Poetic Justice (Don\'t burn the flag. Wash it!)Poetic Justice (Don\'t burn the flag. Wash it!)A political poetry blog. Original poetry, video and artwork. A dissenting verse. Articles
ONE NATION (MOVE ON)
2008-04-22 06:51:00 The following piece is my Move On.org Barack Obama Video Contest entry.If you like it please follow this link and vote. While you're at it, and while you're on the vote page, you will see the video html emed code and the link code, please place the link code on your site for your visitors and if they are inclined to vote for it they can do so via the page that follows and it will count extra toward my video's chances of winning. There are 1,100 videos entered in the contest! Yikes! By the way... the incredible artwork you see in the video was rendered by none other than my dear friend and associate, Ben Heine.Thank you,Mark (thepoetryman) More About: Nation
HIDDEN MESSAGE (4/21/08 head-lines)
2008-04-21 07:00:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(click on montages to enlarge)Obama readies 'swift boat' defenseThe Bay Hap River, a swift boat,The banks of the Tran Thoi village.A dry day, no rain.A Viet Cong soldier, a rocket,Lt. Kerry fires his weapon,Ba Thanh is slain.A six year old smiles at his mother.Rice in Iraq, violence surges after Sadr threatShe entered with the moorings of night,Staggered to find that she’s unwelcome-Not one flower. Message Machine: Gitmo- The Pentagon’s Hidden HandThese are the criers, the aged and brassy men of warringThat congregate in Cuba, charting the king’s defense.They only know the one breed of war. A House of a Different ColorThe mournfully blue shutters hug the sunriseAnd the pale reflection evaporatesGiving rise to a new color.Report: Mogadishu battles leave 81 deadThese two days of an unleashed dying!Who are these many unclimbed soulsThat bridled my wish?Teachers' strike could shut 1,000 schoolsBefall a splendid melody, teacher.Become your worth in... More About: Head , Lines
PURIFICATION (4/20/08 head-lines)
2008-04-20 08:06:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Iraqi cleric threatens 'open war'Five years in fury continues to eat what feeds it,Grief flows through oily veins.Rage isn’t vacant... it’s occupied.US Church needs purification, pope saysUS church? That’s not all, your holiness; your church,Your collusion, your cleansing, our war, our apathy,Our worship of you.Rice asks neighbors to offer Iraq debt relief, tiesAsking to borrow sugar from your neighborsIs a custom I can comprehend, appreciate.Asking for their home isn’t.No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It DownMusic, you noisy bully, earsplitting thug,You’ll deplete us of our beloved auditory sensations,A mother’s unbearable grief,A father’s hell-dipped shriek,A child’s startled cry,War’s rise.Southern Border Fence May Impede WildlifeThis underscores the need to keep the wildlife at bay.We must be clever, persistent and vigilant animals!This country can ill afford to have the ardillasAssimilating with the squirrels...© 2008 mrp/tpm More About: Head , Lines
NEWS OF A FEATHER (4/19/08 head-lines)
2008-04-19 08:08:00 Texas Sect Kids to Remain in CustodySomething is with them, the children,placed tenderly down and puffed with shame-the sins of their fathers.Carter in Hamas 'ceasefire call'Communication ferried over the sea.The pillars of peace glow dimly over their warring,stillness eclipsing.McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’Time passes and all this ailing noise escapes,war, terror, starvation, grief, gloom.One hundred years can change a world.DNA Tests on Texas Sect ChildrenIn the tiny cribs juvenile mothers sang to them,lullabies of righteousness and accordon the road to surrender. Labor.States React to Court's Lethal Injection RulingI’ve said before that belief should be richer than the murder-mortal wounds- bludgeoned, injected, or bombedare not ours to administer. Seems I was wrong.Crude Hits Record $117 per BarrelWhere our slippery adoration of oil stirsalong the passageway of such machinesstand the shadows of our architecture.© 2008 mrp/tpm More About: News , Head , Lines , Feather
FOR SHAME (4/18/08 head-lines)
