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saw
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protest song

Post by saw » November 13th, 2017, 12:19 pm

I watch them struggle,
worms in the hot sun
slithering to the shades of life

the Haves
play the world
like a charlatan board-game

carelessly stepping
on limbless bodies.
This Pejorative Epithet

cast down
by royalty, are we really just
the creation of vermic compost

scraped off the million dollar boots
of CEO dipshits
with ingrown whiskers

NO
our lives matter....like the butterfly
and the bee, ...and the worm

we are all the fabric
of existential jackets, and we must never
allow anyone to step on our dignity

fuck their money
fuck their power
Solidarity my love

is our way to healthier days
with no frayed threads....
we'll wear our clothing like banners of justice
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: protest song

Post by still.trucking » November 13th, 2017, 9:09 pm

thank you for writing that. 8)
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Re: protest song

Post by saw » November 14th, 2017, 3:55 pm

you're welcome truck
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: protest song

Post by creativesoul » November 14th, 2017, 11:03 pm

Our lives do matter
reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---

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Re: protest song

Post by mnaz » November 15th, 2017, 6:22 am

Our lives matter. Until they don't.
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Re: protest song

Post by saw » November 15th, 2017, 11:03 am

yeah mnaz...depends on the evaluator.....
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Re: protest song

Post by sasha » November 15th, 2017, 3:41 pm

our lives matter...
as long we have something
the Haves want
but once they've got it
we're just so many paper wrappers
tossed from the windows
of their BMWs
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"If one could deduce the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that He has an inordinate fondness for beetles." -- evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane, (1892-1964)

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Re: protest song

Post by mnaz » November 15th, 2017, 5:44 pm

The pyramid scheme can only go so far until the foundation starts eroding upward.

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Re: protest song

Post by still.trucking » November 17th, 2017, 7:36 pm

Pyramids take so goddamn long to erode. In the meantime we have poetry. And that does matter a lot
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Re: protest song

Post by saw » November 18th, 2017, 3:36 pm

enjoyed all the comments...there has never been such a disparity of wealth....it's never enough for some absurd reason...this dystopian contest of who has the biggest dick that causes immense suffering....these nuts are willing to destroy the planet to "win" the game...but as truck pointed out we have our poetry and art and friendships....

for so many the lottery is the only hope....a bone thrown at the feet of the needy to dive on all at once....hoping for a place at the table

it's good we have distractions like S8....thanx Doreen
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