Eternal Spouse
You are the easiest pleasure to dream
Because you are as beautiful as you seem
I fear no vulnerability in our intimacy
Because you've put your full trust in me
From friend to fantasy
You fulfill every need in me
I am father to you as you are mother to me
As we rely on each other's maturity
A true symbiotic love life of give and take
Living securely on a lifeline too deadly to break
Secure in the total presence of each other when we wake
Because we know our love can only live by what we make
My Dancing Girl
Standing alone leaning against the wall
Watching all the people dance in the hall
I finally ask the girls to dance with me
At first not one girl would say yes to my plea
So back to the wall, for the lonely, for me
How I wished for a girl to end my misery
Then I had to try again or just take the grief
Then I got my long awaited relief
A girl I had asked said yes she would
From that answer everything seemed good
I danced slowly with the girl so beautiful
My dancing girl shined on a day so awful
Sell Out
It seems that if you sell out people listen to you
And do as you want them to do
But if you're true to yourself and say what you want to say
People turn and look the other way
But the fakers always live with regret
That no one they ever met
Knew who they were or what they were about
For they thought their identity they could live without
But those who are true have little to regret
For those who they have met
Knew who they were and what they were about
And those who didn't like them they realized they could do without
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Poetry Post 286
Corperica
Corperica loves a brother held back
Forced into the ghetto forced to sell crack
If darkie ain't shining our shoes
He's still smiling as he sings the blues
Marked as ignorant and a national threat
Corperica hasn't looked into the mirror yet
If any Negro tries to rise above second class
Fight back to any whitey giving off sass
Corperica will fry him in the electric chair
What's another lump of human mass Corperica doesn't care
When the machines replace man
Absolute power will be in the hands of the Klan
White and ghetto trash thrown into the slums
Slaving away to survive becoming the hardest working "bums"
But when Corperica's power is complete
The riots will be coming to their street
Mediocre Middle Class Blues
It's hard to feel sorry for your cold
When plagues kill millions left untold
If you're overdrawn at the bank
And can't afford to fill up the tank
Just be thankful that you have someplace to stay
Then maybe you'll wonder why you were trying to get away
If minimum wage has got you annoyed
Think of the millions left homeless and unemployed
Do you think you're entitled to good fortune and good health
When it was a mere twist of fortune you were born with moderate wealth
Fish In The Sea
This is for my aborted love
This is for the one I let go of
On a dock with nothing but an empty pole and a wish
But the shallow end produces no fish
I never had any caught
But maybe I would have if I fought
But I can't catch by force or by lure
So I sit lonely on the shore
So my only love is the hope and the wish
As my bait catches my fish
Now I am still a lonely soul
Who remorsefully threw away his fishing pole
Corperica loves a brother held back
Forced into the ghetto forced to sell crack
If darkie ain't shining our shoes
He's still smiling as he sings the blues
Marked as ignorant and a national threat
Corperica hasn't looked into the mirror yet
If any Negro tries to rise above second class
Fight back to any whitey giving off sass
Corperica will fry him in the electric chair
What's another lump of human mass Corperica doesn't care
When the machines replace man
Absolute power will be in the hands of the Klan
White and ghetto trash thrown into the slums
Slaving away to survive becoming the hardest working "bums"
But when Corperica's power is complete
The riots will be coming to their street
Mediocre Middle Class Blues
It's hard to feel sorry for your cold
When plagues kill millions left untold
If you're overdrawn at the bank
And can't afford to fill up the tank
Just be thankful that you have someplace to stay
Then maybe you'll wonder why you were trying to get away
If minimum wage has got you annoyed
Think of the millions left homeless and unemployed
Do you think you're entitled to good fortune and good health
When it was a mere twist of fortune you were born with moderate wealth
Fish In The Sea
This is for my aborted love
This is for the one I let go of
On a dock with nothing but an empty pole and a wish
But the shallow end produces no fish
I never had any caught
But maybe I would have if I fought
But I can't catch by force or by lure
So I sit lonely on the shore
So my only love is the hope and the wish
As my bait catches my fish
Now I am still a lonely soul
Who remorsefully threw away his fishing pole
Monday, June 1, 2009
Blood Transfusions Are Not Medically Necessary
(This is an argument essay I wrote at Sinclair Community College English 111 a proud time in my life there were many classes I enjoyed but English Composition was great because I got encouragement as a writer and never got less than a B+ on any essay that first year. My favorite essay is this one because I defended a fundamental religious view to objective secular minds and it was accepted as a viable argument winning respect from those who differed in this opinion. Years of getting slammed in the face in the door to door ministry I found writing would get people to listen. this is an edited draft of that essay might not be the final one)
Trepanning, lobotomies, phrenology and bleeding, all once highly praised by the scientific world. Today scuffed and scorned at by even the most mediocre of minds. What is once a medical break through turns into pseudoscience.If someone was to deny such services in their peak they would have been scuffed and scorned, as crazy as it seems. Blood transfusions are just another dangerous faulty procedure with a sketchy history. People should not be ridiculed for the refusal of blood. In fact blood transfusions should be more examined through its history and the history of its alternatives.
