dlbassman politiku journal 2024
(updated 120824)
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january
i figured out why
i can.t find things - i forget
what i.m looking for
why i can.t find things
zen without the zing
mindfulness without true aim
slippery the slope
freedom does not mean
freedom to deny freedom
to those who differ
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a contentious dam
overarching a village
was dynamited
the village flooded
who was to blame - the builder
or the terrorist
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february
intuitively
obvious - masses are swayed
by massive untruths
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lying on my bed
a pool of ectoplasm
trying to take form
put your hand just so
on the wandering of mind
and the pulse of life
if you look ahead
just one move in this chess game
thats enough to win
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(to whom we surrender )
islam your name means
surrender - your fie'ry core
is jihad - wage war
to the one inside
surrender - who gives to us
the light of wisdom
war on ignorance
love wisdom and become great
we are all muslim
there needs be a truce
to end a mounting bloodshed
so unnatural
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how can they exist
amoeba.s and damselflies
with no one to see
dragonfly
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march
on the battlefield
on the front line of the fight
the old folks face death
odd police training
too many killed without cause
- shoot first ask later
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a fatal disease
- intolerant ignorance
infects our nation
a homicidal
candidate threatens bloodbath
come this november
both have just one cure
cleaning house regularly
at the polling booth
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april
does g-d move in waves
- or particles - or is she
everywhere at once
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what numbers the most
- useless thoughts coursing the mind
or stars in the sky
who can stop thinking
- its not possible to do
noam sez no-one *1
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to meditate or
swallow an elephant take
one bite at a time
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may
youngster among stars
octogenarian earth
fights for survival
neither fire nor ice
but poisonous smokestacks
ring the death knell bells
malthusian law
will not be overcome by
our technology
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june
across the border
to the nations of the south
build bridges not walls
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bump stocks now legal
- the supreme court paves the way
to insurrection
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don.t throw away
the price they paid
on d-day
d-day paratroopers
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(interpretation from maurice laurry,
vagabonds of the sea)
pity those unmoved
by nature - or unruly
in history.s school
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reflections on aging (2017 - 2024 )
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aging
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the war in gaza
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gaza
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july
the supremes forgot
the prez can be guilty of
various high crimes
this is the basis
of impeachment to remove
sitting presidents
does their ruling mean
biden can imprison trump
for seditious acts
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20 percent duped
30 percent are far right
trump is danger close
showing off his gun
waving his weapon around
the fool shot himself
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(bidens decision)
biden don.t worry
what g-almighty might say
he / she is your fan
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august
shady bench i asked
to share - she blew me a kiss
i felt the impact
the improbable .....
the universe winked at me
we shared a sweet joke
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september
alexander won
his last campaign far away
from his native land
wounded elephants
cost king porus the battle
- crushed his own army
lesser kings than they
have beasts they cannot control
driven to frenzy
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(never trust a dog
that ain.t your own)
jesus once said give
unto caeser - tho you.d best
be somewhat keerful
i trust the sages
who illuminate the way
and reveal the light
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( a paraphrase / quotation from alexander
von humboldt (1769 - 1859) naturalist and
explorer):
by one breath nature
is animated - one life
pouring into all
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october
ten haiku songs
- composed by aaron blumenfeld
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haiku songs
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omaha dog learns to read
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willy
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cryptocurrency - the migration of wealth
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crypto
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(what is fascism) *2
in support of crazed
dictatorships - sedition
is far from benign
put a dictator
in office and it will be
the last time you vote
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a new constitution -
(it may be said of
scriptures and constitutions
- extract the wisdom)
ageless and lovely
is the core of our conscience
preserved in the law
"we the people" sez
our constitution - noble
words empower us
"establish justice
promote peace - welfare - freedom
defend the nation" *3
let no sitting judge
or any law of the land
muddy its waters
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november
a vote not about
migrants - tax - or far off war
but our rights to vote
who in the hell knows
how trump was elected prez
cold snap in denver
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trumpists celebrate
ha ha hmua-ha ha
hear them sing and dance
ha mua-ha ha
after all he said and did
(they say) - we showed 'em
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advice to congress -
patriots unite before
trump shreds your power
your oath of office
requires defense of our land
- be untouchable
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dystopian dreams -
i think i hear boots trampling
american fields
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how it seems to me -
building blocks of star-filled skies
are bound energy
on a field of green
whirling balls of mass collide
as the cue-ball strikes
many possibles
play out in numberless forms
spirit is reborn
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december
notorious press
false narratives echoing
over the hillsides
when the public gets
the invoice from the new prez
gonna be a shock
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(survival of the least fit) *4
a free nation hangs
by the thinnest thread - ask not
for whom the bell tolls
trumps a fine fellow
- wars on the impoverished
to make them more so
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a tax spent wisely
for the good of the nation
buys a gift for all
drill oh tarriers
drill for inner strength - courage
- and humility
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drill ye tarriers song - jon bartlett & rika ruebsaat)
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*1 a tip-o-the-hat
to noam chomsky, linguist
*2
Paxton argues that "fascism redrew the frontiers between
private and public, sharply diminishing what had once been
untouchably private. It changed the practice of citizenship
from the enjoyment of constitutional rights and duties to
participation in mass ceremonies of affirmation and conformity.
It reconfigured relations between the individual and the
collectivity, so that an individual had no rights outside
community interest. It expanded the powers of the
executive party and state in a bid for total control.
Finally, it unleashed aggressive emotions hitherto known
in Europe only during war or social revolution."
robert o. paxton, historian
*3 (extracted from the u.s. constitution
uploaded on this site 2022)
*4 from "the case-book of sherlock holmes,
(the adventure of the creeping man)"
by sir arthur conan doyle
(holmes)... sat musing for a little with the phial in his hand,
looking at the clear liquid within. "When I have written to this man
and told him that I hold him criminally responsible for the poisons
which he circulates, we will have no more trouble. But it may recur.
Others may find a better way. There is danger there--a very real
danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual,
the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual
would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival
of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world
become?"