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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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I’m a little nervous about it… I mean… Familiar is the mind taking its portion After all, liberty and culture are dieting To an almost anorexic noose Sour faces with no cause but brute force One sided beliefs Defended by their own rule of life forms Predators owning dead eyes of a shark In the name of religion? In the name of freedom? In the name of science? In the name of my country….. It all seems so Hollywood! Spreading throughout dust, passions, trust Transforming agents of fact Like a Random House Fiction There is no vaccine for Cold War It becomes public…with legs and arms Hard-core members teaching impurities "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Philosopher George Santayana. Restored tolerance grows Naming life traditional debris Laughing at things we should deem Immoral and corrupt Feeding off the lives of false history Like dogs eating their last meal Until the next time…. Negotiating a single voice Manners are traveling to a different home In a reoccurring dream Throwing all neighbors out the window We cannot postpone time Nor ask it to leave I’m still trying to digest Madrid In all its despair, grief and pain When will we remember? Those ghastly layovers I’m still waiting at the airport For Shakespeare Lingering in a semi conscious state Saying good-by to the American Dream Like magic passed right through me Eating corrosive acid indigestion Exposing children Seems to be a trend these days And for starters…I don’t clean bed pans But will, if need be, as long as I don’t feel like I must It’s not my job…alone? Hey is anybody out there or listening? I didn’t see your names on my caller I.D.? Are we able to purify our water? Replenish our soil Take out the garbage, towel up pools of blood Left in high places, by organ donors They’re crashing into my windshield Like bugs….bald with rage Dead and gone….the living dead Celebrates Life? |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
LeeJ I searched the why all my life and can only come up with insanity. Good write. |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
looking for same answers praying for the chaos to stop long enough for all to really see,or should i say just stop long enough so chaos wont completly blind us all to whats happening . no one at home to teach love and respect. so with their anger and greeds chaos gods life they reject thankyou very much |
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DavePage Member Elite
since 2003-12-21
Posts 2917 |
Lee I dont like the idea that we put behind us what happened anyone in the world. The destruction by the terroist groups ignores someone who became a prime minister and planted a bomb in a hotel killing innocent british people. When I am blown to bits who'se ally, planted it, or was this a tuesday and we changed allies. Every country has killed and to avoid jail, everyone calls it freedom. Who funded the IRA to kill in my country. Who kill people from my country in Israel in a hotel and became a Prime Minister. I dont like my words any more than you do, but it made me think of what we thought was a gas explosion by the Old Bailey and who cared as terror was funded. Dave |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
LeeJ -- strong, important writing. Sad that it has come to this. We have a job in all of this, and you know what it is.  |
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