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Prescript: I'm looking for someone to go 50/50 with me and move to either Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, or Mexico where we can make a very low income go much further with a lower cost, and higher standard, of living (than living in the States on such a low income). This includes an only income of Social Security Disability (SSDI) and/or Retirement benefits. The Social Security Administration most definitely DOES allow SSDI and/or Retirement benefits, but not Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, to be sent to recipients in most other countries! There are many books about moving and living abroad available at the public library and/or at Amazon.com . Naturally, I realize we would probably have to spend some time getting to know eachother, and finding out if we're compatible, before moving abroad together. We could even have our own separate "spaces" by choosing to rent or purchase a house or apartment with separate quarters, and still save considerable money in monthly costs compared to living in the States on the same income. If you might be interested, want to ask me some questions, and/or want to discuss it, please e-mail me at the address below.
CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE
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Submerging
Gestapo
Unuseful Idiots
"I'm Not A Moron!"
(A Poem by Ken & Jenny Levens)
Poetic Longing 1
Poetic Longing 2
Poetic Longing 3
Poetic Longing 4
Poetic Longing 5
From The Poetical Works Of
Federico Garcia Lorca
"Cancion de jinete" ("Rider's Song")
"Casino Nation"
(Another Great Song by Jackson Browne)
Mr. Disingenuous
The Thought Police
"Why?"
(A Great Protest Song
by Tracy Chapman)
"What Ever Happened To Peace On Earth?"
(A Great Protest Song
by Willie Nelson)
Independence Day
[For The Slaughtered Innocents]
THE NEXT POEMS WRITTEN BY ME WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 11-11-02, 11-25-02, 4-22-03, THE ONE NOT WRITTEN BY ME, ON 5-27-03, AND ANOTHER FIVE THAT WERE WRITTEN BY ME, ADDED TO THE SITE ON 7-13-03, 7-23-03 AND 10-16-03, RESPECTIVELY:
SUBMERGING
(29 October 2002)
[Copyright (c) 2002 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Sinking, like a diver, slowly into the very depths
Always hoping to be reborn in rising to the surface
Frolicking in the deep for a time while expiring
Both not desiring and desiring to return to the light
Though too dumbfounded to think that all out clearly
Now comes a poet, and fellow-diver, to spell it out for you
To try and get you to think for yourself and see the end
Seeking your willingness to face the opening of the tunnel
At the other side of the deep darkness we've been immersed in
Coming out on the right side of the equation of this life
Most do not ever really return from the dive into earthliness
And the water never truly makes them clean in mind or spirit
For they become darker and darker like the blackness beneath
Unwilling to do virtually anything but bury their heads there
Refusing to think or talk about the hard truths in the Light
Now, my fellow-spelunker into the sea of madness beneath Truth,
The so-called "magic theater" of conformance to bourgeois "life",
Do you choose to continue to allow yourself to be indoctrinated
And conditioned to be automatons in blindness and selfishness,
Or are you going to choose to truly rise to the occasion.....
For TRUE Love?
GESTAPO
(22 November 2002)
[Copyright (c) 2002 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
The jack-booted thugs will be here again very, very soon
To take us away in the names of God and "righteousness"
And even the intelligent, as with the Jews, will not be spared
They will be disgusted or fascinated with the Truly intelligent
But they will imprison, torture and kill them just the same
As it was the last time, the majority living in a fantasy world
Do not, and will not, believe that such a thing will happen
And they will go along because of spinelessness, and many,
Because of their agreement with the racist and genocidal
Philosophies of the "privileged" few elitist and "leader" class
History is constantly repeating itself in ever greater atrocities
With the sheepish majority not raising any alarm as predicted
By the very same self-righteous, self-superior, bigoted oligarchy
Preparing the will-less masses of "go-along" cattle for the slaughter
While they chant, "This isn't happening..."
"It can't happen in America"
"All men (and women) are created equal..."
"America, the beautiful...
...Crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea..."
By these violated standards the U.S. government commits terrorism
In the bastardized names of "freedom",
"Democracy" and "world-peace"
Yet to do worse and worse in an overflowing pot of blood and shame
It CAN happen, and IS happening, here!!
