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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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- POEM: Proper Preying
- POEM: The Beat of Exclusive Clubs
- POEM: A Head of Belief
- POEM: A Mirror Student
- POEM: Job One
- POEM: Dawning of So-called Civilization
- POEM: The Dance of Life
- POEM: Barren His Soul
- POEM: Hope Ungraduated
- POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism
- POEM: An Artist And
- POEM: What is De-served?
- POEM: Baby-ize
- POEM: A Walker, Please
- POEM: People of Consequence
- POEM: Rat Race Religion
- POEM: It’s Awe Poetry
- POEM: The Hole of Life
- POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
- POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye
- POEM: Nobodies
- POEM: This Poet’s Prayer
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- POEM: Heir Droppings
- POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope
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POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
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POEM: Amateurs and Prose
There are moments When I feel Like such an amateur Then the payments come So much more Than I could ever hope for The only falling short Is ever thinking That life Is fated to be Any won thing Except … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Beautiful, Debt, Experience, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Hope, Life, Luck, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Serendipity
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Martin Luther King Day history and reflection
Martin Luther King Day is coming up on January 20, 2014. MLK Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the third Monday of every January. The first official celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a federal holiday in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Celebrations, Change, Christmas, Civil Rights, Community, Congress, Debt, Democrat, Future, government, History, Holy, Inane, Institutions, Jesus, Justice, Law, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, mlk celebration, mlk day, Monetize, National, Power, Powers that be, President, Productivity, Racism, Republican, Resistance, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Veterans, Voting, Work
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POEM: Good News, Bad News
I have good news and bad news The bad news: God called and he said he wants his religion back The good news: He didn’t call collect The gap between the actual practice of religion and the sacred principles held … Continue reading
POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Lottery
I won the lottery Now I am able To outsource My neuroses Winning the lottery is probably one of the most common fantasies, particularly by the math-impaired. Most people assume that getting a large windfall of money will make their life … Continue reading
Justice For Danny Brown $149.02
Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for “illegal posting” of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action
Tagged Crime, Danny Brown, Debt, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Illegal, Justice, Law, Life, Money, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poor, Protests, Society, State, Toledo
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POEM: Empty Plates With Dancing Tales
Empty Plates With Dancing Tales A crowd gathers A performer spins A dozen plates on poles Like angels dancing on pinheads How many are possible?! Worthy of a few coins Fore a collection of small bills [Unmarked except by bankers] … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street Buttons
I am finally uploaded a new batch of Occupy Wall Street designs. This batch of 125 political designs is mostly Occupy Wall Street designs, but there are also a large series of “stop socialism” designs, a large series of Fox … Continue reading
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Mock Funeral – Occupy Toledo
Yesterday, April 1st, April Fool’s Day, was the one and only performance of Occupy Toledo‘s Mock Funeral — in life (and death) there are no rehearsals, this is it! If you missed it, I truly hope that you were doing … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Apathy, Celebrations, Citizens, Compulsion, Constitution, Consumption, Corporate Personhood, Death, Debt, Demonstrators, Direct Democracy, Enlightenment, Events, Food, Free Speech, Funny, Helplessness, Hope, Life, May Day, Mock, Money, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Political, Propaganda, Protesters, Puns, Reality, Resistance, Rich, Satire, Security, Social Movements, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Wall Street
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Obama Shifts Military Defense Cuts to Domestic Programs
George Zornick blogs in The Nation about Obama’s Plan to Save the Military From Cuts—at the Expense of Domestic Programs. Here is an excerpt: “As budget wonks comb over President Obama’s outline for fiscal year 2013, a startling White House … Continue reading