Category Archives: Standing Rock

Only The Bible Is Allowed To Be Sacred

Posted on November 9, 2018 by soitgoes1984

Not even with a thirty meter telescope will we be able to see all the damage done to the ‘āina already we won’t see polluted aquifers and an ailing reef we won’t see the monk seals and turtles laying on … Continue reading →

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Life & Death: An Ode To Water

Posted on October 11, 2018 by soitgoes1984

  It’s finding a spring just when you’re dying of thirst, hope amidst despair   though it’s a false hope just as you’re quenching your thirst you taste the poison   you lay by the spring hoping for an antidote, … Continue reading →

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FIRE

Posted on June 10, 2018 by soitgoes1984

Smoke signals have been rising    Hiroshima for some time now.    Nagasaki We ignore the smoke    Korea but there it is    Guatemala as plain as day    Laos but we relax    Vietnam when we hear    … Continue reading →

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Remembering Dr. King 50 Years Later

Posted on April 6, 2018 by soitgoes1984

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” On April 4th, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly spoke out against the war in … Continue reading →

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We’re The Elves

Posted on January 10, 2018 by soitgoes1984

Blaming the president and not ourselves is like blaming santa and not his elves   We’re all to blame   They keep controlling us with fear so we pay our taxes year after year   We’re all to blame   … Continue reading →

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National Day of Mourning

Posted on November 17, 2017 by soitgoes1984

You don’t have to be a student of history to find the truth behind all the turkey and football games. The truth was buried at Wounded Knee, and is silenced in federal prison cells. The truth is in the pieces … Continue reading →

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Collateral Death

Posted on August 31, 2017 by soitgoes1984

if you kill me and my family and friends and neighbors I won’t care if you do it with chemical weapons, or if you do it with biological weapons, or if you do it with nuclear weapons, I won’t care … Continue reading →

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100 Proof

Posted on August 14, 2017 by soitgoes1984

bottles fired break bones more than bullets or bombs ever do   then replace bottles with bibles and believe we want whats best for you   test for you pass or fail pail full of ashes and nails   no … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock

Posted on September 23, 2016 by soitgoes1984

Standing on this rock all alone looking glass shattered can’t find home can’t escape sticks and stones thrown by a falling Rome names don’t hurt when Redskins flirt with victory the Missouri doesn’t flow to the sea it flows through … Continue reading →

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