The filthy rich drop to their knees

The filthy rich drop to their knees
And scrub and bleach the dirty fact:
Their lucre ignores the tired pleas
Of the bent worker’s aching back.

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The time was Abraham, and the Tower of Babel

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The time was Abraham, and the Tower of Babel
Was built to honor the cries of every idol.

Nimrod had fattened the many gods whose hunger
Was a frightful clamoring, and drunken rabble.

The State was all-mighty, and had empowered desire
By which to rule little lives with a rogue fable:

Nimrod is like unto God in wisdom and stature-
None, not even the One God, is as strong and able!

Khalil, the Friend of God, sent two mosquitoes to
Buzz inside the Giant’s ears. He collapsed in rubble.

The many gods now cry in anguish, but Bin Laden
Laughs: sacred history scripted his great lust to kill.

Nimrod struggles to find his feet. Darvish waits
For the Friend to drive all the gods from Love’s table.

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We shout as cracks widen under our feet

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We shout as cracks widen under our feet,
Shards of glass fly along the broken street.

All the many promises we promised to keep,
Pile into one another in a bloody heap.

Eyes wide shut stare at the falling ground;
Feet climb the air and earth can’t be found.

All this a premonition of the anxious mind:
We are transfixed by fears that undermine!

Death is no small disaster to our ego-fiction,
When each frame suffers review and elision.

The I-Maker is our brilliant original sin;
Every subsequent lie is second rate spin!

Darvish can’t improve on his enormous falsity:
Too many fears fracture Love’s sweet Unity.

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Look, Rick Perry can fix it:

Look, Rick Perry can fix it:
He’s a master of bullshit.
Texan swagger blesses heaven,
Even if God looks craven.

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Ten Questions for The Chairman and Trustees of The AMBPPCT Concerning The Memorial Spike

1. How did Baba’s desire for a Memorial Tower mutate into the concept of a Memorial Spike?

2. Did the Chairman and Trustees participate in the design and selection process?

3. Was there a selection process? (How many entries were submitted? etc.)

4. Was the public, in any way, invited to participate in this process?
(By way of submission, review of and comment on submissions, etc.)

5. Was the design and selection process in any way discussed or debated, privately or publicly, between or among individuals? What was said?

6. Do you know what I’m talking about?

7. Does the Trust believe in due process, especially concerning matters as important as the commissioning of a public monument by order of the Master, to honor the service of individuals to the Master?

8. Does this conversation embarrass you, and why?

9. Do individuals have the right to ask, and receive answers to, such questions?

10. Do you believe that the Eternal Beloved dropped His body to live in the Hearts and Minds of His lovers forever, and that we- the community of His lovers, now represent His Wish in this matter and other matters that concern Trust integrity?

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The full moon rises and the sun sinks

The full moon rises and the sun sinks.
Now the time for perfect doublethink,
But for the myriad sharp eyes that
Snicker, and shamelessly wink and wink.

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Emerson walks and talks just fine

Emerson walks and talks just fine:
He reads the Vedas for breakfast,
And invites new Brahmins to dine.
The vigor of his table outlasts.

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What price the lie that cuddles pride?

What price the lie that cuddles pride?
We cannot hide a frightful stare.
The mirror cracks and shards slide
Over hands too red to compare.

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I am the Great Khan!

“Wild, blue heaven of pony pounding plains-
I swear by the breath of my annihilating name:

No man loves the purity of eternal azure
Like the Great Khan! May the Sky bless your pain!

Grace of arcing sword and gifted arrow are mine;
Manliness that kisses loyalty is my proud fame!

Not I , but the adamantine blue of perfect mood
Compels me to crush all that is weak and wanes.

I swear by the trembling orphan’s spirit of iron,
That all Light and Power support my domain.

God and Earth are one Love to me. Both exalt
My sovereign rule that considers all men the same!

I am the Great Khan, and my arm can stretch
And reach five thousand miles to prove my claim!”

Darvish hears the wind carry this song down from
Long ago, still loyal to the dust of the Khan’s remains.

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I read how our Judeo-Christian values are under attack:

I read how our Judeo-Christian values are under attack:
Cruz is alarmed that because of sharia, they’re about to crack:

“There is a plan, by satanic legal means, to revive the Caliphate,
and impose Islamic rule across the land. We must fight such hate!

We are facing a mortal threat to the survival of freedom, in fact;
now is Not the time to be polite, but to keep our Nation intact!

They will never turn the other cheek; this is an evil that commands
we blind their ambition with rhetoric, and smash with heavy hand.

We have a contract with Christ and all the redeemed, to renew;
our forbearers would clap with approval at what we must do.

This Righteous Nation will rise once again with mighty resolve,
purified of the dark and foreign menace of fanatic wolves.”

Such was the drift of Cruz and friends on the campaign trail;
Darvish is whirling and howling with scorn at such a fairy tale!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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