YOU ...are Wall Street ...
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Posted:Apr 20, 2011 8:22 am
Last Updated:May 19, 2024 9:32 am
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I'm sure that you have heard at least a little bit,
in the news,
about the budget battle,
about the debt ceiling.
And I am sure
that you have seen occasional updates
about the traveling cloud of atomic particulate
slowly circling the globe
entering the food chain
milk, and water...
after the disaster in Japan.
Here's what they have in common:
There is an excellent site for documentaries,
called topdocumetaries.
(Just type that in google, and it will lead you there.)
Now,
after April 29,
many may disappear,
because google is "getting out" of the video posting business. Well,
not really,
since they own youtube also...
In the section called 'Economy"
you will find a PBS produced series
called "Commanding Heights".
It is three 2 hour long segments,
I recommend all,
but here I direct you to the third one.
This will show you the tsunami
of New World Banking,
and the wake of its malfeasance.
1992.....NAFTA
1994.....MEXICO devalues the peso
1997.....THAILAND devalues the bhat
.........MALAYSIA
.........INDONESIA
.........KOREA
1998.....RUSSIA
.........LTCM (USA) the FIRST U.S. bailout
.........BRAZIL
...and in each of these cases,
the local currency devalued
in relation to the U.S. dollar.
The IMF was called in,
to bail out the economy.
Foreign investors
were mostly the recipients
of these bail outs.
Sound familiar?
Third World countries are,
to the bankers...
called "emerging markets",
and they are the prime target
for dividend for fund managers,
responsible to
their "shareholders"
If you have a 401K,
or a Mutual Fund,
a pension fund....
someone is using
the accumulated power of your money,
to drive these massive profit takings
from countries
enticed by loans,
and promises of prosperity...
to "join" the Global Economy"
And while you can see
Pepsi
and McDonalds
pop up there,
what do we see of them....
here?
Keep this in mind
as you rail against corporate America,
and Wall Street.
They are killing these people
with YOUR gun,
which is why,
to them,
you are wholly responsible
to pay taxes
to make up the difference.
It's all about...
SECURITY
YOURS
Less than a quarter of Americans hold a passport, and I can assume that a similar percentage actually look out the portal and watch what happens "over there".
...here is an opportunity.
One thing to remember about tsunami's.... they don't just hit you ... once.
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a dying era
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Posted:Apr 5, 2011 11:23 am
Last Updated:Apr 5, 2011 12:50 pm
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I guess I'm ready
I'm going to go to a wake
of an older Dago fuck
(hey, I Capitalized it Phil,
lay the fuck back down)
He was a Produce guy
... like me
I used to sell him...
and the old joke was
we only needed Two Friends
for pall bearers
(only two handles on a trash can)
'cause to a produce guy
to "eat it" meant
it went bad
you couldn't even sell it
to Soulard...
RULE NUMBER ONE:
You're first loss...
is your BEST loss...
So, He was my neighbor
He owned the lot next to me
and I offered to buy it...way back when
and he told me
"FIFTY GRAND"
"That's a good price..."
And he gave me his best gypsy eye
but I'm Hungarian...
so I told him
"Well, it is
for SOMEONE..."
And I gave him a gypsy smile
as I walked out...
A Hungarian ALWAYS trumps another wanna be...
... the years went by
and they were so not good
for those
that sold to the WHO's...
and also
not for the WHO's
that sold
to the restaurants
Discretionary spending...
became very
discretionary.
This is why THEY
blame the "decline", ... on US
I bought that lot from him
about a year ago.
Others in the "hood"
were snooping,
and I had to...
My access is from the side...
And my five dogs need the turf.
I paid three, plus expenses
(, title company.. all well worthwhile...)
500 less
than my house runnin neighbor
who was bidding
and even with the gas tank in the ground
which...
the other bidder wanted to be
a factor for subsidization by the seller...
(fuckin wanna be's/...)
I won.
And Phil, true to his nature
was no help.
He wanted cash,
and he would hand me the deed..
I swear,
(I am sure)
...he had no idea where it was...
and
he surely had no idea
how the City and State just insist
on being informed,
about property transfers for TAX purposes.
IRONY?
What he did have?
was a in real estate...
I told him,
after a week of research
buying forms etc...
and then he resorting to call her...
"Phil,
we could have done this last Monday!!!!!"
That was Phil...
He served in the military,
played damn good ball
laid a lot of women
and was a cheap screw prick,
and was NEVER wrong.
