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to give to Cindy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">a gift of love for a fragile
child</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stranger/sister.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Still affright from last night's
heavy scene,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">wherein the police took my man away
again,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">this time with my blessing and
accomplicement.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">. . . A man is a hard
thing.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Also a drag on my developmental
aspirations.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">When all he does is loom and
threaten</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Big Brute Violence</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to storm my
sensibilities.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">(What's frustrating is he doesn't
hear me </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">plead for shelter.)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Laughing in the park we
loved</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Crying in the night we
parted</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Oh, beseech I, gods
above:</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Why must you leave me
broken-hearted?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">(and I know he'll be returning with
more disregards</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">and diatribes and possibly pistol
drawn to fire)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">So I sit here in the bar,
again.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Drinking sweet Kahlua and awaiting
the poetry.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Taking a respite, you
see.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Oh, Goddess, for this
while,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">bar nothing to this troubled
child</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">(for child I feel, though woman
grown).</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Let peace alone assail
me.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Pink and Blue</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">(and red all over)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Fist shakes from rage</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">channeled, coursing,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">flailing bloodlines.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Caught, snarled,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stagnant dying ocean</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">willing to be taken
down</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">from fear to violence.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Call wild arms,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">breast, sinew, shame.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Chemistry surges,
overplays.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">One mortal coup de
grace</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">burst sword to heart</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">that never lived</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">beyond desire.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">If man is fire,
dissolved</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">into greater waves,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">why does Woman weep?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Why does not the flood</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of pain absolve and</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">succor? Why should
fate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">deny blessings of
mortal</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">release in wash of
blood</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to lady fair,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">snakes and thistles to braid her
hair,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">expose her tortured
face?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Eyes that kill in
silence,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stone lips, wrinkled
nose,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">washed out in times of</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stoic denial. Why
must</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">she kneel, vile,
victim</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of violence, not its
cause?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Who makes these laws
of</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">natural selection?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Who takes the stone?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Who takes the stone's
projection?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">sacrifice</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Why would a woman risk</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">death or other bodily
terrors,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">social exposure to all the slings
and arrows</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of frenzied hate,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to end her unborn’s
fate?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">She is protecting her child, like a
good mother does,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">despite her own
suffering,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">protecting her innocent from this
horrid world,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">from people like you.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Bitter Dregs</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">You don't get it.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">You don't want to.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">It would be too much to
bear</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">if you let your thought go
there.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Briefly unconscious, awakened
to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hard concrete ground
surrounded</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">by heels and toes,
amazing</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">they don't crush me, but
no,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">like clockstep they walk
around</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">though occasionally a(n
unmeaning?)</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">shove -- I'm not a
someone,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">just a minor obstacle</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">unnoted in their busy
day.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">No worries.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Not like shoved down
under</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hard muscle, jutting
bone,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stinking of beer and
rage;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">or waking from too brief
oblivion,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">broken pain, bleeding</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tears, torn, bruised,
a</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">colorful toy</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">made for pleasure.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Then the voices,
echoes.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Harpies and Sirens,
Furies</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">and sad old women.