UNUSEFUL IDIOTS
(20 April 2003)
Dedicated to Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
The Liberals aren't the idiots
The so-called Conservatives are
The Liberals are the True Conservatives
The "Conservatives" are the true liberals
The True Conservatives are liberally conservative
The true liberals are conservatively liberal
The liberally conservative care more for The People
The conservatively liberal don't care for them
The ones who care, liberally conserve social programs
The ones who don't care, liberally gut and cut them
The Liberals are the smart ones
The Conservatives are the idiots
The Liberals are the Conservatives
The Conservatives are the Liberals
The True Conservatives liberally conserve love
The true liberals liberally withhold love
The Liberals conserve their lust for war
The Conservatives liberally seek to make war
The ones who don't love war, care for people
The ones who do love war, destroy them
Do you "get it" yet?
"I'M NOT A MORON!"
(By Ken & Jenny Levens)
"Get me a war on in the morning.
Ding dong! My polls are gonna shine.
Federal taxes down, state taxes up.
No impeachment today? I must be okay!
Just get me to the war on time!
God Bless Big Business and the Oil companies.
Unemployment and gas prices are arising.
Enemies are everywhere--(I do believe in prayer!)
I’m bankrupting the nation; maybe I need another month’s vacation?
No, just get me to the war on time!
I had no agenda before 9/11--I may not even get to go to Heaven.
60 Minutes has Clinton & Dole, but I have Colin Powell’s soul!
World War Three might start just because of me!
So, remain quiet and just get me to the war on time!
I’m Enroning the national budget in the morning.
You may have more brains, but I’ve got all the planes.
If I can find an "enemy", then I don’t have to work.
(And many of you thought I was a simple cowboy jerk?)
We’ll all be mourning in the morning!
School districts are floundering, deficit spending is astounding.
Education, health and social security aren’t the issue.
We’ve got a bigger one with W--A--R!
I’m exceeding Hitler’s and the Roman Empire’s military budgets.
(In God’s name, I’m just killing for peace!)
So, get me to my war on time!
Criticism becomes treason--I won’t listen to reason;
I’ve got Limbaugh and corporate TV.
No other thoughts are gonna count!
My wife is afraid of poets, but I’ve got all the bullets.
I’m not a moron. Let me get my war on.
Don’t try me for treason--I have my reason.
Don’t get mad--I’m doing this for Dad!
So, just get me to the war on time!"
[ Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and Internationally by Ken and Jenny Levens. All rights are reserved. Ken.Levens@gte.net ]
POETIC LONGING 1
In Response To The Longing For War,
Poetic Mongering Is The Answer
With gratefulness to Thomas Mann
(7 June 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
It is difficult for some people to be good poets
My Dad was like that, though he was a living one
He struggled to join in while his soul protested
But supporting his families won out over writing
And his poetry took a back seat in his Studebaker
It is difficult for me, as well, to write good poetry
I am like that, though my spirit expresses it's calls
Anyway against the wrestling of this world's violence
For I try not to bother with the cares of this Earth
Though my Dad's living poet soul cries out through me
It is very difficult to have lived and yet not lived
To listen to those like Carl Sandburg posit dreams
And not be inspired to pontificate my surreal desire
The ideals that long for existence in the bad world
Full of suffering and poems to expel the desolation
It is very difficult to transcend the drawing of blood
When Gore is shed everywhere, having won the election
Yet not appointed to subjugate the conquering quests
While the father over reason is a fascist in a mask
"Only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace"
THE REST OF THIS SERIES OF POEMS ARE WRITTEN BASED ON SETS OF "ANCHOR" WORDS USED FOR THE LINKS TO MY VARIOUS WRITINGS WITHIN MY SITE:
POETIC LONGING 2
In Response To The Longing For War,
Poetic Mongering Is The Answer
(8 June 2003 - Updated on 16 October 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
When I think about my several SO-CALLED friends
I realize they have no OBJECTIVITY regarding me
And that their hypocrisy THREATENS all humanity
With their false PATRIOTISM and self-deceptions
In UNITY with shamefulness, darkness and fiends
Thank God at least they never write me a LETTER
Proclaiming that they are GOVERNOR over my life
Perceiving abundant PRIDE as making them better
Most in the DEATH of ruthless souls living lies
Find the only RESPONSE is to pretend it is okay
Holding DEAR their beliefs in misinterpretation
While only ADDRESSING a very few true realities
IGNORANCE prevailing over sense is so typically
The AMERICAN way of insanity disguised as right
In an over-reaching EPIDEMIC of hateful worries
The government is in the business of DEMONIZING
A few sovereign nations left STANDING and alone
Because U.S. madmen have not gotten to them yet
With ADMISSIONS about pocketing their resources
And assuring that we're the only NUCLEAR threat
For America is FAMOUS for its copious deceiving
POETIC LONGING 3
In Response To The Longing For War,
Poetic Mongering Is The Answer
With gratefulness to Martin Luther King, Jr.
