Category: Ethics
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Eternal Now
Eternal Now To paraphrase CarlinNow doesn’t really existMerely the intersectionOf future and past Here it comes..Wait, it’s almost hereNot yet… Now? Nope, it’s already goneHere it comes again… But It’s the future thatDoesn’t exitMerely a hoped-forPotential,An assumptionOf continuation And the past isOnly a story of what hasPassed throughThe eternal presentOnly a pattern ofNeurons strung togetherTemporarily…
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Full Of It
Full Of Sh*t You’re full of sh*tI’m full of sh*tWe’re all full of sh*tNot our faultJust a biological factBut, we do our bestTo eliminate itOn a daily shift But, our bodiesAre not the onlySh*t sourcesWithin us There’s also theMental and emotionalCrap in that cesspoolWe call our minds Not our fault, reallyThe ‘quality’ (or lack thereof)Of…
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Identity
Identity All human Identify isBased on storiesStories we tell ourselvesBased on the storiesHanded down to usSince the beginning ofHuman communication It’s how we establishOur reality These stories are basedOn the selective informationWe call ‘facts’Our vested interests in tact Since there are no such thingsAs ‘facts’Just perspectivesAgreed to byHumans in charge The ‘winners’So to speak But…
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The Last Morning Ride Of July 2025
The Last Morning Ride Of July 2025 Pristine summer morningSky-domeA few tiny cloud-wispsOver the eastern peaksSome dappled shadeFrom Mesquite andPalo verde as weStreak throughThe barriosLike the tortoiseIn that fabled race More debris inThe dry riverbedLeft by recededMonsoon floodwatersOr just maybeThe same ol’Litter bugs Crossed the new bridgeBetween Grant andEl CaminoThen headed homeSouth into a lightHeadwind…
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Another Brick In The Wall
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)by Roger Waters We don’t need no educationWe dont need no thought controlNo dark sarcasm in the classroomTeachers leave them kids aloneHey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. We don’t need no…
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Letters Of Marque
Letters Of Marque That is ‘privateers’In other wordsPiratesSanctioned byGovernments toRaid and capture, orSink enemyCommercial entitiesShips, stores, and suchTheir frequent symbolThe Jolly RogerCrossed bones withA grinning skull atop Even though letters of marqueOfficially faded awayIn the mid nineteenth centuryModern ‘privateers’That is piratesStill ply their tradeBut they are now calledHedge fund managers I’m waiting for themTo use…
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Tui Shou
Tui Shou When practicing push handsI let my hand textures morphThrough soft and ‘sticky’ to limp toLetting my hand-blades spring outLike claws fromCat’s paws for theDecisive bloodless cut My center and bladesFlowing and dominatingThe swirling currentsOf my body’s space/timeEmbrace –LE – 7/21/25
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Late July Morning Ride
Late July Morning Ride Blindingly bright morning skyClear, but for a few wispsOver the northern peaks Pale yellow butterfliesFlit among the amarilloBrittlebush blossomsBlooming for the umpteenthTime this seasonTuesday’s monsoon watersPooled underThe Congress Street bridge A new bridge spans theBrush-clogged, homeless andTrash strewn drySanta Cruz riverbed While a lone hawkSurveys his riverbedHunting ground from aHigh bridge…
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Mr. Skin
Mr. Skinby Spirit from their album ‘Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus I raise my head in a touchy situation(Mr. Skin you know where you’ve been)Yes, I make my bed in the heart of the nation(Mr. Skin you know where you’ve been) I know it’s a trait human loveTo make all the people hollerNa, na, naNa,…
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Lies, Lies, Lies – It Never Changes – Ever!
Wrote this over a year ago… Unfortunately, it applies now, as much as ever…; -/ Brain-numbing Mendacity utter mendacityup is downdown is upin is out andout is in you going to believeyour own eyes and earslisten to your own feelingsor what our owners andtheir lickspittles tell you victims are the predatorsthe predators are the preypoliticians…
CynOp 