Irascible character...
is how I notated his online guestbook
and yes
I will miss his laugh.
He was a friend....
and when I go to this wake
I will no doubt see
also
the death of the part of an industry
that I
as a small honest hard head
used to RUN...
My items were mine...
I dictated price
City wide...
(forgive my false pride...)
My Uncle worked with me
used to cover up his notes
when someone came in...
I said
"Vince, forget about it...
NOBODY is willing to work this hard
for so little..
we're safe..."
I did over a million a year in sales
for 9 per cent max... gross
I am now unemployed...
I sit here without hot water
a glass of vodka and water
a heater under my desk
and a passport,
and a globe within arm's reach...
They help me dream.
and I am going to a wake
and tomorrow ...
a funeral.
No wonder I finally feel like writing...
United will be there...
United Fruit and Produce...
and last I walked their front walk
when I was a "buyer"...
(somebody)
every orphan from all my past customers
now since closed
had a sales book
in their pocket.
I cannot tell you how left out I felt
Where one might think I would feel victorious...
It is as if Purgatory
was filling up
and maybe?
I was going to hell....
The graveyard of business
is Mr. Potter's back yard....
I once held a mis-sent check from United
for almost a year.
They received for Dierberg's, a high end chain grocery,
and a customer of mine...back then...
and I delivered, among other things
three flats of blackberries
that United "took"
used...
short item, they looked "good"
to someone...
United sent me a check
for my whole ticket amount
once whatever tic toc clicked
as to their offense...
cleptos aren't usually math savvy
I knew it was off
and I pinned it to the wall
The biggest wolf, making such a mistake..
But I am no wolf...
Finally a woman called for it
after almost every customer of mine
(that also dealt with them)
BEGGED me to TAKE THE MONEY>>>>
I asked for my loss...
she said
"You can't keep that check"
I told her, I have it here
I haven't cashed it...
but I surely have proved I can keep it...
We literally did
a hostage check exchange
and I can say
that United Fruit and Vegetable
NEVER
got over on GEO LOUIS MAKLA INC.
may they all
Rest In Peace
Goodnight Phi
I'll be coming with Vickie
our neighbor
and yes
she does find it interesting
and even friendly
that the last time you called her and begged
for sex talk
that she may have been
your last orgasm.
What are neighbors for?
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IDEAL-ism .................a work in progress
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Posted:Apr 2, 2011 9:16 pm
Last Updated:Sep 13, 2011 7:32 am
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WHAT
is an IDEAL?
and more importantly
WHEN...
is an IDEAL?
the FUTURE
is a fog
that swallows
the PAST
the PAST
is a swamp
we crawl out of
into the PRESENT...
and the PRESENT
seems unbearably long
and not quite,
a gift...
Of the three
the hardest place
for an IDEAL to be...
is the PRESENT...
Why is that?
Evidently,
one must never SPEAK
to an IDEAL...
..not these days...
It seems to be
a form of leprosy,
and both the vision,
and the visionary
cower upon the inevitable
rebuke
from less sighted...
THEY...
the less sighted,
ridicule
from either side
committed to allow... no middle
no PRESENT
No place
NOW
for an IDEAL...
I don't refer here
to THEIR version
of IDEAL...
the catch your breath
in your throat
a few tears
because THEY know your chemistry
as they paint Disneyland...
or passion's romance
those passive moments,
on a screen
you watching
I have seen
IDEAL...
whether because
I am not
or because it is
what I believe in
I can't say...
but as an artist
I always knew
(I say this now)
that I could neither
hold it
(for long)
nor depict it graphically.
It is my smile
that I touched it...
and maybe
no other's
but I know this
I BELIEVE in it
I saw it...
no matter what,
the other two
times reflect...
"WE All HAVE to draw a LINE in the sand...."
MIne?
I will always look for IDEAL
and I WILL
see it again
maybe even often...
as a glimpse?
I bet it will be you.
..and you...
...and you....
WHAT
is an IDEAL?
How do you know
that somewhere in time
and in another's mind,
that it is not
YOU?
trust me,
it could very well be...
no matter what.
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New Year's Eve and a BIG ole MOON!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted:Mar 17, 2011 10:44 pm
Last Updated:Apr 2, 2011 10:10 pm
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What if
God
is some kinda JAZZ
that you may
or may not get?
you get parts...
enough to get you
dancin
and needing more space...
and you have
NO way of knowing
when you
Might....
Know it all.....
IF!!!!!!
