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Dichotomy Project ~ Found Verbiage Free Verse
PAIR 2 SAD END Army defends questioned abortion law Results critical argues commission Restrictive rules trouble rape victim Says losing open doors forces secrecy Across the nation legal rights struck Bias, harassment, injuries and hard lessons Blood, bruises and killing with no remorse Pregnant child doomed, without hope Woman say clash killing all ages Trustees […]
DICHOTOMY PROJECT
Found Verbiage Free Verse As I’ve begun exploring what haiku, poems and stories can be garnered from the headlines, sub-heads and captions (the bold-faced type) in my local daily newspaper, I’ve begun to wonder what this might say about our existence at this moment in time. Like snapshots, capturing images, emotions, our greater story expressed […]
All Bets Are Off Part I
My extremely simplified recap of how I think we got where we are… Who do you suppose first stood upright, cooked food, sheltered in caves, constructed huts, wrapped animal skins around themselves and whatever other first you can imagine? These people changed our paradigm, our world view, and nothing would ever be the same again. […]
All Bets Are Off Part II
All Bets Are Off Part II My extremely simplified recap of how I think we get where we are and why and how we need to change, continued. As the world grew toward today, population spread through exploration and conquest. If you were on the winning side of these equations life became relatively safer, but […]
Headline Haiku
More than 1,000 Uprisings continue needs Death warning art world Thousands out in cold Assault on girl after dance Education breakdowns Selection begins Selfishness will end career Bigotry, just fine 1960s hits Time follows sunset horror Studios to close Mentor clobbers champ Jurors face man found shot, death Defense suspension Murder advantage Show follows jail-time […]
INSANITY IN GENERAL
INSANITY IN GENERAL (A paean to Tea-Party paranoia) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information violent, atrocical and criminal We know the guns of murder, and we quote the deaths statistical From Birmingham to Newtown in order […]
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