Category Archives: Civics

A Read

Posted on November 15, 2024 by sputterpub

While waiting to get on the dentist’s chair,for what he recommended he should dobeyond hygiene and minuscule repair,I had a moment to absorb the view.I noted that the rack that’s mounted thereis stocked with magazines, and not a few.It’s further … Continue reading →

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No Kill

Posted on September 27, 2024 by sputterpub

Sixteen years old suggested someone killthe figurehead. The grownups jumped and said,Uh uh – that course of action no doubt willproduce a martyr – leave the jerk undead.Eliminate another way insteadof cartoon violence – the remedywill not emerge from arms … Continue reading →

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A Gentle No

Posted on July 27, 2024 by sputterpub

Encountering a canvasser outsidemy neighbor’s door, a woman tall and old,who offered talk and postcard, I repliedwith “No” and gently said I’d not withholdthat card from the recycle bin. “I’m friedfor now with politics, my stress controlledby abstinence. I’ll re-engage … Continue reading →

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All Kinds of Kind

Posted on July 14, 2024 by sputterpub

An idiot savant is somewhat wise.A child can perceive what many won’t.A moron might be hired to advise.It’s more a case of wherefore than of don’t.Cognition comes in any type of form.Insanity is rarely absolute.And as for nailing down a … Continue reading →

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Any Day But…

Posted on May 4, 2024 by sputterpub

A very merry unearth day, to you, and you,is senseless a la Lewis Carroll – true.To celebrate what you’re supposed to dois slash-and-burn or colonize a few?Effective as a Meatless Monday spew,attempting to awaken someone whois fatally attached to stupid … Continue reading →

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Lethargy

Posted on February 23, 2024 by sputterpub

I vote because I can, I should, I must.It’s like a centerpoint of legacy.But to be honest, it’s with some disgustthat I complete the ballot currently.When young I read it close and carefully,but sliding sideways now upon a slopeof venal, … Continue reading →

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Acceleration

Posted on December 31, 2023 by sputterpub

They told me history repeats itself.I heard it from my father and in class.I found the phrase in books upon a shelf,with liberty to browse. It came to passI got it, reading fiction, history:the cruelties Dickens caught, Voltaire and Swift.I … Continue reading →

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Innuendo

Posted on December 2, 2023 by sputterpub

A revolution’s start has neither placenor time for nuance, subtlety, or laughs.A splinter group must chisel out a spacewhere every claim is deadly serious,and every member’s loyalty can gracea clan dynamic tenuously grown.So turns the tendency and limps the pace.But … Continue reading →

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Leakage

Posted on March 20, 2023 by sputterpub

The evidence could wreak hysteria.We shouldn’t tell the public what we found –their panic would pervade each area where people congregate and rumors mound.And anyway, the bioscience needssupport from governors – the funds redound to buy campaigns and research that … Continue reading →

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Yellow Press

Posted on January 13, 2023 by sputterpub

I think I was in junior high or less,when we were taught about the 4th estate.We learned then that the vile “Yellow Press”existed to twist truth, to propagatefake news that grabs attention, to addressthe weakest minds. By 1898the term was … Continue reading →

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