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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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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Secret Quest
This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, God, Meaning, Mystical, Nature
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POEM: The Whole In My Soul
This poem is about living in the grievously beautiful realty that a truly open heart is a broken heart. I wrote this poem years ago, and now I have come to understand that my heart is broke in, as in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Heart, Life, Soul
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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI
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
POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Children, Climate Change, Dehumanizing, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Mining, Mother Earth, Poor
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POEM: Passing On Death
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
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, capital punishment, Crime, Death, Death Penalty, Evil, Hate, Life, Modern, Moral, Prison, Punishment, Rage, Religious, Sabbath
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POEM: Family Photo Finish
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
POEM: A Roomy Poem
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
POEM: Awkward Period
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Life, Truth, Work
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POEM: Skip to the Loo, My Darling
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
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Dehumanizing, Health Care, Mental Health, Prison, Substance Abuse, Suffering
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POEM: Toying With An Explosive Future — Owed to Cluster Bombs
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
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, cluster bombs, Future, Kids, War
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POEM: Seniority
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Aging, Awe, Conformity, Courage, Experience, Fear, Freedom, Life, Status, Status Quo, Vulnerability, Wealth, Wisdom
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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place
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
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Awe, Bullshit, Defense, Evil, Farce, Hell, Humanity, Irony, Job, Media, Mercy, Military, Money, Necessary Evil, Patriotism, Technology, War
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POEM: The World and Change
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
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Honesty, Hope, Resistance, Silence, Work
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POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction
This poem was inspired by a recent conversation with an apologist for the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, infamously known as MAD. I am not a fan of so-called “necessary evil”; if evil is necessary, then it is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Doctrine, Ethics, Evil, Guns, Moral, mutually assured destruction, Necessary Evil, State, War
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FREE POSTER: There Are QUEENS and There Are QUEENS – I Prefer The FORMER
This free poster is my marking of the death of Queen Elizabeth. This FREE POSTER: There Are QUEENS and There Are QUEENS – I Prefer The FORMER is a LGBTQ pride poster as well as an anti-monarchy poster. In case … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Gay, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged free poster
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POEM: A Litany For The Birds
A Litany For The Birds A first bird In early mourning Calls out the names Of each creature No longer in this realm this day A second bird In a coo of sorts Sings out the names Of each soul … Continue reading
POEM: Neighboring Accountability
Neighboring Accountability Several homes Down There is A child molester You can’t no For sure Buddies sow nice Too those knew Kids on the block How could you Warn up to him Surly there are other neighbors Axing the question … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Children, Community, Compassion, Crime, Healing, Kids, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Responsibility, Risk, sexual assault, Silence, Truth
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POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer
Dyslexic Write Wringer In a whack and blight world Any dyslexic can tell you A right winger Is a white ringer Only as an adult did I realize that I am mildly dyslexic. I have to intentionally work every time … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Dyslexia, Equality, Experience, Funny, Gift, Hate, Humor, Learning, Love, Meaning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Racism, Relationships, Responsibility, Time, White Supremacy, Work
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