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Tag Archives: Propriety
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
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Evil, Necessary Evil, Privilege, Propriety, Silence, Soul
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POEM: Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us
This is another anti-capitalist poem, scorning profits over people, the vain whining of grievance politics, and the lethal short-sightedness of just us. Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us They miss judged As the profits for tolled Propriety … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Efficiency, Humanity, Kindness, Mourning, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propriety, Respect, skin in the game, Virtue, Wisdom
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ANTI-FASCISM POEM: In Efface of Creeping Fascism
He was a custom Too accept That creep Creep Creep Of fascism Without a furor Incite Picking wons Fights Posedly agin And agin Sow frayed Peering opposed Laws and orders As just Be for It’s too late Over Due In … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Control, Democracy, Experience, Fascism, Haiti, Life, Luck, Mind, Moral, Propriety, Protesters, Questioning, Reality, Risk, Security, Sen. Rob Portman, Soul, State, Time, Toledo, Women, Work
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POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
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POEM: What If Everybody Did That?
Such sophistry Firmly on the bench But What if Everybody did that Judging propriety Smudging property An intolerable act My conscience He decreed Must fall Into line With Kant Where every reason Reduced to rant It’s the leash they can … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Conscience, Crime, Danny Brown, Ethical, Injustice, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Mock, Moral, Mourning, Muse, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prison, Propriety, Responsibility, Rhetoric, Risk, Sleep, Toledo
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POEM: In What Seams Faultless
At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading
POEM: The History of Civilization
They lived in the period of civilization A properly punctuated death sentience That no’s know end This poem is a reflection on the deathly aspects of so-called civilization, its facade of propriety, and penchant for denial. The members of most … Continue reading
POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Certifiable
Certifiable Respectability is the currency of the establishment A religion of red carpets and relics Propriety is its only denomination Holding sway with all that moves Trafficking in status A multitude of sins covered in fine veneers Indulgences purchased by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Cynicism, Death, Dreams, Facts, Faith, Future, Happiness, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Life, Mystic, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Present, Probability, Propriety, Reality, Religion, State, Statistics, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transcendent, Voting, Wisdom, Work
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