(8 June 2003 - Updated on 16 October 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Praise God for the profuse GRASSROOTS coalition
Standing for and bringing the TRUTH to everyone
For the upcoming DAY when God knows what's next
About who the real and principal TERRORISTS are
While they SPEAK to all what is really going on
Including the CIA connection to the 9-11 attack
That PROTECTS AL Q'AEDA for the time henceforth
When their unrelenting AIMS use them once again
The people go on SUBMERGING their heads in sand
And the GESTAPO reign of terror has reactivated
With the IDIOT fascist dictators taking control
To make certain the megalomaniac MORONS prevail
In LONGING for only "malice, hate and violence"
As well as disgusting and SHAMEFUL pain & death
Though rather than WAR the poets long for peace
Along with the joy of living without SUFFERINGS
Caused by the EXTREME pursuers of money & power
Over the HORROR of the coalition of the willing
Carrying out the business of the world "CASINO"
IMAGINE an Earth without any fear and trembling
BELIEVING in and only tolerating Love and Peace
LIGHT showering all souls with full contentment
IS not this what we should be seeking over war?
PLENTY of the opposites of strife and terrorism
FOR the sakes of all of our neighbors worldwide
PEOPLE who will then be at Peace with everyone?
POETIC LONGING 4
In Response To The Longing For War,
Poetic Mongering Is The Answer
(22 July 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Life's ever-persistent challenge INTRODUCES the duty to pursue
The struggle for JUSTICE without failing to keep up the battle
For EQUALITY without any bigotry, discrimination and prejudice
That in acquiring brings the Only True HOPE, Victory and Peace
The exercise of humankind's RIGHTS and duties in this endeavor
Brings Real POWER that is the only mastery worth struggling for
Which FATHERS and furthers what creation originally conceived
That those TWO qualities of Equality and Justice would continue
To overcome all that the world we LIVE in obstructs them with
So True FREEDOM exists all over this great planet as intended
In BRAVELY overcoming their opposites' program to predominate
Life further requires the self-DIAGNOSTIC of self-examination
For our necessary future SECURITY which cannot exist without
Rehabilitating ourselves from the DISABILITY of selfishness
And SEEKING to only please ourselves rather than Truly Caring
About and for eachother as True FAIRNESS demands of all of us
The long-term LOSSES that result from our self-aggrandizement
Include a DISEASE that eats away at our True Purpose for being
A long overdue TREATMENT for the apathy and malaise of Earth
Toward the BROTHERHOOD of "people-kind" for a much better today
Life's TRUE Peace beckons to us from the fringes of the shadows
Real LOVE drawing us away from false wanderings in evil's grasp
To the essential GAINS that Only dwell with the existential ones
Who are so BEAUTIFUL in their leading non-phony lives in reality
Without projecting anything but IMAGES of what they really are
While being ALONE in the True Individualism of souls' enlightened
"One" TOGETHER with nobody but those who are also "one" together
And yet APART unto themselves in unique God-Maker-reflection
With nothing but True SMILES of resignedness in abject suffering
That is HELD back in favor of embracing release of others' hell
To time and AGAIN have mercy on their excessive cares and pains
Reaching out to much more than ENDURE what they are tested with
In life's shaking and stirring, THANKFULLY and gratefully always
POETIC LONGING 5
In Response To The Longing For War,
Poetic Mongering Is The Answer
With thanks again to Jackson Browne
(13 October 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
The present CONDITION of the United States
Is extremely precarious and doubtful
