Jalapeno Peppers

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“just can’t participate anymore!”
then along comes a common cause
removing the bad-news-daily
from the hands that hold the tears
“now i know why Tom could not stay”
suicide is not illegal
unless you only threaten
then they take you away
lock you up and push the pills
the same pills that make the keepers zombies
should they succeed in making you like them
you are […]

Nineteen goddamn years is enough. I’m sorry if you don’t like my language, but when I think about what they did to Paul Kompkoff, I’m in no mood to nicey-nice words.
Next month marks 19 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped its load of crude oil across the Prince William Sound, Alaska. A big gooeysmallalaksaoil.jpg load […]

who made it known
human life does become unbearable for some
and we are of that some that someday may find ourselves in those shoes
how did governments take over the power over who shall live and who shall die
and take this power away from the individual concerning their own death?
Bushites HAD to prove to Russia, but more, […]

.you git a 180 degree turn around from Rush Limbaugh
how many times can the New York Times
shoot a boomerang
without looking at the results
Republicans united?
what do we play when there’s no one to play with
when is a Reese Cup sweet enough
when it’s tsunami time and too much water
falling like rain drops and Bill O’Reilly pulls out
old […]

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Hill proffers “Words are just words”
and Bam counters, proving
words are not JUST words
words that are in the Public Domain like:
“I have a dream”
“We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal”
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
Words
we all have learned the hard way, worth repeating are
THOSE words worth xeroxing!
CHANGE […]

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The world’s eyes are upon Texas,
Live at 6 p.m.
The body language tells the story
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape us,
This night, he will not be moved
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CNN.com today’s “Quick Vote”
The New York Times story about John McCain and a lobbyist is:
a) Newsworthy 30%
b) Smear Tactic 70%
Who you jibbin’ news pundits?
The Only person that gains from this story is John McCain*
It degrades New York Times
It hints at a Democratic dirty trick when
in acutality Obama nor Hillary
have any need for a smear […]

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he says Obama should go to Kenya
proving his diplomatic talents
before the ‘08 election
and he would vote for him
basically saying: Obama
before you have the power
of the office of American President
Obama could go there.
and he could get killed
and media will frenzy
and the killers will expect
another 44 years of conspiracy theories
when another “new found evidence”
will produce letters of […]

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you didn’t bring me flowers
i kick down your front door
you wouldn’t let me steal your oil
i spilled it in your drinking water
oops! it spread into mine too
killing birds and snails
oh no - no escargot!
Don’t blame the French
they know a hornet’s nest dormant
will pack a punch when kicked.
sorry the woodsmen are buzzing
near your sleeping head at […]

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snow in the desert
sweet smell of water before drinking
tobacco smell in its native form
puma cave flu-sleeping
comes the time of creating
snow angels in the mind
remembered.
pro sports lose evidence
of their cheating
pro politicians lose evidence
of their illegal acts.
thank the light for pink
the yellow-green of Springtime
still holds promise
where the dead horse lay.

15 million 400 thousand googles
how many suicides, instant or slow
“can’t take it anymore!”
all the trained experts
over cliented, understaffed
drowning in paper work
fail and flail
heart screeching WHY?!?
“It’s the free market baby!”
they brought ‘em all children
taught ‘em
“Stifle your emotions!”
how else to turn ‘em into killing machines
how else to colonize gaining
slaves and natural resources
alas oh would be owners of […]

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the war between race and religion
or the war between race and women
the top dog chunks of the Dems
and Reps are wiggle-wagging.
nightmare scene:
Hillary vs Mitt
Obama vs Huckabee
here’s a daydream scene:
Kucinich vs Ron Paul
imagine them in a real debate
where personality is never an issue
they both agree there is too much
corruption and too little scruples
including state welfare and […]

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gone and dead from the sky
ain’t hearin’ nobody sayin’ good-by
Orion
what happened to your right shoulder
missing now so long?
are the eyes of the world so down cast
no one’s looking up anymore?
to busy missing sleep
busy busy little bees
oh don’t we remember
down on the bee farm
the keepers of the bees warn
“if the last of the honey bees will […]

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caution love…
when sex becomes a restriction
hormonal releases become an addiction
no they won’t stay down on the farm
dopamine mitochondria
diabetes of the brain?
Hugh Downs will sell you a book:
“Ultimate Healing”
oh Ponce de Leon how you live
to try again
for incarnate immortality!
there once was a lady named Sally
she slid down a rope on her belly
the priests couldn’t save her
instead […]

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for shame you ol’
boggieman religions
scaring us to bejesus
in burning hell
with indelible sin
marked upon our soul
then along came Daniel
the heart of lion
with smiles and giggles
wide as the world
and everywhere he went
he did a smile plant
now planted in my heart
indelible

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when hope is all there is hang on
we are all little people when it comes to counting votes
we are all we have in our home town communities
any volunteers for a cleanup committee?
do we hear the sound of our own voices in our chosen leaders?
ha and ah ha you say we have contradictory voices
oh say can […]

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before the water carrier new moon
night time mares of Hillary vs Huckabee
mourning the shadows over a vs.
Huckabee - Obama
Idaho and Kansas 10,000 miles away
from Missouri and Arkansas
hell water and the higher ground
Katrina underscored our belly of poverty
deep deep in Appalachia New Orleans
and it didn’t grow poor in only 7 years
dash hope light candle hold on
hand […]

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following the day of Super Bowl
reported as “Giant surprise:
New York stuns Pats”
what will be our giant stun today
the eve before a political primary
is the time when lies are spun
with no time to refute them
how many times
have we gotta go thru this cycle
soak, bleach, wash, dry, iron
take the close pin from our noses
hang all - […]

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Editor - I have attempted throughout my life to give a voice to the voiceless, hope to the hopeless, encouragement to the discouraged, and options to the cynical and complacent. From Northern Ireland to Sarajevo to Latin America, I have sung and marched, engaged in civil disobedience, visited war zones, and broken bread with those […]

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You say we can never be independent of you
because you have great churches in Kosovo?
Another line drawn in the sand
How many fences does it take
to divide all the land away from the people
how many border fences
and fences around the neighborhood
nobody can talk over nothing
my way or the highway
don’t want to hurt feelings
by saying goodbye before […]