Image: sapient-horizons.com
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” Allen Ginsberg (and not Jim Morrison who borrowed and adapted this).
I paid $2.50 for some nicely packaged plausibility,
a pyramid of lies so clever my mother would
denounce me on the strength of my invented life
where I will never again trace the strands of who I was
leaving me wishing for truth and integrity to rain down hard.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Literary Adventures
A love story that meets travel and nature
Questioning the conventional wisdom
Judaism, work, life, poetry, etc. Not code for "single and looking". This is not a dating blog.
Facets of Life- Poetry, Writing, Literature, and Philosophy
Embracing imperfection with faith, flannel, & fresh air
Creativity meeting intrinsic memories
A community page for those inspired by nature.
Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.
Relax! Let your eyes wander and quiet your mind with some visual therapy. A picture is always more than you can see. You will also find my own illustrations, animations and sometimes short stories. You never know what you will find so make sure to come back.
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Darkly effective. The state of the world seems to be weighing very heavy on you.
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Yes, I’m a bit tired of the political circus forever lying to protect its own echo chamber, they are conniving and devious and brazen as well. I think for me it is the fact that none of their muck even matters to the rest of us, but being voted in now seems to be being allowed into some sort of privileged playground where the bullies make the rules. Oops, rant over 🙂
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You’re certainly entitled to rant. There is so much to rant about. I don’t know whether it’s a matter of the muck not mattering to the rest of us so much as a feeling of utter cynicism and hopelessness that it can be changed.
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Good point, dammed if we do dammed if we don’t, sigh.
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I join you in that sigh.
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I thought you might.
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Wow. Bravo!
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I’m not sure I even like the thought of wrapping anything in a news paper, it would need washing afterwards, thank you so much VJ.
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Very true, lol.
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🙂
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Understandable!☕️😎☕️
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And wishing it were otherwise 🙂
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➿hmmm!🤔
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🙂
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Sadly so true and great poem – I love the image as well
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Thank you Lyn.
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This is unfortunately the truth. I’d love to write more but when the Hate Speech Bill (which is yet to pass in my country) attracts the death sentence, one has to cherish his life over the truth.
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Absolutely, but so frustrating, thank you for sharing.
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Been going on for quite a while.. And now there are satellites, for just about everybody, to spread ‘things’ over much much quicker..
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Yes, there are some pockets of light but a lot of rubbish is out there.
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You’ll need an ark.
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It would be so worth it, it would present a dilemma though, whether to pick up pollies along the way or not 😀
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You’ll figure it out.
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I’ve got it – robo-life preservers, they only work if you’re truly contrite, and by percentage of course.
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And you have to prove your worthiness with records of each confession going back 10 years and evidence of penance undertaken.
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I do like your train of thought here Tracey, yes, I think I now have a clear plan 🙂
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🙂
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