{"id":5899,"date":"2024-10-05T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2024-10-05T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:24:16","slug":"poem-needle-less-to-say-esc-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/05\/poem-needle-less-to-say-esc-late\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s \u201cde-escalation through escalation.\u201d Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war.<\/p>\n

Needle-less to Say: ESC Late<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We are tempting \u201cde-escalation through escalation.\u201d \u2013Israeli officials<\/em><\/p>\n

Our culture of violence
\nIs deeply vein
\nA main lyin\u2019
\nDrug through our body politic
\nInstant solutions
\nPressing a lone button
\nPlunging us into oblivion
\nSaying high to new problems
\nFor every won wrought
\n\"\"Endlessly strung out
\nSoully wading
\nFore what is
\nOverdo
\nWar anon
\nPowerless to compute any amor
\nTerminally tardy
\nThat singular key
\nESC late
\nCountlessly hitting
\nAnd no return<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s \u201cde-escalation through escalation.\u201d Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. 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