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My Political Poem

I'm sick of hearing the rhetoric Obama preaches, his lofty poetic and delusional speeches. He cannot conceal the delusion he deals, neglecting the real issues the people reveal. Signing NDAA and war against marijuana users, keeping Gauntanamo open, killing flies and political leaders. Heavy handed politics that suffer the starving, a declaration of a peace prize with civilian bombing. Teeing up war and a failure to connect, we need more than a poem if we're going to elect, anyone to this office, this place of power, we need real change in this critical hour.

The problem passionate people have always faced is being seen as crazy by mediocre minds.  Passionate people don't hide in the balance, in the status quo, they live at the depth and breadth of real emotion, of real experience, life is not in the middle, it's everywhere.

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Snow, like little angels who forgot to wipe their feet when leaving the clouds...

One problem with America is we want "Presidential looking" and not "Presidential Doing".

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Sometimes instead of printing documents my printer will emit noises that sound like the ghost girl from The Grudge.

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I put a light bulb in my ceiling fan for the first time in about 3 years, I usually use nice soft lamps... it's so unusually bright in my bedroom right now I feel like I'm in God's interrogation room.

America began as a nation seeking to be strong, but not to dominate. We crafted laws around our ethics, we pursued a better society for all, but somewhere along the way we lost sight of a righteous path, perhaps we never were able to forgive ourselves for the sins of the past... of a near genocide to native americans, of a treatment to african americans, of women, we instead of learning from our mistakes, chose to give up our personal power to the machines, the corporate bottom lines, where progress is measured in dollars and cents, instead of health, education and common sense. And now we are a nation that dominates and is weak, for we have lost our way... and have fashioned new ethics from our new laws, and we have sold our soul for a pocketful of sand.

The fanatical approach to religion is to believe that the word in books is the literal word of God. The great tragedy of religion is that while it is only through deep searching that questioning supplies the nourishment of freewill and liberation through which was given the greatest gift from God. For God gave us free will, the plants in the field, the company of others, the voice of song and the eye of beauty... why then do these paths deny them all by law?  I will tell you why.  Because false religions do not want you to know the truth, that we are wonderful microscopic entities in a vast and profoundly incomprehensible universe, they want you to believe that the world is only 5700 years old, everything that points to it being older is a test, that the universe was made for us, that the sun revolves around us, the universe too, that the world is flat... and on and on...

But we learn.  God gave us these gifts, what is your excuse for squandering them?

Boycotting the LIKE button... this is the natural next step... first  I hated people liking their own posts, you posted it, we know you like it.  Now I'm boycotting the LIKE button altogether... if I like what you're saying, I'll respond to it, like a human being, with my words, and my time and energy... I refuse to be a part of a society that regurgitates experience into bland and flavorless bytes... let's be real, let's share our thoughts, not our clicks.

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It's an important thing to learn to be enriched in times of nought, so that we are not slaves to our luxury when times are rich with harvest, for some day we are all faced with an empty road, and must look upon the face of God, and in that moment, we will have nothing but our memory of that which is not swept away by floods of praise and condemnation, the grass, the dirt, the clouds in the sky, we'll all turn inward, embrace what love we've been met with in this brief and wondrous life.

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We've set a dangerous precedence, and the chickens are coming home to roost in the murder house. Have you noticed that ever since casey Anthony was found not guilty, a lot of stories have been surfacing about missing children?

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You know what they called an organization in the 1930s that took a percentage of everything you made to fund their personal wars?  The mob, and ours makes sures there's plenty of booze too.

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New adventures in the realm of beards... a mustache is designed to make a man appear maculine, image-wise, actions should show that, not facial hair. That aside, a mustache also helps filtration into the nostrils, but if you eat right and breathe right, you won't need the help, and so the mustache is simply a douchey tool for the lazy... shave your mustache, it's holding humanity back!

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You ever notice on MSNBC, when they are about to show a report with their distinct and distractive bais they always introduce it thus, "And now, your report"... as if I've been waiting all day for this, as if I had some hand in it, as if since it's mine, I will shut off my mind and just relate with anything they say... no, this is not my report, this is your report, I'm not taking any credit in it.