2008-04-18 07:11:00 British PM: Bush owed 'a huge debt of gratitude'Listen there are children whose breath’s been cleaved,Mothers and fathers split like lumber, hatred boiling…Huge debt’s an understatement.Pope Meets with Victims of Clergy Sex AbusePale, dry hands of sacrament to fall upon the children,Pouring harshly over and over their naked souls,Unprepared to return the desire.Embassy in Baghdad Is ReadyThe rain now falling, comforting the beheaded grass.The monstrous structure, dwarfing all that came before,stands complete. The second hand begins to move.Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising AngerThe lyricists are going home now, recedingto the unforgiving landscape. Breathless,music surrendered.Suicide Bomber Kills 50 at Iraq FuneralThe music makers have returned, red-faced,Staring, stunned at death’s rapid tempo,Panicked, cheerless, reprised.Elderly US Ladies, age 77 and 75, Kill 2 Homeless Men for Insurance MoneyHad even they, at their age, not lived enough, laughed,Seen ample mise... More About: Head , Lines , Shame
KNOTTED FACE
2008-04-16 07:07:00 I was wondering when my muse was going to lift my hand to the Zion Ranch story. It seems she had to control her anger. She loves children. She knows they are precious.First, a bit of history on the FLDS.FLDS - Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations and one of America's largest practitioners of plural marriage. The FLDS Church emerged in the 1930s when its founding members left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy The FLDS and the LDS Church are distinct and separate religious denominations, having no currently existing ties.FLDS headquarters are in Hildale, Utah, possibly shifting, as of late, to Eldorado, Texas, where the raided temple was built by FLDS members.Warren Jeffs, who succeeded his father Rulon Jeffs in 2002, was leading the church for nearly two years even as a wanted man for sex-crimes. He was on the run, and on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List,... More About: Face
SHALLOW END (4/15/08 head-lines)
2008-04-15 07:53:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Iraq’s Free Ride may be OverSand. Rivers. Palm trees.Iraq. The freedom ride’s come to an end.What have you been doing these last five years?When you’re occupied you do not lollygag about!You ignore the dead and dying, you tough it outAnd get back to work!Sand. Rivers. Palm Trees.China ‘Now Top Carbon Polluter’Black airFinally has found the ashen lungs of another's livingTo fill in the shadows.Wal-Mart to Film Gun Sales in Bid to Fight CrimeThe mammoth’s face grins over the interstate.Made of brick with a sightless gapeIt drains us of its plans.Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of BankruptciesBehind the smiling clerk’s teeth, like the noiseOf a rodent in a trash can,The words hide in the bottom of the mouth,“For God’s sake! Buy something!”Mass Grave Found South of BaghdadThis news doesn’t really matter in the end.Fourteen bodies buried in a field won’t compute;The abacus beads were used up long ago.GOP Lawmaker Apologizes for Re... More About: Head , Lines
FORTIFIED (04/14/08 head-lines)
2008-04-14 21:29:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Israel Declines Security Help for CarterThe Fox is loose in the Barnyard and Peace comes to visit.Armed with The Nobel and the Audacity of Truth,It strides up to the Heavily Armed gate.Sadr Demands Forces be ReinstatedSomeone demands something in occupied Iraq, knows the price of thunderA rocket is fired, abomb ignites, America plundersA child walks home from schoolHamas Cleric Predicts 'Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam'If you listen closely you’ll hear. Perch your ears upon the air.Can you hear it now? It is not a US fighter jet, or rescue,Or the droning lips of angels… It is the maddened blowbackOf madness marching on the wind.White House: Bush Concerned About Food ShortagesThe lack of sustenance boils and splatters.Two point one billion in 2007 was given this.Imagine what one day, one measly day out of Iraq could nourish?Nobel Laureate Refuses Olympic TorchWhen a dog is beaten by its master and hobbled from neglectIt cowers away from the outstr... More About: Head , Lines
TALL TAILS
2008-04-14 07:24:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage) Wrangle Over Words and Beliefs A candidate forum devoted to issues of faith and justice became another flash point for Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton to spar in their intensifying nominating fight, with the candidates exchanging frosty glances Sunday night as their paths briefly crossed on stage.Mrs. Clinton comfortably adopted the language of a Christian believer in addressing a question about how faith guides her in life. “You know, I have, ever since I’ve been a little girl, felt the presence of God in my life," she said. "And it has been a gift of grace that has, for me, been incredibly sustaining." She said she had felt God’s grace as she faced unfaithfulness in her marriage as well as in more uplifting moments in her life. “It didn’t have to be a hard time,” she said. “You know, it could be taking a walk in the woods. It could be watching a sunset.”Senator John McCain of Arizona, the likely Republican nominee, c... More About: Tall , Tails