The history of blood transfusions are filled with set backs, while there are constant advances in their alternatives. It started in 1667, with Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denis using calf's blood to treat a madman named Antoine Mauroy and failed fatally. Englishman James Blundell revises blood transfusions by using human blood in the 19th century taking the medical world over 150 years to make that conclusion. In 1873, F. Gesellius discovered over half of all blood transfusions ended in death. In 1878, Georges Hayem perfected a saline solution blood substitue called Hayem's Solution that did not make blood clots, had no strange side effects and was easily transportable. But in 1900 Karl Landsteiner discovered certain blood types existed and could not be mixed. Blood transfusions sky rocketed with propaganda during WWI and WWII using slogans like "Red Blood Needed For Red Blooded Americans" "Give Blood Now" "Your Blood Can Save Him" and "He Gave His Blood. Will You Give Yours." 13,000,000 units were donated during WWII in America alone. In the baby boomer generation blood transfusions became a multi-billion industry like tobacco which doctors allowed despite their knowledge of its danger. In the 1970's hepatitis from tainted blood transfusion was estimated to be somewhere between 3,500 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to potentially 35,000. Things got worse in the 1980's with HIV.
Looking at the history alone should make one reconsider transfusions medical merit. This involves an age old barrier between the worlds of science and religion. Religion has lost a lot of battles to science like the debate of earth's shape and position in the solar system, but other battles like evolution there has many times been a merging of thoughts. Religion has often taken a beaten from the medical world destroying religion's image. But religion and science do not necessarily contradict: both have been mistaken, misinterpreted, and corrupted from the smoking issue to a government's "divine right."
Many say a countless number of people will die without blood transfusions and to them this is a matter of life and death but an unheard crowd says this sentiment is not rational or fact based. Anyone opposed to blood transfusions is well aware of the counterarguments, since they are in the minority. Majority of people assume that only Jehovah's Witnesses do not use blood transfusions, but Dr. Spahn, professor of anesthesiology in Zurich, Switzerland, quoted "Even the surgeons request that we avoid transfusions! One surgeon, for example, came to us about his wife, who needed an operation. He said 'Just make sure of one thing that she does not get a blood transfusion'" and "those requesting bloodless medicine are usually well-informed patients" and Dr. Shander, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology stated "in 1998 the patients who refused blood for personal reasons exceeded the number of patients who refused blood for religious reasons." People claim it is unscriptural to deny blood transfusions, but the King James Bible specifically states that it is unclean in Acts 15:28-29: "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." Leviticus 17:14 "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off" and Genesis 9:4 "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." People say bloodless operations are not adequate but for every one of blood transfusions many back steps bloodless medicine takes a giant step forward in its own merit. There are fluids like Ringer's lactate solution, dextran, hydroxythyl starch and many others that maintain blood volume, prevent hypovolemic shock and some are making progress in carrying oxygen. There are drugs like erythropoietin that produces red blood cells, interleukin-11 that reproduce blood platelets, GM-CSF that reproduce white blood cells, aprotinin and antifribrinolytics that reduce blood loss and desmopressin to help acute blood loss. There are collagen and cellulose woven pads, fibran glues and sealants that also reduce blood loss. There are also advancing surgical techniques and tools. None of these drugs, operations or techniques can carry diseases, whereas blood can. Many may think these procedures are expensive but compared to blood transfusions Dr. Shander says "there is a twenty-five percent reduction of cost with bloodless medicine."
