Poetry by Brian37 (poems by an atheist)
Offline I post all over the web, but I want a back up in case my computer or one particular website goes down.
I have decided to edit this post because I do not like giving people the wrong impression. I cannot read Shakespeare to save my life. I just remember this one line from act 5 scene 5 and put my own spin on it. I've had to explain this over and over so here I decided to put that in this post so there is no more presuming what I know or don't know. But the plot of MacBeth is the old lesson, you can have everything and nothing at all at the same time. And how did all that cruelty serve you in the end? But I do not like play summeries calling him a Nihisist, because it is possible to not do what he did, and accept life as being finite, and sitll have morals without religion.
NEW EDIT 9/19/22 I got pissed at myself that I was scared to read MacBeth, so tonight, I forced myself to read it online. Now mind you, I did not understand it line for line, but basically Macbeth was an assdhole who murdered his way to the top, and did not believe the 3 witches prophcies. He murdered Duncan and had Banquo murdered. Banquo's ghost haunts Macbeth. And made the grave mistake of attacking McDuff's family and killing them(If I am reading this correctly) But Lady MacBeth has a guilty conscience and kills herself, upon finding out Macbeth basically says that life is not worth living and he should go down with a fight anyway, but refuses to fight Macduff face to face and Macduff kills him as the hero. ( I SERIOUSLY read the entire play every line, tonight. I even know where the famous line "double double, toil and trouble". comes from. The three witches, basically saying "look out Macbeth" your ass is in trouble.
So basically the moral of the play, don't be a fucking asshole when trying to get to the top, or "the bigger they are the harder they fall". Reminds me of the movie Scarface and all the shitty things Tony did to get to the top and all for not. But Sosa in that case was not a good guy either.
QUOTE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MACBETH:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Here is my spin on that wonderful and profound line:
Out, Out brief candle, By Brian37
To-deities, and to-gods, and to-God
Creeps in this petty tyrant from day to day
Until the extinction of humanity new ones will be invented
And all our yesterday's Gods have been created by fools
The way to tribal death. Out out brief myth
Claims are but a walking shadow, a poor reflection
That struts our narcissism upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by the credulous, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
(END)
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"The Opposition Party" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 twitter)
Those words
From Bannon
Are most chilling
And frightening
Attack on journalists
A despot's actions
Attept to muzzle
The watchdog of government
He'd have us believe
Its to weed out conspiracy
Which is the hight of hypocrisy
Considering the rag he ran
He doesn't care
About Weekly World News
He used that garbage
To get where he is
This is to silence
The Washington Post
Who exposed Watergate
Got Nixon deposed
This is an attack
On the memory of Cronkite
An assault on Murrow
Should give journalists a fright
Slavery is freedom
Dept is wealth
This is the double speak
Orwell warned us about
When a politician
Vilifies the free press
The watchdogs of goverment
No one should rest
The alarm is sounding
The danger is growing
It is no longer about party
Or economics
Associated Press
CNN International
Reuters World News
And the Network News
Chicago Tribune
Dallas Morning News
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Their threat is aimed at you
Dont let Bannon
Or POTUS staff
Pawn it off
As another gaff
They are not
Going after "fake news'
They used propaganda
To win with their ruse
Take them seriously
Take them to task
Be the watchdog
Preserve the free press
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Every Sociopath's Dream" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37)
Orange Mitch Parker
Snowed rustbelt voters
With the shallow line
"Make America Great Again"
California
Muscle man
Took over his show
Low ratings at hand
But so too
In real life
The orange bastard
Lives a double life
What is he hiding
IRS has said
Over and over
Nothing to stop him
Sells himself
As the only solution
Threatens even allies
Who dare to question him
Desperately wants
Everyone to love him
Braggs on social media
While painting the world dim
What an illusion
What a con
Cattrall will expose you
For the fraud you are
The sociopath
The bombastic clown
Has risen up
But will fall down
Stratosphere ego
It's China's fault
Intel and media
Everyone else
Muslims and Mexicans
Are to blame
Not your demagoguery
You have no shame
All the limos
Gilded gold chairs
New York Penthouses
Won't change who you are
Its all a charade
Self intitled parade
Comander and sociopath
On the world stage
Problem is
You forgot one thing
You're now in a fishbowl
You cannot escape
We know you are dirty
It's a matter of time
Before you are exposed
When you step out of line
The elephant uses you
As their distraction
To protect deregulation
Fleece America the plan
You wont win
We are on to you
You will get caught
Your sham will end
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Heavy Swill From Miller, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Axel Foley dropped you hard
In the country club
Slammed on the banquit table
In front of your boss
No facts
Logic horrible
Massive voter fraud
You are just as deplorable
Here's the problem
Miller beer
You're delusionally drunk
Selling nothing but fear
It didn't happen
You have no evidence
Yet you still sell it
Like the president
It is dangerous
A security risk
To perpetuate it
Errodes public trust
It is nothing more
But to scare your base
Into supporting you
Without evidence
Reapeated lies
Will give rise
To a fascist state
All should dispise
Less filling
Tastes great
Miller's swill
Is nothing but fake
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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It's Elementary, By Brian37
The selfish part of me
Wants you to fight
Screaming inside
DON'T DONT DON'T LET GO
My realistic side knows
It is your final hour
I know you are tired
Of that fight
And still
With a brave smile
Through the cloud of morphine
Killing the pain of the infection
I know although
I don't want to face it
I know I know
It is time for you to let go
It's elementary
The credits roll
At the end of
Every movie
And what a movie
You have had
30 years of teaching
Ohio Sate grad
And what a life
You've provided me
Exposed me to the world
Always take care of me
It's elementary
Bodies wear out
We fight as long as we can
But it ends just the same
You've made and impact
To countless many
Lots of love
You gave me pleanty
No no no
I don't want to see you go
I am frightened
But wont tell you so
I do understand
It's your last stand
I would be selfish
To demand
To demand
You live in pain
You've done your best
I do understand
The birthday cakes
You baked for me
In all their shapes
From ducks to ships
And all the trips
From France to Frisco
From New York
To Chicago
But most importantly
My education
Food on the table
A roof over my head
I know I know
It comes to an end
The selfish side
SCREAMS IN MY HEAD
DON'T GO DON'T GO
I WANT MORE TIME
To do all the things
We did before
Brunch at Sunny Side
Tripes to the dollar store
Inside jokes
When we pass the golf course
My rational side
I don't want to face
It's too much for you now
To keep up that pace
Even now
In your final hour
You worry about me
And what will be after
I have to let go
So you don't suffer
But remember always
I love you mother.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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You Can't Have My Thumb, By Brian37
I know playfully cheat