But the way most "Americans" live,
You'd think we were living in SERENITY
When almost nothing but PRAYER can
Save us from the brink of death
The so-called RIGHTEOUS commit
"Perpetual war" for drug, gas
And oil profits without any True AWARENESS
Of their avoidable evil
Or the final JUDGMENT that certainly
Hangs over all their exploits
Since the gift of DISCERNMENT is inevitably
And always unavailable
Along with any True BENEVOLENCE,
Only what they fraudulently claim
To be DEFERENCE for the innocent
That they slaughter without mercy
And only EXEMPLIFIES how controlled by evil
And depraved they really are
Proving that they are only in HARMONY
With darkness and evildoing
The HUMAN compassion that should predominate
On this wicked planet
Is absent from the PERSONALITY
Of those Machiavellian men who lead
As the "cowboy mogul" REBELS for the opposite
Of any real freedoms
And AGAINST the civil liberties of all
Sovereign people everywhere
Making into REALITY a globe which is mastered
By overarching greed
That is UNMASKING their final design
Of ruling us with corporatism
Committed by FIENDS who appear to be angels
Of light and salvation
Whose true PURPOSES are an obvious threat
To Freedom and Democracy
But the WARM glow of True Peace and Liberty
Are yet to be acquired
Along with the SANITY of the Blessed Hope
Of Deliverance from self
A GROWING life of Tranquillity lived
In Selflessness & Hopefulness
And the SPIRIT of True Benevolence,
Equality and Justice every day
With the REBIRTH of our Creator inside us
The only Control over us
Truly GLEAMING from our characters
The Glory of Jesus the Messiah
Removing the darkness of NIGHT from our souls
For the Sake of God
Having a POETRY of rewritten hearts
And minds Chosen for Service
Thinking DREAMS of the Eternal Life
Coming when we head Heavenward
For the Heart of the Universe where all
The galaxies SPIRAL out of
Our Eternal HOME away from our worldly home
Knowing no discomforts
That'll bring about the full REMAKING
Of Earth for our Final Abode
Made GLORIOUS by the fact that our earthly home
Will become Heaven itself
Even more MAGIC than Heaven alone,
As the Whole Earth will be Eden
To be enjoyed with ecstasy for our entire FUTURE
For Ever and Ever
A WORLD without peer becoming the Apex
Of the Cosmos into Eternity
Continued below:
Continued:
SOME MORE OF MY POETRY AND/OR FAVORITE QUOTES ON MANY SUBJECTS, INCLUDING THE GREAT POEM, "RIDER'S SONG", FROM THE POETICAL WORKS OF FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, ANOTHER OF JACKSON BROWNE'S GREAT SONGS, "CASINO NATION", MY VERY LATEST POEMS, "MR. DISENGENUOUS" AND "THE THOUGHT POLICE", THE LYRICS OF A GREAT PROTEST SONG, "WHY", BY TRACY CHAPMAN, THE LYRICS FROM ANOTHER GREAT PROTEST SONG, "WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PEACE ON EARTH(?)", BY WILLIE NELSON, AND ANOTHER OF MY OWN POEMS, "INDEPENDENCE DAY", ADDED TO THE SITE ON 7-13-03, 9-16-03, 11-8-03, 11-23-03, 12-15-03, 1-7-04, AND 7-4-04, RESPECTIVELY:
From THE POETICAL WORKS OF
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
(1898-1936)
Edited by Christopher Maurer
Volume III
Selected Verse
Songs, 1921-1924
Translated by Alan S. Trueblood
From Andalusion Songs
To Miguel Pizarro (in the symmetrical
irregularity of Japan)
"Cancion de jinete" ("Rider's Song")
In both Spanish and English
(July 4, 1924)
[Translation copyright (c) 1989-1994
by Francisco Aragon and Alan S. Trueblood;
Spanish texts copyright (c) 1991 by
Herederos de Federico Garcia Lorca (the
Estate of Federico Garcia Lorca)]
"Cordoba.
Lejana y sola.
"Jaca negra, luna grande,
y aceitunas en mi alforja.
Aunque sepa los caminos
yo nunca llegare a Cordoba.
"Por el llano, por el viento,
jaca negra, luna roja.
La muerte me esta mirando
desde las torres de Cordoba.
"!Ay que camino tan largo!
!Ay mi jaca valerosa!
