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As much as I have written about war and peace over the years, I have never heard of this one... The story speaks for itself... wonder if it also has to do with the huge percentage of soldiers families who are so poor they are on food stamps?









WASHINGTON - Children of U.S. military troops sought outpatient mental health care 2 million times last year - double the number at the start of the Iraq war.

There was also an alarming spike in the number of military kids… Continue

I wrote this poem when Bush was about to invade Iran. I majored in Military Intelligence, and was doing some consulting at the time with... well, that's confidential... but trust me, they were close... I am putting it up here now because poem seems all the more relevant with the Iranian protests in full swing.









NOT ONE DROP OF PERSIAN BLOOD



the blood of persian poets

has barely been washed off our hands



a few more nuclear reactors in the… Continue

When did we vote to say that the government can listen to every conversation

monitor every line of type that flows from our fingers?



Did I miss that ballot box?

Where is the politician who is supposed to damn this intrusion?

Jimmy Stewart all alone and proud and indignant got voted out

After the Lobbyiests gave someone else the money to get elected



occasionally the media creates a camelot

to siphon the steam off our dreams

before we… Continue

I am trying out these two... to find me, go to tweeter and search for my stage name JohnnyPain... capitilzation is crucial. On Facebook, search for john scott ridgway...

On myspace, you can listen to our old stoner radio show... peace and pipedreams by doing a simple search.

Disturbed

Distraught

Desperate



Monday morning news gives a solemn count of the weekend murders

between jokey weather and sports





TEN shot DEAD over the Fourth of July in Chicago









They show the relatives hugging and crying

images of yellow police tape and cops in bulky, blue body armor



the smiles come back as another story rolls around

can't be too negative on the morning show



I picture their… Continue

can't be another hitler

in those dark shades

that bleed away all the color

reduce these visions to black and white



I post-modern man all wary

staying away from drawing lines in the sand

or declaring anything permanent

for any length of time



refusing

to be a judge

in a court

of impossible standards



I oblivous stoic going thru my mundane day

MONKED AWAY from the masses

telling no one what I do

learning to… Continue

u sit at your computer

recently knighted

at the center of a vortex

of groceries, socialization, physicians, teachers

cops and cunt and cock and revolution and redemption

ready to poke your little head in all over



a reluctant revolutionary

aware the sewer system goes down and millions die





a buffalo soldier

in the war for america*





in your medicine bag:

as much tv as humanly possible

comics books concerts… Continue

I guess I should come out with an opinion on this 'hot' topic that is sweeping across the blogs... Well, we all know Spuds Machenzie owed everything to a certain oral technique which he first perfected on himself and then used to take Hollywood by storm... He had free beer!!!! For life!!! How many fucking dogs achieve that??? None. No, he could give head... sure, everyone has by now seen the tapes on the net of him lap loving Paul Schaffer while he was on the Letterman Show... I guess he had… Continue

Seemingly only penguins were taken up into the heavens this morning when a supreme deity finally kept its promise to save the worthy from the hell of the world.



As the deity scooped up the penguins in his hands, thousands of screaming human voices were raised to protest the supreme deity's decision, representing every type of whining known to man. The deity shushed the humans, then pointed at the amusing antics of various penguins who were doing an elaborate ice-scapade version of a… Continue

we were there all the time


waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting

for the order
to

come

down

what they will believe in one age

will change with the next

the flesh is ever filled with another



the writer all cynical and lost finds the truth

stares into it's cold dead eyes

they offer no cogent reason

to leave the dance of the drunken moment

and follow them

into their misery



still he knows

he will not be a defeated father

does not walk away

and leave truth

orphaned from mind

dyng ignoble

on the farside… Continue

YEA, WHAT DID YOU DO FOR PEACE TODAY?



No shit

I'll bet u got some peace

in the heartland of america



u think ur peace came easy

because

THE SPIES WERE SILENCED

forbidden to discuss the horror the horror





NOT BY YOUR LAWS

u could have found out

FROM AGEE 30 years ago



you prefer spies

in wham bam narratives

for tom cruise to do the scientology smooze thru

a cult that makes stars

attacking right… Continue

light up the doobies
reclaim yr rights

we are
NO LONGER VICTIMS
to the whims
of jackel$ and fool$




NO
not in this night


racing down from the stars
ready
screaming
itching for a fight