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- POEM: Amateur Our
- POEM: Long After You Dead
- POEM: Why’s Guise
- POEM: A We Problem
- POEM: Generational Wealth
- POEM: Mouth Peace
- POEM: Keeping Pays with AI
- POEM: Allot of Money
- POEM: A Posed
- POEM: Hope Less Strategy
- POEM: Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails
- POEM: Holed for Life
- POEM: Dis Ability
- POEM: Politics at a Stand Still – Owed to Mutual Aid
- POEM: Down
- POEM: Moneymaker Shaked
- POEM: O Mission – Owed to What Might Be
- POEM: This Doodle Abide
- POEM: Open Mined
- POEM: When She Peers
- POEM: Peephole Tell
- POEM: A Living Hull
- POEM: More is Code – Owed to Lesson Won
- POEM: A Whole Knew Language
- POEM: Legend Err He
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Amateur Our
I am a big fan and eager participant in the gift economy. A fringe benefit is that this is beyond the ability of capitalists to compute… Amateur Our Giving berth to anti-capitalists There is know labor in me Freely volunteering … Continue reading
POEM: Long After You Dead
Life finds a way — though often a long, longing way. May your life lead to more life… Long After You Dead Saving a life Is as vein As that life well Spent Wear day buy day Most of what … Continue reading
POEM: Why’s Guise
I interrogate the outside whirled a lot. Though sometimes the best question, the most fruitful question, is: “What is it about this situation that disturbs ME?” This helps me come to better terms a bout my own, inner peace, and … Continue reading
POEM: A We Problem
Ethics is social in essence, that is, involving other people. Ethics is collectivist. Personal responsibility is social responsibility… A We Problem Eye had a problem Sew it seamed Mine and mine A loan Untill that is An other showed up … Continue reading
POEM: Generational Wealth
Here is a poem about generational wealth in our capitalist society, being tied, to extractive industries and the financialization of everything, and still missing the real wealth in life… Generational Wealth They extracted As much As they could From life … Continue reading
POEM: Mouth Peace
I am not a fan of “spokespersons,” particularly those shilling for corporate “persons” or partisans in the government. This poem was specifically inspired by department of war shills… Mouth Peace I need a job Sow I don’t speak for myself … Continue reading
POEM: Keeping Pays with AI
The human race getting second place to AI should not be an option… Keeping Pays with AI We are faster, then ever be for We are only one step behind In the raze Fore humanity It Soully seems bad When … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence
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POEM: Allot of Money
The way we relate to money tells a lot about us… Allot of Money Sum people Look at allot of money And think profit Some people Look at allot of money And think prophet Behold Where you set your I’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Money, Prophet
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POEM: A Posed
At some point, every ideology wrests on assumptions, that soul stuff that we “choose” to believe. I try to center my life around the conviction that humanity is one, that we are all siblings, in my view God’s children. Form … Continue reading
POEM: Hope Less Strategy
Hope may not be a strategy, but without hope strategy is hopeless… Hope Less Strategy You may have herd That hope might Knot be a strategy Won of those pills Too big To swallow hole Off course, you may want … Continue reading
POEM: Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails
Yet another poetic takedown of AI on all affronts… Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails “Every won poops, accept AI.” It turned out That they whir Be dazzled Buy bigger is bettor … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence
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POEM: Holed for Life
A Taoist riff on a John F. Kennedy quote… Holed for Life “Clay is shaped into a vessel; it is the hollow within that makes the vessel useful…So what is there gives advantage, but what is not there gives use.” … Continue reading
POEM: Dis Ability
Dividing the world into beautiful and ugly can be misleading for our soul. How might we overlook the hole of beauty? Dis Ability He could not tell The deference Between ugly and beautiful The most beautiful disability One could ever … Continue reading
POEM: Politics at a Stand Still – Owed to Mutual Aid
Today, like all days, we are healed by taking care of one another, enacting a body politic of vulnerable first… Politics at a Stand Still – Owed to Mutual Aid “Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the … Continue reading
POEM: Down
Here we go again… Down He was bonkers to get Down Double down Down Down Triple down Down Down Down In compassing All that you need To no
POEM: Moneymaker Shaked
Here is a poem for those who have ever had a bad love, a fare, with capitalism… Moneymaker Shaked Get Down And snuggle up Too that Moneymaker A tract like a magnate And if you feel Sum what Estrange You … Continue reading
POEM: O Mission – Owed to What Might Be
I see privilege is a rich soil for sins of omission — that is, where privilege means the ability to see a problem as not one’s own problem. I see compassion as the eye-opening, heart-opening, arms-opening force that sees a … Continue reading
POEM: This Doodle Abide
Abiding in the margins of history… This Doodle Abide I am content To live in the margins Of ridden history Amor as a doodle Of what might be Noose to some The paper cutting edge Sow bother sum To those … Continue reading
POEM: Open Mined
This poem is an ode to the passionless and visionless centrists killing the Democratic party. Oh, how I yearn for unbought and unbossed political leaders… Open Mined “Centrism is not pragmatic in a broken system” They tired to keep Their … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Democrat
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POEM: When She Peers
Though oligarchic corporate rule is having its day, expect glorious humanity to rise up in efface of such a wasteland… When She Peers It finally seamed A soul corporation Owned every thing Parently that is Abut won blooming soul In … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Corporate Personhood, Freedom, Oligarchy, Resistance
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