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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Heros Are Not, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
Heros are not
Of Hollywood script
Heros are not
Of myth and legand
Heros
Do not seek fame
Care not of wealth
Or worldwide acliam
Not of gods
Not of rank
Not of selfish
Attention gain
Heros are
Not of gender
Mostly those
The world wont remember
Heros are
Those whom support you
Through good or bad
Never judge you
Heros are
Not sports figures
Famous generals
From a battlefield
Heros are
Of the mundane
The people whom
You spend the most time with
They are
Your teachers and friends
The attentive parents
Who don't let you sink
The ones who do it
No matter what
Who value you
The way you are
Heros are not
Blusterous braggarts
Telling everyone
About their conquests
Heros are anyone
No matter the age
Gender or relationship
Who come to your aid
Of a paycheck
Or political status
Of a real hero
They seek no status
Hero is
Our compassion
Our fellow humans
Can have in common.
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Rock, Paper, Siccors, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
If you try
To escape North Korea
Flee from it
Into China
Both those closed states
Protect their borders
Shoot to kill
Are their orders
It matters not
That they are unarmed
All they want
Is to be free from harm
Rocks equal war?
Sell fear some more
Migrants with kids
He'll shoot them dead?
It's despot talk
Out of desperation
He needs a distraction
From the Mueller investigation
What have we wrought
To allow such rot
In our politics
Villify innocent humans
They have no rocks
And all they want
Is to flee famine and violence
It's why they come
To villify
To dehumanize
To scapegoat the innocent
I'll always dispise
It is up to the compassionate
All now to rise
For unless we do
It's democracy's demise
The are not armed invaders
Like Germany took Poland
They are not Communist Russians
Whom support monster Stalin
Why would one walk
Thousands of miles
Without machine guns
Tanks, much less rocks
If that of such
Was to do us harm
There is no war
Just a bigotry farm
Headed by
A hate filled man
If he can't have us
Then no one can
Rock, Paper, Scissors
He thinks it is a game
Scapegoating anyone
Who gets in his way
But now is the day
We say no to hate
Apathy and complicity
Are not the way
Now is the time
Beyond party line
United we stand
In our pluralism
Rock, riffle, borders
His rhetoric will kill us
Eat us with division
If we let it
Our military takes orders
But this is beyond us
We are not North Korea
We are not China
We are America
No matter our labels
E Puribus Unum
Cannot be his victim.
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"Strength Through Joy", By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Baltic resort
2 swimming pools, bowling ally
And restaurants
20,000 accomidate
The people's car
The end of classes
The dream of a madman
He'll please the masses
The conquest superior
Dreaming of the past
The dynasty of the Romans
He wanted to replicate
The easy access
To to the arts
Outdoor plays
Came at a cost
It was not at all
The Furrer's goal
That art or leasure
Were of freethought
But to promote
To indoctrinate
Control every aspect
Of his German state
It is not the same
As our rustbelt states
Whom once had unions
And valued livable wages
To peacefully assemble
Was not for to think
But do his bidding
Blindly support the state
Stolen artwork
Of conquered lands
Modernism he rejected
Anything not planned
Yes he did
Sell Strength Through Joy
Through nothing but
Blind loyalty
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"WASP-12-b" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Oh hot Jupiter
Your lifespan short
In 1O million years
You will be no more
In the constellation
Of Auriga
Your sun holds you hostage
Close at bay
Absorb you do
Most sunlight
Closer than Mercury
Black as night
Hurricane winds
Of catigory 5
On planet earth
Seem quaint in light
In light of its size
And it's speed
In our 365
It blink's in deed
One orbit it takes
In one day
Around it's star
At dizzying speed
Too hot at all
For life to concive
Its hungry parent
Won't let it leave
Oh hot Jupiter
You started in the cold
As if you were playing
At Lambeau Field
In early January
Agaist the Vikings
But gravety and greed
Your sun pulled you in
And blistering speed
Like the carnival ride
That centrifugal force
Puts your back side
Up against the wall
You cant see at all
But your body mass
Becoming a blur
And a blip
Much shorter than earth
In your lifespan
It'll be over quick
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July 18, 1984, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter.)
On the Hook
The industry
Fails to see
Unfortunately
6 years ago
In Sandy
20 kids
History repeats
Huberty
Long before
Bloodied the floor
In the Arch's door
All soft targets
Under our flooded market
Churches, theaters
Concert masacers
Do not tell me
Your policies work
Not with pain
Of the average of
40 thousand
Of all types
From domestic violence
Accidental and suicides
Do not tell me
It's about rights
Its about money
In the industry's sights
And how dare you
Calously say
To medical doctors
Whom see it every day
"Stay in your lane"
Regardless of pain
The distroyed lives
Day after day
6 years it's been
6 teachers, 20 kids
But long before
Even then
Greed took over
In the late 70s
Put profit above
Public safety
End the insanity
Let not one lobby
Be the bully
That prevents gun safety.
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Acomplishments, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James RationalPoet on FB and @brianrrs37)
We call them ruins
When archeologists
Dig up our past
Proving that nothing ever lasts
Peace is the cry
Of every corner
Of our home
Yet it is never
Never obtained
For any long stretch
Short term memory
Our species have
Kings and dictators
Despots and presidents
All promote
Their accomplisments
But since when
Has it ever been
Friend or foe
Escapes the end?
