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I am an unrepentant idealist. My view is that if you don’t have clear boundaries, “red lines,” that you are willing to live and die for, then the drift toward some version of amorality or sociopathy becomes insufferable and life becomes holy compromised. This poem lists three boundaries that should be maintained without exception: 1) NO genocide, 2) NO sex trafficking, and 3) NO climate calamity, collapsing our global ecosystem — or put in the vernacular, not shitting where we eat, live, work, and re-create…<\/p>\n

I Deal List<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They did
\nNot bother
\nToo right
\nMe off
\nAs I deal list
\nAxing only
\nMy existential boundaries
\nSo so spare
\nNo genocide
\nNo sex trafficking
\nNo climate calamity
\nThere is know pleading
\nIn sanity
\nIn the court of fools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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