michael spangenberg Poems

Trilogy By Compounding 03 Poems

Variation #01 - A Fantasy For Anne Yun
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Friends are like commercial banks

They're all over the place - service's King
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Three damned deceased souls
Imaginary depiction of the afterlife
Brought to the same room in Hell
Locked inside by a mysterious valet
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Aleppo - December 15,2016
2.30am local time (4: 30am SPT) :
'We wish to inform you that
Our family of eight children
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On Tuesday, millions of lifelong Republicans
will vote against Donald Trump
'I'm one of them, ' declared Gordon Humphrey
a former U.S. senator who served more than
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Not knowing the difference between a blue airplane
And a yellow submarine, or to that effect the standard
Deviation between artillery and navy
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Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your eye
And then you will see clearly to cast out the splinter
from the eye of your brother (Matthew 7: 5) .
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This is a true story, taken out of the 1963 newspaper
African-American barmaid, Hattie Carroll
Fifty-one years old, humble maid in the kitchen
Gave birth to 10 children who'all adored their mummie
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Harder, dirtier, more excessive
Maybe more exciting than ever
The election battle, the greatest show
on earth, spectacular reality TV
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We cannot have Sustainable Development Goals unless they stay within the climate boundary of bringing us on a pathway to stable 02°C of global warning by pre-industrial standards, climate change denial's like continuing smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, nonchalantly ignoring its health outcome doesn't keep the doctor away, much less the oncologist treating dreadful terminal cancer.

Climate change's having huge negative impacts on human rights, but there's also an opportunity side. Since we're undermining the livelihoods of the poorest people, their food security through climate shocks, through the rainy seasons not coming, through long periods of drought and flash flooding, which is happening all over Africa and South Asia: rising sea levels, we should prioritize the poorest in access to clean energy, and if they get clean energy, they'll become productive, they'll largely bring themselves out of the terrible poverty that we're making worse.
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