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Monthly Archives: March 2015

Prepare for Peace

26 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Bill Watkins in Poem, Poems, Poesia, Poetic Blog, Poetry, Political

≈ 1 Comment

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Joy, Love, Military, Peace, Police

Peace13

Police, paramilitary and Military training
that I’ve seen forget a key
course, the most important lesson
of all to take into the world:

Knowing what to do if no one
or nothing is wrong.

If all is quiet, no crimes are being
committed, no borders breached:

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
IN TIMES OF PEACE?

I fear (prayer the remedy)—better yet,
it concerns me, the gung ho nature
of violent training, “preparing for war”
and “violent criminals shooting their
guns.”

As depicted in Apocalypse Now and
W. Bush carrier landings, the hoopla
and hype and “excitement” to go to war,
to use training to kill

is sick.

But that’s okay God love you anyway,
just learn how to organize twenty-four
hours of Peace. Difficult, I know!!

Takes an alcoholic at war with himself for years
to understand the compulsion
to seek and destroy, to find some “safe
place” apparently made safe by guns
all around you, but then you forget Jesus
who said “live by the gun, die by the gun”—

you’re painting a target on your heads sons
and daughters…

***

I know he said “sword” not gun, by the
way I’m not totally dumb, I used
to be scared and run, and figure that
if I “got you” before you “got me”—
well, then, I was living…

Ten percent of those who go into
police and military should be trained
for the worst.

The other ninety, give’em to me, to
Peace, to helping other nations, ours,
to being of service.

You have to learn to take one on the cheek,
and give them the other one to hit,

BECAUSE THAT IS REALLY SECURING

World Peace, friends

De-Corrupting Politics

26 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Bill Watkins in Politics

≈ 4 Comments

Tags

Joy, Love, Peace

Ay Dios mío, como dicen
debajo la frontera, mi tierra
hablo de mi gente, disfrutando
el día, debajo debajo debajo—

El sol de triunfo!!

Paz, libertad. Bailamos el rumbo!!

***

Politics? Really?? Yes indeedy, it starts
with an idea, but recently it’s been squashed
by me, me, me—and this desire to
get elected, be famous, get paid—

What happened to the community?

To service?

Oh, my bad, wait—is this the self-service
line? Ah, yes!!! Selfishness!!!
We’ve strayed from service, this is
a mess, Politics prey to the same
psychotic temptations to do evil
as any child approaching that bar-b-que
beer left out on the table unattended,

Pick it up!!!

***

Clean it up!!

***

We can do better, it’s a decision we
make each day to change or fix
what’s broken.

Any institution that murders and covers
up like in 1963, November 22—where were
you?

Me, I wasn‘t born yet, but I can read now
and watch TV. Enough to see when media
spins past evidence and testimony to give you
the solution and easy answer that allow you
to go about your business, thinking those
in “power” (big quotes) are basically okay,
business as usual, never mind Jackie’s PTSD,
it’ll all go away, what’s the matter with secrets
anyway?

Well, they kill alcoholics to begin with,
but let’s keep to politics and define it
for a moment, the way we’ve been corrupted
to define it, on Google:
1. noun: politics:
the activities associated with the
governance of a country or other area,
especially the debate or conflict among
individuals or parties having or hoping
to achieve power.
***

I’m almost speechless. I did not
make that up, it’s on Google this
day, March 20, 2015.

It’s hard to move on, but I guess we should—
let’s indeed run from Google, if
that’s the best they can do here.

POWER?!?!!? Laugh out loud, O.M.
Gosh, I’ve seen a lot of Power in my day,
but never from Politics. God, Higher
Power, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes,
The Seasons, Mother Nature, the Stars,
the Galaxy, Infinite wonder—this Universe
beyond reach….

And then we talk about the president of
the “United States of America?” This country
by uninformed called “the most powerful…”
(I can’t even complete that clichéd phrase, it
makes me sorta’ sick!)

Let’s calm down, newbie USA, we are one
of the youngest, brashest nations in
the world to be sure. But the…. “Best???”

‘Scuse me I just puked. I digress, let’s get past this
stupidity and just call our ignorance
ignorance, or at least a big case of
ethnocentrism.

And I digress again to say that
the farther we fall from Galileo’s
renaissance, the closer we stand
in chaos.

And the closer we study the God
of outdated Darker Ages, the sooner
we’ll have peace.

Or visit China in 600 BC. Lao Tsu,
writing a poem, knowing he could
never change the world…

But he tried anyway.

Let go, and yield to nothing. Give
all you got… Wave, sink, float—
vote…

And for God’s sake, let us pray
and aspire—something not religious
but auspicious of properly placed
aerobic undressing of distress
in capitalist marketplaced devils
in sheep—
the goodness in us Grace to keep,
so say thanks, as the wave
passes by overhead. Real Power,
real force—

Peace of mind awaiting only effort,
so show up and let our kids vote.

Ideas don’t have ages, just reasons,
suns setting late, daylight savings
almost as big a joke as Dulles on
Warren, a publically-funded library
dedicated to the king of Watergate!

The Coup of 1963, the last of many
foul cover-ups in the way, let’s stop
the shooting for one week.

Even police and military training

Gosh the birds are heard, ground planes?

Ahh, politics of, for and related to citizens,
so therefore to the corrupt: Good bye,

you are revoked, because…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and Women] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just [blessings] from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its [blessings] in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

DE-Classify TODAY!!!!!!!
LET KIDS VOTE
MAY IDEAS, not Money and Solicitation
Win Political Seats…!
***
Outlaw Private Campaign Spending!!

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