(even)
tuber hint
Grateful Dead - 12-31-1977 Winterland Arena
Off ya go now
I'm still lost
and need
to concentrate
but still.....
if FEELS so Amazing....
whaddaya-do????
Or do you think about it?
WHEN?
( I mean....come ON!!! right?)
do YOU
think
YOU
can play...
????????????
And
if you feel it pass through you
know its beauty and love
and what price
do you serve it
and
Fade Away.......
you.....
Rock Star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(????????????????????)
Love is invisible
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bypassing fast trains, but I know what I saw
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Posted:Mar 17, 2011 7:52 pm
Last Updated:May 19, 2024 9:32 am
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I saw your light on
on Facebook tonight
I couldn't jump in,
not knowing what's right
I wanted to cue
without thinking, I do that
at any clue
that you,
exist.
But it isn't guaranteed
that your open to smalltalk
life has it needs,
its "safe" ports of call
and there's no way in hell
that I
encompass it all
so I wait.
As I feel
it as is
But
just in case
my destitute twin
you are as directionless
as I
and would let me in
just say the word
and we'll shiver
and grin
a few revolutions
Just never think...
I wouldn't want to!!!!
The world is too old for that...
Chivalry is NOT dead
and shivering is a poor substitute...
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What is...
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Posted:Mar 2, 2011 4:48 pm
Last Updated:Mar 9, 2011 5:53 am
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If the TSA
grope or scope
wasn't bad enough
if you still even opt to fly
they now want to
scrape your cheek
with a swab...
They want to
check it against
which is it?
the uncatalogued?
or check
your DNA
against possible threats to the
Homeland?
How in the world will that be effective??!!??
Every baby born
is in the Genome file.
Their specific DNA is on "file"
Where are we headed with this?
WHOSE Homeland?
and DEFINE security...
If the funders
of the Genome Project
just happen to be
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
from the Eugenics days
of 1890 on...
originally started
by the Rockefeller and Carnegie largess
to resolve the problem
of newly freed slaves
and immigrants...
to decide who should reproduce
and who should not...
and which evolved into
Planned Parenthood...
If Cold Spring Harbor
was the FIRST library of
individuals personality and heredity traits
with an intention
to strive for Progressiveness
which was an eye on the future
and who should BE the future
and who
should die on the vine...
If evening television
has us rooting
for the technology of drones
able to take out a Western made 4WD
barreling down unpaved Yemeni roads
with a single miracle shot
from the heavens
the new
SMART BOMB...
to save the Saudi of a prince
from some heathen radical Muslims...
When
do we actually admit
that we are subservient
to people of bloodlines?
To people who have the power
to enforce their idiomatic beliefs
that THEIR seed is the chosen?
We have been here before
and at a time
that gave rise
to much political
and philosophical thought...
of this evolves
Camus vs. Sartre
Of this
rises the intelligentsia of Europe
confident and consolidated in belief
that to combat the "fascia"
that caused this brutality...
to support
and overlook...
to allow the brutality
of a Lennon, a Stalin, or a Pol Pot...
This
is the root
of
"the lesser of two evils"
TRUTH
There is no lesser
there is only THEM as a greater
and US as a lesser
in this polemic.
And I say
that I
am with Camus.
Sadly,
most are not.
Most do not see
that each step in blood,
towards unwitting malevolence
is a sin...
rather
they claim
to be pragmatists
and preach that
the ends
justify the means.
Would you kill a baby?
if you knew
it would grow up
to be Hitler?
So to those
I will propose
my solution
to the inequities
of slavery,
to fascism
to suffereing
and indeed... to genocide.
Any aware of this practice
must be abolished.
It matters little on which side
your awareness placed you...
for knowledge of the evil
gives it harbor.
THIS is
the epitome
of
the ENDS
justifying the means...
Ironically
in its obverse
this IS
Eugenics
Planned Parenthood
Cold Springs Harbor Laboratories
Genome Project
otherwise,
one must allow
the path
of Camus
the path of
the stranger
the plague
and the rebel.
The path of suffering
and the absurdity
of trying to understand it
trying to master it...
we cannot.
We can only meet it
with as much of us
as we posses.
The scale at the end of life
that our souls are placed on.
Like a stone on a hill
we can only
change its present position.
Or
we can abandon the stone
and of course
it is all downhill form there...
The Myth Of Sisyphus
We will see a heat on this land
in the next two years
that will convince many
to move....
in motion
fight
rather than
in conviction
stand,
and maintain
move.
It is easier to kill
the winning is tally able...
