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After The Rapture
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After The Rapture |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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When those choice christians soar through the rafters and leave all those cookies and toys, I imagine there'll yet be some laughter for jews, moslems, buddhi and goy, and the police (still in force I've no doubt) will be livid with no one to blame for the litter of bodies about caused by driverless cars (and few planes) It will shorten the wait for a table, a few less need stand on the bus (whose drivers more Cain than are Abel) with more grub for the gluttonous. All Victoria's Secrets delivered (going postal you know they'll be here), the cement shod will crowd the East River, fair elections will disappear. Banker's hours will go on unnoticed, the T.V. will blare what you need, wrathful tempers will often emote us with no end to hate, envy and greed, and we'll all lay around all day Sunday (which is strange 'cause the pulpits are full) with our flesh stretching out unchanged undies, exercise just the old push-pull At the outset it was my intention to write of the rapture's heave-ho, in the end I feel I should mention It all happened a long time ago. |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
richard...i am your # 1 fan and the writting gets better and better with each drop of blood...helen |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
I always find the unexpected...and am always pleased with what I find. ThisDiamond |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Richard, I can always count on intelligent cynicism told through a wise smirk of reality to which I often relate. -MVS "AS ABOVE SO BELOW" |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Long ago has a sick way of coming back for seconds. Intense and biting, stinging with truth as usual. |
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bbent Senior Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 521Alaska |
Not sure if it's my cynicism or odd sence of humor but found this to be a most amusing poem.Great write I really enjoyed. Live like it's your last day... |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I think I've mentioned over the course of over two years how you have always made me laugh with your wit and wisdom , well you should hear me right about now Richard. I printed this out, it is a real keeper and that is the truth. [This message has been edited by Mysteria (11-23-2002 12:30 PM).] |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
(chuckling)... I do so enjoy your writing.... |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
smiling here..... love your poetry! Warm Regards, Pat  ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Richard you always make a smile. I love your poetry. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Well, ain't this the truth!? Enjoyed this...very much. Thanks for the chuckles. ~Hugs~ ~Love, like magic, depends on believing~ |
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Sandpiper Senior Member
since 2002-06-15
Posts 738land of flora and fauna |
okay, so help me here, exactly when do the meek inherit this place??? This was delightfully wicked and frightfully honest! [This message has been edited by Sandpiper (11-23-2002 07:16 PM).] |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
"George W. Bush: Faith in the White House," a DVD that is being specifically marketed in "head to head" partisan opposition to "Fahrenheit 9/11." More than any other campaign artifact, it clarifies the hard-knuckles rationale of the president's vote-for-me-or-face-Armageddon re-election message. It transforms the president that the Democrats deride as a "fortunate son" of privilege into a prodigal son with the "moral clarity of an old-fashioned biblical prophet." Its Bush is not merely a sincere man of faith but God's essential and irreplaceable warrior on Earth. The stations of his cross are burnished into cinematic fable: the misspent youth, the hard drinking (a thirst that came from "a throat full of Texas dust"), the fateful 40th-birthday hangover in Colorado Springs, the walk on the beach with Billy Graham. A towheaded child actor bathed in the golden light of an off-camera halo re-enacts the young George… An older Bush impersonator is seen rebuffing a sexual come-on from a fellow Bush-Quayle campaign worker hovering by a Xerox machine in 1988; it's an effort to imbue our born-again savior with retroactive chastity. As for the actual president, he is shown with a flag for a backdrop in a split-screen tableau with Jesus. The message isn't subtle: they were separated at birth” http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/100404L.shtml Now in the campaign of 2004 we have an even more dramatic example revealing the utter contempt and disdain in which powerful Washington leaders privately hold those voters these same leaders publicly praise as "people of faith.” But this time, the offending individuals and institution are the not liberal press or the elite media. No they are President George W. Bush, his closest political advisor Karl Rove and the Republican National Committee, which the Bush White House totally controls. Bush's own RNC did a mass-mailing to churchgoing voters in Arkansas and West Virginia warning that if churchgoers did not vote Republican in November, the godless "liberals" (read: Democrats) would ban the Bible from American life. Forget that this smear is as vicious as it is dishonest, and that no U.S. politician has even mentioned the idea of banning the Bible. What ought to anger fair-minded Americans everywhere is that the Bush-Rove team must be convinced that the churchgoing folks of West Virginia and Arkansas are so gullible and so ill-informed that this baseless charge could scare them into voting Republican for Bush-Cheney in order to keep their Bibles. Tell me, please, just how bigoted and ignorant do George Bush and Karl Rove think that churchgoing voters of Arkansas and West Virginia really are? http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/04/faith/ |
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