Vally of the kings
Didn't save Tut
Communism
Didn't save Po Pot
The Taj Mahal
Built out of love
Lincoln's Memorial
Did nothing to stop
Our mortality
As a species
Death none escape
Like we'd please
All humans do
Is compete
Some on top
Others no reprieve
But we decieve
Decieve ourselves
As a species
The end none want to see
Better be
As we can be
The attitude
Of humanity
That we are
To recogonize
That we are
The same species
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Tenerife, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
A confluence of events
Of human, technology, weather and ego
Turned the tropical yellow bird
Into a crimson runway
Initiated elsewhere
By bomb threats
Multiple flights
Diverted to it
A tiny island chain
Volcanic in origin
Off the African coast
They both landed
In stride all took
From pilots to passengers
To the tower
A minor inconvience
But then fog took over
And and pilots talked over
And one assumed
Till it was all over
Which one to taxi
When to take off
Miscommunication
Was the boss
And one pilot
Made the assumption
That the takoff order
Which was not given
Gave him permission
To push forward
A decorated pilot
Whom insisted
To take the time
To refuel
Later investigation
Found out not needed
And the pilots
Of multiple jets
Talked over each other
Cancelling each other out
Thrusters forward
It was too late
The ace pilot
Tried to leapfrog
But instead
Did not clear
Pancaked on top
Causing two jumbo bombs
Coal mine is
And underestimation
Of human ego
When we lack patience.
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My Little Guy, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James RationalPoet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
I know you knead me
But why so early?
It's 4:45 am
Why do you always wake me?
I can handle the hording
Of the couch
Of the bed
The way you spread out
So much so
I am cornered
Like a sardine in a can
Just because you can
I give you your space
Yet you still insist
After tons of rest
I must relent
To your kneading
And your pleading
Feed me, feed me
I know you knead me
The roosters arn't crowing
The birds arn't chirping
The stock market bell
Has yet to open ringing
Yet you still insist
You lovable pest
Of waking me up
No matter what
Do me one favor
You cute fur ball
My best friend feline
Never stop at all
I know
What you say
In the early hours
Before daybreak
Its not just
That you want to eat
I really understand
That you knead me
I know you love
The way I laugh
When you insist
On waking me up
You sniff my ears
You paw my head
When that doesnt work
You move to my stomach
Maybe your stomach
Is grumbling
I still know what
You are really doing
You enjoy
Like I do
Needing companionship
True and true.
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Korematsu, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
It angers me
To my core
That people born here
Get ignored
And for what?
Facial fetures
Parental dialect
Parental origins?
What did Fred do?
But be born in Okland
Grow up to participate
In his famly's business
WW2 came about
Internment camps
We did shout
In turn prisoned him
With no right
Just like today
The GOP separates
Hispanics every day
What was his crime?
Having a different face?
Parents of a different language
Wanting a better way?
What does
"E-Pluribus Unum" Mean
If every time
The fearful win
We let the fearful win
When we give in, vllify those
Whom have committed
No crime
A welder he was
For the effort
To defeat the empire
His ancestors derived from
But what have we become
For today's White House
To praise dictators
He'd have despised?
Korematzu
Was a patriot
Loved freedom
Just like us
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What about Takeo Yoshikawa? Was he a patriot too?
You are a fucking ashole. By your bullshit logic, we should arrrest all white people becuase they constitute the majority of mass shooters in America.
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President Mumpsimus, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Oompa Loompa
Tax break scam
Emolument's Clause
Violate to enrich the fam
Bring back coal
Protect big oil
Mueller's going to be
Your final foil
President Cheeto
Is the man
Selling fear
To all his fans
"Rapists" and "terrorists"
Mere buzz words
"Identity politics"
Bought by the herd
Nonsense
It's all absurd
Fear mongering bully
We're tired of
Fond of tyrants
Sell fear of migrants
It's all a distraction
Away from investigation
Just be sure
To attack the press
To distract away from
Your dangerous ignorance
The social norms
He tries to sell
Are the pustulous values
Of bigoted swill
There are no good Nazis
No good KKK
He won't drag us back
To those old ways
And do not sell me
This bullshit crap
Billionaires will end up eating cat food
If we raise their tax
We're tired of
The old cold war meme
Neither Cuba or Venezuela
Do we aspire to be
Oompa Loompa
Ignores his own intel
Sucks up to tyrants
Isn't that swell?
The story to tell
Hubris will fail
When the sane speak up
To avoid such a needless hell
(END)
Poem title inspired by Twitter user Mindy whom used the word "mumpsimus" in a recent post.
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Gawdzilla Saved Me, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Florence was
Barreling down
On the east coast
I had to get out of town.
