Labi Siffre - Into The Light

Their Sacrifice

Their sacrifice
and ours
What was it for?
Why did your daughter and my son
have to die?
Now we've flown away
Why are the daughters we abandoned
Again caged?
Those men with guns
Why are they and their God
so afraid
of these women and girls
Alive
but erased?
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"We Only Kill Black People"

 

 

"We Only Kill Black People” the police officer said
"He was joking" some claimed
But here’s the thing
I don’t hear any black people laughing

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Donald Trump Is Not Mentally Ill ... It's Worse Than That.

To the Editor:

Fevered media speculation about Donald Trump’s psychological motivations and psychiatric diagnosis has recently encouraged mental health professionals to disregard the usual ethical constraints against diagnosing public figures at a distance. They have sponsored several petitions and a Feb. 14 letter to The New York Times suggesting that Mr. Trump is incapable, on psychiatric grounds, of serving as president.

Most amateur diagnosticians have mislabeled President Trump with the diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. I wrote the criteria that define this disorder, and Mr. Trump doesn’t meet them. He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder.

Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy. It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).

Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness, and the mentally ill behave badly only rarely. Psychiatric name-calling is a misguided way of countering Mr. Trump’s attack on democracy. He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.

His psychological motivations are too obvious to be interesting, and analyzing them will not halt his headlong power grab. The antidote to a dystopic Trumpean dark age is political, not psychological.

ALLEN FRANCES

Coronado, Calif.

The writer, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical College, was chairman of the task force that wrote the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (D.S.M.-IV).

An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump’s Mental State

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Rome

Today
In the USA
Under Donald Trump
Plutocracy, masquerading
As democracy, is attempting
To hold its citizens hostage 
To fascism; and the people
Voted for this

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For The Orlando Dead - June 12th 2016

Fifty, yet, dead; a coward
Inspired by craven belief
Killed them; if
Angels exist they shit
In his mouth

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Muhammed Ali - Farewell

Farewell Muhammed Ali
You chose your name
And label

Despite white cowardice
You stung like a bee, and
Encouraged me
To be Me

Thank you
Muhammed Ali

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I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

I Can't Breathe        I Can't Breathe

 

Eric Garner "didn't deserve to die"

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From One Who Only Watches

Cleverly with illegal
Settlement building
Israel ethnically
Cleanses Palestine

We here watch
With less
Excuse
Than World War Two
Dachau Town residents

With our cynical joke
Calling for restraint
On both sides

We stink of death
Calling ourselves
The International Community
Of good guys

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(N)o (R)eality (A)pplies

Guns don't kill people

People kill people

Tragically there are so many people

With guns

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