This issue, although as big and as radical as it sounds, would not be dramatic. Certainly it will be a big deal at first in both the scientific and religious world. This could and has divided religion and science as well as science with itself and religion with itself. So far little fact has been used in this battle because the majority is being put in question and the populous masses have drowned the voices of reform that have facts. If the debate is lost now the strength of the minority will not be silenced because majority does rule not fact but facts reform the people. When or maybe if the minority wins it will just be another change in the status quo and a bit of progress in mankind.
Personal anecdotes will help bring the history out. The greatest anecdotes I can give are of blood transfusion victims to show the folly of this procedure. Antoine Mauroy was the first victim of modern medical blood transfusions. Elizabeth Meyer-Glaser, wife of famous actor Philip Glaser, was given a blood transfusion with HIV. Joyce Kimmel was given blood in Canada tainted with the West Nile virus, believed to have started its recent epidemic. Men in Nebraska and Texas were given blood with the West Nile virus. France is till going through an AIDS tainted blood transfusion crisis with the French Health Minister in a hailstorm with court trials for criminal acts.
Although these news are radical the action is simple. They must research bloodless transfusions so they can see it as sane, scientific and practical solution for themselves. Everybody must go and inform and educate the public. They must not scorn those who would also reject blood transfusions.
Trepanning, lobotomies, phrenology and bleeding, all once highly praised by the scientific world. Today scuffed and scorned at by even the most mediocre of minds. What is once a medical break through turns into pseudoscience.If someone was to deny such services in their peak they would have been scuffed and scorned, as crazy as it seems. Blood transfusions are just another dangerous faulty procedure with a sketchy history. People should not be ridiculed for the refusal of blood. In fact blood transfusions should be more examined through its history and the history of its alternatives.
The history of blood transfusions are filled with set backs, while there are constant advances in their alternatives. It started in 1667, with Doctor Jean-Baptiste Denis using calf's blood to treat a madman named Antoine Mauroy and failed fatally. Englishman James Blundell revises blood transfusions by using human blood in the 19th century taking the medical world over 150 years to make that conclusion. In 1873, F. Gesellius discovered over half of all blood transfusions ended in death. In 1878, Georges Hayem perfected a saline solution blood substitue called Hayem's Solution that did not make blood clots, had no strange side effects and was easily transportable. But in 1900 Karl Landsteiner discovered certain blood types existed and could not be mixed. Blood transfusions sky rocketed with propaganda during WWI and WWII using slogans like "Red Blood Needed For Red Blooded Americans" "Give Blood Now" "Your Blood Can Save Him" and "He Gave His Blood. Will You Give Yours." 13,000,000 units were donated during WWII in America alone. In the baby boomer generation blood transfusions became a multi-billion industry like tobacco which doctors allowed despite their knowledge of its danger. In the 1970's hepatitis from tainted blood transfusion was estimated to be somewhere between 3,500 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to potentially 35,000. Things got worse in the 1980's with HIV.
Looking at the history alone should make one reconsider transfusions medical merit. This involves an age old barrier between the worlds of science and religion. Religion has lost a lot of battles to science like the debate of earth's shape and position in the solar system, but other battles like evolution there has many times been a merging of thoughts. Religion has often taken a beaten from the medical world destroying religion's image. But religion and science do not necessarily contradict: both have been mistaken, misinterpreted, and corrupted from the smoking issue to a government's "divine right."
