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Neo-Republican* Redbook** (Ideological & Practical Samplings)

Politics, RsAndDs /

*ska, Neo-Cons; **Not to be confused with other Red books. Advertizing: The art of manufacturing desire and producing dissatisfaction, envy, and so forth, all in the greater cause of economic growth and free-market capitalism. A pillar of democracy. American Covert Operations: Secret interventions to promote democratic values and thwart anti-capitalists/corporatists. These are necessarily secret to […]

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CROSS WINDS

Poem /

by SMSmith Near drowningIn tsunamic rush.Irrational.DrivenAgainst the barren scapeOf reason. ReasonCaughtIn whirlsOf imbalanceScreamingPeeledLike bark from groaning willowsDriven into the inexplicableOf the root of minus one. Blinded, castFrom a realm unseenInto the abyss between.Disheveled, bruisedTorn, confused.Dreams breakingAgainst matterMatter against miracle.

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Trauma Happens

Biblical Job, Trials /

It happens to good people. It happens to not-so-good people. And when it does, it seems our human nature to cry, “Why me?” “Why this?” “Why now?” Or as a good niece of mine recently wrote, “I need some extra help in trying to remember that God doesn’t hate me.” The short answer to the

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HARVEST

Poem /

by SMSmithIron locustsBelching black exhaustionRound on roundTo gorge uponThe gilt of autumn. Round on roundTo pour out ripe September. Round on roundSpewing dry-rowed chaffFor other teethTo gleanConcentric wealsInto ingots of hollow gold. Round on roundFrom dawnTo crew-cut dawnSwallowingDisgorgingArtEssenceSeasonSimilitude. Round on roundLayering strataTo invisible strataOf fruits and daysToo soonForgot. © 1987

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Wealth Redistribution! ! !

RichAndPoor /

It seems as a nation we have been persistently blind to the wealth redistribution that has been going on for decades, chiefly presided over by laissez-faire Republican capitalists.* Wealth redistribution that is abundantly documented except for those who are so ideologically reflexive they have become functionally blind in the right eye—their only focus devoted to

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