Tag: Ethics
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Mid April Morning Ride
A Mid April Morning Ride bright blue skya circular roll of cloudsaround the Tucson basinlike the city just blewa giant smoke ringwhich rolled ever so slowlyout to the four square horizonsending in a marble skyby the return home not many on the Loop todaya few morning dovesalong the wayand a few spandex-cladbikies in a hurry…
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Not Convincing?
Not Convincing? too much hatred and vitrioltoo much finger-pointingmaking me numbinglyuncomfortable index fingers pointing atwhatever-whoeverwhile remaining fingerspoint back at the point-er but who really is to blamelooking into any reflectivesurface will show you whoshould partake in the shame we need cleansing fire or raincleanse this infested pyramidup to the top of the chainwhere sit the…
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Sorcery Is Us
Sorcery Is Us we’re all would-be mageschoosing our words carefullyto achieve desired effectscreating spells and incantations sorcerers selecting words and phrasescarefully using poetic devicesrhyme, alliteration, and metaphorto conjure power and much more the very invention of languagesbut human sorceries, rendered incantationscreated societies and civilizationsgenocides and desertifications homo sapiens innate predatory natureexpressed in languages, lethal products…
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A Morning Ride In Early April
A Morning Ride In Early April – Tucson Loop a hazy sun burned through gossamer cloudsabout eleven o’clock in the eastern skywhile iridescent blue backdroppedthe Tucson Mountains not far west started slow, only a roadrunner, a cottontail, and a skinkthen, almost too quickly, the crowds emergedspandex weinies, walkers, and joggers galorehardly any space between the…
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Save Our VA Protest – One Year Anniversary
Save Our VA Tucson Protest 4/10/26 – One Year Anniversary Three of us anchored the picket line at the Tucson VA’s Ajo gate for the morning shift change. We arrived at 6:30am and left around 9:45am. This was the one year anniversary of the Friday morning, Save Our VA Tucson protests. There was a rally…
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Everybody Knows
Everybody Knowsby Leonard Cohen Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows that the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich get richThat’s how it goesEverybody knowsEverybody knows that the boat is leakingEverybody knows that the captain liedEverybody got…
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Meditation On My Oldest Son’s Birthday
Meditation On My Oldest Son’s Birthday He turned 51 todayBy that ageI’d already burnedThrough two marriages Had started a newRelationship eleven monthsPrior to my fifty-firstIt’s still going strong I wonder how his life experienceCompares to mineOn this, his fifty-firstFrom the outside He looks just fineBut then againSo did I, but I wasn’tThat took lots of…
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No Do-overs … Nor Un-do-s
No Do-overs some old people complainabout where they endedin their journeys around Sol saying, if they had it to do overthey’d choose different directionsmake better decisions; but I beg to differ all things being equal (same conditions),everyone does the best they can, given theirknowledge and circumstance-compulsions no matter their committed determinationtheir lives would proceed just…
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The Medicine Man
The Medicine Man Dr. Hand, the medicine manPokes and prods with needles and wandsMakes poisons stinky and strongEmpties your wallet with practiced ease Especially the ladies – so gullible and sweetHe loves them all – so happy to meetPuts his spell on them – teases, pokes, and prodsTheir purses so fine – opened one by…
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Save Our VA Tucson Protest 4/3/26 – “Good Friday”…
Three of us held the line again at the Ajo gate of the Tucson VA for the morning shift change. There were also about a dozen protestors ouside the 6th Ave. gate. But for a few pale cloud-smudges on the southern horizon, the sky was pristine, and the rising sun was bright. No redshift on…
