{"id":10479,"date":"2026-09-23T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2026-09-23T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:09:03","slug":"poem-politics-at-a-stand-still-owed-to-mutual-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/poem-politics-at-a-stand-still-owed-to-mutual-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Politics at a Stand Still \u2013 Owed to Mutual Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today, like all days, we are healed by taking care of one another, enacting a body politic of vulnerable first…<\/p>\n
Politics at a Stand Still \u2013 Owed to Mutual Aid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
“Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”<\/em> \u2013Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n
“The Good Samaritan has the patients to heal the body politic, that is neighbors love.”<\/em><\/p>\n
They whir \nAt the coroner \nOf fear and distraction \nIn looking untoward the street \nPreacher lifting up patients \nWithout \nPassers buy \nAs aheads down \nIn a whirled of preyers \nAs full \nFilled \nWith desperation \nOnly won thing in common \nA greed \nChasing a body politic grand \nStand \nStill \nJust \nOut of \nReach \nNo\u2019ing awe to well \nLiving in timeless times \nThe uncounted \nCross \nRoads \nThe prophet taking at hand \nOut of their mine \nAs razing questions of neighbors \nShowing up \nWith mercy full \nOf time and money \nPatients \nHear \nNow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"