Fingers</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">shake in
disapprobation.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Shrill voices call me
beautiful,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">in the way that ugly things
are.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">So bad, so pitiful,
cardinal</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">status among the
neverweres.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Struggling shadows,
whispering</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">curses demurely lest
anyone</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">notice and throw them
further</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">down, below duration.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Never easy, confessing
degradation.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">The sin adheres. No one wants to
know.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">God of Sky and Rain</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Women hold up half the
sky?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">In His world</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">women hold up the sky.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Men sit around, masturbate, watch
football,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">occasionally,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">go out and rape</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">lowering</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">that small part</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of the sky.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Capricorn Woman</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I am not nice, or warm</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I am not a cozy fire nor a
sparkling stream</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I am practical, compassionate,
concerned that form</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">follow substance, not content to
seek what comes</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">easily.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I swim stormy seas, climb rocky
spires, sometimes pretend</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to conform while I investigate the
scene. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Winter born, Saturn ruled, not a
saint nor a fool, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Capricorn woman, I discreetly
ascend</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">into my truth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">A Woman Disappointed and
Disillusioned, Courageously Facing a Seemingly Empty Life</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Dressed in sadness</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Depressed to madness</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Mad to believe in
passion,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">which never lasts beyond the
hour.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Shrieking to bequeath
the</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">power to stand, to
breathe.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Years appear, macabre
hag</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">preening her wares.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">"See how it was, how it could
be.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Drag and drop your face, your
fate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">onto a printed page. Can you
see</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">new meaning? New lamps for
old."</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">She cackles, like</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">a metronome.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">New maps for a new
age.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">That charming village erstwhile
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">known as Hell</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">has realigned into
Helvetica.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">All that burning
sorrow</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">tomorrow's poetry.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Lovers Meeting</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Carry her with love</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Always, in your deepest
places</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">She is a woman upon the
Earth</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">in a land of briar and
weeds</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">It is so easy to fall</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">to fail to thrive</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">set upon by slavering
beasts</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">and prophets</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">You know she yearns to
serve</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">so well</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">that none could find
fault</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Yet every agonizing
step</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">like angry knives</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">cutting from below</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hobbles her further,
deeper</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">leaving less to give</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Bloody prints mark her</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">dusty trail</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Thirsting for the cooling
warmth</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">of love</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Carry her into your</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">sacred caverns</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">secreted wellsprings</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">journey's end</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">cubicle woman</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">The moments slither by if you
forget they're there. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">Sucking in sweetness, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">hot sugared coffee, aroma of
memory.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">It might be a sluggish, clammy
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">descent of summer afternoon. Hints
of autumn </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">like blackberry spicing the
air.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">The people here are decent.
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">They smile to make conversation a
pleasant bit of business.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">They want me to feel safe, subdued.
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">It doesn't matter that we are never
more than strangers,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">passing faces, complaisant.
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">They bring me coffee with sugar and
plastic sticks for stirring.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">In this moment all of the world
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">turns so skillfully </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">I move along without pause for
acknowledgement,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;">stealthily aware.</span></div>
<br />
<div>
<span style="color: #8a0064; font-family: Andalus; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-51770523853686515942017-08-23T16:04:00.001-07:002017-08-23T16:04:44.880-07:008/10/17-8/17/17<div style="font-family: Calibri;">
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">simply, far too many are harmed by
bad </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">behaviors of others</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">-- what can be done to help those
harmed </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">and stop those harming?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Thots on race, violence</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">It’s not tribalism</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">It’s bullyism</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Those militant “PCers” you
sarcastically </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">call Snow Flakes, proving you don’t
get it. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">They are not flakes of snow in fear
of </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">melting. They’re mad as hell and
not </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">going to take it any more. That’s
not </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #3c4600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">snow; that’s hail.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">ss: mankind wipes out other
species</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">creates AI “children” to be trained
to do </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">our work/act as pets to pamper and
punish and </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">preen</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Humans become obsolete, Earth home
to </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">pointless AIs made to serve
biological beings who</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">no longer exist</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">we embrace abling lore teaching
health</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya;"></span> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Healthy humans are active and
curious</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">not whiners chained to our
screens</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">Victims of history’s rhythms and
rules</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">ignorant, vicious, recalcitrant
