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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

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Questions

Who in the world is it that we’re waiting for the earth keeps spinning round there’s no one coming to our door   What in the world is it that will make us care and realize that there’s no such … Continue reading

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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

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Piss & Plastic

We’re walking on the water and swimming through the air we’re flying through our days now we’ve got no time to care   We’re higher than the Rockies and deeper than old bones we’re burying humanity with eyes glued to … Continue reading

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Same Parade

The best way you can  honor our departed sons, daughters, brothers, and  sisters is to become a  war-tax resister, don’t pay to send any more  of our loved ones off to war don’t buy the bullets, the bombs, and the … Continue reading

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Lucky We Live Hawaii

We’re lucky we live Hawaii, must be the vog though ’cause we can’t see turtles and monk seals dying and we can’t hear Kanaka crying, and we don’t have a word to say when it’s independence day in this land … Continue reading

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Comfort

Sending Comfort to  Venezuelan refugees  not the millions we’ve  long been creating every- where we please. Why do we send  hospital ships there but bombs to Doctors Without  Borders everywhere as if the sun’s glare makes the  Red Crescents look … Continue reading

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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?  

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And The Ocean Would Stand Still

Some days I wish the moon would disappear and night  would bring a darkness  unseen and the ocean would  stand still as glass and the stars, the whole universe  would be right there floating on  the water, so close  that … Continue reading

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I Shrug

Sometimes I’m walking around the farm and I feel something touch my arm and I look back and see a spiderweb destroyed by me and, having destroyed something so beautiful something so incredible having destroyed so much hard work so … Continue reading

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