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		<title>No meant no</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote kind of a free verse / prose poetry piece that addresses my view of the current administration&#8217;s handling of government. I know not everyone is trained in decrypting poetry, so I&#8217;ll just point out that in pieces I &#8230; <a href="http://bonsaiblog.net/2008/05/29/183/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote kind of a free verse / prose poetry piece that addresses my view of the current administration&#8217;s handling of government.  I know not everyone is trained in decrypting poetry, so I&#8217;ll just point out that in pieces I am addressing the president, but in some cases I&#8217;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&#8217;s perspective.</p>
<blockquote><p>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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;ve been through who am I to ask for anyone else&#8217;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&#8217;t for the life of me understand this madness that everyone is caught up over, I can&#8217;t understand why I&#8217;m no longer in the land of the free, I can&#8217;t understand why people are holding guns up to their heads and pulling the trigger when they could swear to god they&#8217;re pointing it at the enemy.</p></blockquote>
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