fools</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">where find active embrace, enabling
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: large;">tools? </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">
<span style="color: #504600; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">8/10/17-8/17/17</span></div>
</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-43061082923316173012017-08-22T13:56:00.001-07:002017-08-22T13:56:35.791-07:00"saving" social security or securing economic chicanery (9/12/06)<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"saving" social security or securing economic chicanery</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">September 12, 2006</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yet another obfuscation of the GW Bush administration is the controversy they have created over "saving" Social Security. The so-called shortfall is not about actual monies collected from workers' payroll taxes, but the fact that these funds have been used to offset government spending short-falls generally in a growing political culture of irresponsibility as regards the U.S. economy.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bill Clinton spoke to us from the standpoint that we could all band together for mutual benefit (even if the gain was not always equitable). GW Bush, however, seems to be all about dividing us against ourselves for the benefit of those in position to exploit us.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the case of Bush's grand gesture to save Social Security, there is no need to "fix" Social Security in order to continue the level of payouts that recipients have grown to expect. The problem here is not in the program, but in misrepresentations about the effects of currently projected demographics. Of much more concern if these figures were projections of an actual future should be the lack of labor force in comparison to retirees, leaving too few people to take up the work that will need to be done (especially with such a large retired community in need of services), and thus also lowering the tax base. </span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the foreseeable future, as more of the demographic bulge retires, there will come opportunities in a variety of circumstances for a much greater base of employment. There will be the services industries fueled by the needs and desires of retirees. There are already a plethora of projects greatly in need of organizing by folks who can find a way to profit from a creative business plan. Bringing in new blood, fresh ideas from people not so tied to the status quo could help to catalyze the process. Then, there is always the new, unanticipated technologies as well as new, unanticipated crises that our quickly changing world is so prone to develop. The thing is, what we need to encourage these kinds of economic development is an atmosphere of open inquiry and a shared flow of ideas, not the "compassionate conservatism" of catering to wealthy interest groups, keeping us mired in a status quo as long as the status continues to go to those interests.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As many people are indeed more able to work for longer years, the rationale for raising the retirement age would be to keep more people in the workforce doing the work. However, this could also be accomplished by immigration policy to bring in more younger workers. In light of the oversupply of unemployed young adults in much of the world, such a policy could also work to the advantage of the U.S. in international relations and other foreign policy concerns.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My big peeve about the Social Security system is the cap on income eligible for payroll taxation. If we took the tax all the way to the last dollar, there would be plenty available to seriously lower the percentage of taxation, taking more of the burden off of the lower paid workers. I am sure that there are other positive changes that could be made to improve the system and better serve the social function of taking care of our old and infirm in a manner that honors their social contributions and affords them respect.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bush doctrine on Social Security is not at all about serving such laudable social goals. It is about pitting the haves and hope to haves against the already burdened. It is about inciting our insecurity, rather than inspiring our creative spirit.</span><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">see: </span><a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0505orr.html" jslog="10929; track:click" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: #2962ff; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0505orr.html</a><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Social Security Q&A: Separating Fact from Fiction BY DOUG ORR</span>libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-86709675340276750442017-08-06T12:44:00.001-07:002017-08-06T12:44:40.682-07:00salute to Hiroshima<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">nuclear quiet
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Tremble.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Terrible
holocaust.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Fragments, smoldering
ash attest inferno’s horror</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">beyond any concept of
fright.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Tremble.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Desirous
destruction</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">engulfs, combusts,
devours the night.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Ghastly imbroglio to
contemplate.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Holy emission of
erupting sky</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">obscuring, engorging,
torching heavens and Earth.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Maelstrom behind closed
eyes of flesh-rending fire</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">razing, exploding,
resplendent in awe filled</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">agony;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">transcending density
into shocks of deadliest</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">tremors.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Yes, tremble and think
not of that night.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Caught in a thread
which ravels to end in</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">throat-clutching
screams.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Send dread escaping,
sad streams of molten tears.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Endless, enduring, yet
rent past all mending.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Quiet, so quiet
tonight.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Kept closed -- quiet
tonight.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Unable to catch breath;
unable to cry; unable to go on</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">-- But, God, I don't
die</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">just quail ‘neath
flames descending, howl</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">without a
sound.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Tremble, just tremble
-- there's no soul around.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">second flooding of
Megiddo</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">I've got
rain.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">No words.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">No fancy
maledictions.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Pounding drips
against</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">my inner
scream.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Out in the
valley,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">obscured by smoky
haze,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">gathering
armies.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Bright polished
armor.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Weaponry
clean</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">beauteously
shines,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">stars behind dark
clouds.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">No roots to cling
to.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Flood water
rises,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">drowns fire, air,
ability to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">speak of
sorrow.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Ashes</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">fall
unevenly</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">through seeping
valley.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Hiroshima</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Peace</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Fight for
peace</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Our sacred
honor</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Arrows fly</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">piercing
armor</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Pierce of amor, pride
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">outside all
measure</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Wrath, revenge as
pleasure</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Coiled
paranoia</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">bayonet
strong</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Toddlers
play,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">armless,
unwary</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">skeletally
still</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Bared secrets
slip,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">burn scars in
time</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Scorching, pinprick
holes</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">in heaven's
fabric,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">petrified souls thrust
to</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">premature
eviction</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Hellfire ripped from