I could not decide
How to escape
North or south
Or east to evade
I delayed and delayed
Till the last minute
Then finally left
In a panic
Rushed to remove
Things from my yard
Put my cat in his crate
Started my car
Got stuck in traffic
On the way there
The bullseye closing in
In my despair
But I made
It to my hotel
Hundreds of miles inland
Avoided the coastal hell
Relief you'd think
Was on my menu
But the hurricane destroyed
Paths to return to
Day after day
I watched the news
Wondering how
I'd make it through
How to get back
I had no Waze
Just a cheap burner phone
No way to get through the maze
Minute by minute
Road reports
Would have the them open one second
The next second closed
I was desperate
To get back home
Not knowing which roads
Would be open
Highway 40
Became a river
My panic set in
Gawdzilla delivered
I suffer from
Anxiety and depression
My hesitation
Made return the question
I did not want
To make the attempt
To return
Only to get stuck
My online friend
Offered to
Sit by the phone
Till I got through
Just in case
A road got blocked
On my way back
I could call
Call him up
And adjust my barrings
To get home
Without worrying
No it was not
Katrina or a Tsunami
My house fared fine
I was lucky
But mentally
I can say
Just being there
I found my way
Gawdzilla is
His nickname
Glad to have
This online friend
To understand
Those who have anxiety
Can magnify
Any event
To the point
Panic sets in
He kept me calm
On my return.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Hotel Mara Lago" By Brian37 (SPOOF of The Eagles Hotel California, AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
On a dark campaign highway
Vile rehtoric in my ear
Cold smell of bigotry
Rising up in the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a dimwit in sight
My skepticism grew heavy
He Tweets all night
There he stood in office
I heard his minons yell
I was thinking to myself
This stupid fucker will send us all too hell
And still the bigots are crying
From far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear you say aaaaa
Welcome to the Hotel Mara largo
Such an ugly place,
Such an ugly place
Such an ugly face
Pleanty of shroom dick
At the Hotel Mara Lago
What a tiny size
It's no surprise
Is mind is definitely twisted
He's got the truth bends
He's got a lot of sycophants
He calls friends
How they dance in is feces
Sweet orange sweat
All dance to remember
Old bigoted shit
So he called up his captain
Please bring him his whine
We haven't had that bullshit here
Since 1969
And still those spoogers
Are calling from far away
Wake you up Tweeting in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say
Welcome to the Hotel Mara largo
Such an ugly place
Such an ugly place
Such an ugly face
Pleanty of Shroom dick
At the Hotel Mara Largo
What tiny size
Not a surprise
Trump is always golfing
Un sends him letters that are nice
And he says, "I am just a prisoner here
Of my own selfish vice"
And in Putin's Chamber
They gather for the feast
He vilifies everyone
But he just cant kill the press
Last thing I remember
I was grabbing for my remote
I had to get off Fox News
So I wouldn't throw up and choke
"Relax" Said Sara Sanders
"We are programed to deceive.
His minions have arlready checked out,
But they will never leave".
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Feuernacht" By Brian37, By Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37)
He called it unfair
Accused us of cheating
In the Berlin Olympics
When Owens was winning
You'd think we'd grown
Since those vile events
Of church bombings
In the days of segregation
But the night of fire
Is like broken glass
Churches burned down
Just like in the past
In 10 short days
Churches go up in a blaze
I wonder what year
I live in today
The tone is set
At the top
He is responsible
For the words they follow
Ann Frank and MLK
Words are of courage
To all of humanity
Will not be discouraged
Broken glass
Churches on fire
Shooting up Mosques
Are inhumane and vile
And those who
Try to enter here
Are not all criminals
We should fear
It is all the same
Throughout history
Politicians divide
For power to keep
What does not change
Is the one home all have
We are all the same species
Hate is not the path
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Needless Division, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
How can it be
In humanity
This endless strife
Too many seek.
That to postulllate
And to promote
Nothing more
Than testoserone
Brawn is best
But it seems to me
Every time
We as a species
Lean to thee
The outcome is
Not of problem solving
But that of brawn
You are tough
Things get rough
But are you right
In universal plight?
Dead is dead
No matter the bed
Hindu, Christian, Jew, Muslim
Humanity mislead
Buddhists in Myanmar
Stack up rivals
Kill fellow humans
Whom call themselves Muslims
How about
My fellow species
Stop looking at
Each other as enimies?
I wont lie
About what I think
About old mythology
Of any print
I don't think
Humanity
Realy needs
Of monothieistic or
Polytheistic claims
I dont think we need
Such tribal labels
Of old mythology
Or new age labels
I am a fan
Of "This is it"
Skip the mythology
Skip the superstiition
The only fruition
I can concieve
Is to ditch all
Worldwide mythology
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Who Cares At 30 Thosand Feet? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
It is a pricing scam
On par with diamonds
That jewlery stores
Outnumber 7-11s
First class lands
At the same time
As those seated
In the back of the plane
What are you
Wasting your money on
It means nothing
If something goes wrong
Lobster, caviar
Lafeet Rothschild
It isn't like
A car with a flat tire
You cant pull over
And fix a flat
At that altitude
Money does not matter
Your race,
Your class
Your your economic
Status
Brag brag
Till your lungs are blue
Brag brag
About your conquests so true
But there are bacteria
Older than you
Cockroches that
Outnumber you
I am not impressed
With monuments
To a species so young
Which bactira will outlast
Win, win, win,
Defeat, Defeat, defeat,
Yet our species
Has no other planet to retreat.
It is not enough
For humans to fight
Not enough
To kill everything in sight
It is easy
In the short term
To blame everything
On everyone else.
