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Dear Dorothy, Poetry
Dear Dorothy

gift your ruby-studded pen
to etched papyrus and birch
free your thoughts to the ether
smoke signals, tattoo'd vapour
for the Tin Man has given up
any heartfelt aspirations
sided with the Algo Nada
feigns worship
to the man behind the curtain
studied in showmanship
illusions, side show tricks
appeals to the masses
the Straw Man is in cahoots
with the Wizard, in possession
of no real magic
lots of flash and noise
deep-fried poppy embryos
on demand
but don't you ever
the Not-so-cowardly Lion
does battle
dodging pyrite-plated bricks
lobbed from mirrored shadows
mimicking deep conversation
unicorns hone their horns
doves sharpen their talons
lest they be confused
with iridescent, but dirty pigeons
rainbows write in chemtrails
get ready to rumble
Oz feels nothing like home
but if a girl is in need of a leg up
there's plenty of over-priced stilettos
a lass will still drown
in one night only fans
but at least she will be
anchored with virtual lucre
dear Dorothy
gift your ruby-studded pen
to etched papyrus and birch
free your thoughts to the either
smoke signals, tattoo'd vapour
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And you return with a poem with a wallop, sharpened horns and talons on creatures who will fight if they must. And they must. This show will come to an end, the mythical will be born again, and the reality show called politics banished from this planet. Age of attraction. I got nothing else here. I am so glad to read you again.
It is nice to be read by you again. Yes, politics is such a pantomime. Just takes more of us to see it:)
Trump has made it easier to see for some. I point out he says and does the same type of thing he did and said when he was an actor on WWF, or WWE or whatever it was. Fake wrestling. I point this out to anyone who will listen, even if they don't want to hear it. The hardest to convince are the Trumpers, which shows the hypnotic influence at work. We are brainwashed. This interview of Jason Christoff shows how it's done, and for once Kaufman doesn't make the interview all about himself. Highly recommended! Welcome back. I trust you have been well. Sounds like it from your poem.
Remember most of what we see online is fabricated ... bounty hunters and bot shops; this has been going on for a long time. From where I am sitting, Trump has very little real support left. MAHA and the moderates don't support him anymore, and A LOT of MAGA does not support him, including very high-profile right leaning pundits like Tucker, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, even MTG. The mid-terms will show that; but alas it won't make much of a difference.
That one man has all that power is a façade anyways. We live in a corporate world. We are ruled mostly be oligarchy.That oligarchy clearly controls both sides of the aisle. We are misdirected to focus on Trump and fight each other over Trump, when it is the system itself that has been captured.
Just about everyone wants the same kind of change over all if we were to drop labels and the identity politics. Most everyday people are old-school social democrats whether they know it or not. Why would they not be?
It is the division and scapegoating that is the main tool of hoarding and power-mongering ... war-mongering. The DEMS would be doing the same thing; they pretty much did the same thing; they just would be using more sophisticated, less blunt language to rationalize the violence and control and pleny of mis-directed appeals to our emotions and virtue ... our sense of superiority. They would have us fighting each other ... they have us fighting each other. That is what party-politics does.
Trump is an old, very unpopular man; he will be there until he is not; nature will have the not come very soon; but the system will still be there when he is gone. Our hyper-focus on Trump, and other bogeymen, is one of the tools that keeps it going. To me, Trump is almost beside the point.
Just tossing off some quick thoughts
If these are involved, they portray a false narrative. I listen to none of those. Who is MTG
What does an old school democrat look like? I can't imagine any political entity as free enough to think good thoughts.
WWF WWE whatever that wrestling is called. and whatever that new weird boxing that is just as fake. Trump showed up very briefly at the most recent match. Reality show, all of politics.
gotta run!
I think you might be very surprised by what Tucker, Owens, and Jones are saying about Trump. Very surprised. MTG is Marjorie Taylor Green.
Yes, I agree. Trump is an actor.
I'll check them out. I do now and then. Thank you
I don't actually mean to encourage their viewership ... lol ... but to rather suggest the Trump mania is dying down.
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