LETS GIT IT ON! (04/13/08 head-lines)
2008-04-14 06:49:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Clinton Accuses Rival of Elitism After Obama Says Some Voters are BitterStewards of prosperity narrow their eyes at our despair,A wrinkled desire for our failure folded under their brows.It is with harsh certainty that they will pawn our dreams.No. Failure’s not purchased like bread.Deadly Blast Strikes Iran MosqueAnd with its isolation comes human surrenderhovering near the crater left by religion’s perplexity,wars clarity.Regional Leaders Urge Fast Zimbabwe Poll ResultYes. Hastily now, for her people,Heirs to South Africa’s grief,Her soul’s expedience.Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms OrdersWhat can we learn from history?The hue of deception? The burnish of truth?Yes.Britain Warns Terror Threat is WorseningHatred comes from fearing.Death comes from living.Terror comes not at all,Unless something brings its giving.HUD Chief Inattentive to Crisis, Critics SayAnd who are they, living in that place all these years,Waging war on shadows,Pur... More About: Head , Lines
TALL ROOTS (04/12/08 Head-Lines)
2008-04-12 10:52:00 Photo by Laura Chenoweth"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama, an Illinois senator, said. "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he said.Obama under Fire after Fundraiser RemarksThe car alarm wakens me from my dream.Slowly, like hot wax tracing the skin,I open my eyes to two words I cannot set free,Dried before I noticed them burning-“They cling”.Film Traces Man’s Journey to Track His Family’s Roots in SlaveryWe know we come into this world naked.Too many are indifferent to history.Most of us just listen to others tell talesAnd don't grasp our connection.Even the Whales Have Their Predators: ShipsO Balaena! Your lone patches caught their eye,Sought even today ... More About: Tall , Head , Lines
THE SKY IS FALLING
2008-04-11 21:46:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage) READ TODAY'S HEAD-LINE POETRYRolling along "O"...◘ Open Letters to George W Bush - Objectivist v. Constructivist v. Theist - Odd Neighbor - Of course, I Could Be Wrong - Old Hack - One Million Blogs for Peace - One Million Peace Signs - One Tenacious Baby Mama - Only In America - Open Left - Orwell's Grave - Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus - Overcoming Bias
ALL HEAD-LINE RUSH
2008-04-11 01:58:00 China says it Foiled Terrorist Plot to Kidnap OlympiansGinkgo trees wrap their arms `round the Middle KingdomLike a great-grandfather’s bear hug;A massive grip, a balmy embrace.They’ve seen things…then the winter…Candidates Respond to Voters Economic FearsRattled by rising debts.Looking for a savior;Old man of the air, fair queen, black knight,To whisk away despair…A modern day folk tale.Military Strained by Suicides, Long DeploymentsHave we failed along the way?Are we no more than this, an arrangement of cubiclesBeset on all sides by wretchedness?The grand experiment’s gone awry, the bogey men we seek have our face.Two Camps Trying to Influence McCain on foreign PolicyWhen we entrench ourselves,Warriors on one side, pragmatic schemers the otherAnd naught behind or ahead, save torture and war,Where will the peacemaker stand?No Plan to Cut Torch Relay as U.S. Protesters MassWe name the stars in aweBut cannot, for all we are,Put finger to sky of China’s cruelty.We must c... More About: Head , Rush , Line
FAILING STATE
