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on freedom
our choices lie before usour fate determined by those availablea woman scrabbles in the streetpanicking to retrieve cardsthey are blown along the paving in the rainsome spin into a gutterno one helps herwhy would you pick up a wind thrown tarot card lying at your feet?what might it portend?passers-by choose to step carefullynot one wants →
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South Main Street, Memphis TN
531 South Main StreetPineapple cider and a burgerCome back tomorrowWe don’t close ‘til after twoI had been to the Lorraine MotelRead the storiesSeen the roomSuch injustice when all MLK wantedWas justice for people of colour tooI left that place tearful angryAt what had gone beforeStumbled into Ernestine + Hazel’sNeeding some foodCame out filled with hopeErnestine →
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on Ukraine
US cluster bombsfragmented moral high groundindiscriminate ~ n.b. What other disgusting inventions are being picked out of the warehouses of the industrial military complex in the name of freedom? CLP 08/07/2023 →
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on Iran
young people have lostfear of authority’s fistnew freedom riders ~ n.b. During my recent travels in the US I saw a statue of a woman sitting calmly. I saw the image repeatedly: in the Capitol in Washington DC; in Memphis TN; in Birmingham AL. The woman was Rosa Parks. Her determined protest, to sit where →
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on music
never walk alonewith hope in your heartsIranian blues ~ n.b. Music-maker, Shervin Hajipour; poet, Mona Borzoi; footballer, Hossain Mahini; all arrested for voicing protest at the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa had been arrested for failing to meet the strict dress code for women in Iran. She died three days after being →
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on Ukraine
the year advances fasttilt of Earth shortens each daylight fades in men’s eyes ~ m.b. This pointless exercise moves toward full cycle and at what terrible cost. CLP 03/10/2022 →
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on Independence
freed from monarchyeveryone responsibleLiberty Bell tolls ~ n.b. Beyond words. CLP 04/07/2022 →
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on time
BOOM!I have time all over my handsit runs between my fingersI walk through Sunday stunnedby the smell of the riverthe humidity of the airthe taste of rain in the breezepeach blossom in the citya bumble bee, as big as a thumb,nosing into a crocus, bending the stalkbusy drinking, as I am free to doif I →
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on freedom
options unboundedsimple needs confused by choicechaos surrounds us~ n.b. Some needs can be met by local services we just want to work properly, (e.g. schools, hospitals, trains, water supply, power supplies), other needs are more of a challenge. We are all different from tip to toe and one size can’t fit all and in England →
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on payday
all those hours used upwhile outside weather happensmeaningless tokens n.b. Herzberg was right, hygiene factors, such as the work environment and pay, are nothing more than satisficers. I look at my salary statement and think, I am giving up living for this, just so I can afford to live? ~ CLP 20/11/2021 →
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