Tag Archives: Wall Street

Medicine Not Bombs

They say we are at war but if this were a war we have left our soldiers without bullets and combat boots if this were a war we have left our airmen without bombs and jet fuel if this were … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, covid19, human rights, humanity, Iraq, life, MLK, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, taxes, Trump, Uncategorized, veterans for peace, war, war tax resistance, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Medicine Not Bombs

The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group

(Music by Toby Keith) American girls and American guys will always look the other way when black and brown folks die or when they see a baby crying in the hands of the feds left to sleep on the cold … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, america, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, child abuse, collateral damage, death, democracy, ICE, ignorance, Iraq, music, poem, Poetry, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, white privilege | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Ignorant American: Professional Courtesy to the GEO Group

Squealing For More

If you curse the name Donald Trump but have never heard the names William Kristol or Robert Kagan I suggest you begin to read what was written by these men and signed by the who’s who of DC’s neoconservative crew, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Squealing For More

The Gods That We Trust

We sigh as we watch  synagogues, mosques, and  black churches burning. We’re yearning for a better  world but we’re too comfortable  in this one. We watch the news it’s just reruns, cops killing unarmed black people and Muslim cities turned … Continue reading

Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, tanka, Uncategorized, Words, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on The Gods That We Trust

Supremacy White

The red, white, & blue  is still killing black & brown  to keep Wall Street green  and supremacy white. How  do we sleep so well at night?  

Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, tanka, Uncategorized, Words, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Supremacy White

Chiseled In Stone

History’s rhymes might seem coincidental but they’re chiseled in stone they are fundamental   war feeds the market and keeps it alive war is the reason this system survives   they’re still taking our bread to build death machines and … Continue reading

Posted in america, american dream, capitalism, collateral damage, drones, history, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Chiseled In Stone

Endless war is good for your stock portfolio

Most Americans have never heard of Smedley Darlington Butler. He spent over 30 years in the United States Marine Corps, and retired as a Major General. At the time of his death in 1941, he was the most decorated Marine … Continue reading

Posted in Afghanistan, apathy, barack obama, capitalism, collateral damage, death, empire, farming, government, Hiroshima, history, humanity, Iraq, money, propaganda, taxes, Tear Gas, truth, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, world war one, world war two, WW1, Yemen | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Endless war is good for your stock portfolio

Siblings

I find it amazing how so many people pay so little attention to so many wars considering that so many hours of their lives are taken from them by way of so many tax dollars so that places colonized by … Continue reading

Posted in family, human rights, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Siblings

Walking Man

The sidewalk loosely guides us as we drone along on autopilot gliding between building and street building and street building and street until the sound of honking horns overpowers our headphones and we see red hands prompting us to stop … Continue reading

Posted in collateral damage, free speech, freedom, human rights, humanity, Iraq, Jesus, justice, NYPD, peace, poem, Poetry, police, prison, racism, refugees, religion, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Walking Man