When we thumb wrestely
Use both hands to bend it
But that damned rattle
In your breath
Knowing you'll
Be at final rest
Having to leave you
Alone at night
Afraid our last moments
Will end that way
Listen you
I don't know what to do
The airline wont
Let you
Won't let you
Take my thumb
It wont fit in overhead
I need it in any case
Go away death rattle
You are robbing me
Of more time
I know I cant stop you
Insidious rattle
Deny us more battle
You cant take my thumb mom
I try to comfort you
Listen you
I know you hear me
As I try to move
In my chair next to your bed
You grip my thumb tighter
In face of that damned rattle
You're letting me know
In your final hour
I playfully respond
To bring you any calm comfort
They wont let you take
My thumb on the airline
I hate you rattle
I dispise your
I would give mom my thumb
For a little more time
You can't have my thumb
But don't worry mom
You'll always be with me
As long as I'm live
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You Can't Have My Thumb, By Brian37
I know playfully cheat
When we thumb wrestely
Use both hands to bend it
But that damned rattle
In your breath
Knowing you'll
Be at final rest
Having to leave you
Alone at night
Afraid our last moments
Will end that way
Listen you
I don't know what to do
The airline wont
Let you
Won't let you
Take my thumb
It wont fit in overhead
I need it in any case
Go away death rattle
You are robbing me
Of more time
I know I cant stop you
Insidious rattle
Deny us more battle
You cant take my thumb mom
I try to comfort you
Listen you
I know you hear me
As I try to move
In my chair next to your bed
You grip my thumb tighter
In face of that damned rattle
You're letting me know
In your final hour
I playfully respond
To bring you any calm comfort
They wont let you take
My thumb on the airline
I hate you rattle
I dispise your
I would give mom my thumb
For a little more time
You can't have my thumb
But don't worry mom
You'll always be with me
As long as I'm alive
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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You Can't Have My Thumb, By Brian37
I know you
Playfully cheat
When we thumb wrestle
Use both hands to bend it
But that damned rattle
In your breath
Knowing you'll
Be at final rest
Having to leave you
Alone at night
Afraid our last moments
Will end that way
Listen you
I don't know what to do
The airline wont
Let you
Won't let you
Take my thumb
It wont fit in overhead
I need it in any case
Go away death rattle
You are robbing me
Of more time
I know I cant stop you
Insidious rattle
Deny us more battle
You cant take my thumb mom
I try to comfort you
Listen you
I know you hear me
As I try to move
In my chair next to your bed
You grip my thumb tighter
In face of that damned rattle
You're letting me know
In your final hour
I playfully respond
To bring you any calm comfort
They wont let you take
My thumb on the airline
I hate you rattle
I dispise your rise
I would give mom my thumb
For a little more time
You can't have my thumb
But don't worry mom
You'll always be with me
As long as I'm alive
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Ding, Ding, Ding By Brian37
You called me
To wake me up
For my favorite
Show
10:30 at night
I was not awake
My phone alarm
Volume far too weak
You you take the tme
As you always do
To remind me
Of all the things I do
But what will I do
Now without you
To call me up
I want you to
That phone wont ring
Anymore
To hear your voice
I hear that smile more
You're still here
You have not gone
You're still here
Please call me again
Again again
Please call me again
I refuse to beleive
It's come to an end
Ding ding ding
You left a message
In a happy voice
I want more of
DAMN FUCKING TIME
You have no right
To leave her in pain
Or take her from me
I want more calls
Ding, ding, ding
On my voice mail
To remind me
That you're ok
You are happy
DAMN YOU TIME
For taking mom from me
You call me
Saying "ding ding ding
Wake up Brian"
I desperately want to hear that again.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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@EDIT, damned format screws up when I copy and paste from another website.
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Due to my emotional state since my mom's diagnosis and death, my poems about her in this thread were posted at the time as thearapy. All poems in this thread are to still fall under the original disclaimer in the first post of this thread. The following poem was originaly posted at atheistforums.org/thread-47858-page-9-html thread title "My mom is dying, going to need an ear" post #83 posted 3/3/2017........ Poem title "Don't Say Goodbye"..
Don't Say Goodbye, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
It started one night
When I left
Just to be silly
To get a smile
Everyone says bye
But it happened on night
Instead I responded
"bicentennial"
It became a game
Between me and my mom
To come up with "bi" sounding words
To each we'd respond
The game was
Not to repeat
Each other's favorites
As we parted each night
She'd respond
To my "bicentennial"
With "biplane"
And it went on and on
I'd say "bison", but would be in trouble
If I took her two favorites
"Buy one get one free"
Or "bicarbonate of soda"
But we would run out
Eventually
Knowing I'd have
To eventually leave
She'd end it with
"Buy dog food and cat food"
Knowing I'd make stops
On my way home
Feeling her cold skin
At the funeral home
The vile stiffness
It won't happen again
It was as if
I could wake her up
Just in a sleep
The way they prepped her
I can only find comfort
She's no longer in pain
But I hate that we will never
Play that game again
Bicentennial, biplane, bison
Biped, bicarbonate of soda
Biography, buy one get one free
I love you mom, I'll see you in the morning.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Power Out, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
How mighty we think we are
Then nature comes along
If we think we can tame this planet
Then we are sadly wrong
Temporary fixes sure
We can survive the cold
Many survive hurricanes
Tornados and earthquakes too
But this planet
Our only home
Is our master
We not it
No matter
How cleaver we are
We always relent
In the end
It bites back
When we over reach
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Power Out, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
How mighty we think we are
Then nature comes along
If we think we can tame this planet
Then we are sadly wrong
Temporary fixes sure
We can survive the cold
Many survive hurricanes
Tornados and earthquakes too
But this planet
Our only home
Is our master
We not it
No matter
How cleaver we are
We always relent
In the end
It bites back
When we over reach
Resources
We stupidly think infinite
I type this poem
As you read
On the laptop battery
Is what you see
But what it does not matter
That someone prior
Figured out
How to give me power
Yes
In a temporary sense
It is nice
I can still type this
But in the grand scope
It is a futile effort
For even these words
Will not last forever
In the moment
Most humans fret
About losing their food
A flood crushing their homes
Yes I am lucky
It just knocked out power
At best I loose my food
If it takes too many hours
But the earth is violent
So too the universe
Many a meteor
Has in the past struck us
My power is out
As I type this poem
But so what
It will be back on
Something will get me
Maybe not this storm
Death gets everyone
No matter our preperations.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Model T, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
You dress up
An act of torture
With fratility symbols
And fluffy bunnies
You call it a "sacrifice"
But exactly what
In this story
Was lost forever
Not to mention
The absurdity
Nobody survives
What that myth implies
All blood is lost
All organs die
The brain stem dead
Rigor mortis sets in
Now above looking down
So the believer claims
How is that a sacrifice
If you do it to gain fame?
