I wrote kind of a free verse / prose poetry piece that addresses my view of the current administration’s handling of government. I know not everyone is trained in decrypting poetry, so I’ll just point out that in pieces I am addressing the president, but in some cases I’m addressing the role of government in general. It also contains punctuation but is purposefully not separated by any periods. If you want to know how to read it it goes at a continually faster rate and increasingly frantic from the narrator’s perspective.
Is it my faith you seek, because you already had it, or was it just my simple starry eyed admiration that you wanted to keep with your propaganda machines constantly telling me over and over what my ideals are and what my beliefs are and who I should hate and who I should love and who deserves the war that we bring to them, only because they have brought it unto themselves in the first place, is it that or did you just want me content as you went on your little rampage taking me for granted, trying to keep me in a coma as the chaos ensued around my hospital bed but you kept my ears plugged and my eyes covered, well, you tried but somehow I got the remote and turned on the TV, and even with the poor reception I saw what you never intended me to see and what you never wanted me to hear, and I saw how you deceived me and I heard the illegitimacy of your lies and suddenly my mind was clearer than it had ever been before and I was simply a slave and you were my master and the whole situation was no longer something innocent it was a rape of my innocence and you were over me panting and I still had it in my head that no meant no but there comes a point when your voice just stops working because you’ve been screaming so much and through it all you never heard me you covered my head and did you work and somehow everyone else looks past me and looks to you and supports you and I shout out again for help but people tell me to be quiet and I look in your eyes and wonder how I could’ve been one of those people who told others to hold their tongues when they cried for help and I wondered how I was the one who saw your bloody hands and somehow managed to be silent when mothers screamed that their children were being slaughtered and after all I’ve been through who am I to ask for anyone else’s help, who am I to expect anyone else to listen and suddenly the responsibility is falling on my shoulders because now I sit back and do nothing as your followers bow and bow again, defend you as the blood pools around your feet, fight for you as the blood pools around the world, and they just keep on chanting in time with you and I can’t for the life of me understand this madness that everyone is caught up over, I can’t understand why I’m no longer in the land of the free, I can’t understand why people are holding guns up to their heads and pulling the trigger when they could swear to god they’re pointing it at the enemy.
And Conservatives are already preparing a counter case to strike it down.
Honestly though, what does it hurt? This is just about as moronic as men striking down women’s rights in recent history, or looking back, the South supporting segregation. Or just look at any idiotic motion to support any sort of discrimination at all throughout history.
Gay marriage does NOT affect straight marriages AT ALL. The biggest complaint I’VE heard is that people will just do it for tax breaks. Well you know what? There are a great deal of white (majority) straight (majority) couples popping out kids for welfare money. There are a great deal of straight couples that can stay married just to get tax breaks. Is this a game of who can outsmart the government and who can’t suddenly? Frankly people who would do this sort of thing are going to find a way no matter what.
Seriously. These people look like monsters. “Ok, yes, this is the land of the free. But what about FAMILY VALUES?!” Yeah? What about them? Last time I checked this was not a country that was supposed to have a government influenced by a SINGLE religion, let alone any religion at all. The founding fathers did NOT approve of that model and that is what we ESCAPED from in England. He who fights the monster must becareful lest he become one. America, observe said proverb. In fact we make a big deal about the Muslim government in middle eastern countries…yet we’re fine with being hypocrits.
I think at some point during my travels abroad I saw how backwards Americans really are. No wonder almost every other country in the world hates us. There’s a reason folks. I’m not even sure if we can reverse the pervasive ignorance around us.
Grow up folks. Intolerance was so 1800s. We’ve made it through slavery, we’ve survived through women suddenly wearing pants (GASP- THE HORROR!), we’ve stumbled through Japanese internment, now we just need to jump through the recent immigration discrimination and the treatment of homosexuals. I still think love is love and people are people.
From the beacon:
To the editor:
I just want to say a BIG thank you to Representative Steve Drazkowski and his work on health care.
America has the greatest health care system in the world and if anyone has their doubts, go to Canada or England and they will tell you how they have to stand in line to get to a doctor. When a friend of mine from Canada told me that she had a problem with hemorrhaging and the doctors told her to get in line and she said she was so “thankful” she could come to the states to get help. How much blood can you lose before you are dead?
Well, it seems under government controlled health care you can die and that’s just too bad! I am so thankful for people like Representative Drazkowski who has some common sense and really cares about people and not just an agenda like so many do today in government.
E. Salzman
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Then also also a Mr. Ed Nobach has again proven that some conservative people have their heads screwed on backwards. He constantly assaults Democrats for the country’s problems, completely ignoring the fact that Bush started a useless war or decimated our economy or destroyed public relations, etc. It’s irrelevent who caused the problems right now because we have to remedy. I would GLADLY vote for whatever party has the most comprehensive plan to restore America to what it should be.
Democrats vs Republicans is not what is supposed to be going on. We have parties in this country so that citizens have more choices in a democratic process and the party not holding office has the responsiblity of being ‘watchdog’ in government. They were never meant to be good vs evil or, even worse, actually HINDER the political process because they cannot agree. We’re all here to work for the betterment of our country so I would say people should start acting like it. Both parties may have different ideas, but that’s part of the process and how things become refined throughout the process with input coming in from both sides. And hopefully the end result is a more balanced piece of legistlation that represents the most people possible.
It is completely irresponsible to start mudslinging from any party to any party. That makes YOU part of the problem and can only delay a solution. If people stopped and took time to actually use their brains to construct something together then perhaps our world would not be facing so many crisises. Instead we all see to like to get what we want and we all want to be right. But what’s right for us may be wrong for everyone else.
COMPROMISE. It’s a bipartisan term.
