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1You want schools to teach that your way of life is correct (and that dissenters are in the way of progress) , 2you want the government to shut down religious charities that do not bend to your lobby, and 3you want free speech erased for those who oppose your agenda.
1: Yup
2: Yup
3: No, but I do want them to have to take a pill that makes stupidity very painful so that they only way to get over the painfulness is to get SMART
Wut U sed...
...I am exactly the reason you (and your ilk) should start thinking about getting with the program and realizing that your intolerance is your doom. How much nicer for you it will be to sit down at the table with the tolerant fags, dykes, mothers who've also required abortions -- name your previous victims-of-the-month -- than to have to sit across the table from me (and my ilk), who think the guillotine a great invention.
This is from my 1996 poetry collection, "Life Flight" (currently unavailable)
What We Could Do
To begin there is fire,
snickering its red hot
into forests and churches
at a thousand places
on a given night
while the people sleep.
It's possible.
Radio towers
sticking the sky
itch to topple
while bridges envy
the water below
its gravity.
Dams and courts could be blown
at precisely that moment
the transformers fail
and malls close for good,
the public statuary cart off
in the dark and melted down
to be otherwise utilized.
We could raid armories
knock over bamls
capture the governor
take prisoners
kidnap
plunder
loot
and further defile
the public weal.
If we wished we could
excrete in the pulpits
and kill Jesse Helms
while wearing fabulous gowns,
cheap wigs and camouflage
makeup,
each stolen Wonderbra stuffed
with secret missives
from Queer Headquarters.
What we coulddo
is go burning
into the night
killing innocents
to deliver the message.
And you know what else? This is how it feels to be the target of your brand of hatred (yes, it's hatred, even if you deny that). Playing with fire might cause burns...
(From the same collection)
Felonious Words for Jesse Helms
This is for you.
This is a threat.
I want to brand
the word 'faggot'
on your forehead
in capital letters
so you know how it feels,
chase you into deep water
with no ladder
and no rope,
burn you
to a thin grey spot
underfoot and Jesse
you shall not come
from that fire alive.
Write these words in stone.
I am dreaming
I am gnashing
rending
breaking
hanging your bones
from my belt
drum
dick,
cackling at your
choice screams
asI do you
and the sending forth
thus exposed
into your suffering.
...I learned to hate. It took a virus which removed 1,500 or so names from my rolodex to do so...and folks like Verses
"Therefore it is impossible to reason with you."
Like it's easy to reason with a neolithic hill-tribe mentality...so how is standing upright working for you since it seems to be new to you?
If he had lived.
The Hands
It would be easy to remember
your skin as if
whatI touched had been
fine, white porcelain
painted delicately
with some summery pattern,
painted carefully
with even, loving strokes,
each spot a rose
or perhaps cranberries.
A simple matter
of memory correcting the fact
of those daily visits --
the requisite emptying
of bed pands and laundered
sheets--a sort of penance
for what now has become
tired relief with the
announcement I clipped
and which sits
in the brass bowl
you brought me from
your (almost) last trip.
It would be easy to forgive
you your dying.
That finalride home and
the terrible manner in whch
your body disappeared
while I watched,
my hands worrying over you
for utility in a kind of
disinfected intimacy.
But I cannot excuse
the disease or make amends
for the way I look
at my own two hands --
the good left, the good right --
never without thinking of you
anywhere but in that
final deadly bed
and the clean, cool rags
washing time from your skin.
Kill yourself.
...your suicide is really quite a pleasant prospect. Do it now.
There are no souls. Cognitive organs don't work that way (try learning some Neurobiology).
The sooner you conclude your wasted existence, the better for those with minds. A .44 should do nicely. Ropes are also good. Lacking either, many household cleaners can do the trick.
...that a large, round bright object overhead in the daytime at a distance of 152,097,701 km at its greatest provides heat and light.
...they are also going to take away his Aricept and his Micronauts action figures.
Re: savings rate
I don't think that the savings rate would include anything place where there is an element of risk. That's not really saving, but gambling.
My big question is how they know about the jars in the back yard!
RE: "...when did Yasser..."
I think that was for his early work culminating in the seminal research document "Analysis of the Effect of Projectile Velocity on Flesh".
You betcha!
...or early vote bribes? We have to find out how those kids he was in the sandbox with are voting so we'll know if that was his secret hidden kinder-care agenda!!! He PROBABLY gave Valentines cards to the WHOLE CLASS too!!! WILL IT NEVER STOP?
...that Barack and Michelle have a TIME machine, and intend on going back and revising the Balfour decision, then heading further back to 1189 with a shipment of Blackhawk helicopters for Saladin...
Man, it's gettin' purdy scary...
...I have no idea whether there is any veracity to the currently circulating rumor that Obaman's Kenyan grandmother was, in fact, a secret love-child of Leon Trostky.
...I suspect they will be mandatory RETROACTIVE abortions.
...does anyone have access to the archival footage of Obama and Ayers at Columbine? I've lost my copy.
...all that damned sand.