But the truth is
We are all we have
The only way we thrive
Is accepting we are the same species.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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9:30 Club, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Too young back then
To understand
The lyrics of
The all black metal band
When I stepped in
And heard Vernon play
Tore the fret board up
In a Hendrix way
But those lyrics
Haunt our politics
The man in charge
Is a "cult of personality"
Son retweets of Harris
Hints of past birther conspiracy
Meanwhile at the DMZ
He shakes hands with a man who murders family
Putin poisons a critic of his
Then he praises
The Saudi Prince
Who butchered another like a side of beef
I had no intrest
That night in the club
In world politics
Nor understood the lyrics
I look back now
And wonder how
We got to this point
The band warned us about
We are not flocks
We are not sheep
We should not follow
That personality
He is the cult
The song warns us of
Whom praises tyrants
He wants to be one
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"God Said", By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
"God said"
And funny how
The claimants of the varieties
Take that vow
To be blindly loyal
To kill anyone
Who dares
To question them
"God said"
Let there be light
One seperating
Day from night
But science knows
This is not right
For the sun the only source
Bouncing off the moon
"God said"
Obey my tune
Do anything I order
That of you
And what the result
All this time
All the factions
Defending such fiction
"God said"?
No, humans say
Killing over
Not getting their way
As a human
I will fervently say
Give up on old mythology
It is the only way
We as a species
Have much more in common
Than the dilapidated
Claims of of antiquity
"God said"
No, humans claim
No matter the flavor
It is all the same
Our insecurities
Our desires
Or antiquated
Mythology
A old way
Of making sense
Of seeking control
Over our environment
There is no God
Telling us what to do
There are only humans
Whom pick and choose
And the disastrous
Result of such
Is our tribalism
That holds us back.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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That Was Then This Is Now, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
There are no magic men
No super cognitions
It is not fatalistic
To state this simple fact
It was understandable
When we didn't know better
The fear and ignorance
Kept us in the dark
That we made these bad guesses
As to what pullled the strings
We couldn't have known back then
What the reality was
That we are all we have
There is noone above
Picking winners or losers
To join it's special club
John got it right
If we'd only imagine
A world without violence
Or religious tribalism
That was then
Humanity will not win
If we dwell in mythology
Or religious tribalism
We've done great things
As a species
We've put humans on the moon
And cured many a disease
I know we have it in us
To look to the future
Without fear of threats
Of a fictional torture
We act like gangs
That part is unfortunate true
But the only thing all of us are
We can only classify as human
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Nuremberg Rally, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Scapegoat
And vilify
Attack dissent
And truth deny
Sell them fear
Of the other
Offer yourself up
As the only hero
Repeat the lie
Every day
Get the mobs
To chant what you say
Those who died
On the beaches of Normandy
Would be horrified
If alive today
"They are rapists"
"Lock her up"
"Send her back"
We're under attack
And horrified too
Would be those Jews
Whom survied Warsaw Poland
And the "Final Solution"
I'm fucking sick
Of the bullshit argument
"That cant happen here"
When this is how it starts
Attack all rivals
Vilify all others
Offer yourself up
As the only cure
No, America
This cannot stand
For good people now
To remain silent
We must resist
And remain defiant
And defeat
The politics of fear.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Morality, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Call me insane
For quoting Paine
"To do good is my religion"
Without the superstition
I value the likes
Of Martin Luther King
But no Jesus required
To do the right thing
I value the likes
Of Ann Frank
"In spite of everything"
Still saw the good in humans
I value the likes
Of Malala
Who took a bullet
From sexist male behavior
As an atheist
I do see good
In humans worldwide
It should be understood
That there will never be
A perfect utopia
Where one religion dominates
Over all others
This skeptic would only
Dare to suggest
Our morality is in the individual
Not in our competing sects
Cory Booker
Said it best
"Don't tell me what you believe
Show me through your actions"
All our factions
Can seek to divide
But yet still ignore
That all humans die
To me
That means time
Is better served
To accept we only get one life.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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LAX, by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB, and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
So you paid
Thousands more
To sit at the front
And eat lobster thermidor
But the reality
You don't want to face
At 40 thousand feet
We are all the same
Coach
Or first class
All are at the mercy
Of the pilot
I am sick of the marketing
The warfare between classes
When the plane called life
Takes off and lands the same
"Eye of the needle"
Is not a patent
Owned by one religion
But that of compassion
Tis not of wealth
I am attacking
Just when introspection
Of those are lacking
I sat in a terminal
On my way home
At LAX
Amazed at the scope
The scope of diversity
People from every location
Every nation
Living in harmony
Fuck first class
If the plane crashes
What good did it do you
Paying that much
Life really is
Like a trip on a plane
Everyone on it
Takes off and lands the same
Nobody
I'd call sane
Brags about wealth
On their deathbed
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Will I Make It Home", By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
She suits up
Her badge and gun
Off to her squad car
On another run
You know it's in
Her family's mind
Every single time
Will she make it home?
He straps on
His fire hat
Jumps in
The giant red cab
You know it's in
His family's mind
Every single time
Will he make it home?
She gets on
The Marine transport
Of to
Some far off port
You know it's in
Her family's mind
Every single time
Will she make it home?
Those are risks
We expect
Those are risks
Hero's take
But off to a bar
Off to a movie
Off to school
No one should have to worry
America for far too long
Has been a shooting gallery
Off to shop, off to church
Littered with dead bodies
We expect our heros
To take those risks
But the rest of us
Should not live like this
You know it's in
Everyone's mind
I could get mowed down
Doing the mundane
You know it's in
Everyone's mind
Far too much of the time
Will I make it home?"
