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#poetry
dream diary no. 2
i was wandering in a city i didn't know and it was dark not the time of day
the feel of it
of course it wasn't the best neighborhood
sooty and grimy and all the buildings
old chipped asbestos and brick with oilcloth in some of the windows
i didn't know where i was going
carrying a beatup cardboard box no top
it was all i had left which wasn't much
old clothes some papers and i don't know what all
it was odd
because everybody there was dressed like they were from the country
farmer clothes and workboots
the women wearing heavy headscarves ends wrapped tight around their necks
and somehow i met this couple don't remember their names
let's call them mary and joseph just for the hell of it
but there was no jesus anywhere
no kids at all
they offered me a corner in a room in their cabin
dirt floors and everything primitive
odd now that i think about it a cabin in the city
but then
it wasn't a city anymore but what must've once been a cheap postwwii suburb
i dumped the box and wanting to be helpful
went out collecting kindling because there was no electricity
and we were going to need a fire
the grass was green and yellow patchy and i was alone in a place
i thought i knew but didn't really
after awhile heading back with an armload of sticks and branches
i heard a great roar
voices from somewhere i couldn't see a great wave
blowing across the land
and suddenly they were outside with me
mary and joseph staring at me razor blades in their eyes
i dropped the kindling and forgetting the box
ran off and it was the city again
with a thousand peasants in the dark alleys
shouting and shoving and waving weapons rusty iron everywhere
and i marked with a bloody x was a rat being hunted
and i knew i was lost
© 2017 RC deWinter
Published in Coffin Bell @coffin_bell, Issue 3.3
July 2020
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#poetry
never clean
I
in the muddy snow after rain
there’s a checkerboard of disaster
waiting to happen
in the jaundiced eye of the world
there’s a checkerboard of disaster
one wrong step and down you go
in the jaundiced eye of the world
stained and hurting
one wrong step and down you go
then you rise
stained and hurting
to get on with the business of living
then you rise
waiting to happen
to get on with the business of living
in the muddy snow after rain
II
you stand in the shower’s hot gush
the mud dissolves
swirling away but not forgotten
in the folds of memory
the mud dissolves
but still you’re stained
in the folds of memory
where every heartache happens
but still you’re stained
with a riverbed of salt
where every heartache happens
in places no one can see
with a riverbed of salt
swirling away but not forgotten
in places no one can see
you stand in the shower’s hot gush
© 2021 RC deWinter
Published in Nighthawk Literature
Issue II April 2023
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here's a wonderful antidote to the ugliness which the GOP is using to try to drown us
A 4-year-old called 111. He had something important the police needed to see.
The dispatcher picked up the line.
On the other end, small breathing, the particular background noise of a home in the middle of a Tuesday, and a four-year-old boy with something urgent to report.
He had toys.
He wanted the police to see them.
An adult came to the phone shortly after, apologized, explained there was no emergency, and hung up. Happens all the time. Curious children, unattended phones, accidental calls. The dispatcher logs it and moves on.
But something about it caught the attention of Constable Kurt.
So later that day, he drove to the house.
He knocked on the door. Met the boy. Sat down and looked at the toys, really looked, the way the child needed him to, and declared his verdict with the full authority of a uniformed officer of the law.
Then he took the boy outside and turned on the lights.
Before he left, he knelt down and explained, gently, that 111 was for real emergencies. The boy listened with the solemn attention of someone filing this information away carefully for future reference.
Constable Kurt got back in his vehicle. Radioed dispatch. Delivered his official update to the New Zealand Police communications network.
"He did have some cool toys."
The radio crackled. Someone laughed. Then someone shared it. Then the whole country heard it, and then the world, a one-line dispatch report that spread further than most breaking news stories, because it reminded people of something they hadn't realized they needed reminding of.
That the people we trust to show up for emergencies showed up for a four-year-old with a toy collection.
Not because they had to.
Because Constable Kurt understood something that doesn't appear in any training manual, that a small boy who calls the police because he wants to share something he loves isn't making a mistake.
He's just not afraid of them yet.
