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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Culture of Violence
Thankfully, Molokai is not a microcosm of America. Here, guns are are for hunting. In America, only a fraction of gun owners hunt. In America, for the most part, guns are about power and control. The desire for that sense … Continue reading
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Guns Aren’t The Problem…
I grew up in a family of hunters. My grandfather killed an incredible number of deer during his lifetime, and he never needed more than a shot gun. He often used a bow. If I ever hunt again, it will … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, collateral damage, education, empathy, empire, fear, guns, Iraq, Jesus, life, MLK, racism, recruiting, revenge, russia, school shootings, slavery, Syria, terrorism, Trump, Uncategorized, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
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Others Like Them
America is a nation of ticking time bombs people feeling dejected and rejected people feeling disconnected and cut off from friends and families people feeling shit on by society people feeling alone and forsaken people who have taken psychotropic drugs … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, capitalism, collateral damage, death, fear, guns, history, Iraq, NRA, poem, Poetry, school shootings, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, Yemen
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Dragging the Flag
Shaun White won the gold medal for the United States in the winter olympics in Korea and right after he won someone handed him an American flag so in the pictures of him sure to be seen around the world … Continue reading
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From Jerusalem To Jericho
Luke 10:25-37 Are we the priest, passing by on the other side of the road or are we the Levite, passing by on the other side of the road or are we the Samaritan, stopping to help and heal do … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, apathy, bible, god, Iraq, Jericho, Jerusalem, Jesus, Luke 10:25-37, palestine, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance
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They Ate Weeds
When the goats escaped they walked right past the garden, an abundance of delicious leafy-green vegetables to eat weeds. It’s not the fence that truly confines them. I won’t test this theory though. I immediately led them … Continue reading
And She Cried
There is an old woman whose husband had died and she cried and she cried and she cried and she cried and then this old woman’s children all died and she cried and she cried and she cried and … Continue reading
Posted in collateral damage, empathy, forgiveness, greed, humanity, life, love, poem, Poetry, revenge, revolution, storms, taxes, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged death, greed, life, Peace, poem, poetry, rain, taxes, tears, war, war tax resistance
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Seventeen
I was seventeen, once and now, this year we will mark seventeen years since we all succumbed to fear letting our imaginations be manipulated and we began to think we were hated by peasants we’d never met in places we’d … Continue reading
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Elegy For Fluffy
Stop this senseless violence strong against weak rich against poor this dog-eat-chicken world I can’t take any more a lot of good chickens have been eaten for fun but the dogs just keep smiling knowing not what they’ve done tried … Continue reading
Posted in animals, birds, chickens, collateral damage, dogs, empathy, family, farm, farming, humanity, life, murder, pets, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, violence, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged animals, chickens, death, dogs, farm, farming, life, pets, poem, poetry, taxes, trees, violence, war tax resistance
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The Makers The Rain
Alone in the pockmarked countryside an old woman finds no place to hide her children and grandchildren have been dying for forty years and her tears have become rivers that the clouds have taken and taken and God has forsaken … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, collateral damage, death, poem, Poetry, russia, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance
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