On the beaches
Of Normandy
Many a soldier
Never came back
Never started
A new religion
Never went in
To get attention
Charlotte far better
A moral story
Saved the pig
Without the violence
And who asked you
To forgive for me
That is my choice
My autonomy
My mother
Sacrificed for me
Did so without
Seeking fame or glory
Did so without
Blood and gore
Did so without
Expecting more
That does not read
Like a selfless act
More like emotional blackmail
A publicity stunt
Oh the follower
Sees it as beutiful
But at the end of the book
You see what is true
"Love me or else"
Still remains
A threat bribe scam
To keep you in line
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Ventriloquist Doll, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Most have had
Their parents hands
Up their back
To young to critically think.
Conformation bias
Set up by contitions
They swallow tall tales
Handed to them by their parents
If born in Tibet
Tis a safe bet
A Buddhist
You'd most likely be
From Biloxi to Baltimore
Montana to Miami
Far more likely
A sect of Christianity
Just as with
Antiquity
Greek or Roman
Apollo or Zues you'd believe
If you lived under Tut
You'd look up above
Thinking the sun god Ra
Was moving that orange ball
It is all the same
In our species history
Most don't want to face
They are a ventriloquist's doll
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It may be useful to abide by the concept "humans are born equal" for the sake of a stable society -- i.e., treating all individuals in theory as equal, when in fact they are not.
There are no theists on operating tables.
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Bloody Reservations, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
In a 4 year span
Terror was at hand
60 Osange dead
Poisoned, shot and bombed
Greedy William Hale
Convinced his nephew
To marry
A Native named Mollie
Then in short order
Her mother Lizzie
Sister Ann and
Cousin Henry gone
Whites often did back then
Look the other way
The savage native's success
The headrights not desrved
But now it wont be
Just about history
Or just about Natives
We have t stop this greed
Our nations parks
Or minorities rights
Global polition
No end in site
We had no right
To look away
We stole the contenent
And their resources too
Jackson no hero
Hale a fraud
Big oil old technology
We need to get off of
Oh Oklahoma
Texas and Russia too
The planet is our home
Not a a corporate tool
(end)
This poem was inspired by the horrible events in Osange Oklahoma, where a gang plotted to murder and steal oil rights from rich Native American families between 1921-1925. You can google search or wiki "Osange Indian Murders" to get the full history.
I saw a story this morning on CBS Sunday Morning about this horrible time.
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Never Real Advocates, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
There was a time
When they were sane
But in the mid 70s
They became a corporate lobby
I see the delusion
In the member's heads
The same blind worship
I see in theism
Wayne their Pope
The fear mongering dope
The heat sheild
Selling a fallacious slippery slope
Making their followers
Wanna be street lawyers
Wanna be heros
With no badge or military rank
Oh such patriots
Scream like Isis
If you blaspheme their product
Pointing out their dangers
The morgues fill up
The CEOs get rich
One industry's lobby
Bankrupt morality
Fear mongering marketing
A protection racket
The sane in America
Are tired of it
Regulations
Are not all out bans
Nobody sane
Is suggesting that
They sell you entitlement
Like a spoiled brat
All to protect
Our flooded market
The last time
The right even cared
Was when a delusional man
Tried to impress Jody Foster
The morgues fill up
Year after year
Suicide, accidental
Domestic abuser, to the mentally ill
It's not just urban
It is expanding well
I hear these stories
Out in the middle of nowhere
It is an epidemic
We can fix
Once we ditch
Those fake advocates
You once were
A safety org
But now you are just
A lobby borg
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Pre Existing Condition, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
We point at
Celeberty Despot
Impetuous Tweets
And nepotist flock
We point at
Comey, Bannon, Conway
We point at
McConnal and Speaker Ryan
We know
They are all lying
But the truth is
It's been long in the making
It all started
With Reagan
His union busting
Age of deregulation
The balance of power
Makes it obvious
For 36 years
GOP gerrymandering
Of the three branches
In that time
The balance of power
Has been lopsided
This push to the right
Didn't happen overnight
We gave up
When airline unions died
No more can liberals afford
Infighting or sit ellections out
We have to win swing states
As well as expanding our map
We cannot let them lie
With more cold war slurs
We are not anti private sector
For wanting better wages for workers.
They've excelled
By dividing the regions
Urban, suburban, rural
Time to shout NO MORE
Pink knit hats
Along with scientists
Poor and middle class
We must unit against
Greed based assault
Is all they are about
Sucking the money up
Only to the top
This pre existing condition
Is the toxic GOP
"Die quickly" their plan
Will not make us healthy
Liberals are not commies
For valuing anti monopoly
For pointing out injustice
Or pay inequality
We gave up long ago
That was our mistake
We should have fought Reagan
For what he set in motion
No more no more no more
Unite unite unite
We didnt start this
But it is way past time we fight
Take every moment you can
Raise your voice throughout the land
Take pen to paper, feet to street
Raise your voice on social media
We know he has no mandate
He lies every day
We can defeat the demagogue
Give him the shortest stay
Pre existing condition
The GOP obstruction
It is way past time
To stop what Reagan started
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Moral? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
There is strife
On our Daily Planet
Clark Kent wont relent
Surely he will save it
You better change
Superman demands
Of Lex Luther
But does this instead
You didn't change
You didn't obey
Of your firstborn followers
I'll kill all your males
Metropolis full
Of Clark Kent deniers
Superman floods the city
Busts the hydro electric dam
Floods the city
Kills all of them
Besides the cub reporters
Loyal to him
Another day
Clark walks past an ally
Sees a girl being raped
Watches her throat slit
With folded arms
Superman does nothing
Doesn't rush
To the phone booth
Superman
Flew over Auschwitz
6 million slaughtered
Clark does nothing
If such was
The plot of his series
Would you find that moral
Pay good money to see it?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Bubbles, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
We'd all like to think
All 7 billon of us
Got it right
Where others did not
Tis arrogance
On everyone's part
We start out small
Then burst no matter what
Our bubbles of claims
Mix and match
Some get along
Some fight to the death
It ends the same
Time does not care
Who ends on top
Our ego's won't spare
Quantum mechanics
Convey's "all this"
Not of the cause
Of a super cognition
But an uncaused pot
Full of boiling water
Random and uncaring
That cares not of our strife
I am sick
Of my fellow humans
Thinking that
We are so different
"All this" is not magic
We are not puppets
But temporary bubbles
Time cares nothing about
If we are
To extend our ride
Facts and logic
All should take pride.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Fatalistic Afterlife, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
The cruel twist
Of evolution
Produces false perceptions
Driving us to create gap answers
As to why
Good and bad happen
Punishment vs reward
In comic book form
It creates social order
It creates group safty
But at the expense
Of thinking rationally
The fictional forever
Is our species ignorance
To absurdly think
We are the center of all this
This a fatalistic view
That we cant find meaning
If we don't manufacture
A utopia superstition
You go to a movie
Knowing in credits it ends
That does not stop you
From seeing another again
You go to a concert
Classical, metal, pop or rap
There is a last song
You know it wont last
You read a novel
Thriller, horror, or biography
It has a last page
Is that your enemy?