Many say a countless number of people will die without blood transfusions and to them this is a matter of life and death but an unheard crowd says this sentiment is not rational or fact based. Anyone opposed to blood transfusions is well aware of the counterarguments, since they are in the minority. Majority of people assume that only Jehovah's Witnesses do not use blood transfusions, but Dr. Spahn, professor of anesthesiology in Zurich, Switzerland, quoted "Even the surgeons request that we avoid transfusions! One surgeon, for example, came to us about his wife, who needed an operation. He said 'Just make sure of one thing that she does not get a blood transfusion'" and "those requesting bloodless medicine are usually well-informed patients" and Dr. Shander, assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology stated "in 1998 the patients who refused blood for personal reasons exceeded the number of patients who refused blood for religious reasons." People claim it is unscriptural to deny blood transfusions, but the King James Bible specifically states that it is unclean in Acts 15:28-29: "For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." Leviticus 17:14 "For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off" and Genesis 9:4 "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." People say bloodless operations are not adequate but for every one of blood transfusions many back steps bloodless medicine takes a giant step forward in its own merit. There are fluids like Ringer's lactate solution, dextran, hydroxythyl starch and many others that maintain blood volume, prevent hypovolemic shock and some are making progress in carrying oxygen. There are drugs like erythropoietin that produces red blood cells, interleukin-11 that reproduce blood platelets, GM-CSF that reproduce white blood cells, aprotinin and antifribrinolytics that reduce blood loss and desmopressin to help acute blood loss. There are collagen and cellulose woven pads, fibran glues and sealants that also reduce blood loss. There are also advancing surgical techniques and tools. None of these drugs, operations or techniques can carry diseases, whereas blood can. Many may think these procedures are expensive but compared to blood transfusions Dr. Shander says "there is a twenty-five percent reduction of cost with bloodless medicine."
This issue, although as big and as radical as it sounds, would not be dramatic. Certainly it will be a big deal at first in both the scientific and religious world. This could and has divided religion and science as well as science with itself and religion with itself. So far little fact has been used in this battle because the majority is being put in question and the populous masses have drowned the voices of reform that have facts. If the debate is lost now the strength of the minority will not be silenced because majority does rule not fact but facts reform the people. When or maybe if the minority wins it will just be another change in the status quo and a bit of progress in mankind.
Personal anecdotes will help bring the history out. The greatest anecdotes I can give are of blood transfusion victims to show the folly of this procedure. Antoine Mauroy was the first victim of modern medical blood transfusions. Elizabeth Meyer-Glaser, wife of famous actor Philip Glaser, was given a blood transfusion with HIV. Joyce Kimmel was given blood in Canada tainted with the West Nile virus, believed to have started its recent epidemic. Men in Nebraska and Texas were given blood with the West Nile virus. France is till going through an AIDS tainted blood transfusion crisis with the French Health Minister in a hailstorm with court trials for criminal acts.
Although these news are radical the action is simple. They must research bloodless transfusions so they can see it as sane, scientific and practical solution for themselves. Everybody must go and inform and educate the public. They must not scorn those who would also reject blood transfusions.
