Category Archives: Politics



Good and Evil

For the love of god
A young Sunni lad
Destroys himself
In the market place,
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Posted in Death, Illusion, Politics, Religion

The Second Amendment

Our precious, blessed Bill of Rights saves us
From those grim nuts who want to snatch away our guns.
Year after year they stir their pious fuss,
Their noxious nonsense aimed to end our fun.

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Posted in Death, Politics

Ars Poetica

I look at other people’s new-formed poems
And sink into despair. They detail fights
‘Twixt narrow arteries and veins—syndromes
Of narcissistic shadow and delight.
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Vanity

History

In olden times
The agile sword
Won fields,
And thrones, and wealth.
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Politics, Poverty, Taxes, War, Wisdom

History

That grade school bully
Stole my lunch.
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Posted in Politics, War

Paradise?

Seventy-two unemployed, young virgins
Await you in paradise Ishmael
(The mullah promises)—and all your sins
Erased by feats your relatives retell—
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Posted in Death, Politics, Religion, War