metaphor</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Immolation scream-echo
palpable, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">texture
ascends</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Daring
phantoms,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">death's
brigade</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">wail
"Peace!"</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">-- unheeded
command</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">because real
glory</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">belongs to
slaughter</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Veneration
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Honoring
peace.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Honoring essence left
behind</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">not blessed in
sanctified fields</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">open to air and
sunlight,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">tended to father by
father,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">mother to sacrificed
child.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Dust denied
transcendence to </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">holy loam in presence
of love.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Lives not given, not
shared, but stolen,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">ripped asunder
--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">limbs, guts,
glory.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Shrieking abodeless
waifs,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">wailing abandoned
intimates, kin.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Screaming bombs,
squealing tanks.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Arms, throats
lacerated.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Vision scathed,
scarred.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">For peace, for country,
for prosperity.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Today, smoke, cinder
flecks</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">obscure a longed-for
Sun.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">devotional haiku
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">happy day to
die</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">amid man's and planet's
ruins</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">reverberant Hell
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">starshine uncontained
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">potent messaging
released</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">DNA
cackles</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Japanese
songbirds</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">born to nuclear
wasteland </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">shriek mass
destruction</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Logic of
Evolution</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Successful
progenitors</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">survive to sow
seed</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">by force or
persuasion</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">or hiding off
screen</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">or banding
together</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">that more may
succeed,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">and upgrade
conditions,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">enhance the
breed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">But, for such teams to
work well</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">we must</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">learn to respect,
honor, and trust;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">expect to contribute
and take and share,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">accept the caring for
and care.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">In community varied
seeds are sown.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Thus is a thriving
future grown.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Or, sibling rankling
infests</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">to neighbors as
scorn.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Barriers
proliferate,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">preparations for
war.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Who is emboldened
by</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">destruction and
blood,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">blowing
civilizations</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">back into
mud?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Are these principled
people</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">filled with kindness
and joy?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Those who can create
good;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">the lacking
destroy.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Guns, bombs, cruel
words, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">contempt, angry
sneers,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">promotion of
pain,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">preying on
fears,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">paying us naught
but</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">unneeded
tears</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">and advancement of
certain</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">unsavory
careers.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">We can reject their
lies,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">realize the
prize.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Here! before our
eyes.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Simple. Easy.
Free.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">Expect, accept,
embrace</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">the
abundance</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #be3c00; font-family: Palatino Linotype; font-size: medium;">of
Peace.</span></div>
</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-35970520948469540892017-07-28T16:37:00.001-07:002017-07-28T16:37:47.052-07:007/10-28<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">constipated by ideology</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">puffed up in
self-aggrandizement</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">putrified with hubris</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">The better world I want</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">is not so much one of
race/gender/ethnicity</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">equality, but a
humanity</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">which appreciates and practices the
win/win/win</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">of basic kindness, eschews the
lose/lose/lose</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">of hostility</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Comfortable in my own
id</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">comfort in grace</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">Gracious be</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #84006e; font-family: Vijaya; font-size: medium;">make Peace The
issue</span></div>
</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-81932101970079530742017-06-23T13:08:00.001-07:002017-06-23T13:08:53.344-07:006/19-22/17<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">Silent Queen</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">trapped in a moment</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">she cannot change,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">nor break,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">or even know she is having.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">Caught in a snit, a snare,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">a flounce of royal petulance
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">and scent of fear</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">no thought outside this
moment’s</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #930067; font-family: BatangChe;">pique. Never to speak, or
hear.</span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">Berserkish rammers</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">road ragers, suicidal
shrews,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">roaring expression of
human</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">imperative, collective
unconscious</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">urgency, </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0040; font-family: Malgun Gothic;">will to destroy </span></div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">The Second Sunset of Summer</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">Jeweled sparkle through</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">emblazoned green</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">stages of darkening</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">becomes a screen</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">to cast a scene from memory</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">or what ought have been.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">I see a field of play,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">of poets and Pans gaily a’song</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">while playmates take a laugh,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">a dance, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">a merry evening’s holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">On roads of old (a half-century or
so)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">firefly pipers inspire</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">hopeful wild ones to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">Free flight like in infant
