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Snap Judgement 

While shopping at Publix today I kept crossing paths with a woman in a Trump for President t-shirt. She looked to be about my age (late 50’s to early 60’s). I tried making eye contact with her, wondering what I’d see there, but she barely looked up.

I wondered about her. How does a woman who has lived through these past five decades support someone like Trump? He’s admittedly groped women against their will, cheated on two, and probably all three, of his wives, discussed openly that he treats his women with little or no respect, and yet some women continue to find him acceptable as a presidential candidate.

I made some snap judgements about this woman: racist, uneducated, ill-informed. I deduced that she is a FOX news watcher and a non-reader. All this I got from a Trump for President t-shirt.
 

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And this is how we change the world. Please read more at redswrap.com. Peace.

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I can’t change everything but I can change this one thing.

A homeless man comes in from the cold, takes off his leaking boots, and peels away the socks he’s been wearing for months. But he has no clean socks, so once he warms up, he puts the same torn, filthy socks back on his hurting feet.

But, wait! you say. This man’s problem isn’t his rotting, filthy socks. His problem is that he is homeless. I know that. But I also know I can’t change his homelessness but I can change his socks.

A homeless woman settles down for the night in an alley. She takes off her pants and her underwear and folds them neatly in a small pile. Then she sleeps upright, learning on an old brick building, her bare bottom on the concrete. She’s having her period and can’t risk bleeding through her only clothes.

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Tim Kaine in Tallahassee 

Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Kaine speaking about Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly.

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Sheng-yu’s Lament (after Mei Yao-ch’en)

This is beautiful and so poignant. Robert Okaji.com.

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Sheng-yu’s Lament (after Mei Yao-ch’en)

First heaven took my wife,
and now, my son.
These eyes will never dry
and my heart slowly turns to ash.
Rain seeps far into the earth
like a pearl dropped into the sea.
Swim deep and you’ll see the pearl,
dig in the earth and you’ll find water.
But when people return to the source,
we know they’re gone forever.
I touch my empty chest and ask, who
is that withered ghost in the mirror?

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“Sheng-yu’s Lament” is included in my micro-chapbook, No Eye But The Moon’s, available via free download at Origami Poems Project.

The transliteration on Chinese-poems.com reads:

Heaven already take my wife
Again again take my son
Two eyes although not dry
(Disc) heart will want die
Rain fall enter earth in
Pearl sink enter sea deep
Enter sea can seek pearl
Dig earth can see…

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Snapshot #48 or 49, I’m Not Sure

Ask Siri what you should be for Halloween. I call this one, “Be Careful What You Ask For.” 

 Why I Am Thankful for Donald Trump

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“The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.” ~ Nietzsche


In an effort to prove Friedrich wrong, I have decided to exact my own metamorphosis by befriending myself, and in so doing transform myself from cynical stink bug to thankful praying mantis. In order to achieve this goal, I will list only ten of the uge number of reasons

I am thankful…for Donald Trump:

  1. His indiscriminate, erratic and often illegal behavior, his lack of experience, his absence of ability, and his deficient mental capacity have inspired me to enter into the next presidential election myself.
  2. In the past I blamed only myself for my failings, but now I realize I am responsible for nothing.
  3. I have never declared bankruptcy, so even if I were to file five times, I’d still be one down on Mr Trump.
  4. There are not 3,500 lawsuits filed against me– ranging from sexual misconduct…

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