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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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- POEM: Gratuitous Rumor
- POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
- POEM: Straight Manly Complaining
- POEM: Draft Registration Civil Disobedience, aka, Holy Obedience
- POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)
- POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
- POEM: Conversion Raiding
- POEM: Lilliputian Vampires — Ode to Bed Bugs
- POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
- POEM: North Pole
- POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles
- POEM: Making Know Deference
- POEM: Locked in Prism
- POEM: A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond
- POEM: Here on Abet
- POEM: Away With Words
- POEM: Did I Hear You Write?
- POEM: To Know a Veil
- POEM: The Ark of History
- POEM: Having Landed, Hear
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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: Away With Words
Some years ago, I heard a Latin American poet say that his criteria for keeping a poem was whether it improved upon silence. This seems like a good rule for speaking in most situations. Away With Words How can I … Continue reading
POEM: Goddest of Dreams
Goddest of Dreams One serendipitous night I stumbled up On a most glorious site An indescribable rite When mortals have only their dreams She would sow free Pluck stars from the sky Only to sprinkle them On waking heads And … Continue reading
Benefits of Immunizations – Just for the Health of It radio show
Below is the script for my public health radio show on immunizations. You can listen to the half-hour immunization show here. You can listen to the most current and all previous shows at the archive for Just for the Health of … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News
Tagged African American, America, Awareness, Children, Conspiracy, Control, Death, Disease, Economic, Family, Fear, Food, Health Care, History, Just for the Health of It, Life, Military, National, Perspective, Play, Power, Present, President, Prevention, Public Health, Religious, Risk, Science, Society, State, Suffering, Technology, Time, WAKT, Women, Work
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INAUGURAL Public Health Radio Show on WAKT, 106.1 FM Toledo — Just For The Health of It: Medicare For All and Toledo Democracy Day
After years in the waiting and making, I am proud to announce the inaugural show of my public health radio show, Just for the Health of It, on WAKT, 106.1 FM Toledo (ToledoRadio.org). Just for the Health of It brings you new … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Addiction, America, Blessed, Business, Capitalism, Cautionary Tale, Citizens, Commercial, Community, Competition, Control, Corporate Personhood, Crises, Death, Democracy, Disease, Disillusionment, Economy, Efficiency, Elections, Fear, Free Speech, government, Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, Heart, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humility, Inequality, Injustice, Job, Just for the Health of It, Justice, Kids, Law, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Market, Meaning, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Mercy, Military, Modern, Money, Moral, Move to Amend, National, Nature, Normal, Perspective, Political, Poor, Present, President, Prevention, ProMedica, Public Health, Reality, Risk, Science, Security, Sleep, Social Justice, Social Security, Socialism, State, Stewardship, taxes, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Voters, WAKT, Wealth, Work
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POEM: That Saddest Factory Job
He wanted A sweet life But he woke Too fine himself In a jam Too preserve That weigh of life Bearing deferred dreams His soul apprehension A future in trapped Just wanting A good deal bettor Then merely make it … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Dreams, Future, Job, Jobs, Life, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Present, Productivity, Soul, Time, Vocation, Work
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Feminist POEM: Me Too — Now A Brand Knew Whirled Of Daughters
They rise from along history Yet much more so from her story As tectonic plates ready to serve up Unseen Earthquakes From a thousand generations reserved in silence Now a brand knew Whirled of daughters A raze of sisters A … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Catholic, Change, Civil Rights, Congress, Control, Crime, Denial, Discrimination, Employment, evangelicals, Experience, Faith, Feminist, Forgiveness, Future, Gender, Health Care, Hell, History, Holy, Immigration, Inspiration, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Me Too movement, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Present, Progress, Sex, sexual assault, Silence, State, Status, Supreme Court, Time, Trust, Truth, Women, Workplace, Worldview
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Supreme Court Nominee POEM: Ostensible Merit, Garland
Ostensible Merit, Garland Senate Republicans bemoan We can’t Ford No delay We just Long to confirm As weave past attest Merit Garland This poem is my owed to Senate Republicans’ stellar hypocrisy, in this case regarding confirming Supreme Court nominees. … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Death, Hypocrisy, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Rhyme, sexual assault, Short Poems, Supreme Court, Women
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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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Activist POEM: Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office
Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office Empower verses In power What is won to think? Lying in wait Miring our advocacy Swamped with democracy When and how to mete US We go through the drill Lairs of representation … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Democracy, Donald Trump, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, President, Protesters, Rage, Republican, Resistance, Sen. Rob Portman, Silence, Time, Toledo
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Putting The Zero In Tolerance
The racist and zero tolerant U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is now gearing up to prosecute, imprison, and separate children from their mothers, any refugee seeking asylum from criminal violence in their own country. Perhaps Mr. Sessions, at home … Continue reading
Toledo Democracy Day Testimony: Focus on Racism, White Supremacy
Below is the testimony I delivered today before Toledo City Council, or rather the three council members who showed up. The mayor also showed up for part of the testimony. Democracy Day Testimony March 5, 2018 Hi, my name is … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Community, Criminal Justice System, Danny Brown, Democracy, Drug War, Education, Failure, Housing, Income, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Law, Life, Media, Money, Murder, Nature, Nonviolent, Police, Powers that be, Present, Pride, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Racism, Society, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, War
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FREE POSTER: GOP Greedy Old Perverts Sexual Predator-in-Chief Donald Trump and Roy Moore
Dirty old men, predominantly dirty old white men, are running rampant throughout our culture and politics. A long overdue push back is underway as many powerful sexual predators are finally being held to some account. The cutting edge of this … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Gay, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Beautiful, Children, Christian, Community, Conservative, Conspiracy, Crime, Culture, Democrat, Donald Trump, Enemies, Fascism, free poster, Free Posters, Future, God, GOP, Hypermasculinity, Hypocrisy, Illegal, Justice, Kids, Lawyer, Lifestyle, Martyrdom, Military, Minorities, Moral, Muslim, National, Nationalism, Nature, Nazi, Normal, Patriarchy, Political, Politics, Power, Present, President, Reactionary, Redemption, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Rhetoric, Right-Wing, Roy Moore, Sex, sexual assault, Socialism, State, Success, Supreme Court, Time
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Sen ROB Portman and The DON Dreaming of a Green Christmas with Tax Cuts for Rich
The Republican tax scam, noted for its practically psychotic connection to reality, came closer to crashing into reality as Senate Republicans passed their tax bill, huge tax bill, in the middle of the night. Senators had four hours to try … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Betsy DeVos, Children, Christmas, Citizens, Congress, Crazy, Culture, Debt, Deficit, Depression, Donald Trump, Economic, Education, Family, Fear, free poster, Free Posters, Future, History, Income, Jobs, Kids, Medicaid, Medicare, Minority, Mother Jones, National, Obama, Parity or Parody, Political, Present, President, Reality, Republican, Rich, Security, Sen. Rob Portman, Social Security, taxes, Time, Trust, Voting, War, Work
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POEM: Awe The Less
I woke up Knot a moment too soon My values dying on the vine Just realizing In efface of Every dollar Unspent Awe the less I had to urn And in that mean time Aaah, lined my values Every little … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Life, Ode, Present, Time, Values
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POEM: That Cursory Savor
Life As present Did not add up As if A zero Sum game The passed getting bigger The future getting smaller That good buy That eminent lessen As holy for gone As refuse As waive that fortune Having only Too … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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POEM: Sum How Present In A Stupefying Flash
Creation groans In pregnant expectancy More than Any one Ever anew In a singular couplet The quest in And the call out For who All Abel to hear Blood from ground Crying in relation To the curse of can and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Creation, Justice, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Solidarity
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POEM: Hell In A Handbasket
I would rather live… In a trailer That proverbial mobile homme Seeing stars when roofs are razed And nothing but realty at my back As awe of creation is present As I am Looked down upon Wading patiently fore that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Bible, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Evil, Existential, Faith, Fear, Foolish, God, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Present, Prison, Rules, Secrets, Silence, Soul, Status, Success, Time, Willingness, Wisdom
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POEM: Unforgettable
She was a spark Spanning but instant generations Clothed in stardust Naked to that place before birth and after death As thought of God Less of a dream More of a smile Merging within that space-time continuum On the face … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Death, Defense, Dream, Experience, God, Hope, Joy, Life, Love, Mystical, Nature, Present, Time, Vulnerability
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