!Ay que la muerte me espera,
antes de llegar a Cordoba!
"Cordoba.
Lejana y sola."
"Cordoba.
Distant and lonely.
"Black pony, large moon,
in my saddlebag olives.
Well as I know these roads,
I shall never reach Cordoba.
"Over the plain, through the wind,
black pony, red moon.
Death keeps a watch on me
from Cordoba's towers.
"Oh, such a long way to go!
And, oh, my spirited pony!
Ah, but death awaits me
before I ever reach Cordoba!
"Cordoba.
Distant and lonely."
JACKSON HAS SUCCESSFULLY DONE IT AGAIN WITH YET ANOTHER GREAT "TELL(S) IT LIKE IT IS" SONG, AND HITS THE NAIL(S) ON THE HEAD ONCE MORE WITH ITS LYRICS, ADDED TO THE SITE ON 16 SEPTEMBER 2003:
"CASINO NATION"
Lyrics by Jackson Browne,
From his latest album,
"The Naked Ride Home"
[Copyright (c) 2002 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by Jackson Browne.
All rights are reserved.]
"In a weapons producing nation under Jesus
In the fabled crucible of the free world
Camera crews search for clues amidst the detritus
And entertainment shapes the land
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
"Gleaming faces in the checkout counter
At the Church of Fame
Lucky winners cheer Casino Nation
All those not on TV
Only have themselves to blame
Don't quite seem to understand
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
"Out beyond the ethernet the spectrum spreads
DC to daylight, the cowboy mogul rides
Never worry where the gold
For all this glory's gonna come from
Get along doggies, it's coming out of your hides....
"The intentional cultivation of a criminal class
The future lit by brightly burning bridges
Justice fully clothed to hide the heart of glass
That shatters in a thousand Ruby Ridges
And everywhere the good prepare for perpetual war
And let their weapons shape the plan
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
"The way the hammer shapes the hand
The way the hammer shapes the hand
The way the hammer shapes the hand
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
"The way the hammer shapes the hand....
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
The way the hammer shapes the hand....
The way the hammer shapes the hand...."
MORE OF MY OWN LATEST POEMS THAT I'LL LET SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES, THAT WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 8 AND 23 NOVEMBER 2003:
MR. DISINGENUOUS
Hearkening back to days of old (I mean youth),
As well as to today with "Bush-the-Monstrous"
A Song
(30 October 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
You're so pretentious that it stinks
And your blind ambition polutes
Your "reality" with many hijinks
That you think are such absolutes
You must prevail in as the world sinks
It is highly disquieting that you're not really you
And the many that know who you truly are, Mr. Blue
Consider your well-deserved unmasking long overdue
You've never truly liked what's Truly free
As what you behold is what you get
Yet True life you don't want to see
And you believe freedom's the wrong bet
For you're the kind not to pay the fee
Who are you that I should think I CARE
What you do or do not care ABOUT
When the world's full of phony PEOPLE?
You claim you do care about others'
While you play favorites with us all
Treat some as if better than brothers
And sisters the world over who call
For our unconditional love traitors
To live the benevolence they tell
Us they believe in while the murders
Of many thousands all around us fall
Because they give the killing orders
That they to brandish have the gall
It is highly disquieting that you're not really you
And the many that know who you truly are, Mr. Blue
Consider your well-deserved unmasking long overdue
Who are you that I should think I CARE
What you do or do not care ABOUT
When the world's full of phony PEOPLE?
But it's highly disquieting that you're not really you
And the many that know who you truly are, Mr. Blue
Consider your well-deserved unmasking long overdue
THE THOUGHT POLICE
With many thanks to George Orwell
Who warned us about what's coming
(11 November 2003)
[Copyright (c) 2003 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
The U.S. government is not a benevolent caretaker
But is rather despotic, malevolent and capricious
While going about fascistically deceiving, colonizing
And serving military-industrial "America" over humans
That don't profit from insanity, bombing and death
Unlike the many self-serving Machiavellian killers
Who run the corporate murder-for-money machinery
Which gains the whole world but has none of soul's
Love and mercy for humanity needing to predominate
Over their greed and hate that are compassionless
These "Big Brothers" want to control our thoughts
Leaving us without any True Liberties or Freedoms
And silence our "check and balance" on their aims
Of totally enslaving, dominating and mastering us
While making us absolutely subservient automatons
That do nothing but what we're told by sociopaths
Seeking to be our completely evil gods and rulers
Who care for nothing and no one except their profits
In the process of sacrificing the freedom of thoughts
For True Liberty and Mastery ONLY over ourselves
Beware the thought police!
