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Tag Archives: suicide
Life, Death, & Food
Anthony Bourdain used food as a way of introducing America to people around the world, their history and culture. He let food speak for itself, and importantly, let people speak for themselves. Bourdain’s Hawaii episode was the first time many … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, america, american dream, Anthony Bourdain, capitalism, collateral damage, death, depression, education, empathy, farming, food, Gaza, hawaii, history, human rights, humanity, Iran, Jerusalem, Libya, love, Massachusetts, palestine, Parts Unknown, poverty, refugees, suicide, travel, truth, Uncategorized, violence, war, West Bank, writing
Tagged Anthony Bourdain, death, empathy, food, Gaza, hawaii, Iran, life, palestine, Parts Unknown, suicide, Travel, truth, writing
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Hero
Written Memorial Day Weekend, 2009 He was broken from his glory days; the whiskey wasn’t working anymore. There was no way he’d ever change his ways; he drove back over to the liquor store. The devil had been on … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, collateral damage, death, Memorial Day, poem, Poetry, suicide, Uncategorized, war
Tagged America, american dream, death, Memorial Day, poem, poetry, suicide, war
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Johnny’s All Done Marching
Written Memorial Day Weekend 2014 (With a few lines from the patriotic WW1 song “Over There” written by George M. Cohan in April 1917. Americans believed at that time that the war would be short and the song reflected … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, collateral damage, Iraq, Memorial Day, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, veterans, war, WW1
Tagged Afghanistan, death, iraq, Johnny Got His Gun, Memorial Day, music, poem, poetry, suicide, veterans, war, World War One
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Cease
Count the reasons until you can no longer count because you no longer want to count because you no longer want or need anything but peace no silver lining, no new lease count the reasons and the seasons will cease … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, american dream, collateral damage, death, empire, fear, fire, Iraq, peace, poem, Poetry, suicide, Syria, Uncategorized
Tagged hell, Peace, suicide, war
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Fog
Trapped here in London or is it the city by the bay day after day after day after day pea soup drowning socked-in frowning downing handfulls of hope you wake up still here still live in fear still drinking cheap … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, depression, poem, Poetry, suicide, Uncategorized
Tagged addiction, depression, fog, hawaii, poem, poetry, suicide
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Olive Tree
daylight fading into evening shade tree branches swaying old record played on repeat no street lights here nothing to fear but aching feet and tired eyes havent cried in too long the records skipping mid-song just as I started singing … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, american dream, anxiety, collateral damage, depression, farming, fear, hawaii, human rights, life, memories, Olive trees, peace, poem, Poetry, rain, suicide, time, Uncategorized, Veterans Day, war, writing
Tagged alcohol, american dream, anxiety, chickens, cows, death, depression, farming, life, news, olive trees, Peace, pigs, poem, poetry, politics, suicide, truth, war, writing
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Standing Rock
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
Posted in america, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, climate change, Clinton, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, death, democracy, dreams, earth, Edward Bernays, empathy, empire, environment, fear, Ferguson, fish, freedom, government, greed, history, human rights, humanity, idle no more, ignorance, justice, Kaepernick, Liberty, life, Native Americans, nature, NFL, oceans, oil, poem, Poetry, politics, poverty, prison, propaganda, racism, Sioux, Standing Rock, taxes, Trump, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, water, world war one, world war two, writing
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, America, american dream, bigotry, bread and circuses, Clinton, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, death, democracy, dreams, drugs, empire, greed, humanity, ignorance, iraq, justice, Kaepernick, love, National Anthem, Native Americans, nature, NFL, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, Propaganda, racism, Sioux, Standing Rock, suicide, Trump, truth, war, war tax resistance, water, Water is Life, writing
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Cut My Mic
The cat’s in the cradle and the bullet wound is fatal and this soup needs a ladle get your feet off of the table stop dancing around take this pill and go to town and don’t let them get you … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, capitalism, death, democracy, dreams, fear, fire, free speech, human rights, humanity, justice, music, peace, poem, Poetry, stars, suicide, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, facebook, humanity, iraq, love, oil, Peace, poem, poetry, rain, suicide, truth, war, writing
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Nephew
Body bags, upside down flags and nametags “Hello, my name is Nephew…” I lost my mind fighting for the blue white, and red now, even I’m dead inside nowhere to run and I can’t hide the truth ignorance is ingrained … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, collateral damage, democracy, peace, poem, Poetry, truth, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, bread and circuses, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, humanity, iraq, love, Peace, poem, poetry, suicide, truth, veterans, war, writing
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Goodbye
floating, drifting mindless shifting through gears sifting through years of memories set them free let it be cut down the tree start a fire build a pyre about to expire this is the end goodbye, my friend
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