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Half Staff, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Up and down
The poll it goes
Rince and repeat
Rising death tolls
Week after week
Year after year
Hollow half staff
The arsonist shows
It keeps the fire
Maintained and growing
Using fear marketing
To divide the zip codes
A flag at half staff
Isn't consoling
CEOs lobbyists
Profits controlling
A hole through her chin
Shrapnel in her chest
A mere two year old
A victim of one party's politics
8 more dead
Texas has bleed
Conned by the industry
Arsonist feed
If "Arm more'
Was a solution
America would not be
The #1 nation
The #1 nation
In firearm violence
The GOP
Has no conscience
Fuck your half staff
We want solutions
We want actions
Not more arsonists
Fuck your lobbyists
Out to protect profits
Pouring gas on the fire
Body count rises
Parade the excuses
Recycle them all
In a few days
When more bodies fall
Do not tell me
You care at all
If the flag continues
To rise and fall
They die in vain
With every repitition
When our congress
Offers up nothing
Nothing but
"Arm more"
Fuck your half staff
You wont fool anymore
Public safety
Is far more important
Than the greedy arsonists
Merely out for profits
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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None Of Us Have Control, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Oh sure we do
Tie our own shoes
Wiipe our own asses
Go to college too
We can manage
And certianly do
Some move up
Others get by
But as far as time
Only a fool
Thinks
We eternally survive
Life is finite
No matter the class
No matter religion
No matter our status
We've always been
The same species
No matter our outcome
We take our last breath
To do our best
As a species
It would seem better
If only if
Collectively
More of humanity
Would only see
We are the same species.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Strong "Zip Codes, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Odessa and Daton
"I survived a massacre
And all I got
Was this lousy T-shirt"
Massacre Mitch skirts
The issue
Of "Thoughts and prayers
Enough, we're through!
The list of zip codes
Keeps getting longer
This is nothing
That makes us "stronger"
Feckless Republicans
In the pocket
Out to protect
CEOs profits
T-Shirts
Don't solve shit
They have no power
To stop bullets
In the next 24 hours
100 more dead
Yet Massacre Mitch
Hangs on the word of the President
Congress makes the laws
You fucking coward
Need not his permission
To make the right decission
Walmart and Dicks
And Delta too
Finally woke up
And so can you
T-Shirts
With morbid words
"Zip Code Strong"
The list is long
Decades of inaction
Decades of obstruction
Massacre Mitch
The CEOs bitch
Don't claim
You want to reduce violence
If all we end up with
Are T-shirts and your silence
The goal should not be
To add to that list
"Zip Code Strong"
We're tired of it!
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Pound Our Chests, By Brian37 (AKA Brian37 AKA, Brian James Rationall Poet on FB and @briarrs37 on twitter).
Humans are
The ultimate narcissists
With the least power
Of that they boast
Temporary masters
Of thus they toast
Bragging about
Those they defeat
But hurricanes
And volcanos
Tsunamis
And tornados
Relegate my species
To those
Who run
And flee
It is
Disturbing to me
Understanding
We are the same species
That when such
Disruption arises
No seek to compromise
That helps us survive
I've always hated
That of my species
That tribalism
Is what divides us
I do not wish
Ill upon
Those who don't agree
Of what I object
But must object
To all involved
The argument of
Absolutes
I have no
Desire to die
I also have no
Desire to lie
All I can say
All I fight for
Is equality
Everyone longs for.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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PompeiiO, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
"You try it",
"No, you try it"
"Lets get Mikey
He'll try anything"
The life of sycophants
Blind loyalists , brownshirt ants
Barr and Rudy
Supporters ignore the rumblings
Of old white men
Pandering
To the magma
Of MAGA antiquity
79 was the year
When the orange volcano
Pyroclastic flow
Bigotry and hate the top does blow
"Hey Mikey
He likes it"
Lack of oversight
The bullies unite
Then when called out
The volcano does shout
"I am the victim
You are not allowed
To question my power
Though I am the grifter
Held to account
I will be never"
I will dump my ash
All over you
I will destroy our Republic
I never valued
I will leave your rights
In plaster cast
Flatten freedom
For lust of power
You will die
Running to the sea
Trying to escape
My hypocrisy
In the boat houses
You choke on heat
My loyal minions
Do not see
I care not of you
I am the volcano
With a sycophant
Like Mike PompeiiO
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Kurds And Away, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs27 on twitter).'
