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Tag Archives: Choices
POEM: The Hole of Life
Sometimes life leaves you only shitty choices. Of coarse, in many cases, making at least some choice is better than doing nothing or living in fear. Fortunately, whether we make a choice or not, a new set of choices arise, … Continue reading
POEM: Matrix™ Evolution®
This poem is a riff on on the Matrix movie franchise, of which one was entitled, “Matrix Revolutions.” This poem plays with the notion of incremental change as often inadequate when facing epic existential choices, and the daunting all-ternative. Matrix™ … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Choices, Evolution, Existential, Life
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POEM: Due Doo?
The “tolerance” of snuffing other human lives continues to baffle and disturb me. This is particularly true given the shit that such lethal choices unleash. Can we love humans, awe humans, more than our attachment to such shit? This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Choices, Enemies, Love, Moral
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POEM: Conversion Raiding
This poem contrasts two opposing world views, moral versus amoral, right versus might, serving God versus money, etc., etc. This poem presents the question of how won might convert the currency of one world view to the other. Of coarse, … Continue reading
POEM: Sorry, Mom
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
Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION
I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, and Public Service, Balance, Blessing, Business, Change, Character, Charity, Children, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, Coercion, Community, Compulsion, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Control, Cowardice, Creation, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Draft Registration, Education, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Farce, Fear, Female, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Future, Gandhi, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Heart, History, Holy, Honesty, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Ideals, Idolatry, Inspiration, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Media, Mennonite, Mercy, Military, Modern, Moral, Murder, Muslims, National, National Commission on Military, National Security, Nature, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Obedience, Patience, Peacemakers, People of The Book, Perspective, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Present, President, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Radical, Reality, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Rhetoric, Risk, Rules, Russia, Sacred, Security, Selective Service System, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Suffering, Supreme Court, Surreal, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, Violence, War, Women, Work, Worship
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HOPE POEM: Why God Invented Dark
God invented dark As a respite From high noon That searing sun Of which mortal men are made To see Sow much more Innumerable lofty stars Unseen in mere day dreams Beyond won’s highest hopes Awe at once A mist … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Control, Death, Diversity, Donald Trump, Dreams, Existential, Fear, God, Heart, Hope, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Opposites, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Reality, Skepticism, Sleep, Time, Unity, Values
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ELECTION POEM: Democracy Takes A Dive
Like that Mourning do After a cold night Looking over That nasty bluff When the populace says jump As if Only culpable Sane How high Falling for everything Accept gravity and physics As mirror opinion Reproving such an eminent nadir … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Democracy, Domination, Donald Trump, Dream, Dystopia, Exceptionalism, Fascism, Fear, Future, Hope, Hubris, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Mourning, Neoliberalism, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Solidarity
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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POEM: Mad ’em Presidents
Knowing either jack or Jill Raze your Stein As Donald Trump sucks The “Oh too” out of the room Plenty of space In the huge check Box Of which to think out of Beyond first lady and commander-in-chief Paid in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Crises, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Fear, Feminist, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Republican, State, Surreal, Third Party, Top Pun, Values, Voters, Voting, Women
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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide
Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Choices, Congress, Courage, Democracy, Diversity, Domination, Elections, Evolution, Faith, Fear, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Mind, Money, National, Optimism, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Rage, Revolution, Revolutionary, Rich, Rules, Security, Silence, Sustainable, Time, Voters, Voting, Work
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Anti-Trump AND Anti-Hillary: What’s a Voter To Do?
Anti-Trump AND anti-Hillary: What’s a voter to do? This seems to be an endemic quandary in the current presidential campaign. I have my own views, which I have blogged, ranted and wrote poems about. My views are considered too radical … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Apathy, Argument, Ballot, Change, Choices, Crazy, Democracy, Donald Trump, Elections, Ethical, Evil, Hillary Clinton, Intellect, Logic, Moral, Philosophy, Poems, Political, Politics, Power, President, Radical, Respect, Revolution, Third Party, Top Pun, Voters, Voting
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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authority, Ballot, Business, Capitalism, Change, China, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate Change, Commercial, Community, Congress, Constitutional Rights, Control, Corporate Personhood, Courage, Creation, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Democrat, Disarmament, Discrimination, Disease, Diversity, Doctrine, drone, Economic, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Equality, Family, Fear, Food, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Future, Gender, government, Green Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Housing, Human Rights, Humanity, Immigration, Income, Israel, Jill Stein, Job, Jobs, Justice, Kids, Labor, Law, Learning, LGBT, Life, Living Wage, Meaning, Media, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Military, Money, Mother Earth, National, NATO, Nonviolent, Nuclear Power, Nutrition, Obama, Palestine, Partisan, Patriot, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Poverty, Power, President, Prevention, Prison, Progress, Public Health, Racism, Rage, Refugees, Religion, Responsibility, Rich, Russia, Security, Social Security, State, Status, Substance Abuse, Sustainable, Tar Sands, taxes, Terrorism, Violence, Voters, Voting, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women, Work, Workplace
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COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled
What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Ballot, Choices, Consumption, Donald Trump, Elections, Funny, Future, Hell, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puns, Republican, Revolution, Sacred, State, Third Party, Time, Trust, Wisdom
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: Love Is Scored
He did Not necessarily Believe In evil Though he found it Much easier To commit Than endure And hear in lies Won lessen As love is scored This poem is a tribute to apologists for evil everywhere. The lesser of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Amorality, Big Brother, Choices, Defense, Evil, Freedom, God, Hate, Immorality, Impersonal, Life, Love, Moral, Morality, Poems, Poetry, Projection, Rationalization, Responsibility, Time, Willingness
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POEM: Existential Realty
You can say “No” You can say “Yes” If one can say “No” Two can say “No” If two can say “No” Three can say “No” If one can say “Yes” Two can say “Yes” If two can say “Yes” … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Existential, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Reality, Soul
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POEM: Putting The Monet In Monetize
The starving artist Whose art couldn’t be made Fast enough Fore his dealer Rejecting means Except as accede In awe but name groan Poising as a plant To the extant one can make cents Putting the Monet in monetize This … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Choices, Commercial, Compromise, Conformity, Culture, Death, Efficiency, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Irony, Job, Jobs, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Quotes, Society, Success, Surreal, Work
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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness
I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Consciousness, Disease, Empathy, Evil, Evolution, Experience, History, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Love, Luck, Mind, Mindfulness, Poems, Political, Power, Present, Pride, Privilege, Projection, Proverb, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Sacred, Science, Self-Awareness, Success, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, Worldview
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