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One thing that kinda blows my mind about TV, yes I said TV, being able to PAUSE live television, that's just crazy... Back to the Future was on HBO tonight and I can pause it any time I like and the DVR takes over seemlessly... sorry yes it's tv, but come on, that's pretty awesome. I remember the days of VHS and rec ording music on cassettes... this new technology is kinda cool sometimes.

We started with 25, now we're 42, we have a common enemy, we have a common goal, to be awesome, aware, to spread information and joy. Right now we're a small fire glowing in an endless night, but soon we'll race across this land like a wildfire and when we're done, burning 7 billion times hotter than the sun, the collective power of the global community will be heard in the heavens.

Occupy Wallstreet is our sister city, we are it's online family. Sharing information, caring and educating, pointing at doors that lead to liberation. Keep meeting like-minded individuals, invite them to the group, invite your cat, the baby hedgehog bathing in chemicals, invite your mother, your brother, your sister, your lover... not because you want them to feel obligated to something they don't understand, that you don't fathom, but because we want them to thrive and for sake of their children, and for their children's children, and all living things, we can become the open sky the birds fly through, free from tyranny, and free to soar.

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The Hardest Situations...

Today I was volunteering at the Cleveland Children's Clinic, when a mother brought in some liquid detergent and bottled water for her 9 year old son Michael... I asked her if she's tried Biokleen because it does an amazing job, doesn't use chemicals, problematic plastics etc... and she said to me, why? My detergent gets all my clothes clean... I was about to tell her how the chemicals in the plastic containers, and in the detergents and so much of what we use cause cancer, but I stopped myself when I realized her son was in the clinic being treated for cancer. I didn't know what to say, I didn't want to make her feel responsible for her son's illness, but I wanted her to be well-informed to help her son get better, and for herself and others... so I simply said it's better for the environment and doesn't do animal testing. I left there and I cried. I felt so sad, so transported by this pain, this weight of what we have become and where we are as a people... it's overwhelming... I didn't know what to do.

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Many clothing items you buy in the store that say something like this on the label: "Proceeds from the purchase of this item goes to help children in need" or some kind of charity... are you sure? If you bought that in a big store and it's a name brand item like a Kathy Gifford outfit, for example, those items are made by children getting paid next to nothing in horrible conditions... it's a marketing scam... research everything you want to purchase, before handing over your dollars... knowledge is power, and this power will change the world.

Do you think outsourcing is helping those third world economies? When workers get paid pennies which iosn't enough to feed themselves, let alone their families, they cannot contribute to their own economies and so the economy remains third world, exploited, slavery on an Egyptian scale, just with safe distance to allow us to turn a blind eye.

Cancer is killing everyone we know and love because of the chemicals in nearly every product known to man... stop supporting them with your money, stop feeding the beast and it will die... so that we may live.

The same things I once loved I now see as formulaic recreations, soulless distractions meant to mollify and acquiesce.  Where once lay belief, only ruin.  For I have seen across the Great Divide to the land of possibility, and the cold and robotic entertainers at the cliff's edge can do nothing to distract me anymore from what I know to be true: That we are at war, fighting for our right to be a free people, and only the vigillant who don't lose sight, who never surrender, will build a bridge of hope across the abyss between the poor and the rich, tear down their kingdom, and bring the riches home, to sweep across this land like black and white turning to color, a rich seafoam, a warmth where once was cold, a lush green living domain where once only desolation... for I have seen the reckoning, and I am the pale rider.

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It's easy to thoughtlessly judge without question because we are told how things are by people we trust who have been done to the same by those they trusted, until a rosary of poison chains all of humanity to a lie that is whispered in the halls of power and disseminated to the masses creating a perfect and invisible prison that people call freedom and will fight to protect... and we call this prison America.

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It is currently snowing in San Francisco... this is not simply a weather update... this is pointing right at what I would call indisputable evidence of climate change. If you know anything about Bay Area, California weather... like I grew up there, I never saw snow in the Bay Area for the 25 years I was there... the weather in California has steadily grown more erratic in the last 10-15 years... is this a natural cycle or is this something more?