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· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Truth is One


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· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

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by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

What more can be said: Trump greeting the major leaders of black college from behind his F**king desk. Please, body language 101 teaches one about the ego power one feels from behind a desk to deal with guests. And then, of course, (why am not surprised?) Trump wants to increase the military budget by 10 % which equates to 54 billion, certain federal (mostly social agencies if he has his way) paying the price. Will it ever be possible to eradicate greed and the misuse of power in the big house kept white and without flaw relative to architecture? Below is a quasi prosetry/article trying to express some reality. (Trump lovers needn’t read this non-fake reality)

Monday, February 27, 2017


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BREAKING NEWS ad nausea
by Odin Roark

Perhaps, the safest place to be today,
if one keeps up with the headlines
featuring the tsunami of misplaced values
futilely attempting to mask its greed
with cries of victimization (the press is against me and are the “enemy of the people), is to never watch TV.

Even Bush took issue with that statement, saying: “the press is indispensable to democracy.”

How much more of this suit and tie-clad self-imposed suffering is it going to take before these children of the many-headed scourge change their ways?

For many, those that proffer that things (of material substance” are where legitimate value lives, where wealth is created), are missing the realization that real wealth actually comes from conquering the consequences of having too much material stuff one has earned through corruption and greed.

Of course…

In Trump’s mind, any who are unfortunate enough to experience such an epiphany and choose to exercise such inordinate symbols of wealth will more than likely
attract men and women with laboratory- styled white coats.


If, and when, they begin to list and encounter such realities by writing them down—with what to them will undoubtedly seem like quills of the 3rd kind—their shock might need calming from any and all the institutionalized mid-wife services available.

Birth is difficult, but rebirth requires the climbing back
through the delayed pain of adulthood reliving what was once
the sole province of our mothers.

Yeah, some serious growing up is called for.

Such is the state of the White House’s narcissistic, non-reality and disease-based notion of prosperity,
and dare I say “moral” consciousness.

54 billion to create more killing machines…Please. 


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Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on February 28, 2017
Never been a Trump fan. But that doesn't mean squat. The way he was elected caught both my wife and I by the short-hairs. (so to speak) Seemed like a higher power was moving the chess pieces. Change is never easy. It's obvious now a global (and U.S.) paradigm is gaining momentum and Trump's vision is (by all appearances) an integral part of that. I believe just one major event (catastrophe, tactical nuke, whatever) will usher in the New World Order. Trump doesn't scare me. Not in the least. What concerns me is the bizarre (and at times volatile) divisions in America. Peace... r

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 28, 2017
It is interesting that of the "landslide" (minority) that voted for him, the majority of those are older and definitely have a nostalgia about perceiving the country the way that it, "used to be." For some reason they have remained children and never grew up to the idea that success is much more than having and raising children and obtaining wealth in material things.

Growing up, as I have often described, is leaving childish things like accumulating wealth behind for more altruistic activity like helping others less fortunate. Taking money from social services and growing the military is indeed, foolhardy and tragic.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 28, 2017
Write on the money. I am completely baffled by Trump's supporters, when it's painfully obvious that he is not qualified to be president. The other night my wife and I went out to eat, something we rarely do. My wife said she was surprised I wanted to go out to eat. I replied that we might as well. Trump's president and we could all die tomorrow. I said it jokingly, but with an undertone of seriousness. Trump scares the hell out of me.

Reviewed on February 28, 2017
Amen!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on February 27, 2017
Well stated.
The wealthiest person is not the one with the most but the one who needs the least. --anonymous


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