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Cannon Fodder
When all else fails (and at some point it will), so all that’s left to us is simply talk, the victors will be those with basic skills for making idle words seem like a walk through all the rhetoric and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged attention, daily poems, fatalism, history, nonsense, poetic forms, rhetoric, sonnet
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The answer: a 20 questions poem
What’s the point? Is there some reason why you ask? Do you really care? Does anyone really want to know? Why does it seem to matter so much? Who do we think we are? What difference does it make, anyway? … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged daily poems, epiphany, NaPoWriMo, paradox, questions, rhetoric
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You Could Change: tanka
You could change the world if just given half a chance; why are you waiting? It really doesn’t matter once the moment’s gone away. You could move mountains if just sincerely inspired; what more do you need? It doesn’t really … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged action, activism, change, conviction, Japanese verse forms, NaPoWriMo, poetic forms, rhetoric, tanka
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Blue Monday
I’ve never met a President, I doubt I ever will; In recent years, the only likely one for that was Bill. They never seem to be much like the people that I know: they have more money, that’s for sure, … Continue reading
Dear Kleenex
As of late, there’s been a commercial advertising your products that runs a little something like this … A man with a shaven head (not tonsured, but completely shaven), wearing maroon robes very similar in style to those worn by … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged advertising, exploitation, humor, Kleenex, religion, rhetoric
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The Art of War on …
Poverty, Illiteracy, Hunger, Drugs, and ultimately what I’d like to address, Terrorism. Does it appear to anyone but myself that our great “national” causes (that we cast as decisive “battles” since Johnson’s Great Society and its War on Poverty) deal … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged causes, communication, mass media, national agenda, politics, rhetoric, Sun Tzu, terrorism, The Art of War, war
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The disembodied politic
Sometimes I wish it wasn’t so that I’m a Democrat Perhaps if things were different it wouldn’t come to that But as it is I often wish the slate could be swept clean And then I wouldn’t have to choose … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged America, democracy, partisanship, politics, rhetoric
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