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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE!  Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading →

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POEM: Song of The Octopus

Posted on July 15, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about having creative energies that are not honored and rewarded in our culture. Such creative energies may have difficulty finding channels to flow freely. This poem employs a magnificently mixed metaphor of an imagined Octopus’ Garden (Thank … Continue reading →

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POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Top Pun

Dehumanizing extractive industries are destroying our environment, second only to climate change. Mining is a huge part of extractive industries’ destruction. And, ironically, the technologies needed for a green economy require immense quantities of minerals that drive the “green, green, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Passing On Death

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Top Pun

The massacre of 11 congregants at Tree of Life synagogue was the worst anti-Semitic hate crime in modern America. Today, a jury decided that the convicted Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter is eligible for the death penalty.  The trial will now … Continue reading →

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POEM: Family Photo Finish

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Top Pun

When NATO gathered today to pronounce the initiation rituals and well-titrated accosts for Ukraine to join “the family,” I couldn’t help but feel that there was a little too much cheer leading the ordinariness of military buildups. To that a … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Roomy Poem

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Top Pun

A Roomy Poem I found myself In a room larger than I’d ever been Witnessing untold luxuries Treasures seen by so few Jealously wandering and wondering Who so ever in habits Could ever holy know I really due Need To … Continue reading →

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POEM: Blue Light Unspecial

Posted on July 10, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a bout blue light from electronic devices that stimulate our brains, and not necessarily our souls. Blue light interferes with falling asleep.  Blue light is an evolutionary newcomer dominating our nervous system, in contrast to night skies … Continue reading →

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POEM: Awkward Period

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Top Pun

Awkward Period I am just Sow trying To navigate Well And empty well In this awkward period Between birth and death Life presents an unending series of challenges for which we can never be fully prepared. This truth embeds a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Skip to the Loo, My Darling

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Top Pun

Our prisons are filled with people with poorly treated substance use disorders, mental health issues, and the homeless. Prisons and jails are terrible places to deal with these issues. Incarceration is expensive, ineffective, and dehumanizing for those suffering these conditions. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Toying With An Explosive Future — Owed to Cluster Bombs

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Top Pun

The U.S. is pondering it’s grave commitment to banning the use of cluster bombs — between wars that is. Weather or knot to endow Ukraine with such weapons of war, that is, the madder of contention.  In case you didn’t … Continue reading →

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POEM: Seniority

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Top Pun

A short poem on aging well… Seniority I used to be Young and unafraid Now I am Just Old and unafraid I suspect that one of the most pivotal dynamics of aging is about fear and conformity. It seems that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Israel Boldly Squashes Refugee Camp — Owed to as Easy as Pi

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to all of the Palestinians bulldozed over and shot in Jenin, particularly the “permanent” refugee camp, by Israeli farces. May this poem become outmoded. Unfortunately, this poem has been written over and over through generations. Israel … Continue reading →

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POEM: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to all of those affected by mass shootings this “Independence” Day weekend: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not The truth is Out Law Abiding citizens Until not Bearing arms And souls Entrails of blood And tears … Continue reading →

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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading →

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POEM: The World and Change

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading →

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POEM: Capitalism Kills

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Top Pun

Capitalism works best as siphoning life and humanity from others. I dream of an economy that serves humanity rather than humanity serving the economy. Of course, this is more succinctly put by this poem: Capitalism Kills Capitalism is a dream … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Wrigley Question

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Top Pun

A funny little poem. A Wrigley Question I was not prone To such ambulating queries And it was not what I was expectorating “Who would spit their chewed gum on the sidewalk?” The question sticks deep in my sole

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POEM: Mother Earth Riffed

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Top Pun

I have literally cried for daze with wildfire smoke in my eyes. I pine for the daze where the earth on fire was largely a metaphor. This poem was delivered from purgatory. Mother Earth Riffed We live (sic) In a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Don’t Buy Colorblind Just U.S.

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Top Pun

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court banned using race as a consideration in college admissions. I’d like to take them to school with this poem: Don’t Buy Colorblind Just U.S. The people have been herd It has been dictated In black … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sorry, Mom

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a form of apology to Mother Earth for the daily grand rationalizations we tolerate in service of capitalism and The Economy, our won true God. I post this as wildfire smoke engulfs multiple states with killer air … Continue reading →

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