dreams</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">before boundaries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">Summer melt of sun and mud;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">heat mellows, liquifies icy </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">tensions. Beat down, swallowed
in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">sweat, too hot for questions</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">to make sense.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">Sunset soothes. Withered </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">inhibitions lubricated, removed
as</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">peeled skin reveals raw
resurrection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">Inexorable romp we claim</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5b0050; font-family: Latha;">to desire, defined by
starlight.</span></div>
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libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-81499203835632810182017-06-16T12:56:00.001-07:002017-06-16T12:56:16.963-07:006/1-16/17<div>
Relinquish </div>
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hubris of responsibility</div>
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bereft of gifts</div>
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lacking energy to respond</div>
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Poor, shallow thinkers abound</div>
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yet we insist on mollifying their</div>
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shouts of equality, absorbing into</div>
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their sloppy, squishy discourse</div>
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Make America States Again!</div>
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Gave it all away for love</div>
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never received</div>
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Let my life be paved by fictionhs</div>
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I believed</div>
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Nothing left to give (never expected</div>
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an end like this)</div>
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No bright blessings call</div>
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Empty space absorbed as pain</div>
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because I gave it all</div>
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Nothing but empty days, drugged out nights</div>
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Condemned to oozing rights, rites that</div>
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never quell the pain</div>
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Not punishment for shame – no blame</div>
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our run replaced, fit to this crumbling cage.</div>
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Don’t You Feel Sick Too?</div>
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6/1-16/17</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-6804760403027242112017-05-20T23:30:00.001-07:002017-05-20T23:30:13.511-07:003/10-5/20/17<br /><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| -->
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">I know nothing of these grand
debates</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">that may bring sway upon my
fate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">writ large on braying
wind</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Not my decision; not my
place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Far from majesty of Center
Stage,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">my only power:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Hope to breathe again with
every wave.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Not tribalism --</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">dichotomy is our
enemy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">forced to choose:
either/or</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">denying complexity of
reality.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Tie us up in duel
formality.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Watch freedom die,
collaterally.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">And, of course,
humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">For what? Some “bottom
line”?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Remind us why you
decide</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">what choice must
die.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Rulers are meant to promote
values</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">move forward within the value
system</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">of the group forming the
rules.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Rumination deserves to serve
artistic projects</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">Government funded through
royalty payments on</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">profitable outcomes of
government funded research</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">I tried to hurt myself more
than I anticipated from others,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">to inoculate against their
power.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">The problem with We, the
People is that we are not</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">a people, but random
individuals and interest groups</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">fighting amongst
ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4e5e00; font-family: Angsana New; font-size: large;">3/10-5/20/17</span></div>
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libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-60785113016610056442017-03-03T13:21:00.001-08:002017-03-03T13:21:14.984-08:00waving/drowning<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Hate, hate, hate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">We hate, denigrate, as we
choose</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Blacks, Browns, Jews</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">and all of youse who</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">ain’t fools that waste our
lives</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">on hate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Journey inward</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to see what</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">stories appear</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Attend to voiceless
whispers,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">haunting calls to play, to</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">drift away, become</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">a conduit for musics,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">magicks, passions</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">sonorously surging</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">within.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Never a promise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Lies, fantasy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">no genealogy, identity</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to cleave, to hide among,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to belong </span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Stories I must drag
bleeding</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">sacrifice to experience</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">angst of mutating age,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">archetypal choice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Dependent on destiny of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">pain’s transcendence,
stories,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">fantasies I create</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">desperate for a world</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">where I am allowed to
matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Thank you, dear friend,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">for being </span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">as this new found year
aspires</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Goddess queens</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">exquisite scenes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">let’s play!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">It’s not the tribes, but elite rulers
who</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">obstruct tribes from having equal
voice</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">that thwarts democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Democracy is not a homogeneous
group</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">agreeing, but diverse tribes
negotiating</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">for common rule that works well
enough</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">for everyone.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">The tribes are breaking down
--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">that, not “tribalism” is the social
destructor.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">People become insecure, frightened
outsiders,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">cling beyond all reason or sane
self-interest</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to the remnants, the faux tribes, the
demagoguery</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to conjure that strong story of
belonging.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Just a hunk of stone</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">No control over where I
stand,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">where I go</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Falling from place</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">until I land</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to remain or be taken</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">by chance or agency</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">not my own</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Pilgrim’s progress</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">White Anglo Ethos</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Petulant brats demand
