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Where Has Integrity Gone?

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

Time for some comparison. Is this truly the dystopian split… where doing the wrong thing needn’t know the good route? Hell, who the fuck cares is the cry of the ignorant and the Dorito-couch-potato-generation waiting for nothing more than the brute force of honest competition, forgetting the skill, the passion for an earned win men of skill and integrity for the sport trying to give solace to millions of fans’ minds wanting a break from the Washington whore-drum debacle: Dismissing wanting only expediency of our politicians. Thank doG, DO THE RIGHT THING AND WIN HONESTLY
Still exists at the Super Bowl.(Image of NFL Association)

Friday, January 31, 2020


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Where Has Integrity Gone?

 

Has it retreated to the dream state?

Has it gone to that place that affords recharge?

 

Perhaps…

 

It has found a new path,

One that is fortified with goodness and kindness,

Even with a half-time tribute to Kobe.

 

Or…

 

Might it have gone to the edge of the abyss

Where the vision is further clouded,

Where darkness another 4 years

Is total darkness but a jump away?

 

Let us hope…

 

Give it a rest, dumb-dumbs of pablum diet.

Watch the skill of honest mind and body commitment

And consider who you vote for

Come November.

 

 



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 1, 2020
Not according to a sports expert woman that I know… She tells me that all major sports are rigged for maximum profit and who goes to the Super Bowl is determined before hand and the players go along because their paychecks depend upon it.

Money corrupts. And a lot of money, corrupts even more. Unless we can get money out of politics, the "stakeholders" that our politicians will follow are not average Joes like you or I, but the very rich and powerful.

I'm going to watch the crazy commercials. But somehow, I've developed an immunity to their charm and rarely buy any of the products advertised.

Ron

Reviewed on February 1, 2020
Yes! I concur!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on February 1, 2020
Write on!!!


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