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"In the US, it seemed reversed: religious language was standard, while speaking about social welfare was almost taboo."

      "Cinnamemnon"

It's not yet apogee of the utmost furnace
      & anxious waiting bides
   the landing of the carnal birds.
Nothing in the stars dropped this deep minus
save blind unreasoning greed & hate in harness.
      Fresh parables encroach.
   Few of the righteous peal much starch.
I & other hobbits dread the onus.
   Pale cerulean party clothes,
   concrete ribbons' jagged path
         jingle both
      in Ozymandias jazz.
It's not yet apogee of the utmost furnace.

"Still I trip up, in this poem, over foil, and the oozing oil."

"Accountability is not optional. Accountability is the only vaccine." —I Fucking Love Australia via

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