obeisance</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to our code of conquest, of
dominance,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">of hard-assed outcast of
deviance</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Rule over Earth and her
issue</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">break them to work for our
wishes.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Honor, respect,these are authorities’
own</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">the war lords we place on our thrones to
command.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Progress is forward motion on opening
roads.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Marching, no conscience nor care for
what may explode.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Let our Great Destroyer sort
it.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Why would a woman risk</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">death or other bodily
terrors,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">social exposure to all the slings and
arrows</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">of frenzied hate,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to end her unborn’s fate?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">She is protecting her child, like a good
mother does,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">despite her own suffering,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">protecting her innocent from this horrid
world,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">from people like you.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Do not ignite your enemies</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Ensnare them in better
fantasies</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Under</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Caught, barbed, mired </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">in private dramas, traumas.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Sunk, gasping, up just enough to
see</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">nothing to cling to,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">grasping at phantoms, wisps of
mirage.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">How proceed? No landmark empirically
real,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">how find relief, belief that’s meaning
applies?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">How define “wise” as solution to
needs;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">everyone bleeds, but who decides
why,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">or how?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">No time for such now --</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">too much to do</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to try to break through,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">to breathe.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Whatever they say, so far
away</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">from my plight</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">I assume must be right --</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">I know nothing of these grand
debates</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">that may be sway to my fate</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">writ large on the wind.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">No my decision nor place.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">Far from luxury life at Center
Stage</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">my only power: hoping to breathe
again</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">with every wave.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #004650; font-family: MV Boli;">12/18/16-3/3/17 </span></div>
</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-29149250414085723442017-01-29T11:45:00.002-08:002017-01-29T11:45:51.062-08:00opening view<div>
Monk Hill stands smiling in the morning sun. Early Spring, well-tracked
snow still covers frozen ground.</div>
<div>
Coffee-stained observations through my kitchen window.</div>
<div>
Tom moved me here to heal, to figure out who I need to be and how. I don’t
think he was so much scared as awed by my profound collapse</div>
<div>
into frenzied inertia. He had helped to organize this place, this
art-based enclave, to enjoy as occasional recreational refuge as well as</div>
<div>
to give free range to special friends that he might be blessed in their
blooming. He seems quiet and controlled, a useful cover for his</div>
<div>
beauty obsessed soul. So fortunate that he has all that inherited wealth
to indulge with. I mean that sincerely. So many highborn brats</div>
<div>
indulge in nasty, even cruel, habits because they can. Or then there are
those obsessed with out-earning daddy or expanding their </div>
<div>
empire no matter the cost to collateral lives. See, I can record a logical
progression of thought, sitting calmly, drinking coffee for the</div>
<div>
luxurious warmth, smiling at the hill, the valley, the stone and brick
buildings, the tracks in crusty snow, maybe a human or critter</div>
<div>
intent on their own projects. This is comfort. This is breathing deeply,
stretching gently, opening slowly toward the warmth of</div>
<div>
activity, to explore in search of empowering questions.</div>
<br />
<div>
Sounds like Eat Yer Pudding is open below. Guess I’ll take this party
public, check out the scene over breakfast bread pudding.</div>
libramoonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06077072773341726387noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-403760688818081301.post-41064383013025080682016-10-13T15:47:00.001-07:002016-10-13T15:47:22.964-07:00blood poems for an October 13 evening<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Small girlchild, rags and dust
– follow</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">her morning of traverse, this
tiny world allowed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Each tent flap reveals fester
of wounds deep</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">and shallow, ravage
disease.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Senses, thought, subsumed to
beat of breath</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">outside rational
context.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Stuck in the dirt, her worth a
hole where</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">she bottoms out, tributary
blood expelled.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Government happens</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Power differentials are
natural</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Makes sense to attend to these
matters</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">consciously,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">rationally.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Hot heads, coarse tongues,
flail of arm,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">crush of foot, outthrust chest,
rancorous</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">demands</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">lively show and
tell;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Yes, such forceful yell might
get bells</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">ringing, choirs singing, merry
pageantry.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">After roaring Sun’s descended,
crowds</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">disbanded to bars and
beds</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">to dream lusty victories or
private</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">histories, nobody charged to
watch</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">for this twinkling of
time.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Without law, there is no
crime.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Without rules, no crown
ascends</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">by common call – but only
by</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">all against all</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">in squall of
terrors,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">contests of survival,
games</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">scored in blood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Muses dance,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">explore motion.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Segue to and fro</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">two steps back; a flurry
forward.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Satin cats, tails
a’fling</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">pirouette, scurry
choreography.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">No tomorrow. No scheduled glee
for</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">public
appearances.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Time’s a’clanging, impatient
clamors</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">for unknown
seasons.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Rainstorm howls,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">cleanses,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">sends tidings, murky repentance
and</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">beard for tears. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Savage rain
tip-tapping</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">rhythms and blues.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Barrels for dipping, for ritual
</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">washing, for tribal hydration,
replenishment.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Agriculture,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">hunger, health, hygiene.