Istanbul
Turkey shoot
Ivanka in China
Family grifts and loots
Thank you all
Your doing well
Destroying our credibilty
Throwing our allies in hell
Impetuous fuck
Behind closed doors
You converse with
A KGB thug
You didn't just mug
The emouluments cause
You gang raped it
For your hotels
Your insecure ego
You cant stand to lose
Asking foreign powers
Help your rivals lose
The masacres have started
Needlessly so
You backstabing fuck
You have to go
You're no tough guy
Not one bit
You just sit on your ass
And do nothing but Tweet
And while you golf
Kurds are butchered
All of Europe
Thinks we cant be trusted
Chaos your tactic
A great distraction
Inocent people
Die from your actions
Some call you dumb
But that is not true
You're a smart con
And bully too
Empathy for others
Of which you lack
Kurdish allies
The bodies stack
But you are dumb
In the greatest aspect
Of a moral compass
You've always lacked
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Magical Regulation, By Brian37( AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
There is no
Super cognition
Deciding human fate
With magical regulation
We are
All we have
And thus must face
If we wish to survive
Don't get me wrong
I disire not force
To end any religion
But use reason as course
I'll take a Malala
A Martin Lurther King Jr
And an Anne Frank
Over the others
Who fear change
And sell "otherism"
Those who sell
Hate and tribalism
But that does not mean
That I agree
With well intended pluralists
As to what regulates us
I would argue
Our behaviors are in us
Not old mythology
Not old tribal books
There certianly is
Good on earth
Empathy and compassion
Are well worth
Our species goal
Is to know
We are the same
Wherever we go
But I will never fear
Questioning
The claims of antiquity
Of the times they lived in
When humans didn't
Have benefit
Of modern science
Came from questioning
One should not fear
Their fellow humans
One should fear
Living in ignorance
If our species
Never questoned social norms
Our species never would have
Left the caves.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Offbeat Of Orange Turds, By Brian37 (Aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Big cons in DC
Trolling the minions, a pitty
Cup of propaganda, get shitty
At Fox News caffee it's a crappy hideaway
Help me he blew his jig
He plays con artist bullshit rig
A high beater on the take
He plays Guliania's growl
Break it up, spit it out
You're a liar
In the ditch
In the sewer, you've arived
Excuse me
Do you have any
Fox News bullshit
Hannity on top of that
For a Putin you on you rely
Fuck our intel you deny
For Ukraine you imply
Break it ,up lie alot
Your bullshit is all you've got
The canary's are going to sing
And the diplomats
Are their names
Big blues in the White House
The orange turd is a rat mouse
Smoken eyes are Pelosi
Like beauty to beast, you are the least to say the least.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Hot Summer Nights, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Cant stand the heat
Another mile
I wish Labron and even Arnold
Would stop and think for a while
Everyone is ignoring Greta
Dispite that scientist agree
The rich dont give a fuck about
Combating global warming effectively
They'll sell another sports car
Another F-150
Frack Native reservations
Dispite the pollution they create
Cashing all their checks
Clearing out their banks
Spend it on short term profits
Without humanity in mind
Look out over here
Watch out over there
Cant aford a planet B
Cause we haven't got a spare
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Another Coal Miner's Daughter, By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on twitter).
A classmate set
Your hair on fire
Now you deal
With the orange liar
You put it out
With no desire
To run or hide
From the liar
Bullies do
What they do
Just like in class
Just like in office
Your parents toiled
In unimaginable work
So you could migrate
To do your best
And that
You did
Came to America
To defend
Our Constitution
Our institutions
The ones our founders
Intrusted you with
And sad to see
Far too many
Take the word
Of that orange bully
Istead of yours
Honorable and loyal
Under Presidents
Of both parties
A-Political
Above the frey
Unlike one man
Whose oath he betrays
Sides with
A KGB thug
Ignors, attacks his own intel
Pulls out from under you, the rug
Undermining
The work that you do
That keeps us safe
From Putin's views
Now I could get on
How we need to get off coal
But that is a separate poem
Still willing to honor your work as a whole
Your dad rased you well
Anyone attacking you
Is unwise
And will meet their demise
The world hates bullies
Just like in class
The asshole who set your hair on fire
Did not deserve a pass
And here you are
In a hero's fasion
Standing up to yet another
In steely fasion
Keep it up Hill
Your mining for truth
A coal miner's daughter
Doing the world good.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Do You Remember? By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Do you remember
What the color red
Was like
200 years ago?
Do you remember
Curling up in bed
With your pet cat or dog
500 years ago?
Do you remember
Hugging your dad or mom
Brother or sister
800 years ago?
Do you remember
That awsome pizza
You ate at the beach resort
1,000 years ago?
Do you remember
How you felt
When your first child was born
2,000 years ago?
Do you remember
Your first kiss
Your first date
5,000 years ago?
Do you remember
Every cockroach
You killed
10,000 years ago?
Do you remember
Every lie you told
Innocent or malevolent
100,000 years ago?
All of thee above
Are rehtorical absurd examples
And the answer is
Of course not, I wasn't alive back then.
Congratulations theists
Now you understand
How frightened I am as an atheist
Of not existing after I die.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"8888", By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
"This is
The sound
Of me
Saving your ass"
Apollo 13's class
The mundane isn't
As sexy
As the Hollywood screen
Sure it was
An emergency
But engeneers
And redundency
Lucky number 7
Triple the threat
In reality
Nobody was seriously hurt
The conductor
In the yard
Poisonous chemicals
In tankers on rails
Like a bronco
The desiel got spooked
Took off on him
Protocol not good enough
The portable derailer
Was vaporized
An alturnative to stop it
Was devised
Don't grab the bull
By the horns
But the tiger by the tail
Was how the day was won.
The train was stopped
Not like in an action movie
Just like the Apollo 13 3
Made it home safely
Little that heros do
Are by the seat of their pants
But through lots of training
And diliberation and collaboration
END...