You get a pet dog
Or maybe a pet cat
They won't outlive you
And you accept that
You don't assign
An afterlife
To a tree
Or a cockroach
Is that the approach
We should take
To live in fear
Because this is it?
I don't think so
I think we can
As a species
Enjoy the finite time we have.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Pivot, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter0
Humans talk
Of choices
And "free will"
Vs determinism
Most muddle through life
Call it a script
It goes this way
And that is it
Then there is
Harsh reality
Bumps in the road
The unexpected
It does you no good
Too buff up
Get that six pack
Then cross a road
Someone texting
Doesn't see you
You bounce of their hood
Before you have kids
It does you no good
To boast and brag
About all your gains
Or what you have
It does you no good
To raise a weapon
It is a temporary fix
In the end
There is an end
There always is
Friend and foe
Will not escape this
Piviot we must
Away from war
Away from pollution
And killing more
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Pivot, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter0
Humans talk
Of choices
And "free will"
Vs determinism
Most muddle through life
Call it a script
It goes this way
And that is it
Then there is
Harsh reality
Bumps in the road
The unexpected
It does you no good
Too buff up
Get that six pack
Then cross a road
Someone texting
Doesn't see you
You bounce of their hood
Before you have kids
It does you no good
To boast and brag
About all your gains
Or what you have
It does you no good
To raise a weapon
It is a temporary fix
In the end
There is an end
There always is
Friend and foe
Will not escape this
Pivot we must
Away from war
Away from pollution
And killing more
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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To Fletcher, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
On the other coast
We will never meet
The world is at a loss
Every artist taken out
On a train
Along with a vet
Stood up for the innocent
Stood up to hate
You are not silenced
It wont be your fate
Your fellow poets
Will continue your place
Knives wont win
Our humanity kin
Bombs or riffles
The artists wont give in
We need more Fletcher
More words on paper
We need more poets
Musicians and painters
You are the constructive
Stood up to the distructive
May your words live forever
For humanity to learn from
Manchester's killer
Birth Of a Nation
We cannot let them
Silence the artist
Shouts of "White Power"
"Kill the infidel"
We will not give in
To those dark hours
I never met you
Yet all poets care
To put pen to paper
To kill the demon's fire
Those women mourn
So would too
If still alive
Mia Angelou
We will be
Your eternal flame
Your fellow poets
Will keep you alive
To those who knew him
Personally
Share his words
For all to see
The world too divided
America too
The poet's humanity
Always shines through
A taxi driver
In Manchester
Migrated from Pakistan
Showed compassion
In the chaos
Everyone fleeing
He drove 24 home
Charging them nothing
You and he
Are what we can be
When we see the good
In our species
Portland and Manchester
Fletcher reflects
Poets beat violence
Which never wins
This is our canvas
We don't need weapons
Of swords and pens
Fletcher wins
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Broken Glass, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Broken glass
Ghosts of the past
One politician
Repeating the cast
Shattering errosion
It's an explosion
The vilification
Sell of hyper nationalism
Broken glass
In Kentucy
News outlet
Under assault
Broken glass
In the open west
A warning to all
The press we must defend
It's beyond party
Beyond economics
Broken glass
Echo's of the past
Leni and Joseph
Set the stage
For that night
Of broken glass
This is how
It always starts
A charasmatic madman
Selling populist thoughts
Walter and Edward
Would be horrified
At the broken glass
At Kentucky's news outlet
This is is a threat
To the open west
The toxic rhetoric
Assault on journalists
Broken glass
We've seen it before
The rise of fascism
No one should ignore
Don't take it for granted
That it will remain isolated
Not when 45
Keeps repeating his lies
Boston Globe, KTLA
Miami Herald , WUSA
Brunswick Beacon
Its a warning to heed
Dallas News
This includes you
Denver Post
It's in assault on you
One politician
And his rhetoric
Sets up the broken glass
Echos of the past
Don't let this happen
Don't let him win
Protect the watchdog
Of the free press
(end)
In light of Trump's vlie comment basically implying it is ok to assault reporters, and now the following.