Cease Fire
Soldier #4:
I've seen things that shouldn't be shown
I've learned things that shouldn't be known
Now all I want is a life I can call my own
Soldier #5:
The only thing I remember worth fighting for
Was fighting to defend the Preacher's honor
So our hero's request is not to return to war
The News Reporter:
So each soldier requested not to fight anymore
No soldiers then no battles then no more war
A glorious demonstration of peace in the Preacher's honor
I've seen things that shouldn't be shown
I've learned things that shouldn't be known
Now all I want is a life I can call my own
Soldier #5:
The only thing I remember worth fighting for
Was fighting to defend the Preacher's honor
So our hero's request is not to return to war
The News Reporter:
So each soldier requested not to fight anymore
No soldiers then no battles then no more war
A glorious demonstration of peace in the Preacher's honor
Poetry Post 285
Night Creeps
Lord help me my serotonins falling
And my libidos calling
And my flesh ain't stalling
Insomnia keeps me up and depressions got me down
No one to turn to nothing's around
And the sin surrounds
I try so hard to get to sleep
But the thoughts come in and creep
And sink into my hollow soul so deep
Lord there ain't no pill
To calm an urging thrill
There's no way to set it still
The only way to get through the night
Is to give up the fight
And forfeit what is right
School Crush On Graduation Day
What can I say
It's too late now you're moving away
What can I do in a day
If only I spoke you could have been my soulmate
But I didn't think our friendship had an expiration date
I settled for my shyness feeling I could wait
I was afraid of the word no
I tried to keep my feelings never letting them show
I never thought it would be grow or go
Electra Complex
Your father was never there
You acted as if you didn't care
You had the congregation for a family
So you had little reason to worry
But your father showed love by a distance
You thought he'd be with you if he had the chance
But he chose to take those business flights
Leaving you, your sister and mother alone hundreds of nights
Because you father left a mark
You think love is something left in the dark
A vague mysterious pointless romance
You can't appreciate anything that's at close distance
If you looked into your spiritual family
You would have found a friend in me
In childhood foolishness I wanted more
But I want more for you to remain pure
Untainted by broken promises he'll never think to keep
Leaving you alone in a king size bed to sleep
I don't want to offer you romance
I simply want to give you a second chance
Lord help me my serotonins falling
And my libidos calling
And my flesh ain't stalling
Insomnia keeps me up and depressions got me down
No one to turn to nothing's around
And the sin surrounds
I try so hard to get to sleep
But the thoughts come in and creep
And sink into my hollow soul so deep
Lord there ain't no pill
To calm an urging thrill
There's no way to set it still
The only way to get through the night
Is to give up the fight
And forfeit what is right
School Crush On Graduation Day
What can I say
It's too late now you're moving away
What can I do in a day
If only I spoke you could have been my soulmate
But I didn't think our friendship had an expiration date
I settled for my shyness feeling I could wait
I was afraid of the word no
I tried to keep my feelings never letting them show
I never thought it would be grow or go
Electra Complex
Your father was never there
You acted as if you didn't care
You had the congregation for a family
So you had little reason to worry
But your father showed love by a distance
You thought he'd be with you if he had the chance
But he chose to take those business flights
Leaving you, your sister and mother alone hundreds of nights
Because you father left a mark
You think love is something left in the dark
A vague mysterious pointless romance
You can't appreciate anything that's at close distance
If you looked into your spiritual family
You would have found a friend in me
In childhood foolishness I wanted more
But I want more for you to remain pure
Untainted by broken promises he'll never think to keep
Leaving you alone in a king size bed to sleep
I don't want to offer you romance
I simply want to give you a second chance
The News Reprise
The News Anchor:
Well they caught the assassin who killed the Preacher
Right after he shot and killed the Governor
But half a dozen vets apprehended the murderer
The suspect calls himself The Reactionary
Self described defender of the military
As he brutally fought to break free
Tomorrow he will be arraigned and brought to trial
But the controversy suggests this could take awhile
So the prosecution hopes plea bargains will get things mobile
Well they caught the assassin who killed the Preacher
Right after he shot and killed the Governor
But half a dozen vets apprehended the murderer
The suspect calls himself The Reactionary
Self described defender of the military
As he brutally fought to break free
Tomorrow he will be arraigned and brought to trial
But the controversy suggests this could take awhile
So the prosecution hopes plea bargains will get things mobile
Poetry Post 284
My Spiritual Parents
I came to lay down my burden
I confessed every trouble and sin
And you comforted me reaffirming my good
