Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings

Political Philosophy Writings

POEM: Box Set

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the boxes that we put one another in, weather conservative or liberal, and how money and our own interests get in the weigh of our shared humanity. May we think outside our boxes and always put humanity … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dead Precedents

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Top Pun

Can we let go of the stale, moribund notion that money will give us security and somehow not come between us and our humanity. Dead Precedents He could not handle change So he only dealt with folding Money And that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Call Me Warren

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Top Pun

In life, I have learned that going down rabbit holes in not voidable. I have learned to welcome them as portals to new worlds. Regarding the title, for those who may be overly-citified, a warren is an area where rabbits … Continue reading →

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POEM: Taking Auction

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Top Pun

I’ve been no’in to say, “If you are going to sell your soul, make sure you get a good price.” There are people of auction. There are people of action. Be the latter, taking us to a higher place. Taking … Continue reading →

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POEM: Catchy Zzzz’s

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Top Pun

I see much of life as a struggle to maintain a vigorous consciousness and cultivate a vital, life-affirming conscience. I see the powers that be as offering a vain, numbing “contentment,” free of inconvenient or uncomfortable realities. Security becomes distancing … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Mazing Grays — Owed to Racist Color Blindness

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Top Pun

During the Republican primary election, we are in the racist shit, more than usual. In Republic can due fashion, in a run away of endemic white supremacy, we hear of our civil war as only peripherally related to slavery, and … Continue reading →

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POEM: You Are Not a Loan

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem for those who have crushing student loan debt… You Are Not a Loan Do the bankers still have a crush on you Even after having Taken you To school Bank rolling The best daze of your life Only … Continue reading →

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POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Top Pun

This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading →

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POEM: Trifecta of Win Win Win

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem today, MLK Day, after listening to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “Beyond Viet Nam.” Have you never herd; it’s a real gas. If you don’t like it, talk to the hand, nay, palm… Trifecta of Win … Continue reading →

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POEM: Yours to Deicide

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Top Pun

Wile it doesn’t make cents for some, I see humanity is one. I strongly suspect that there is only one side. Thus, in a religious sense, any won that kills other children of God is ungodly. In some sense, killing … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dammed Hope

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem employs a metaphor of a remote mountain lake brimming with hope, exasperatingly difficult to access, only to be topped with an even more secluded mountain valley hiding away awe of the lost senses of humor of uncounted folks. … Continue reading →

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Starving Palestinians — How Compassion Ate Gazans

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Top Pun

President Biden’s posed compassion and the U.S.-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is starving the civilian population. The generations-long military occupation, the 16-year blockade on Gaza, and the current months-long bombing campaign has created a crucible of death in Gaza. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Trump Blows (into town)

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Top Pun

I’m posting this poem in honor of the upcoming Republican primaries. I actually wrote this poem years ago when Trump came to Toledo for a campaign stop. My experience there adds a layer to this poem. The attendees of the … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Leader Ship

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem during the last Trump administration, of which I work and pray will be the last Trump administration. That Leader Ship What if Everybody Did that Wading among prophetless idles Spinning their wills Ennui go But how … Continue reading →

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POEM: Owed Time Religion

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Top Pun

There very well may be a nexus between now and eternity, yet I find it helpful to consider now enough. Owed Time Religion Some in cyst That there religion Holds time in memorial Preaching the hear after Weather buy work … Continue reading →

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POEM: Falling for It — Coming Down to Munch Time, “The Scream”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Top Pun

There is a Buddhist metaphor for life, that we are in a freefall from a cliff, and that learning to relax during this freefall is the key to life. I am not one much attracted rollercoasters and the like, but … Continue reading →

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POEM: Opportunity Accost [Number Two]

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Top Pun

I am an idealist. I see huge swathes of unfulfilled potential. I am confronted with an endless stream of possibilities — how beautiful. I recognize that most of the everyday whirled is ensconced in navigating probabilities — how practical. Still, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Halve Truth

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a parody of the infamous “You can’t handle the truth” military courtroom speech from the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men. You can view the original speech here. Many have killed and died in wars over half-truths … Continue reading →

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POEM: Just Nation

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem reflects my yearning for a nation that gladly welcomes refugees and immigrants. Just Nation Fore awe of US Who halve a dream In this peculiar whirled Of death and extortion Of making a killing To welcome refugees As … Continue reading →

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POEM: Stream of Consciousness

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Top Pun

Consciousness can race like annoying chattering monkeys. Still, consciousness is a funny thing. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ― Heraclitus Stream of Consciousness I … Continue reading →

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