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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


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· Desperation Breeds Desperation

· Preference Manifest

· Innocent Guilt

· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

· Sanity's Loss

· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· 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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Hearts Bleeding Black

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

Not much of a poem; More of a prosetry rant from a middle class survivor. I guess it’s fair to be empathetic over lingering statistics that are that much more heartbreaking as Thanksgiving approaches. And still, our 1% has had their most profitable year ever; the health industry counters reform with the raising of premiums; and big corporate profit-lust continues as usual. This is not capitalism working. This is the worst kind of emotional and mental theft, a demagoguery of devastating proportions.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Hearts Bleeding Black

Black droplets from the heart
coagulate the nation's arteries

Abused power
abused privilege
abused opportunity
stand atop their Wall Street citadel
their outsourcing cash cow
high above the dark clouds
enshrouding a country of
unused power
earned privilege
waning opportunity

Revolution of mind
need not return a like volley
need not exchange mental violence
with mental violence

We are a country capable of awakening
from slumbers of complicity
from idle complacency
from disingenuous complaining

When is the time to rise up through
the clouds of distrust and power mongering
revolt against gilded shackles of imprisonment
slipped about our cognitive senses
locked in place with combinations invented
with collusion of death's side-car of plutocratic institutions
manufactured with robotic greed
delivered and administered
to fearful constituents
guaranteed to further economic depression
destined to lay waste a middle class
and ultimately
destruction of a nation's will

Just as blood eventually turns black with time
and storm vapors become dark
the clock may be running out to prevent
a final opaqueness of greed's dark resolve


Histrionics
hubris
rhetoric
and slumber
haven't worked

Thanksgiving 2012
will bring millions to bare tables

By January 2013
millions will face the edge of a cliff
their tethered safety lines
threatened by greedy representatives

Efforts

People

All people

Deserve better

Are remainig weapons capable of defeating
emotionless
lifeless
bloodless zombies
drunk on wealth's elixir?



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Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on November 8, 2012
you have written a powerful piece
budd

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on November 8, 2012
I'm a middle-class survivor, too. As much as Wall Street and the money hungry mortgage banks took away my net worth, I have managed to go against the grain and prosper. Even creating ten jobs. Your rant is right on. I would only add that those who choose to befraud us should never be given a bonus for failure to profit; they should be required to pay those that lost from their own income. If they committed fraud, they should be brought to justice like Bernie Madoff. We should not have to pay one red cent to any hospital that gives us a disease or prolongs our lives artificially to rack up a daily hospital bill. Doctors who prescribe the pills that kill and surgeons who make mistakes that kill us, should pay us for their failure and not the other way around.

Winners of political campaigns should never be made winners by the amount of money raised, but by the content of their character. The revolving door between Congress and the lobbying industry has to be stopped. No member of Congress or the Supreme Court should be allowed to enrich themselves by their contacts related to legislation and the law.

Thanks for ranting. I enjoy and applaud.

Ron

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on November 8, 2012
Odin, this is pretty powerful stuff for a 'rant' but I'm afraid you're right on in your theme. I have a solution...I believe the little guys like you and me have to form a type of Occupy Movement targeting only two entities; The United States Supreme Court and The United States Congress.

We must demand more from Congress than they have provided in the past, reminding them that they work for us, not the other way around.

We must raise a loud and united voice against the Supreme Court for its ruling in favor of Citizens United...which must be reversed.

Cheers,
Dan


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