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Tag Archives: coersion
Don’t You Diagnose Me
You know, so much of what we’re sold is happy horseshit designed to soften our resistance to a lie: that you are where you are because that’s right where you belong, and your life will all get better, bye and … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged acceptance, Big Brother, blues, coersion, hypocrisy, institutions, mass media
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By Faith Alone
Religion is not the enemy; it is just a tool employed by those who would control and those who seek to rule by any means to make it seem as if this world is just a dream. It’s not great … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged coersion, ecumenics, evil, faith, power, religion, subjugation, tolerance
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Your Right
for Merle Haggard I’m an easy-going guy as far as that’s concerned I tend to only simmer where another fellow burns Let live and go on living is the lesson that I’ve learned I only ask for the same in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged bullies, coersion, communication, cooperation, Merle Haggard, parties, resistance
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What price a pawn
What price paid by a pawn who makes, if merely by sheer luck or chance, its way through fields strewn by mistakes in focused, single step advance to the far end of what it knows, where all the trappings of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged coersion, control, daily poems, games, hierarchies, leadership, power, sacrifice
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Death of a Circus Lion
His speech was almost poetry; I say almost, because to claim such subtle acts of sophistry as conscious art is to enflame the ire of critics, who exist with their sole purpose to decry encroachment on their world as lies, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged circuses, coersion, control, daily poems, exploitation, genius, irreverence, language, power
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Against a Greater Evil Than the Dark
I do not fear what terror comes by night and would with malice trouble fitful sleep; such bugaboos may cause a moment’s fright, but fade in cowardice as daylight creeps. More brazen ne’er-do-wells parade by day, and mask their ill … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged charisma, coersion, commercialism, deceit, falseness, fear, hypocrisy, terrorism
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Immersion
How long have I been down, immersed, a Dunker left beneath the wave whose new birth was to wash away my meaningless and lost before? And whose strong hands upon my head still hold me under, when they swore to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged baptism, coersion, drowning, salvation, satisfaction, spirituality, submersion, submission
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