He has vilified the press for a year, this is no game, we cannot as a free society put up with one politician destroying the concept of our watchdog press.
http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/counties/fayette-county/article153236479.html"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Siri Covfefe Translator, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Spicer must be
Throwing fits
After your tweets
Having to step to the podium
Not enough Amodium
No world of Tums
Can explain your ineptness
Or the damage you've done
Some have dyslexia
Some have attention dissorder
But you have a staff
Your mistake stood for 6 hours
But this says it all
Your impetuous nature
Conduct yourself
Like Jerry Springer
It's not just your Tweets
That make no sense
Congratulating assault on reporters
Has absolutely no defense
As much as I value
Technology
I feel sorry
For your Siri
It must crash
When ever you use it
Just like your office
You clearly abuse it
Spicer will
Step out again
Your frustrated "Siri"
Can't translate "covfefe"
Some might call
This petty
But you have a staff
The office should be ready
It speaks to
Everything you do
Focus on social media
Instead of global issues
Bombing in Afghanistan
Here at home
"Die quickly"
Your health care plan
I almost feel sorry
For Siri Spicer
Gibberish translation
The president is a disaster
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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NYC Tin Nasty, By Brian37 (AKA Brian37 on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Your phytocrhome
Circadian Tweets
You have no petals
You're a mere weed
Condemning Kathy
Whom apologized
Yet joked about violence
On political rivals
Your home city
Dispises you
Tin foil politics
Nasty and crude
Must be embarassing
With a staff
To still make a typo
Shown up by a child
Nyctinasty
She got right
You Tweet "Yuge" and "bigly"
In the middle of the night
How did you
Manage to win
Through shallow rhetoric
Hateful and mean
Your phytocrome
Circadian Tweets
You have no petals
You're a mere weed
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Leptos" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
Walking the Planck
Netrenos to thank
Bose the scientist
Quarks strong rubber band
Sub atomic
Not a si fi comic
Quantum mechanics
Trumps old holy writings
It seems querky
Quarks get jumpy
Up, Down, Strange and charmed
Top and bottom
The photon
Particle and wave
Double slit
Experiment
All that
Cosmic dust
Exploding star
Made all of us
All of this
Universe
t=10 to the -45
Begining of time
Leptos
A humble notion
The big bang
Set all in motion
Max the father
Of quantum mechanics
More should become
Science fanatics.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Iphigenia, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Agamemnon
Angered a Goddess
Killed
A sacred deer
We're to appease her
I'd sacrafice my daughter
To save the Greek people
Who'd end up in victory
Hellas freedom
Through my death
A story told
Long before Jesus
Clytemnestra
She pledges to her mother
By her sacrfice
She'll save all others
The King of Sparta
Sacrificed his daughter
To appease Artemis
To free the stranded fleet
No armada
Could leave the port
The Princess death
Would save the fleet
If without
No battle with Troy
The arch enemy
Hellas will destroy
The Greek word
"mayrtr" in antiquity
Merely ment witness
In a courtroom context
Strange how
The word has changed
And how it got stolen
And given new meaning
Sorry Jesus
She's older than you
She sacraficed her life
To save others too.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Please Kill Yourself God, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Before critics scream
"You're being mean"
This is metaphore
And nothing more
God/s do not exist
So humans cannot insist
To have unlimited power
That others can't resist
No such thing exist
It is merely our ignorance
Pining for a forever
Where we are always in favor
Please kill yourself God
In all your evil forms
It is only intelect
That challenges social norms
You spent our species history
Most of it in misery
Nomadic and ignorant
Still fighting even today
Even with technology
All your different camps
Dream up ways to kill each other
To sell tribal dominance
I am glad you are not real
By any name they give
I am horrified still
By the way my species kills
In your name
For selfish fame
When it really is
All in my species head
A Beattle named John
Turned it into a song
Imagin no religion
He put into a song
I am more direct
Harsher words to affect
Not for hate of my species
But the death of bad logic
Please kill yourself God
Or Allah or Yawheh
Just like the mythology
Let reason pave the way
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Please Kill Yourself God, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Before critics scream
"You're being mean"
This is metaphore
And nothing more
God/s do not exist
So humans cannot insist
To have unlimited power
That others can't resist
No such thing exist
It is merely our ignorance
Pining for a forever
Where we are always in favor
Please kill yourself God
In all your evil forms
It is only intelect
That challenges social norms
You spent our species history
Most of it in misery
Nomadic and ignorant
Still fighting even today
Even with technology
All your different camps
Dream up ways to kill each other
To sell tribal dominance
I am glad you are not real
By any name they give
I am horrified still
By the way my species kills
In your name
For selfish fame
When it really is
All in my species head
A Beatle named John
Turned it into a song
"Imagine no religion"
He put into a song
I am more direct
Harsher words to affect
Not for hate of my species
But the death of bad logic
Please kill yourself God
Or Allah or Yawheh
Accept it's mythology
Let reason pave the way
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Melliflous, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Melliflous
You are not
Every time
You Tweet your rot
Melliflous
As much as a hyena
Hiding behind Spicer
And countless lawyers
Melliflous
Like a fawcet dripping
Un- syncipated
Thoughtless and irritating
Melliflous
As the neighbor
In the apartment above
Pounding the floor at 2am
Melliflous
When you fly abroad
And come back
Having pissed our allies off
Melliflous
Is the narcissist
Begging for praise
Every day
Mellifluous
Beauty exists
Only in your mirror
Only in your head
Dulcet, mellow
Covfefe will never be
Euphonious
Your impeachment would be
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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7th Inning Death, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Take me out
To the blood game
Take me out
To be shot
Buy them some
Big clips and cracker jack
They don't care
If anyone comes back
It's root root root
For the free for all
If more don't die
Its a shame
"Motive"
The media game
Political, religious
Workplace grudge
Mentally ill all the same
It's way past time
That this pass time
Of GOP and one blood lobby
Get forfitted for some sanity
My 1984
Highschool yearbook
Has a year in news
And one picture included
Was the McDondald's
Massacare
And they've increased
In all the years after
Take me out
To the blood game
Take me out
To be shot
Everyone says
The want it to end
But only one party
Really wants that
It's one two
Three clips you're out
At the old
Ball game
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Irascible, Brian37 (AKA Brian James Ratioanal Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
It must be exaspirating
When he keeps masturbating
Shouting in anger