Poem inspired by the movie "Unstopable" which was losely based on the runaway trian "CSX 8888" real event in 2001. But just like the Apollo 13 event, most of what saved the day was knowledge, calm and collaboration. Hollywood makes for great movies, but real mundane heros don't fly by the seat of their pants.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Orange Burns, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Frank? Or should I call you Don
Over Ivanka and Jr
And Eric
You do fawn
But in the O R
You espose tribalism
Even treating civilains
As your enemy
And how classy
Of you to favor Margaret
Divorced multiple times
Malania just doesn't get it
Franlky my Don
I don't give a damn
I wish you were a mere character
But your reality is sad
You are burning
Our democracy
In Frank fassion
This is no comedy
Sidney is not in
Australia, much less North Korea
No one it seems
Can ever save you
You have no ethics
No empathy
No moral compass
To lead this country
You are Frank
You are the Swamp
About to take
Our country down
"Air raid" is how you won
Needlessly
Scaring the shit
Out of everyone
I wish it were
All just a joke
I wish more Americans
Were all woke
But I have no choice
At this point in history
To take your vile dangerous bully of an ass
Seriously
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Callisto, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet and @brianrrs37 on twitter.)
Ann Coulter is Calisto
Not because she is female
But because
She is a bully
Just like the organg turd
Of dissent
Both try to
Sully
Opportunists
Both they be
About power and control
Over all they see
Gullt and remorse
A fantasy
To expet of
Such vile bullies
The world needs more Xenas
Just like JFK's
Those who value
Humanity
Those who
Dont seek to be Aries
None of us are gods
Nore will ever be
Collectively
We are humanity
Both female and male
Survive equally
But when hate is in heart
Our compassion departs
And all that is left
Is pain for all
Getting even
Is of futile effort
Blind we are
Of our own resort
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Blind Loyalty, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and Brianrrs37 on twitter)
As Tammy sang
That famous refrain
"Stand by your man"
Blind loyalty insane
He's using the White House
Like an abusive spouse
Admires authoritarinans
Denouncing his own intel
His followers
Under his spell
Like a snake charmer
Here's what he wont tell
The cobra's lips
Are sewn shut
Kissing the baby
It's all a trick
Give all your love
To just one man
Blind loyalty
Is his real demand
"Stand by your man"
Dispite his lies
And all the innocent people
He wrongfully vilifies
Even though
It's hard to justify
Be proud of him
And all his lies
"Stand by your man"
Lindsey Graham
Despite he trashed
Your best friend
"Stand by your man"
Even though he chose
A KGB thug
Over his own intel
Blind loyalty
Is a scourge on humanity
No I will not
Stand by this man.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Power, By Brian37 (AKA Brian37 on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
He can spend
All his time
Vilifying those
Not of his kind
He can attack
War heros
Attack
His own intel
He can
Justify
Why black NFL players
Are not on his side
He can gloat
About the economy
But one thing he is blind to
And will never see
Is that all 7 billion of us
Are the same species
Regardles of class
He's a pathetic bully
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Donzo Goes To Shitburg, By Brian37 (AKA Brian37 on FB and @brian37 on twtter)
You've got to hide the supoena
Come on sort out your cabinet
Get rid of any dissent
Rudy is in on it
Donzo goes to Shitburg
Or should I call it Ukraine
Anyone he doesn't like
Really drives him insane
All of his allies
He attacks with his feces
Sucking up to athoritarians
Just like loving his daddy
Donzo goes to Shitburg
Divoid of reality
Looking in the mirror
At his hands that are tiny
Pick up the peices
Is what is needed in 2020
The sooner we are rid of him
The better off we will be
Donzo goes to Shitburg
Trying to impess everybody
He's the arsonist who starts the fire
Ever so needlessly
Takes credit
For everything
In human history
Pick up the pieces
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Tattoo #69388 By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
Anita knew
What would await
Once she passed through
That genocidal gate
Most would meet
Their horrible fate
Work sets you free
Music her reprieve
The virtuosos
Were targets too
But to survive
They wrote and played music
Amongst the smoke stacks
And Mengele's lab
Songs like "Fantasy"
The musicians wrote down
It could have all died
But Francesco Lotoro
Long after
The Nazis fell
Knew that
It must be saved
The music of
The imprisoned slaves
And he is right
About Wallfisch's plight
Music never dies
In such grim light
It is up to those
To remember the bones
To remember the ashes
And piles of shoes
The mountains of suitcases
Never to be used
The stolen lives
Remembered though music
Anita hinted
About today
Some seem to forget
Their history
And meanwhile
In DC
One ignorant man
Does not see
How easy
It is to treat
Another human
Easy to beat
But as Lotoro
Rightfully says
No matter what
Music wins
(end)
This poem was in inspired by a 60 minutes story about the Musicians and composers who died and survived Auscwitz.
Lifetime Curator Franchesco Lotoro has spent his live digging through archives, family histories, records of the camp to save the music played by the dead and survivors. Anita -Lasker-Wllfisch was a survivor and mucisian forced to play music at the camp.
The story made me cry, just like thinking about Ann Frank. It is horrifying, but also is a huge example how humans find a way to cope under extreem conditions.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Food Critics, by Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
All it takes
To make a buck
Is to conflate words
To the absurd
Clamari is squid
Escargot is snail
Fondu is melted cheese or chocolate
And Aju is meat juice
Ham is pig ass
And we've all heard rump roast
So what is with fish eggs
I think that is gross
Dont get me wrong
We all have different tastes
I simply hate any asshole
Who thinks it is a mandate
Some like anchovies
On their pizza
Order that around me
I will flee ya
Some love
Portobello mushrooms
But just like cooked cabbage
I have to leave the room
Some like spinach
But I will never finish
It smells like the foilage
I raked up in my back yard
This isn't bird's nest soup
We are not on safari
I do have to admit
I have had calimari
Why do humans
Insist on expoiting
Different tastes
With excotic names?