2008-04-10 18:16:00 While I struggle, happily, to finish my latest one-act play, Glenda's Ashes, I find only time to offer you some new photomontages and my newfound slant of poetry located on the new page, Head-Lines.The play has grown more complicated than I had first imagined. My muse didn't find it necessary to inform me that she would make me start over six times! She is having her fun with me. Toying with my patience, dangling carrots in front of me. What am I, her mule or something? Prodding me until I near insanity, then, pulling back with her signature chortle, a grand and cynical guffaw!I would say, if all goes as planned, the play will be presented here relatively soon... In the mean time enjoy the montages and the new fare on the new page.If I say new one more time I may need medical attention!EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Read todays HEAD-LINES...Rolling along "M"Main and Central - March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Martha, Martha.... - Mccs1977 - MeInAction - Miss Welby -... More About: State
QUAKING BREVITY
2008-04-09 19:37:00 EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage) -click montage to enalrge-Read today's HEAD-LINE poetry Rolling along "L"...Lair of the Blue Bear - Left In Aboite - Left In East Dakota - Left in the Heartland - Left of Center - Liberal Avenger - Liberal Common Sense - Liberal England - Life on the Run - Life's Journey - Little Bang Theory - Little Country Lost - Little Purple Fooshballs - Lose the Noose - Lost Paradise
LIBERTY CACOPHONY (head-line poetry)
2008-04-08 22:06:00 EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Read the HEAD-LINE poetry... Rolling along "K"...Karen AK - Karmalised - Katrinacrat Blog - King of Zembla - Kommandos Project More About: Poetry , Liberty , Head , Line
KICK-ASS JESUS WRITES GEORGE A LETTER
2008-04-07 05:58:00 EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)George ,K-A J here… So read this one!I recommend thou rethink the gutless reasons (lies)Thou hast given for thy countries grave sacrificeCome on! Cut thy bullshit!Come Spic-n-Span-clean with thy country.Drop all thy yak of double-u-emm-dee,Or mushroom cloud `n brutal tyrantOr bringing democracy to the Middle EastOr bin Laden’s al Qaeda or grand world peace.Die away thy hot airAnd bullshit gyration,Pierce the core andBe frank with thy nation.Come!Properly thrust to thy dark heart within,Split wide-open thy bloody raison d'être,Mad dash down the path of honest men,And tell the country once and for all.It’s rather simple, Mr. President,And it's much more reasonable;Thy war plans and thy intentAre MY TEN COMMANDMENTSAnd thou hast broken them all!~ 1Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.OIL2Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or tha... More About: Jesus , Letter , Kick
04/06/08 Sunday Head-Lines (bbc)
2008-04-06 17:31:00 EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Clashes along Olympic torch routeJoined together torch through London, game afootIre captures sober flame, hurls down its hostNineteen nations to goSome progress in Russia-US tiesThe blankets been cleaved off the pyreRevealing the slip-knotted sleeping giantAlarm! Shh… Sleep nowBen-Hur star Charlton Heston diesJohn Charles Carter joins them at presentBen-Hur, Michelangelo, Moses, and El CidNodding to twilight, guns steadiedU.S. forces clash with Iraq militiaBoil burn boil burn boil burn `n bubbleExtremists unfound in this capricious mixCitizens hunched, resentment© 2008 mrp/tpmRolling along "I"...I Was Just Wondering - Ice Station Tango - If I Was God I'd Cry Too - Impeach George W. Bush - ImpeachBush - Indict Dick Cheney - Informed Voters - Intrepid Liberal Journal - Iraq Body Count - Iraq Today - Iraq Veterans Against the War - It's Morning Somewhere - It's My Right To Be Left Of Center - I'm Jus' A Lil' Dizzy! - I'm Sorr... More About: Sunday , Head , Lines
K-A JESUS (part 2)
2008-04-06 06:22:00 EXPAND THE POST +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)"Pop culture is the latest tool in the campaign to spread the Word but critics say this just pits the trashy against the eternal." (Messiah as Superhero - The Manga Bible)"A world in turmoil.Corrupt leaders and crazed prophets.One day a stranger appeared.He cast out demons and raised the sick.The world - your world - would never be the same again.The stranger is robed, with a handsome, stern face. He goes up to a mountaintop in the wilderness with another robed figure with a completely blank face. They have a tussle of wills."You have won for now," says Satan, the blank-faced dude. "Until next time." And he vanishes to the sound of Wwwhooocosshhh!Welcome to the kick-ass Jesus of The Manga Bible, "God's Word as you've never seen it before!" The first English manga version of the world's bestselling book was released in February last year. The publisher, Hodder Headline, describes it as "a faithful adaptation of the Bible, injected ... More About: Part
K-A J!