Or bragging, pontificating
For the people
Suporting him
Telling him
To shut his mouth
Once praised Comey
Now he calls him phoney
Special prosecutor Mueller
Now the one under fire
Having served under 5
We dare him to take a knife
His knife forked tounge
And slander Mueller too
Irascible, impetuous
Unpredictable, contemptuous
Bombasitic, incoherent
Childish and petulant
Marmalade martyr
In his ivory tower
Think's his threads are whack
But really has none on his back
Irascible childish brat
In his chair he sat
Fuming at the dinner
Because Obama was a winner
Irascible, waspish
Dyspeptic,
Easily riled
Deserves a great lambaste
You need a dunce cap
Should be put in the corner
"See and say the jackass says"
Daddy put in your lap
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Otto Pilot, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rationa Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Oh the hypocrisy
For him to be suddenly
Concerned for the welfare
Of a brutalized citizen
Memory span of a pea
His supporters refused to see
When he expressed admiration
Of Kim's swift action, during his run
Much the same they are
Despise dissent, demand loyalty
Attack any media
That dissagrees with them
It's hanging on by a thread
Constitution still in tact
Despite unpredictable behavior
We have defend the facts
Self control he lacks
Any question he attacks
Typical bully behavior
Praise is all he savors
If he really cared
About western pluralism
About human rights
His campaign wouldn't look as it did
"pretty smart cookie"
Yes and you are too
At intimidation and vilification
Of those who dissagree with you
But smart you are not
In the context of diplomacy
Your wrecking ball politics
Distroy's global diplmacy
If you cared about Otto
Or even the destroyer dead
If you cared about oppression
Your campaign didn't show it
It was all about fear
All about hate
All about you
And how you're uber great
I doubt you see your shaddow
When you look in the mirror
A political vampire you are
Oportunist of self desire
How dare you speak of unity
After every thing you've said
How dare you speak about Otto
After scapegoating entire groups
Otto went through hell
Which you never will
Daddy handed you wealth
The worst maybe a hang nail
Then you remain silent
As a white guy took a truck
Mowed over several people
On a sidewalk next to a Mosque
Hypocritically
Condemn the baseball shooting
Then ignore dems did as well
But refuse to listen to them
You will never suffer
Like the Japanese reporters
Decapitated by ISIS
The worst would be bad polls
You are no diplomat
You're just being baby sat
Untill your impeachment
Or getting voted out
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Lugenpresse, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
What's the situation
The elephant in the room
Attacking cable news
Has left for Warsaw Poland
Your morning coffee
Attacked by Covfefe
Vilify the co host
Who rightfully stands up to thee
Lugenpresse
He is desperate
Incompetent cabinet
Under investigation
Now in Poland
Where ghettos scarred
By the inhumanity
Of a political fraud
Now asking Europe
To stand up to Kim
Yet acts like a despot
Foaming madman
Watchdogs beware
He's vilified you for years
Lugenpresse he calls you
With scapegoating fear
He's acid rain
Political polution
Western press
His "final solution"
Oh the vile
Hypocrisy
For him to speak
In that city
This is the talk
That over time
Destroys open societies
And leads to bad things
Stand up
Be brave
Reporters, journalists
Don't let him get away
With the toxic slur
Lugenpresse
We've seen that script
And what can occur
This how
It begins
Attack the press
Vilify them
Errode the trust,
Consolidate power
The strongest watchdog
Will be gone forever
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Acuity Of A Brunswick Ball, (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on FB)
7 frames in
And what have you done
Spent a month on the links
But not much more
The inflate the tubes
In the gutter
For you are a newbie
Ryan excused you
You think you're a strike
A 300 game
But you are not even
In the right lane
Is that hair
From your comb over
Getting in your eyes
Hurting your ego?
You're not wearing
The right shoes
You dont use flip flops
Or the words you choose
I wouldn't want you
On my team
You'd drop the ball
On my feet
You're so sharp
Thinking all it takes
Is to be a drunk asshole
Disturbing all the lanes
But I think
I know why
Your tiny hands
Cant fit in the holes
Now you play duck pin
And avoid the press
Huckabee stands in
Making excuses
Where is Spicer?
Is he tired of you?
Cant fit all the lawyers
On the overhead score card?
7 frames in
More golf than work
And all those tweets
Make you look like a jerk
You use your loud
Bazooka mouth
But it takes more finesse
To knock the pins down
That's just your breath
And you need a mint
Not that you made one
Release your taxes
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Acuity Of A Brunswick Ball, (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on FB)
7 frames in
And what have you done
Spent a month on the links
But not much more
They inflate the tubes
In the gutter
For you are a newbie
Ryan excused you
You think you're a strike
A 300 game
But you are not even
In the right lane
Is that hair
From your comb over
Getting in your eyes
Hurting your ego?
You're not wearing
The right shoes
You dont use flip flops
Or the words you choose
I wouldn't want you
On my team
You'd drop the ball
On my feet
You're so sharp
Thinking all it takes
Is to be a drunk asshole
Disturbing all the lanes
But I think
I know why
Your tiny hands
Cant fit in the holes
Now you play duck pin
And avoid the press
Huckabee stands in
Making excuses
Where is Spicer?
Is he tired of you?
Cant fit all the lawyers
On the overhead score card?
7 frames in
More golf than work
And all those tweets
Make you look like a jerk
You use your loud
Bazooka mouth
But it takes more finesse
To knock the pins down
That's just your breath
And you need a mint
Not that you made one
Release your taxes
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Walking Small, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
While everyone wants
To feel safe in their dwellings
To turn the mundane
Into Dirty Harry
Buford was not
Superman
Just a guy
Doing his job
Just like Serpico
Played by Pachino
Far too much
We treat our gods
But unlike gods
They were flesh
Real and human
Unlike our gods
Buford found
Creative ways
To bust law breakers
Consiasting of
Enforcing antiquated laws
That remained on the books
Such as treating an automobile
As as horse needing a hitch
This is what
Humans want
In the hero
They call a "god"?
We want to stone
Adulterers
We want to maul kids
With she bears?
Your god is small
Not walking tall
If all it does
Is bark orders
Arbitrary
Based on antiquity
Your automobile
Is not a steed
I am all for
Busting cooruption
But it seems to me
Deities revel in it
Humans are flesh
Gods are fiction
When we need help
Only one shows up
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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If You Would Only, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
"If you would only",
Is the same line
Used by the majority
Of the religious worldwide
"You didn't pick
The right sect
Follow the right holy person
Or interpret it correct"
But funny that
Look at ants
Cooperate fine
Without worshiping that
Funny how
Elephants mourn
Protect their young
Without folklore
If I'd only
Buy those things
Without scrutiny
Without question?
Isn't that really
What causes our problems?
Buy the car
Without an inspection?
