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NINELEVENATION...Omission Accomplished. Forgetting What We Stand For, And Calling It "Patriotism". . .
LIEGAIT--"Into The Crosshairs--Unlocked & Loaded--Prepare For Collective Triggerpull"--7ST6BA (7thSealTeam6BetterAngels)
SAME AS IT EVER WA$, Only WOR$E:
@ PUTRUMPKIN VILLAGE IDIOT NATION
POST GOP-TREASON:
A Shaken Nation Shudders
Back To Reason...
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THE SECOND SUCCUMBING (From '08 BayAreaStreet Post x The Artist General (Berkeley's Emperor Norton...)
Apologies to W.B. Yeats / The Second Coming. Written In The Final Term Of The 8-Year Tectonic Reign Of Deathstar Ye$Men, [Cheney-Bush] To Which Our Bloodied World Remains: In Gran Mal Aftershock...
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Turning and Spinning in the Widening Mire
The Congress cannot hear the Precedent;
Things fall apart; the Party cannot hold;
Sheer Conarchy is loosed upon Democracy,
The freedom-gouging tide is loosed, and everywhere
The Standing of America is downed;
The best convictions are too polite, while the worst
Are full of obtuse intensity;
Surely some Reason is at hand.
Yet there instead, the Patriot “Act”!
The “Patriot” Act!
Hardly are those words out
When an Orwelled image out of Posse Comitatus
Troubles my sight:
Somewhere in the martial curfews of this seminal Treachery
A shape with Oz-lion body and the head of a borne-again fool:
An ‘Aye’ blank and clueless as the GOP itself
Is moving its leaky Trojan Agenda, but who knew?
While overhearing guffaws & careless cheering
from the belly of the beast, that all about it now should
gather threats of patriotic fillibuster, lighting & passing torchfire.
…Wounded cowardice drops again; but indignant courage
finds unexpected stride, in the edifying irony
that a Sitting President was on his Game after all,
as if afloat, fishing! entirely untorn,
glued from National Nightmare to “My Pet Goat.”
And what Hellbent Vision Thing,
its Truthless Power come round at last,
$louches towards Liberty to be Borne?
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More Poems @: scriggler.com/Profile/michael_masley_artist_general
ORIGINAL PHOTO Posted July 4, 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/habitforming/2638856678/in/pool-828...
R-KIVES: ARTIST GENERAL'S WARNINGS / Palo Alto Weekly: "Artist brings poetic, sometimes puzzling protest to downtown" Palo Alto Weekly #Banksy #streetart #NPR www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2008/08/06/artist-brin... …
NINELEVENATION...Omission Accomplished. Forgetting What We Stand For, And Calling It "Patriotism". . .
LIEGAIT--"Into The Crosshairs--Unlocked & Loaded--Prepare For Collective Triggerpull"--7ST6BA (7thSealTeam6BetterAngels)
SAME AS IT EVER WA$, Only WOR$E:
@ PUTRUMPKIN VILLAGE IDIOT NATION
POST GOP-TREASON:
A Shaken Nation Shudders
Back To Reason...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE SECOND SUCCUMBING (From '08 BayAreaStreet Post x The Artist General (Berkeley's Emperor Norton...)
Apologies to W.B. Yeats / The Second Coming. Written In The Final Term Of The 8-Year Tectonic Reign Of Deathstar Ye$Men, [Cheney-Bush] To Which Our Bloodied World Remains: In Gran Mal Aftershock...
----------------------------
Turning and Spinning in the Widening Mire
The Congress cannot hear the Precedent;
Things fall apart; the Party cannot hold;
Sheer Conarchy is loosed upon Democracy,
The freedom-gouging tide is loosed, and everywhere
The Standing of America is downed;
The best convictions are too polite, while the worst
Are full of obtuse intensity;
Surely some Reason is at hand.
Yet there instead, the Patriot “Act”!
The “Patriot” Act!
Hardly are those words out
When an Orwelled image out of Posse Comitatus
Troubles my sight:
Somewhere in the martial curfews of this seminal Treachery
A shape with Oz-lion body and the head of a borne-again fool:
An ‘Aye’ blank and clueless as the GOP itself
Is moving its leaky Trojan Agenda, but who knew?
While overhearing guffaws & careless cheering
from the belly of the beast, that all about it now should
gather threats of patriotic fillibuster, lighting & passing torchfire.
…Wounded cowardice drops again; but indignant courage
finds unexpected stride, in the edifying irony
that a Sitting President was on his Game after all,
as if afloat, fishing! entirely untorn,
glued from National Nightmare to “My Pet Goat.”
And what Hellbent Vision Thing,
its Truthless Power come round at last,
$louches towards Liberty to be Borne?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
More Poems @: scriggler.com/Profile/michael_masley_artist_general
ORIGINAL PHOTO Posted July 4, 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/habitforming/2638856678/in/pool-828...
R-KIVES: ARTIST GENERAL'S WARNINGS / Palo Alto Weekly: "Artist brings poetic, sometimes puzzling protest to downtown" Palo Alto Weekly #Banksy #streetart #NPR www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2008/08/06/artist-brin... …