TWO MORE GREAT PROTEST SONGS BY TWO MORE GREAT MUSICIANS, POETS AND ARTISTS, TRACY CHAPMAN AND WILLIE NELSON, THAT WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 15 DECEMBER 2003 AND 7 JANUARY 2004 RESPECTIVELY:
"WHY?"
Lyrics by Tracy Chapman,
From her first album,
"Tracy Chapman"
[Copyright (c) 1988 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by Tracy Chapman.
All rights are reserved.]
"Why do the babies starve
When there's enough food to feed the world(?)
Why when there're so many of us
Are there people still alone(?) (-repeat-)
"Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill(?)
Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her (own) home(?) (-repeat-)
"Love is hate
War is peace
No is yes
And we're all free (-repeat-)
"But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
Amidst all these questions and contradictions
They're some who seek the (T)ruth
"But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
When the blind remove their blinders
And the speechless speak the (T)ruth"
"WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO PEACE ON EARTH?"
Lyrics of his latest protest song,
by Willie Nelson
[Copyright (c) 2004 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by Willie Nelson.
All rights are reserved.]
"There (are) so many things going on in the world
Babies dying
Mothers crying
How much oil is one human life worth
And what ever happened to peace on earth?
"We believe everything that they tell us
They're gonna’ kill us
So we gotta’ kill them first
But I remember a commandment
Thou shall not kill
How much is that soldier’s life worth
And what ever happened to peace on earth?
(Bridge)
"And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been told from our birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth?
"So I guess it’s just
Do unto others before they do it to you
Let’s just kill em’ all and let God sort em’ out
Is this what God wants us to do?
(Repeat Bridge)
"And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been told from our birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth?
"Now you probably won’t hear this on your radio
Probably not on your local TV
But if there’s a time, and if you’re ever so inclined
You can always hear it from me
How much is one picker’s word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth?
"But don’t confuse caring for weakness
You can’t put that label on me
The truth is my weapon of mass protection
And I believe truth sets you free
(Bridge)
"And the bewildered herd is still believing
Everything we’ve been told from our birth
Hell they won’t lie to me
Not on my own damn TV
But how much is a liar's word worth
And whatever happened to peace on earth?"
INDEPENDENCE DAY
[For The Slaughtered Innocents]
(Written on July 4th, 2004)
[Copyright (c) 2004 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Are we really independent,
Or are we blindly believing
The lies being told us by warmongers
Lusting after death and destruction?
Is there autonomy between
What the lying politicians say
And the important truths we're hopefully
Coming to learn about war versus peace?
Are we choosing life rather than death
Or are we ignorantly condoning murder,
Blindness not making us any less guilty
For our complicity in the endless slaughter?
Is there the seeking of separation
From the senseless, inhumane carnage,
And only standing for blessed peacemaking,
That mercy which glorifies humankind?
Are we the merciful who are the only ones'
God will have mercy upon in the very near future,
Instead of the unmerciful who will be condemned
As they themselves condemned the weak and innocent?
Where lay our true days of independence?
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Postscript: I'm looking for someone to go 50/50 with me and move to either Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, or Mexico where we can make a very low income go much further with a lower cost, and higher standard, of living (than living in the States on such a low income). This includes an only income of Social Security Disability (SSDI) and/or Retirement benefits. The Social Security Administration most definitely DOES allow SSDI and/or Retirement benefits, but not Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, to be sent to recipients in most other countries! There are many books about moving and living abroad available at the public library and/or at Amazon.com . Naturally, I realize we would probably have to spend some time getting to know eachother, and finding out if we're compatible, before moving abroad together. We could even have our own separate "spaces" by choosing to rent or purchase a house or apartment with separate quarters, and still save considerable money in monthly costs compared to living in the States on the same income. If you might be interested, want to ask me some questions, and/or want to discuss it, please e-mail me at the address below.
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