2008-04-05 08:19:00 READ THE POEM +/-(Poetic Justice Photomontage)Post is on The TreeRolling along "G"...Galileo's Dilemma - Genius of Insanity - Get In Their Face! - Get Your Own - Give 'Em Hell Harry Don't Burn the Flag. Wash it! - Global Voices Online - Godless Liberal Homo - God's Blog - Gorilla's Guides - Group News Blog - Grub Street Journal - Gunfighter -Guns, Lawyers and Money
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (emerald dream)
2008-04-04 23:26:00 READ THE POEM +/-I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington- August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.I declare peace in this; thy emerald dream.Men, women, children, all and every colorRise up to meet me in this nomadic vapor.Rise up! Greet me with thy soul’s civility,I can ask no more and no less of thee.Affirm the worlds waiting stillness with me.Bring thy grace, let go thy mortal weaponry.Rise... More About: Martin Luther King , King , Emerald , Martin Luther
04/03/08 HEAD-LINES (msnbc - poetry)
2008-04-03 20:14:00 READ THE POETRY +/-(A Poetic Justice Photomontage)China jails outspoken activist over Tibet viewsDissident jailed for using tongueShackled of seditious idiomsU.S. speechlessAl-Sadr calls for million-Iraqi rally against U.S.One million liberated flora marchingTo our one hundred forty thousandMore than enough blooms At least eight killed in Pennsylvania house fireWhen the heat of raging fire’s so intenseOne house will be consumed, resoluteOnly numbers remain ATA discontinues flights, files for bankruptcySeeing this I thought I’d been asleepThe god-awful roar of the recent pastStagnant oil rigsNATO backs Bush’s European missile shieldAgain with the ideas shielding pragmatismRoar of incoming freedom hatersHiss of outbound liberatorsChinese spying on the rise, U.S. saysShady secrets have a hard time sleepingWhen carried in official satchelsOver seas© 2008 mrp/tpmRolling along "E"...Ebullient Skepticism - Enigma4ever - Evil Bobby More About: Poetry , Head , Lines , MSNBC
AWARENESS (Autism Awareness Day)
2008-04-02 19:00:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Poem insired by Autism Awareness Day via Full-Soul AheadEnchanted is what they are,the autistic.All around us, angels, spirits,divine brightness, rescuers of the missing,the forlorn, the poor, the felled and falling.In this world, we call civilization,They are the living beams,the brittle bonedBringing us gradually `round to ourselves.There are the disbelievers,the cynics.Those that try the patience of good souls,those who stare in slack jawed aweat disparity, at oddity, at the brightnessof their own ignorance. I suppose theycannot help but gawk or scoff;untrained of such clarity in a world gone mad.If they but look beyond themselves,wipe the steam from their lenses,peer beyond the misgivings and murkinessof the humdrum streets they haunt…They would, if they knew what they were missing.It’s the silent truths, like newborn fawns in the morning light,Stumbling awkwardly, eyes opening brand new,Searching their way to the fore of the earth,The one we...
CONFESSION ZERO
2008-04-01 07:45:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Baghdad year zero:Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopiaby Naomi KleinIt was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single piece of heavy machinery apart from tanks and humvees. Then I saw it: a construction crane. It was big and yellow and impressive, and when I caught a glimpse of it around a corner in a busy shopping district I thought that I was finally about to witness some of the reconstruction I had heard so much about. But as I got closer I noticed that the crane was not actually rebuilding anything—not one of the bombed-out government buildings that still lay in rubble all over the city, nor one of the many power lines that remained in twisted heaps even as the heat of summer was starting to bear down. No, the crane was hoisting a giant bi... More About: Confession
03/31/08... HEAD-LINES (new york times)
2008-03-31 17:26:00 Head-lines: A poem that develops from the first images that come to mind (the head) after reading a news headline.This is a form of poetry that I have just begun writing. It is my own creation. (I think...)It consists of a headline from a news source (generally current events) as the title of the poem and followed by three relatively short lines. There is no real structure (save for the headline followed by three lines) since headline titles can vary in number of syllables there is no restriction on the three lines. It is, for lack of a better description, free verse with an English style haiku or senryū feel to it, generally non-rhyming. The third line of most that I've written at this juncture contain the main emphasis, irony, dramatic finale. * McCain Faces Test in Wooing Elite Donors Gluttony stomps upon the feet.Fury pounds upon the back.Even of the pain influence seeks tenure. * Who are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race Colors mingle on the thick canvas,Prisms of points in time... More About: New York , York , New York Times , Times , Head
TALL SHADOWS