And the best thing you can do with that trust is show up, look at the toys, turn on the lights, and leave him with a reason to keep it. 🤍
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I think if Barack Hussein Obama had done anything like this he would've been clapped in jail quicker than you could say Jack Robinson
One day I hope MAGA supporters can ADMIT if Barack Hussien Obama had done anything remotely close to this, we’d still be hearing about it today
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Source: Inspiring Quotes
12 quotes that remind us why we love Lucy share.google/WVOasYCZqatJUXO…
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this drunken prick is going to try to get these women to resign their commissions by ignoring the hell out of them..
#HegsethIsAMisogynist
Female four-star generals and their service under that rank:
Army:
Laura Richardson, 2021-2025
Ann Dunwoody, 2008-2012
Coast Guard:
Linda Fagan, 2021-2025
Air Force:
Jacqueline Van Ovost, 2000-2024
Maryanne Miller, 2018-2020
Ellen Pawlikowski, 2015-2018
Lori Robinson, 2014-2018
Janet Wolfenbarger, 2012-2015
Navy:
Lisa M. Franchetti, 2022 – 2025
Michelle Howard, 2014-2017
Links:
apnews.com/article/navy-prom…
substack.com/@jessicaruttenb…
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#poetry
old flame in a minor
when you were true
making love with you
was a jellyroll in blue
your rhythm always
perfect on the downbeat
your gravel growl the counterpoint
to the glissando of your tongue
your fingers stretched flaming octaves
across every key of my delight
but now every note is sour
a little sharp here
a little flat there
your memory a discordant jangle
of minor seconds
© 2015 RC deWinter
Published in Scarlet Leaf Review 2021
@ScarletLeafMag
December 2021
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every time i undress
in front of the world
i wonder
what will be seen
what will be missed
what will be imagined
what will be twisted
can we ever see the totality of another
even when all is revealed
or do we always use our own crayons
to color that soul?
~ RC deWinter
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How's this for a thought?
Maybe the screwworm breakout
is thanks to our medical overseer @SecKennedy.
Perhaps his brain worm took a vacation and contributed to the breakout by screwing lady worms in Texas and other places
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Jun 3
BREAKING: THE SCREW WORM THAT HAS BEEN DESTROYING CROPS IN TEXAS HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED
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sounds good to me
It’s now the trump screw worm, he wants his name on things so here you go.
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sounds like pedophiles were out in force taking revenge for these women drawing attention to the disgusting and disgraceful mess of Epstein and everyone involved... but if there's an upside to this whole mess it's that we're now finally discovering how many pedophiles there really are and always have been and now a lot of their little back alleys are no longer usable. I remember posting about pedophilia hate off & on for years here and one of the things I discovered back then and I'm sure there's a post out here somewhere that there are kid wranglers who go from place to place bringing these children to things like rodeos and football games and what not and doing business there selling these kids for an hour or two
Strangers photographed women’s homes. Unfamiliar cars lingered outside and sped off when confronted. Some women received threats of violence, including calls from people claiming to know where they lived. Several say they no longer leave home alone reut.rs/43q2SfM
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this is actually a lie
when I was much much younger and I discovered the filthy conditions in which most commercial chickens were and probably are still along with the diseases related to filthy chicken meat I basically stopped eating it for years and I still don't eat it very often.
Jun 13
My emotional support animal is a chicken.
White meat.
Extra crispy.
With a biscuit.
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many of you have been getting outdated responses from me which were sent in response to your post months and months ago some of them in weeks ago some of them but I finally decided to go through all my drafts and it was an amazing collection of stuff everything from jokes to thank yous to smileys criticizing Trump and Republicans etc.
I saved all the jokes and below is the last that isn't a joke that's relevant. you'll be seeing those jokes later.
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"OK off to be creative"
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sounds good to me
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I want ANYONE that #Raped these #Children or is #Complicit by #Covering these crimes locked up in the "Adjustment Center" of San Quentin.
It is for the "worst of the worst". How much worse can you get than #Raping and #Strangling #Children and/or covering it all up?
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shithead is the kind word for Trump. Whatever is in his brain is a lot more toxic than shit
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smh
Mar 25
The next time Alan 'the pig' Dershowitz says something that bothers you, just write these two words down on his page.
Sue Barlach.
Sue Barlach is Dershowitz's first wife, whom he beat up so badly she needed hospitalization and then she 'Jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge'.
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