But I tell you this
If you need an enemy to win
then your fight is not just
it is just a fight
and it is just for you..
................
Having not been selected for jury duty just recently
I will tell you, as potential jurors
what two and a half days of professionals could not manage...
as a juror
your default setting, is "innocence"
All are innocent until proven guilty.
The state
fallible,
and on occasion
wittingly or unwittingly
malevolent...
will present a case.
IF
the case is made
at that time, you may decide.
IF
the case is NOT made
by default
you are NOT judging
but rather remaining
in your default position.
It is not a given
that you are to decide.
You decide
if the measure of
"beyond a reasonable doubt"
is attained.
I will not confuse you here
will "Jury Nullification"
It is enough
that you are aware
it exists.
but...
Best way NOT to be picked?
Speak your mind.
I watched
the most disinterested
sleeping through it woman
picked...
and she scuffed her heels
and body languaged her sweatsuit body
up into the panel
screaming her contempt.
THAT
could be YOUR judge....
Pay attention to your heart
and soon...
temptation is coming.
We went up two flights to the cafeteria awaiting the decison
I shared a table with two black gals
and the black guy who was next to me on the bench
and heard my comments...
maybe I post them below
He grinned
'YOU ain't gettin picked!"
He was right.
You are on your own folks
unless you have the "blood"
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8 days in
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Posted:Feb 23, 2011 9:55 pm
Last Updated:Feb 23, 2011 11:16 pm
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Egypt
slow response
We can't say
but
VIOLENCE is BAD...
ummm
aren't we kicking the shit
out of sand dwellers all around there?
and WHY the fuck
can't we sat DICTATOR
without a bunch of ummm and errrss
and STILL nod no...
Freedom is for other people
the new customers
you know
like the really good rates for cable
of cell phone service..
not for you...
faithful fifteen year payer of
unnamed taxes and belligerent overcharges...
and that is because
once your a slave
you don't NEED to be cajoled...
So, Ray McGovern will NEVER get an apology
He will be contacted privately
and told
that he can, and WILL be put in a cell near Manning...
and be held to the same potentially "permanent" judgment
along with that pesky fuckin Australian....
And I'll tell you why
for you culturally exquisite...
"Badges???? We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Me?!!! You talkin' to ME??!!!
I don't see no one ELSE here.... You talkin to ME????!!!!"
There is a NEOCON in the room
and no one will say so......
If you ever get good at the truth?
you will be as dead as Philip K. Dick
and just as ripped off.....
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the State of Nihilism
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Posted:Feb 21, 2011 10:44 pm
Last Updated:May 19, 2024 9:32 am
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Any fan on "The Big Lebowski" know
the nihilists....
those skinny pseudo-Europeans that scare you
because they don't believe in anything
yet they still manage a high level of activity.
So, how are they much different than
poll driven representatives
perpetually running for office
once elected?
Don't they periodically piss on the rug
that I mean
REALLY held the room together...mahhhnnnnn.....
and with little to no empathy
or remorse
They have that guy
that you have to talk to
You know..
with the whiny voice
and the bad habit of spending their money
on anything except a personality...
They basically get paid to repel you
so that the guy you want to see
who actually?
doesn't believe in gawdallfuck
and so can't POSSIBLY relate to you
...so HE doesn't ever
see you...
so
effective State
is Nihilism
does that NOT
make Patriotism
ANARCHY?
New headline
(use it over and over, and over)
"The People vs ___________"
see ya in the funny papers
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political skip straight
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Posted:Feb 20, 2011 10:04 pm
Last Updated:Feb 23, 2011 9:41 pm
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I guess no apologies are forthcoming from State
and the Libyans
are spraying the infield with live fire
Freedom is just another word we use
to sell you credit be debit cards from
2BigBanks r US
Jefferson got tackled
at the Mason Dixon line
in 1865
Europe got corralled by a star studded
suspension of reality
and a delegation of representation
a hand off with a double reverse
no one you know is available right now
so please
sit down and STFU
Please fasten your seat belt
we are about
to Win The Future
and yes folks
that is
WTF
G20 can't solve the problem
but they did have a heart to heart
about terms
which... is still kind of unresolved...
but spend it now
always good Stately advice
its good for the economy...
solar flares and that odd planet death star
who cares...right?
run the cards
sadly, the win
is that we die in debt...
a long way down from days of honor.
who can afford honor, eh?
fuckem.....