"If you'd only
Do it my way"
Is not an argument
Based on reason
We know far more
That was then
Today's data
Got us to the moon
It is never too soon
Never too late
To give up on old claims
Proven to be out of date
Scrutiny
Neutrual objectivity
Observation
Exceedingly likely
Likely to pave
Our future with facts
It's time to leave
Myths in the past
"If only you'd be
Intelectually brave
Willing to be wrong
Not be a slave
Not be a slave
To fallacious appeals
Those of traditions
Of things not proven
If only you'd see
The world is less frightening
When we see it through nature
And not superstition
Appeals to emotion
Are not an argument
You don't have to buy
The religion of your parents
In poems prior
I have stated before
There is lots of wonder
And good in the world
But there is no magic
To any of it
To human behaviors
Be they good or bad
No super hero
To punish you
With an earthquake or tornado
Nor cancer too
I've heard it
From every label
"If only you'd pick
You'd be able"
My response
In every instance
Regardless of
The club they argue
"Maybe you
Need to consider
It's all made up
By fallible humans"
It's not frightening
To me in the least
To skip the forever
Accept the ride ends
What matters is now
Not a fantasy future
There has never been
A utopia forever
I do find comfort
In the love of friends
In support of family
And beautiful sunsets
None of that
Requires a god of the gaps
Nor reincarnation
To accept facts
I find joy
in silly jokes
Spending time with family
And friendly folks
In gentle surf
Caressing the beach
In knowing the moon
The tides do reach
In the bright contrast
Of the Monarch butterfly
Or the hump back whale
Breaching water to the sky
I cannot nor will not
Allow my brain
To think all this
Is due to a magic man
If you'd only
Think of it naturally
You could see
Nature's vitality
Even with
Disaster and death
There is no need
To explain it with myth
We are a blip
And that's ok
It won't hurt humanity
To think that way
"If only you'd
Do it my way"
Is a dangerous distraction
Ignoring we're not at all different.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Office Party, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)
An antique clock
With white face
Black bold numbers
The second hand ticks
A leather couch
And sitting chair
Hanging above
A landscape painting
Ideal
One might think
Executive office
With fine wood desk
This picture
Was taken in
45 when
The Nazis were done in
Deputy Mayor
Of Leizpig
His wife and daugheter
Feared capture
Just like in Japan
When the allies invaded
Many citizens
Hurled themselves off cliffs
Just like Goebbles did to his kids
Convinced them
To commit suicide
To avoid capture
So the Mayor
His wife and his daughter
To avoid capture
Ended it all with cyanide
And what was the point
When it all started
Decades ago
When Germans got desperate
This horrible notion
Of world domination
A master race
Humanity's discrace
I look at that picture
Of the draped bodies
Covering the furniture
As if on vacation
But their suicides
Were of desperation
Caused by one man
Who sold them nationalism
Sold them hate
Sold them the utopia
That they were
The master race
Ernst Kurt Lisso
At the desk
Hunched over
At his death
His wife Renate
Drapped in death
In the sitting chair
Because they bought hate
His daughter Ragina
Sloutched on the couch
Her legs crossed
As if on vacation
It could be
A game of Clue
The butler did it
A black and white photo?
Unfortunatly
It was very real
The horror started
Years before
When a man
With hyphen mustach
Promised Germany
Forever they'd last
One selfish man
Murdered 6 million Jews
50 million worldwide
On all sides
Suicides played over
That dark April month
And would repeat months later
In the rising sun
His followers too
Swallowed his bile
Only to end up
In an office pile
(end)
The poem above is based on a picture taken at a Mayor's office who was loyal to Hitler shortly before the fall of Berlin. And just like Japan when they knew defeat was comming, many committed suicide thinking that tourture and rape and public exicution would face them. Don't get me wrong, the family I just wrote about was just as evil as Hitler. The point was more about long term, and how society can get sucked into following bad people.
You'll have to scroll down to see the picture but here is the link. Look for the black and white office picture with the guy slumpped on his desk.
https://dirkdeklein.net/2016/11/02/the-children-of-wwii/
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Paralyzed, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
What do you do
While sitting at your computer
And your favorite companion
Jumps on you?
Your best friend
Jumps in your lap
Rubs against you
For attention
While you post
Trying to make a point
This furry distraction
Wont relent
Kneeds with it's paws
Wriggles for position
Slaps his tail on the keyboard
While you are typing
But after a while
He settles down
But even that
Creates a problem
Sometimes you have to
Go to the bathroom
Or answer the phone
Or the knock on the door
And there he is
In your lap
You don't want to disturb him
From his nap
He's got his head
Burried in my arm
Shielding his eyes
Like a sleeping mask
Content to the core
You can move no more
Paralyzed
I love and adore
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Shadows In Concrete, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
It is disturbing to me
Watching the news today
Seems we have forgotten
The lessons of history
The lucky ones
In Hiroshima
And Nagasaki
Got vaporized instantaneously
50 million worldwide
On all sides
Were murdered
Because of one man's pride
JFK
And Reagan too
Understood
What nukes could do
I don't think that idiot
Squatting now
Understands
The fallout
We knock Kim out
It will start a ground war
And of that the Communist Party
Will not ignore
They will seek
To fill that vacuum
Then we will be left
With a far bigger problem
Their friends will join in
Ours will too
More potential
To shoot of those nukes
If you are not
Vaporized
If you manage
To survive
Radiation
Lack of commuication
Poisoned air and food
In every nation
Humanity cannot
Afford one ego
We have seen before
What that can lead to
Remember the shadows
In the concrete
For if it happens again
It wont be limited
This is no game
Our species at stake
Dont let one ego
Determine our fate
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Heyer, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
They are not now
Hiding their faces
They're now standing out
In public places
This is what
5 years of birtherism
Gets us
And "they're rapists"
Bannon and Brietbart
The coctail of hatred
45 thinks now one comment
Will stop what happened in the park
The sane knew
Long ago
What dangerous scapegoating
Could lead to
Heather the hero
Not General Lee
Not those who protect
Statues of slavery
We cannot allow
The alt right movement
To lead our nation
To a path of distruction
There is a lady
Standing tall in a harbor
Torch raised into the sky
To which we aspire
Rename the park
In her honor
45 holds
No absolute power
We put up
With him far too long
America will be better off
When he is gone
Heather will stand
Stand way far taller
Than any hate group
Or the man in office
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Oscar Sugihara, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
Yea yea yea yea
It was on their list
Both the German
And Japanese nationalist
To put nation first
Jews are the worst
They did nothing
To put them first
Shindler did
As well as Chiune
Said nation first
Oh that's not what they did
So now 45
Complains about slavery
Reminds us of Washinton
And Jefferson's ownership
As if white people
Were the same victims
That the access of evil
Germany threatend us with
No 45
It is not the same
Of what Oscar or Chuine
Defended against
White people hurt
In America
Nobody is denying it
But it is not the same
You still refuse
To accept inequality
Instead you use
Scapegoating and history
If in Germany
Still today
In their round abouts
One did view
Statues of Goebbles
Or Rommel too
How many Jews
Would be on board with you?
