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Tag Archives: violence
Grow Up To Show Up
I want to start a revolution. How about this one: Grow Up To Show Up (G.U.T.S.U) I’m pretty sure most of you are really tired of hearing about deadbeat/absentee fathers and the children who grow up without them; this worldwide … Continue reading
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Tagged absentee fathers, addiction, alienation, community, compassion, crime, family, honor, integrity, respect, responsibility, sexual slavery, sexual violence, violence
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honor you, honor me
I know you know how it feels to have him crush you into the pavement with his words and his anger, only to scrape you like something he stepped in, scrape you off the bottom of his boot. Your innate … Continue reading
Evolutionary Plateau
The city requires armor. A multitude of suits I’ve tried not a one of them will fit. My fingers of flesh and bone are not stilettos. No shit kickers laced into boots, no steel bulges from the breast the thigh, … Continue reading
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Tagged aggression, armor, asphalt, beasts, belly, bone, brazen, bulletproof, careless, city, commentary, contemplation, evolutionary, flesh, grid, home, humans, miscreants, pain, paint, plateau, poetry, prose, steel, stilettos, violence, weep
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The Gazelle and the Moody River
She had hair the color of Rye Whiskey and her eyes were moody rivers fortified by storms. He was a gazelle in a clown suit with a tempest on his knee. He bounded in, she rose up and together with … Continue reading
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Tagged beatings, clown, coffin, commentary, contemplation, funeral, poetry, prose, storms, tempest, violence, whiskey
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pawns, peasants and slaves
Imagine this: the concept of owning a slave surfaced like a boil on the face of the planet 12,000 years ago. Certainly it was not when bipedal males of the genus Homo habilis were developing stone tools over 2 million … Continue reading
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Tagged acid throwing, amendment, ancestors, bride burning, cheap, collaboration, collateral damage, commentary, conflict minerals, contemplation, corporations, debt, debt bondage, dowry, egalitarian, eve teasing, evolutionary, fear, global, historical, homo habilis, hunter/gatherer, IMF, institutionalized, interdependence, itinerant laborers, Jesus, landowner, legacy, marriage, mates, matriarchy, military campaigns, money, Neolithic, nomadic, offspring, opinion, patriarcy, pawnage, peasants, pimp, poor, power, prostitute, recycle, sex trafficking, slaves, societies, soil, subjugae, survival, taxes, violence, votiing rights, wealth
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Pride and Governments
I’ve done a lot of thinking over the years about systems of government and I’ve come to one conclusion: they ALL fail to one extent or another. Why do they fail? There’s a myriad of reasons; surely, some are specific … Continue reading →