Although the Chinese philosopher Li Yuang said that "When little men cast long shadows, then surely the Sun is about to set". But the well-known and chilling phrase "Beware the Ides of March" is of course found in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:

Caesar:
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.

Sooths...

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To Glucksmann, this no longer fits with Trump’s current policies. The U.S. president is taking harsh action against immigrants, among other things. Since his inauguration on January 20, thousands of migrants have been arrested and deported to their countries of origin. The U.S. rapprochement with Russia in the context of the war in Ukraine is also likely part of the background to Glucksmann’s dema...

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Well, you’ve had a glimpse of heaven and it’s opened your mind,

Now let’s get back to earth where the deaf lead the blind.

On our ancient shores there’s much confusion

With human detritus in much profusion,

Migrants, floods and industrial pollution

In our virgin rivers, lakes and oceans.

With social unrest and wild forest fires,

There’s cyber warfare and chemical wea...

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The kowtowing of billionaires like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Altman, Soon-Shiong and even Mickey Mouse to Donald Trump is a chilling indictment of power’s moral decay. Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, dared to expose this disgraceful subservience in an unpublished cartoon for The Washington Post, only to see her work silenced by the very institution meant to champion free expression—owned by J...

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for democrats everywhere,

Nov. 2024

General alarm: the inside

of the machine is very dirty,

and although we thought

the optimum temperature reached,

still the light hasn't come on.

We assumed we were

plugged into the mains,

but the descaling procedure

has failed; the water retains

its hardness, and because we're not

correctly positioned, we have to adj...

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SCARLET TRIANGLE

Desperate bid

For re-election

Social media master plan:

Twist public perception

Of who the real

Public enemy is

The real dangerous mob

The real security risk

"And you shall know them

By this distinctive sign":

Scarlet triangle

Inverted design

Bright red as anger

Hardly concealed

Bright red as blood wrath

On these stree...

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STILL NEVER SAW A FRAME

The upbringing and circumstances
Beside agenda in current kinetic papers
Aside from that power
I can see where the speech is from
That mountain peak overlooking freedom
Directing instruction less care of precise
Extinct mountain birds hold piece of the net
That last centimeter between hyperspace and normal Earth
Even here parasite by watching me further
Control ...

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One day I will not need to wear glasses

Because you have smashed up

All hope in my eyes

One day I will not wear glasses

Because you have stocked up so much hatred

That we have all become blind

One day we will all need to wear…

Very, very, dark glasses

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Half-Asleep

The street light casts a shadow on the bedroom wall through
partly opened curtains and for a moment I see Adolf Hitler
in silhouette and I know it’s my imagination but the truth is, hate
in an orange face scares me.

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amerikkkan trilogy v.2.0 (MUSIC VERSION)

can be listened to on the following link)

https://soundcloud.com/the-man-at-the-back-1/amerikan-trilogy-v20

(1) USMF
When the KKK and the Kremlin
Are sharing their vodka and rye
When redneck mutherfuckers
are making Lady Liberty cry
When The land of the free is walled in
So pesky Mexicans can’t get by
That’s the day the rest of us
Watches A...

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Here we stand 'twixt mighty walls

Which once were feared by one and all

Today the bravest swordsmen's face

Jeans and jumper have replaced.

We're here for artists on display

To banish thoughts so torn astray

By Donlad Trump & Theresa May

Of meanness, cruelty and shame 

And all that humans do complain

And therefore just for a while

Replace our thoughts and hidden smile

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A thousand flasks,

residing in heaven's den,

engraved with white masks, 

with thousand souls of men.

A thousand plans,

with a particular thrill.

There are no forms to fill,

to join Ku Klux Klan.

Those thousand flasks,

contain soul of men,

who weren't white men,

killed by the white masks.

David Duke is one of those men,

Whose throne is that of d...

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Saint Hate

The day he prayed to Saint Hate

was the day he lost his soul,

spat blood on the pavement,

pissed on the homeless,

broke bones for fun.

The day he prayed to Saint Hate

he surrendered his humanity,

lit a candle to the little god

who sat upon his shoulder

adding weight to the chip.

The day he prayed to Saint Hate

he put on the white hood,

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USMF

When the KKK and the Kremlin

Are sharing their vodka and rye

When redneck mutherfuckers

are making Lady Liberty cry

When The land of the free is walled in

So pesky Mexicans can’t get by

That’s the day the rest of us

Watches America die.

When the Whitehouse houses a bigot

A misogynist ‘locker room’ fly

When a multi-billionaire

Stands for momma...

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Here is an elephant.

He knows not of what is going on

or how he got here. Neither do we.

He divides opinion, like the foul stench

of an onion in a warm room.

Some chant of its values,

smell only what they want.

Some simply cry.

The elephant fixes his tiny eye

on a mate.

“I’m gonna grab that cow by the pussy

with my tusks,” he thinks.

Followin...

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America
Don't give that man your tears today
Though it's dark now you'll find a way
Now is the time to laugh, sing and create
Throw the bile back at his tangerine face
I call on the punks, the poets, the artists, the revolutionaries and the visionaries, don't let the spark be snuffed out in vain
Come together and show him how you'll make yourself great again 

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They're building a wall on the border.
They question which God you revere.
The military men have their orders
to weed out the liberals and queers.
The nation is ravaged with violence.
His critics are seeking asylum.

The U.S. lies in ruin - go figure 
why the wider world is gripped with fear:
President Trump has control of the nuclear trigger.

He's ripped up the free trade agreements...

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I don't often post on this poetry blog but I feel so strongly about this subject, I had to share it.

Dear Donald Trump

Dear Donald Trump, the thought of you as the next Leader

of the Free World makes me want to hurl. 

Has America lost her mind

to even consider a racist, sexist buffoon

who hasn’t the sense to spend a sliver of his tax-free billions

on decent hair...

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From the front of the conference room

He wraps us in a voice born of the pulpit

Buttery and gravelly and low

He floats down from the makeshift stage

Tells of the flying fish

Gives us magic sunglasses

So we can see through water

He's here to talk about new eyes

To see what under(lies)

He's selling a new language

In it, we write our morality on the wall

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