It all ends up
In the same place
Goes through our bowls
Into the toilet.
No matter how much or little we pay.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"1 William 1 52" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
How can you trust
A Slag, a spongehead
Those "other" new comers
With everything they did
Invaded your land
Took your jobs
Landed here
By force
By any means
The bigot defends
Fighting any and all migration
Despite all humans migrate
There is no
Alien nation
There simply is
Human migration
If we are
To be the best nation
We should value
"E-Pluribus Unum"
"Alien" only means
To that not familiar
But should not treat
Deadly
But friendly
On a planet of 7 billion
It still remains
We are the same species.
(end)
Poem inspired by the very briefly lived si fi TV show "Alien Nation" spawed off the big screen movie. The title is based off the line of cop car ID, when police call in to report, just like the show "Adam 12" where they say "1 Adam 12".
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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"Patrol" By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
Zeus, Apollo
Do your job
Make sure Magnum
Does not reach the guest house
Higgins complain
All you wish
But with out hm
You would miss
His borrowing and begging
All his bargining
TC is not Uber
Tom is confounding
Rick is tired
Of the bar tab
"When will you pay up
You Howly slacker"
But the truth is
Jonathan Quayle
You need him
And he needs you as well
You bluster and yell
But above it all
You're there for each other
When it comes to call
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Oklahoma, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twiter)
Red State, Blue State
Eeons ago
I could not
Emagine my fate
I grew up
In the suburbs
You grew up
In the sticks
I grew up with rock
You grew up with gospel
I am the Malcom
You're the Martin Nobel
Both of us atheists
Comming from different places
A couple 3 debates
And you always put me in my place
You started out poor
Moved into a trailer
I started out middle class
And ended up in a trailer
Now you are in an apartment
In a tornado state
I have to worry about hurricains
It is our fate
Two atheists
Raised differntly
In completly different
Geography
Drone on if you will
About country music
Don't expect me
To ever get used to it
But I do know
Dispite our differences
That you understand
What reality is
I wont lie
I hope your state dies
Only in color
Converts to blue
To those who first read this
Let me give you a clue
I have a Redneck atheist friend
I've just introduced.
(end)
This is a poem about my best friend John from Oklahoma who is aso an atheist. If you had told me 30 years ago my best friend would have a Redneck accent and was also an atheist, I would have called you crazy.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Pakistan, By Brian37 (Aka Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
When those in the world
Want to promote
Us vs them
Bullshit
When those who promote
Religious trbialism
All I can think is
What if
What if
Your best friend
Was born behind
Enemy lines
What if their name
Was Mustafa
What if their name
Was what we'd all been made fun of?
What if this guy
Also dispised
The orange bully
And all his lies
What if this guy
From Pakistan
Denounced all the orange
Vile plans?
What if those
From Ukraine
Understood
Putin and Trump are insane?
What if
We recognized
As a species
Have a refrain
In value of life
Not of tribalism.
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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Ode to Joanne and Dwayne By Brian37(AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)
In twighlight years
There are many fears
Of the aflicted, declining
Of the reaper does not care
But there are those
Who are there
Who do their duty
Of nurses and phycical therapy
In hopes
That one day
The elderly, can hopfully
Go back home
But time is a bitch
It cares not
Of class
Or politics
It takes our loved ones
No matter our stripe
No matter what we argue
At any piont in life
I do know this
In my mother's darkest hours
In her facing mortality
There are those who were there for her
Thank you Joanne
Thank you Dwayne
Though she didn't live forever
You helped ease her pain
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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The Year The Earth Stood Still, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter).
It's not the surface
Of the sun
But this microscopic tsunami
Has the planet on the run
We think we are so smart
Profits off the charts
Only to crash and burn
When will humanity learn
Lack of funding
Continually ignoring
Chasing the fast buck
Impending disaster forwarning
Race, Religion
Politics, and national origin
This common enemy
Is not selective
Entire nations
Are now prisons
Livelyhoods going bust
Everyone is at risk
I worry about my friends
The Walmart worker in Oklahoma
Who has no choice but to work
Even if he were to get sick
I worry about my cab driver
Whose business has hit the skids
Lost countless fares
Is worried about paying her rent
I worry about nurses I know
And physical therapists
Who care for the eldery
What if they get sick?
Was it worth it metal birds
To pack them in like sardines
Petri dishes airports become
Compounding the dangerous scene
When are the world's billionaires
Going to get a clue
You cant simply speed for profits
And think nothing will happen to you
This tsunami doesn't care
Of your title or your class
It will take you just as eaily
As the rest of us
And just like global warming
It is not to be ignored
We only have one planet
On which we all live
Long term planning
Not just the next quarter
What will we leave the next generation
If we don't care about each other?
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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By George, I Think You've Got It, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on Twitter)
Is George Smoot, smittin
Of Sheldon
Cooper of many
Restraining orders
Is Neil Degrasse
Tyson
Sorry for
That Pluto matter?
Did Brian Greene
Get heckled in a book store
By a roomate
Afraid of jaybirds?
Did Sheldon
Polish belt buckles
Upon the command
Of Howard Walowitz
To gain favor
Of the God in the chair
Howard once made
A remote control model of?
Did he play games
With the guy in the chair
With the robot voice
Of which all are aware?
Sheldon is fictional
But one thing is sure
He brought attention
To science that's real
"We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers."Obama
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