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Books
· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

· Prosetry at Work

· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

· 3 WAY MIRROR


Short Stories
· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


Articles
· War and Peace

· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


Poetry
· The Life-long Pernicious Evil

· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

· Roadkill Memoriam

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Candied Politics

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

Ah, politics. Wouldn’t it be grand if all of this sweet nothingness could be pulverized into sprinkles for easy consumption, instead of the interminable political taste-test indulgence we’re asked to participate in? (Image by Alice, Benedicte & Lucile)

Wednesday, May 22, 2019


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Candied Politics

 

Pralines
Nuggets
White chocolate
Dark chocolate

 

Nuts and fruits
Covered with seduction
Laced with time-release drugs
Guised as
Jobs
Loans
Reform

Obligatory changing of mind

 

Judged at room temperature
Where gavel-sounds rule
Ayes taste pleasure
Nays chew compromise

 

Masticated promises
Served incessantly
Crowned by colorful sprinkles
For dazzle to frazzle

 

And all this paid for
By the sweet tooth of ignorance



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Reviewed on July 19, 2019
'Bunch of nuts if you ask me! Oh, yes, no one will notice with all that "dazzle to frazzle"! Outstanding, Odin!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 23, 2019
Does leave one with a sour taste in one's mouth. And the most seductive of all is the money. The money that flows in from ignorant supporters and rich manipulators who make sure that there are deals to be made or risk cutting off the honey flow.

Just today I see that Congress is proceeding ahead with a bill to stop measles in its tracks. Must be orchestrated by the righteous right. Or at least those people who believe that God protects them from childhood diseases and they don't need to have nasty inoculations of dead diseases. And then, like much of politics, their intentions backfire. Why don't they just get smart, understand the science behind immunization, and take their shots like good little sheeple they really are.

Better yet, give them a lollipop along with the shot so that it won't hurt so much.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on May 23, 2019
A sweet read that manages to leave the sour taste of truth.


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