2008-03-30 07:47:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)In The Green Zone, or perhaps Iraq,the warriors have all turned to clay.Streets are littered with them.Strewn about here and there,statues; monuments to war’s bitter days.The tanks and guns stand still,quiet, with a pallid angst, at attention,frozen like disobedient children;the streets long silent of such mischief.Green gunk grows underneath their feetand through the cracking foundation.Sand pelts all the useless street lampsand surrenders only to the wind.The sun leaves boot prints as it searches,down the alleyways, lighting up the edges;windows to paint in bright and new beliefs.Someday the statues will topple over...freed of their tall shadows.© 2008 mrp/thepoetrymanRolling along...Yo Peace! - Yurica Report - Zelle's Blog - Open Letters to George W Bush - 1 One Poet 4 Man - A Level Gaze - A Long Tough Blog - A New Chautauqua - Ablogination - Alexandra Walker Clark - Almost There - Alternate Brain - AmericanGoy - Americans United - An Unfound Do... More About: Tall , Shadows
HEAD-LINES (03/27/08)
2008-03-28 04:33:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Head -lines: A poem that develops from the first images that come to mind (the head) after reading a news headline. This is a form of poetry that I have just begun writing. It is my own creation. (I think...) It consists of a headline from a news source (generally current events) as the title of the poem and followed by three relatively short lines. There is no real structure (save for the headline followed by three lines) since headline titles can vary in number of syllables there is no restriction on the three lines. It is, for lack of a better description, free verse with an English style haiku or senryū feel to it, generally non-rhyming. The third line of most that I've written at this juncture contain the main emphasis, irony, dramatic finale. These are the first words that my muse threw down to me after reading the headlines last night.* Parents Didn't Expect Daughter To Die During PrayerDidn’t have to beChild wrapped in such faithStench of m... More About: Lines
A BRIEF ON WHITEY
2008-03-26 19:01:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage) Pat Buchanan is a racist. Yes. A racist.If you didn’t know that… chances are you’re whitey.Patrick J. Buchanan in a NUTshell…~Pat makes anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi comments, uses extremist staffers who work with white supremacy groups and militias, and until recently put an anti-Israeli conspiracy rant on his official World Wide Web page.Pat has expressed his admiration for Francisco Franco and Joseph McCarthy (not to mention Hitler), and during the Iran Contra scandal said that reporters should be "Americans first and reporters second".~A Brief for Whitey ...Pat's own words...Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.Noose taut upon the sturdy limbo’ th’ black oak tree.It has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. “Raise th’ nigger up now.`n make `em think they’s free.”This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard....
FOUR THOUSAND
2008-03-24 20:43:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)(click photomontage to enlarge)BAGHDAD - U.S. officials said Monday they will press forward in the fight against extremists in Iraq a day after the overall U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict rose to 4,000.The White House called the grim milestone “a sober moment” and said President Bush spends time every day thinking about those who have lost their lives in battle.“He bears the responsibility for the decisions that he made,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said. “He also bears the responsibility to continue to focus on succeeding.”(...U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000...Bush says outcome of war will 'merit the sacrifice')FOUR THOUSAND(a poem by thepoetryman)Four thousand rolled away,Warriors striding on home.Four thousand rolled away,Packed down beneath the loam.Blind are the men of warring.Deaf are the men of policy.Dumb are imperial leaders,Crippled of a thirst for music.Four thousand rolled away,Warriors striding on ... More About: Thousand
3, 2, 1, 0
More articles from this author:2008-03-24 04:06:00 (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)It is with a slow stranglingthat tongues wag of gods.And that floods come their raging,tumbling between valleys,seizing what’s in font of themand not what’s prepared to go.Each tongue’s a star.Behold the lightquaking against the teeth.Behind them whirl grand dreams;tiny gods treading the water,holding tight to hovering rooftops,seeing familiar parchment drownnext to a child’s stuffed animal,tiny eyes wet with griefknowing it will float,drift out to some seainto a far-off portworshipped by a childwrapped in chains.*God.We said nothing.Nested deeplike coal miner’s lungslost in the filth of our sleep.God.We said nothing.Scooped awayour well of freedomwith dry, disbelieving lips.God.We said nothing.Panicky mothsfluttering to flame,delicate wings igniting.*Stirring and shriekingbelow our shellswe can only guesswhat men do,worship,believe,sacrifice,slay…But in this;the jolting arms of one,we become childlike,singing and vanishingall at once…O! ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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