Tag Archives: Death

POEM: Heir Droppings

This poem goes out to the five Palestinian kids killed when an American airdrop of food crushed them after the parachute failed. This over the top “Operation Breadcrumb” does nothing to stop Israel’s illegal blocking of humanitarian aid by ground … Continue reading

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POEM: A Confession — For the Birds

I don’t have a lot of regrets in life. Still, one of the stupidest and cruelest things I ever did was as a kid when I shot dead with a BB gun a bunch of birds hanging out in a … Continue reading

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POEM: Get Over It

We are a far cry from Patrick Henry’s infamous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death,” which highlights one’s ultimate willingness to put all of your skin in the game. Today’s cry is more of a whine, “Give me … Continue reading

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POEM: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell

Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty U.S. air force senior airman, committed self-immolation by fire to protest the U.S. sponsored Israeli genocide of Gaza. His final cry was “Free Palestine.” On Fire and Ice: Owed to Aaron Bushnell Fire and Ice, by … Continue reading

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POEM: Dis Quieting Genocide

Talking about US complicit in genocide may be uncomfortable, even a bit traumatic. Still, such discussions have miniscule chances of approximating the horrors of genocide itself. Dis Quieting Genocide It was a bad day for propriety A revolting day for … Continue reading

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Stick, A Fork in It

This poem is about the tendency toward escalation and overkilling built into lethal conflicts such as war or genocide. When we feel threatened and have the capacity to inflict massive death, we come to a fork in the road, which … Continue reading

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POEM: The Weigh of Our Great Grandchildren

This poem employs the metaphor of using irresponsible and unsustainable credit that must be paid by future generations. Externalizing the true costs from the present sticker price of our way of life by ignoring environmental costs incurred by fossil fuels … Continue reading

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POEM: Life Keeps

I find comfort in the persistent reality that life keeps happening. As I keep learning to let go, I find that life flows more gently to whatever the next thing is that life offers up. I continue to be amazed … Continue reading

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POEM: Catchy Zzzz’s

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: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome

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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Starving Palestinians — How Compassion Ate Gazans

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: Just Nation

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: Capital Punishment for Abortion?!

This is a poem I wrote a while back when a state legislature proposed capital punishment for abortion. Perhaps a low for the so-called “pro-life” forces. Hey alleged “pro-lifers,” I raze you, an end to capital punishment and an end … Continue reading

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POEM: Screw the All Gore Rhythm

One of my monikers in life is “screw the algorithm,” in rebellion to the lifeless calculations that often subtract from humanity and divide humanity. This poem is such a rebel cry. Screw the All Gore Rhythm The death machine is … Continue reading

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POEM: The Die is Cast

Life is a gamble. Play the roll you got, or the roll will play you. The Die is Cast So it is said And can knot be Taken aback The die is cast Weather mettle mulled Or fortune’s gambol As … Continue reading

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POEM: Letting Loose Averse

This poem is a meditation on the notion of a broken heart opening up and oozing life despite whatever hurts may be experienced. Letting Loose Averse I let loose averse Only too here What may happen As words sore So … Continue reading

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POEM: In Dig Nation — Ode to That Lyin’ of Zionism

The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to have a humanitarian ceasefire. Israel calls for his resignation. Mean wile, The United States is resigned to complicity with war crimes in the bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure on top … Continue reading

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POEM: Flame In The Darkness

Hope springs eternal. That’s just, the way it glows. Flame In The Darkness There is a flame In the darkness Awe weighs more Than mirror fact This flame is both Before and after See change As one Better Than book … Continue reading

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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)

Occam’s Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. This funny and tragic poem is a parody of the misuse of the principle of Occam’s Razor to over-simplify and round … Continue reading

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POEM: Divine Die-alogue

This poem plays with notion of God sitting next to me my whole life, and that presence involves no literal speaking. Then, upon my death God turns to me… Divine Die-alogue I am Dumb to talk about it Such profound … Continue reading

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