anger:

August 24, 2009

an occasion

to take three breaths
then count
my blessings

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be the embracer

December 5, 2008

peace is a choice
do not wait for one’s embrace
be the embracer

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Peace Is a Choice

October 30, 2008

we see them as barbaric
they see us as barbaric

we are both wrong
we are both right

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It is all hockey violence…

June 10, 2008

Cheer at the altar of his fist.
A beer to celebrate blood on ice.

The enforcer whom you worship
would split your head and not think twice.

These are the heroes we offer –
often naughty, rarely nice.

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“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly

May 24, 2008

Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.

Yet we are now besmirched

for having those same
patriotic opinions.

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Dick Cheney’s Picture Book of Energy – page 6

March 24, 2008

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Scars give Mother Earth more character!

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Dear Bishop

March 7, 2008

and what about the violence
once they leave the womb?

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Newark revisited

January 22, 2008

During the summer of 1967 I worked at a Fresh Air camp in the rural hills of New Jersey. Twenty miles to the east was rioting and rebelling in the streets of Newark.

I was asked to make an emergency trip into the Newark ghetto to return a camper whose mother or sister had been killed by gunfire.  I was to say nothing about it.  The Bonnie Brae camp truck would be our credential for safe passage I hoped.  On each corner were crowds of angry black men staring at each vehicle passing by.  Forty years later many corners are still the same.

I was living in Newark in 1968 when Doctor King was murdered. Five of us (all quite white) lived in a black neighborhood while attending Seton Hall.

Down the street from our apartment was Cookie’s Plain and Fancy.  We would stop in after class to play pool, shoot darts, and drink High Life. Cookie had a shotgun behind the bar and  James Brown on the jukebox.  On the day he bought us a round of beers we felt like honorary members of the neighborhood.

When Martin Luther King was assassinated – it all changed. We were told not to return by Cookie.  We moved to the white suburbs soon after.

Evil had its way – with all of us.

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spiritual guests

January 16, 2008


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We are spiritual guests on this earth
and should not join in the killing cycle.

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divisiveness

January 4, 2008

divisiveness
keeps us separated –
easier to use

Posted in anger, aristocracy, aristoscale, Armageddon, brainwashing, class, class warfare, fear, gossip, Haiku and Senryu, human relations, humanscale, in-think, Limbaugh, maximization of luxury, Miscellaneous, Poetry, politics, privilege, Religious Right, writing | 8 Comments »

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