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Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

The Demon Haunted World [Today's News Poem, April 25, 2010]

“A grenade attack apparently targeting the Bangkok residence of former Thai prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa, an influential ally of the ruling coalition government, has injured 11 people.”
– ABC News, 24 minutes ago as of 8:18pm PST, April 25, 2010
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/26/2882782.htm?section=justin

A candle in the dark ignites
A fuse that flashes insight:
Alone and mortal, free to spite

Our consciences with reasoning;
With science, pain is easing—
Grenades provide the seasoning.

Kabbalah's sparks aren't just for Jews—
Its flame is just the produce
Of fertile minds that pick and choose

Which way insanity is clad.
At best a type of monad
The universe has driven mad

And cast adrift on quantum dreams,
We're chemicals that burn and scream
Against the nihilistic themes

Of nothingness perhaps. We fear that God exists
Inside our minds, that we are it—the horror twists
The intellect into a force we can't resist:
Irrational is rational. We must persist.

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Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Eightfold Path [Twitter Found Poem, April 25, 2010]

Tweets+Edits= #twitterfoundpoem
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shut the f*ck up and listen to what I have to say.
#SometimesItsBetter to think before you speak
but usually it's so much better to fight
Buddha! was a wimp
Hate IS love.
What drives two sides to fight but the fear of their own weaknesses?

Don't love. buy hating.
Buy Iraqi oil sector growth
Buy war bonds.
Prison Guards marry & #Rape Virgins Before #Executions
Give peace a chance ?

war Virgins should just shut the f*ck up and listen
to the sound of musical cluster bombs
while they look at cheap produce
at teh Korean supermarket
Before they are raped &
executed a By Firing Squad of Stoned #Rape
Golems while praying to
Buddha!

#SometimesItsBetter to admit defeat

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Take One For the Team [News Poem, April 24, 2010]

Take One For the Team [Yesterday's News Poem, April 24, 2010]

“I have never quite gotten the Pat Tillman story out of my system. Only now am I understanding why. It has been six years and two days since he died, his head blown off amid a pile of rocks on the side of a hill in Afghanistan, murdered by guys on his own team, other U.S. soldiers. After lying about it, the military eventually called it friendly fire and treated it as a mistake... I was looking for tears, when I should have been looking for facts. Dannie Tillman did what a nation full of high-paid, overblown journalists should have done. She went after the real story while the beautiful people on TV and the nerds with notepads broadcast and wrote morality plays.”
– Bill Dwyre, The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0424-dwyre-20100424,0,1036733.column?track=rss

Who cares what Plato; Lao Tse said
When Rumsfeld's lies are cast in lead?
The Pentagon's a pentagram,
The Internet's the telegram—
The noble lie is just a lie.

A general must first be sly
To win his war with hearts and minds.
The bullet's just a contract signed
To seal the deal, to back the line;
To backdate steals, to strip the mine.

And if a lord becomes a pleb,
He'll tangle too in warfare webs
And feed the beast with fangs that gleam:
He signed his life for sake of team.

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LATE! I know. It's done. First Announcements

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2) Even though I'd like to strictly be a vehicle for poetry, I'm embodied. It was a busy day. So sorry for the late news poem. I'll see if I can make it up later on today after some sleep.
3) The Toylit Q1 Report is almost finished. Then you will have a different avenue through which to express appreciation.

Okay, news poem time.

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