Sordid rain,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">ashen water, terror, pain,
diluted </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">blood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Storm warnings advise
caution.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Cover yer windows and
blinds.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Hide in cellars and
pray.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Find salvation in fearsome
company.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Oh, Hell – give in! Cave into
slippery ground;</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">swallow and be
swallowed.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">The rains came, carried fortune
to further shores</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">and supplicants. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Long into unspoken
tomorrows.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Dread – crusty needles eject
embalming poison</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Stiff, rusted shut, ooze
tarnished prison door.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Electrified to molten
waste.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Lost wastrel, chased into rough
wood.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">How could good ever tough
through?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Seethe tooth and
fang.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Anger will tighten screws,
coils.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">No mercy to win when cardinal
sin is innocence.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Don’t chatter of
cruelty,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">turn red in shame.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Remember the wise one winked
“No blame.”</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">while wheeling outside reach of
stage.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">There are no great
secrets,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">barbed network of
lies.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">There is this blood
bludgeon</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">of power wielded by minions and
slaves</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">with too little to
win.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">If a moonlit beach at midnight
called siren songs,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">embracing melody, calming waves
--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">if urgent desire brokered
change.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Cypher</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">O’ evil Man</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">It is not your gods who make
you so.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">They laugh at their celestial
balls,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">silly little mood
slaves</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">primed to vomit sour
wine,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">feast after bloody
binge.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Who is the moral
gatekeeper,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">the celebrated purveyor of
righteousness?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Who the masked
scoundrel,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">cross-dressed wolves and
lambs</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">in demonic jig?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">A lively game to wile away
some</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">vague eternity.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Our children obscured in
armament.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">So many souls to
devour.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Tonight’s
Impression</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Dig, deep into unlikely
crevices.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Unsightly
blemishes</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">covered in mud, old crusted
blood,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">more suffering than
shame.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">If none know my
name,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">can they curse me?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Always rehearsing
for</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">untended curtains,
productionless</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">plays.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Gospel</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Sally, won't you
go</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">downtown</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Pick up some teabag
party</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">clowns</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">We'll teach 'em tricks of
trade</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">from streets walled in
by</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">degradation</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Ain't this nation
grand</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">for glad hands raised in
celebration</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">of shames we dare not
name.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Hallelujah
Hallelucinations</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Hallowed ground
baptized</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">in blood</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Saved from the cleansing
Flood</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">by sticking to our
kind</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">however we're defining us
today</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">If we were meant to
live</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">a different way</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">wouldn't He have told
us?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">(Hollow) Theme
Party</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Bleeding across the
page</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Not pretty</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Naked self-pity</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">a turn off</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">better passed by</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Rather, let us speak
of</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">solitude, the
advantages</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">of wealth</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">kept to oneself</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">No beasts lessen my
load</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">No supplicants beg to
share</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Luxuriously wrapped in my
lair</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">laughing and dancing on
gold</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">acutely aware of thin cold
urchins</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">out on a distant
plain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">They are no kin to
me;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">out there for
atmosphere</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">I am Deity within this
domain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">blood you see
splattered</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">on this page</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">fell from other
veins</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">some poor
unfortunate</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">released from pain</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">How pretty! Let's
party!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">A gala affair,
enraptured</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">alone in my lair</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Our Gang</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;"></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Outrage</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Depression facing
outward</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Taking power to give it
away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">This entrained
impulse</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">See them crackling,
jangling</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">puppets at puppy
play,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">bite, bark,
entangle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">grab and tussle,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">growl, muscle in for the
kill.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Bloodlust arousal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Natural as puke, as
death,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">violation as violent
orgy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">violation as
ecstatic</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">initiation to the
brotherhood.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Life elevated to dreams, goals,
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">careful weighing of coin and
hours,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">dependable plans, actions that
honor can favor,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">love, duty, allegiance to the
rules of sanity</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">and kind regard</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">have no purpose
here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">Men of blood and battle fluid
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">need no fine speeches, no valor
--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">only food and
receptacles</span></div>
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<span style="color: #64002d; font-family: DilleniaUPC; font-size: large;">for their
waste.</span></div>
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