You are tone def
Even to rural whites
Creating division
Instead of unite
Curdish Christians
And Koptics too
Have more to bitch about
Than an asshole like you
Nobody is trying
To hide history
But to glorify slavery
Is insanity to me.
The statues must go
Oscar and Chuine
In the know
Decentents of slaves no different now.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Barcelona, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter)
It didn't take 48
Hours for Bernie
To condemn
The baseball attack
There was no hesitation
No equivocation
No promotion
No dog whistle tact
He wanted to wait
For the facts
But took no time
Condeming the Barcelona attack
What about "Nazi"
Or "KKK"
Has any redeaming value
In any way?
Of the far right ISIS
One would be right to say
Right to condemn
In every way
A car is a car
Murder is murder
Skin tone nor religion
Is an excuse for either
They use Islam
Here the bible
Justifying violence
It makes no difference
I am tired of
The horrible fallacy
It is about heritage
No it is about fascism and slavery
Moving the statues
Is not the attempt
To erase or ignore
Horrible events
We can still teach
That slavery was wrong
Just like the Nazis
Like the Hocaust Museum
What we cannot do
What we must avoid
Is to leave those monuments
In the context of glory
We have history classes
And history books
Just like we have films
Of concentration camps
There was nothing at all
Redeaming one bit
About what the South fought for
Just like the Nazis did
If you can take
A rightful stand
Against the violence of ISIS
Quoting the Koran
Then you can understand
Our KKK and Neo Nazis
Living in our homeland
Should also be strongly condemend
A car is a car
Dead is dead
In both cases
Religion was used
You can find
In American Nazis
And KKK
Quoting religious purists
White nationalism
Pandering to Germans
Is no different
Than American Purists
And you sick fucks
Take a DNA test
You will find out
You are not as pure as you think
Barcelona
And Charlottesville
A car is a car
No matter who kills
ISIS quotes the Koran
Hilter was a Christian
Slavery was bad
No way to condone it
It isn't a matter
Of banning religion
But pointing out
It is what it stems from
My empathetic left
Whom I value emensly
Should understand
They are not my target
Sure I do
See religious politics
Leads to horrible
Events as such
But it is the same book
Malala uses
That Bin Laden values
That leads to different conclusions
The same can be said
For the Trump voting Dukes
Supporting the KKK
And Nazi loons
In no way
I am linking them to
The empathetic left
But it is the same book
A car is a car
No matter where
Slavery was bad
And the Nazis were too
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Carrots And Sticks, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter.
In room 39
The money does climb
To the top
Used to keep society in line
Over there
They sell fear
"Gift Politics"
"Pay to play" here
They hate outsiders
Condem all rivals
Progaganda of nationalism
They keep their power
It's the same utopia
Of trickle down
Let the wealth do that they want
For they know what's best
Your dear leader
Will aid you in disaster
Loyalty is blind
Your orange master
That cant
Happen here
Is the refrain
Stated year after year
It has happend
In history before
When you remain silent
And wilfully ignore
One man
Long ago
Sold the same utopia
Of abundant bounty
The sense of intitlement
That your skin tone dictates
White Germans, North Koreans
Infecting the states
Wealth is right
Just listen to them
No one understands you
They are your kin
Carrots and sticks
Is how they do it
Reward blind loyalty
Vilify any dissent
The only way
That is prevented
Is by raising your voice
"Eternal vigilance".
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Scorpions, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter.
Here I am
Hitting coastal states
Science deniers
Will seal your fate
Mara Largo in Irma's path
While the working poor
And working class
Will feel it's wrath
Recover easily
Compaired to most
He's got the money
Where most of us don't
Here I am
It is no song
Just a dance
In denial too long
The orange scorpion
Is the uncertainty
Cone of corporate welfare
The swamp Mara Largo
A mattress king
Did the right thing
Allowed the victims
To sleep on his beds
What does 45 do
Instead
Avocates tax breaks
For his class
Houses flattened
Like it was the H bomb
Boats seeking out survivors
On flooded roads
Here I am
To face you with facts
45 cares nothing
Of what you lack
Mara Largo
He will protect
Workers and poor
He will neglect
He is
The cone of uncertainty
The destructive force
Of a selfish bully
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Out From Under, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs27 on twitter)
Not all prisons
Have walls
Not all maladies
Are missing limbs or broken bones.
It creeps up on you
One wrapper, one dish
One milk jug
Fails to make the trash
You keep fooling yourself
Saying it isn't that bad
Go buy cleaning supplies
Only to realize
It is more than you can handle
On top of taking care of your mother
Not wanting to bother her
Knowing she is in decline
You hide it from your friends
Worry constantly of discovery
And the worst are your pets
Not deserving the conditions you live in
The isolation cripling
Not knowing whom to trust
Constant fear of judgment
As it keeps piling up
Frig and freezer
Full of rotted meat
Refuse covers the floor
Nowhere to put your feet
Feces backs up
Into your bathtub
Your septic tank is gone
Squalor is your song
It's not a matter of class
Though harder on the poor
Whom don't have the means
To pick themselves off the floor
Anxiety and depression
Leads to this prison
One with no walls
Leads to indecision
Can after can
Food containers too
Evil invaders
Mt Everest overwhelming you.
Stigma stalks you
Everywhere you see
"Just do it" "you are able bodied,
What is wrong with you?"
There are hidden scars
Many don't want to see
But the truth of the matter
Is that there are millions just like me
Society can do better
Than to condemn those who clutter
To listen and have compassion
We are not "the other"
When I finally reached out
Those whom came to clean
Gave me great comfort
I was not the first they'd seen
Do not make it hard
On those whom end up burried
Living in a prison with no walls
Or the burdons that they carry
Believe me when I say
No one wants to live this way
So listen without judgment
So help can save the day
I've lived in a landfill
If you still do
I know the desperation
But there is help for you
I know the feeling of shame
The embarrassment
I know pain of the prison
Squalor does create
Chef Boyardee
Moldy rusted cans
On my kitchen counter
My cigarett butt friends
Cant take a shower
Becasue of broken pipes
Instead I fill the tub
With trash bags to make some space
It began with the shed
When I got behind
When the trash truck
Refused to pick up extra
Then hiden behind my porch
Trash bags piled up
Slowly invaded my home
I had given up
The good news is
If you suffer with this
There is help for you
If you want to seek it
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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