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State doesn't mean... "mean" evidently
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Posted:Feb 17, 2011 3:02 pm
Last Updated:Feb 19, 2011 11:02 pm
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In the world of economics
you hear "trickle down'
What this means, is...
that sooner you LIKE being pissed on
the sooner your days will be bright.
Because above you is a machine
a being
that has production...
and it is its own waste...
after it achieves it needs, and pleasures...
This same sense of waste as feed
impermeates State...
In this repetition of State to instability
we are permeated with platitudes
that
we don't honor...
While delivering a speech
decrying the NEED for PEACEFUL demonstration
Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State
who needed no clearance
after being First Lady for eight years...
watched Ray McGovern
a known to her...
an intelligence analyst who has vocally
opposed these two wars,
throughout Bush
and into the present administration...
she did not even pause
in her delivery of a speech
about free speech
as McGovern was grabbed
and dragged out
for NOT even speaking
but standing
back turned
to deliver a message for
veterans and intelligence people
against the wars.
Unthinkable...
You can see footage of him
attacking Rumsfeld...
aND FARING BETTER...
still ridiculed
but not handled...
so what is it?
Why is this "LESS"?
is it trust in who's doing it?
is it that no one covers it?
or is it just team membership?
partisanship...
that no matter what you do
if you do it to "them"
it doesn't count.
That IS bigotry
and NOT LIBERTY.
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the Package
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Posted:Feb 16, 2011 4:10 pm
Last Updated:Feb 17, 2011 2:04 pm
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It arrived toady
not ot me
but to my neighbor
who left me a message
a package from Awww Stray ya lyaaallaahhhhhh
which I didn't get
being inside a mock courtroom
of the most expensive University here in St. Louis
in a Building named after beer barons
on a campus named after Senator
and brother geneticist...
hearing a debate pro and con
about a friend of mine's sign
protesting Eminent Domain Abuse..
I don't out much lately
licking the wounds my dogs won't
suffering the cold, and the economy
and the descending spirals of my own past..
ans here
this package.
I actually packed it once, left it behind
in the care and trust of one no other can supersede...
yet
it was not the box I packed
it weighed the same
and cost more than I foresaw...
Je précieuse femme
I Apologize
I was tempted
to not open it
needing the right moment
Yet I could not deny myself
a sense of home
though not home... my own
I stole that sense of security
and I deny all else
that it does not exist...
and surely
as I knew the box had changed
there were small additions by weight
but severe
in the weather of emotion
that my life always
seeks
strives
demands
and starves for
a cuckoo burro sings
its going to rain
look away
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heart on
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Posted:Feb 14, 2011 6:24 pm
Last Updated:Feb 23, 2011 11:24 pm
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somewhere in the world
is a fantastic French girl
whose laughter is abrupt
like thunder
but so au natural
that all who hear it are
immediately
naked and comfortable..
she
unaware of her emanations
has her own thunderstorms
and I
knowing this
stay away
yet
still close enough to savor
the taste of her tears
for her sorrows
are so pure
that I need to know...
my sun in rain
my teacher in doldrums
my I
when I'm blind
SHE
HER
my immortal beloved
just singing a song
while sittn at a red light...
(jonny lang)
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It's D-DAY in CAIRO
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Posted:Feb 3, 2011 9:26 pm
Last Updated:Feb 14, 2011 6:19 pm
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Things seem to be inching towards resolution
from all angles...
The World Bank has called "time".
The World leaders are said to be discussing "now".
The allied opposition has a spokesman....
...and Egypt has a Vice President,
for the first time
since Anwar Sadat was killed
and HIS Vice President
became President, in 1981.
(Yep. Trivia answer...
the last V.P.for Egypt before now... was Mubarak)
The only constant in the formula is the Army
a large entity that seems to be catatonic,
without task.
Like an unused camera in a studio
it's red light soon to come "on".
And when that machine whirs
we will know someone is home
and at the controls
even if we can't quite tell who it is.
Protesters are convinced
that if they back down, they will die...
The police state will hunt them down
one by one
and erase them.
The only option...is to win, or die.
It is on everyone's mind to take the Palace
the Presidential Palace
Taking Tahrir Square was good for the World to see
but the media is in jail,
its cameras confiscated
the message choked out.
There was no live stream last night.
Truly,
if all become "only Egyptian" tomorrow
the rest of us may weep in envy.
And if Egypt becomes free,
then all that held it under
will be brought to light...
and what writers dream of
will unravel quickly...
for corruption
knows all its own...
and all we have to do,
is follow the money.
We too,
can be free.
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