You showed me everything I did as I should
Where I found failure you found accomplishment
For every flaw you saw a compliment
I recounted my falls you recounted the times I stood tall
And said those faithful in much was once faithful in small
I couldn't look beyond my sin
Carrying this heavy burden
But you saw the righteous within
Something you said I could put stock in
Tragic Heroes & Martyrs
Living alone dreaming of Brutus and Cyrano
Wishing to live the death of a tragic hero
A life without nobility is a life lived in vain
A life with nobility is a life lived in pain
In death a man can prove to everyone his worth save himself
Only hoping in faith that his deeds are met to save himself
In sin we're borne so sin is all we can hope for
Until something calls us into the lost fights of a martyr
Warning about this next poem
I use course language particularly slurs
That is because it goes with the concept of the poem called "Label" about words used in derogatory nature arbitrarily
I listened to songs like "Hurricane" and "Woman Is Nigger Of The World" watched several films that used such language satirically and dramatically and comedians such as George Carlin and Richard Pryor use it to discern whether I think any general audience could understand my context and I think those old enough to understand the nonsense and the drama of slurs will understand I am not promoting bigotry but portraying an irritating truth (I wish George Carlin and Richard Pryor were still alive because I feel like if anyone understands why I wrote this poem it would be them) By the way isn't odd Nas couldn't release an album named Nigger but Kid Rock uses that word multiple times in his lyrics and if labels mean anything why does that drunken man whore Republican Confederate flag waving loser get to use it PS I have been called all these labels at high school and junior high except the n word technically I was called a nigger lover
Label
I don't conform to a clique so they say I'm in a cult
I keep to myself but something's always my fault
I don't join in my generation of cliche
I don't play sports or shower with men so they call me gay
If I'm a Christian who thinks different from you
You'd label me a Jew
Skin heads listening to rap music with their finger on the trigger
Pointing at my head calling me a nigger
I choose passive resistence they call me a maggot
I choose abstinence they call me a faggot
I'm outspoken but I help in a pinch
So they push me around and call me a bitch
Hypocrite and haters label me as such
Why do meaningless insults from vile villains hurt so much
I came to lay down my burden
I confessed every trouble and sin
And you comforted me reaffirming my good
You showed me everything I did as I should
Where I found failure you found accomplishment
For every flaw you saw a compliment
I recounted my falls you recounted the times I stood tall
And said those faithful in much was once faithful in small
I couldn't look beyond my sin
Carrying this heavy burden
But you saw the righteous within
Something you said I could put stock in
Tragic Heroes & Martyrs
Living alone dreaming of Brutus and Cyrano
Wishing to live the death of a tragic hero
A life without nobility is a life lived in vain
A life with nobility is a life lived in pain
In death a man can prove to everyone his worth save himself
Only hoping in faith that his deeds are met to save himself
In sin we're borne so sin is all we can hope for
Until something calls us into the lost fights of a martyr
Warning about this next poem
I use course language particularly slurs
That is because it goes with the concept of the poem called "Label" about words used in derogatory nature arbitrarily
I listened to songs like "Hurricane" and "Woman Is Nigger Of The World" watched several films that used such language satirically and dramatically and comedians such as George Carlin and Richard Pryor use it to discern whether I think any general audience could understand my context and I think those old enough to understand the nonsense and the drama of slurs will understand I am not promoting bigotry but portraying an irritating truth (I wish George Carlin and Richard Pryor were still alive because I feel like if anyone understands why I wrote this poem it would be them) By the way isn't odd Nas couldn't release an album named Nigger but Kid Rock uses that word multiple times in his lyrics and if labels mean anything why does that drunken man whore Republican Confederate flag waving loser get to use it PS I have been called all these labels at high school and junior high except the n word technically I was called a nigger lover
Label
I don't conform to a clique so they say I'm in a cult
I keep to myself but something's always my fault
I don't join in my generation of cliche
I don't play sports or shower with men so they call me gay
If I'm a Christian who thinks different from you
You'd label me a Jew
Skin heads listening to rap music with their finger on the trigger
Pointing at my head calling me a nigger
I choose passive resistence they call me a maggot
I choose abstinence they call me a faggot
I'm outspoken but I help in a pinch
So they push me around and call me a bitch
Hypocrite and haters label me as such
Why do meaningless insults from vile villains hurt so much
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