when they are over they will be over
\nwhen enough masters remember
\nthe past of being a slave
\nand all our revolution leaders
\nwho cop’ted newly acquired power
\ninto dictatorship
\n(how close are we Mike
\nto a democratically elected
\npresident dictator?)
\nAs a species
\nwe know our history
\nof gory (not glory) war
\nhang down yer head Tom Dooley
\nnow look back upon the splendor
\nas a species we’ve created
\nit took both master and slave
\nto create the Great Pyramids et al
\nthe product awes us
\nbut not the production
\nOur master\/slave days will be done, Michael
\nwhen equal means what it means
\nnot “some more equal than others.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
when they are over they will be over when enough masters remember the past of being a slave and all our revolution leaders who cop’ted newly acquired power into dictatorship (how close are we Mike to a democratically elected president dictator?) As a species we know our history of gory (not glory) war hang down … Continue reading “When Our Master\/Slave Days Are Done, Michael?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}