COFFEE FOR NEANDERTHALS
By Samantha Terrell
2016
Coffee for Neanderthals
Nod off, and lose rights.
Neanderthals, drink coffee!
Awaken, and vote!
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SHOOT FIRST
Shoot First
Humanity lacks imagination.
Instead of seeking information
to find solutions,
lazily, we make more problems.
Rather than abiding by
the age-old 'eye for an eye'
never mind, 'turning the other cheek,'
we let our cowardice speak.
Charging "forward," minds closed blindly,
gun-barrels pointed wildly,
the only faction
empowered by these infractions,
is those who prey upon defeat.
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Interrogation
call it what you want
experiment and torture?
un-American
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1
Gun Regulation?
Iron Triangle:
license and registration?
make firearms like cars!
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2
Lobbyists and Politicians
greedy fascists scheme
U.S. of ‘A’ stands for Arms
while citizens die
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3
Citizens Suffer
Perpetual war?
Mid-East needs peace. So do we.
The Machine grinds on.
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4
Arms Deals
end the war charades
we are part of the problem
cut off Arms funding
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5
Arms in the Middle East
war begets more war
war-profiteering must end
think of the children
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6
Department of Defense
truth is hard to take
but don’t blind us with deceit
we are murderers
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7
Arms Leaders
earth’s greatest nation?
we can still be anything!
not just Arms dealers
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Oil Surplus
Fracking? Oil Pipelines?
Banks push greedy agendas.
Oil surplus is real.
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9
Oklahoma Earthquakes
it’s a no-brainer
stop fracking and stop earthquakes
oil money fails us
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10
Pipeline Protests
peaceful protesters
weep for our democracy
fascism has won
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11
Climate Change Irreversibility
deny climate change?
they say knowledge is power
be responsible
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12
Melting Polar Ice Cap
deny climate change?
Santa’s elves are refugees
coal is for stockings
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13
Ancient Preservation
life, you give us hope
politics takes it away
thank you, Arctic squirrel
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14
GET OUT THE VOTE
Washington Think-Tanks
call me cynical
fear The Hamilton Project
we are in too deep
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15
Surveillance State
our rights are trampled
The Bill of Rights dishonored
good-bye privacy
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16
Palestinian Discrimination
ours, too, is threatened
that so-called Freedom of Speech
ask Whistleblowers
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17
Platform Priorities
stop speculating
the one-issue candidate?
HRC, and Arms
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18
Foreign Funding
suspicions confirmed
her collusion goes unchecked
how much fraud’s too much?
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19
Clinton Foundation
follow the money
they are not invincible
truth and time will tell
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20
Wasserman Family Tree
old mafia ties?
Clinton, Wasserman cahoots
new era, same lies
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21
Reappointments of DNC Officials
scapegoats are made new
a fresh post awaits them
as real change stagnates
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22
Semantics
fancy rhetoric…
lies of omission are lies!
no liars for Pres
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23
Journalistic Disappointment
don’t call yourself ‘brave’
seek investigative truth
honesty is brave
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24
Media Slant
voices of reason
disappoint us this season
change is held hostage
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25
Voting ‘Strategy’?
vote your conscience, please
candidates must strategize
voters need NOT scheme
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