Dick Baldwin

12/ isn't theirs to uphold but to retell / how to hide and abide / with the Big Fat Beautiful Lie: Good ole boy, USA!

11/ vice marching in black-hooded / manliness rites: Good ole boy, USA! Of scholarship visions to detect / the scales falling from clouded eyes / about the fibbing truths that originalists / detest. The hanging veil / downcast in this brand new / and colorful World; but the rule of law /

10/ Villegas Gonzalez got it / in Chicago disrupting his family / life; the birth-right protest / of Good and Pretti in Minneapolis / didn't apply; and Durán Guerrero in / Biddeford, Maine, got put / on ICE. As we too await / to be busted for citizen-ship /

9/ not to say, / "MAKE ME EVERY FUCKING STATUE!!!" / The revolution comes / to us live stream: stun guns, / pepper spray, baseball bats / and flagless poles to desecrate: Good ole boy, USA!

8/ In celebration of the Jesus birth / the alabaster boy a lynch mob / instead demurs: "It's our birth-right / to protest," Constitutionally they / behead: no gold, frankincense, / or myrrh but French bourbon instead; / the boy not of unusual stature; /but boy could violate every possible statute;

7/ and Black men in khaki and olive drab / burn and like vine fruit swing, / "It's the hot Red Summer of '19!"; / but in '21 Black Wall Street was burned / by jealousy; and never last but certainly wiped clean / of its map in '23, / Rosewood's sunshine state of being: Good ole boy, USA!

6/ couldn't be rid: a miscarriage / of justice the triple-birth is / against a confederacy / to homesteaders is said. And so, it begins / with the eight-box law, poll tax, / and grandfather clause. With massacres / in Memphis and New Orleans in '66; / a coup d'état in '98 in Wilmingto, NC; /

5/ The blessed soil / beneath one's feet / theirs for all Eternity: 'tis red, black, / yellow, brown the color toil identity / abound: Good ole boy, USA! There's no other way to put it / but they were four miserable years. / A parted landscape / in cardinal sin / that all this nonsense /

4/ of the mud sill can't be him or them: Good ole boy, USA! It's a system of disbelief, / a charming life to deceive / in the word-of-liberty / what could only be / that whiteness bares no sin. / A peculiar verse this one is / in history: an Institutions of Men / favorite spin! /

3/ whitewash tools and fellows' pen, / twice dead is history, Crispus Attucks / would agree. / On the giving day of Enlightenment / clipper Ships' Sail; Mid-Atlantic / victims aloud the words / heard in somber soft / whispers; the Massacre face /

2/ hoary hands in prayer / dangling black rosary beads / dead with lies beneath the skin: Good ole boy, USA! By the scrivener's / hallow fingers a decree proclaims: / "...all Men are created equal... / unalienable Rights" for thou and thee. / By the silversmith's /

Good ole boy, USA! 1/ It's in the words of The Constitution / when on that parchment day came / shackled together with sonorous fires / of the Bell's ring / "...Blessings of Liberty to ouselves and our Posterity" / mankind truly is free; / the red-letter day / never to disturb /

MS NOW is showcasing old guard Dems who're coming up for air after sniffing the aroma of success by recent young & progressive politicians.

What are we doing people? Another school shooting. It's the most horrifying way of injury to a child among many. The country's priorities are all screwed up. We mustn't run away in denial of this reality anymore but genuinely resolve it before we spiral into outright savagery. Tears aren't enough.

Watching the ALDS & the military commercial comes on sponsored by War.gov. What?!The country has lost its mind. We're now on par with places like N. Korea, Russia, Iran et.al. Why? Why? Why? Not enough tears shed by violence? The country is in desperate need of restorative health.

God Bless the Peace Corps, MS Now The Weeknight host says. Ditto!

MS Now The Assignment with Antonia Hylton: the border piece was excellent; families who've been in Texas for generations are experiencing emotional & corporeal harm at the hands of the WH occupant. Their anger is leading them to vote Democratic in hopes of getting a bail out from said trauma.

Good ole boy, USA! 2/black rosary beads dead and lies beneath the skin: Good ole boy, USA!

Good ole boy, USA! 1/It's in the words of The Constitution when on that parchment day came shackled together with sonorous fire of the Bell's ring "...Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," mankind truly is free; the red-letter day never to disturb hoard hands in prayer dangling

4/The children who fall cannot kick, nor stand up ever again. Face, pick your side: Your children or the oil oligarchy? Sonnet: The Face of War Jack Agüeros, 1996

3/War is your face supporting men who drink oil crude or sip it/Super-refined on the rocks out of barrels, or drunk, puke it/At sea, and still collect their premiums and profits. War is/Not fought with joy sticks like Nintendo or Super Mario and/

2/To see the face of war, look in your mirror, not television./It's your face casually donating your sons and my daughters,/Your face cheering Arabian sandbox games on the color screen.

1/The face of war is your face. It is your face in the mirror/Wearing a sign that says, "I let them do it, I agreed with/My silence, voted for it with my passiveness, sent them my/Proxy endorsing it because I did not run into the streets/Screaming, 'Stop it now, this is not truth it's television.'"

Fusion Centers sound a lot like HIDTA offices back in the days of the "crack" endemic (wink, wink).

FBI director to visit Russia mid-Oct. He lacks the intellectual fortitude & diplomacy skills to deal with the Russians; a photo op for them to gather intelligence & use it against us. Mid-Oct? They either seek help with the midterms or use it as another distraction from Epstein files, Iran War loss.

The Weather Channel. The best.

We ought not to worry so much about the president's mental decline but instead worry about the mental state of those responsible for electing a dictator & those who continue to support him. It is now a 1984 Party. Never thought it'd come to this. Why read the book when we're living it.

Just read on NPR.org that CBS will cancel Colbert in May '26. Two members of Congress chimed in on their X accounts in protest. Are they & their colleagues still on X too much in love with the clicks they get? You all are cowards for not sacrificing your clicks while feeding the X beast.

"The Stupid Coup" may not be the sole truism in our era,i.e., by fear or by favor. Either way, the damage is done to life as we knew it. At least for the younger generation, who'll witness a paradigm shift more to their favor during their senior years, i.e., a more progressive life perspective.

Oh, and a Latino to boot looking after her back.

Just home from long, long trip & watching the movie G20. A Black female president, a guy fashionista, a female advisor, & a supportive Black man by her side. Only in movies; but until when?

And don’t forget Northern Baltimore County. That’s part of his district as well.