Coffee for Neanderthals

by Samantha Terrell

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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  8

  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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