The Wolf and the...

We’ll get back to that.  Maybe this will incorporate “The Anatomy of a Poem.” Right now it goes to social issues and religion because the SCOTUS convenes to decide gay marriage next Tuesday.   The denial of gay marriage violates the 14^th amendment.  Sanctity of marriage is a contract of faith between two people.  Gender is legally irrelevant.  Whatever couple outside of    

my marriage is without bearing on the contract of the  faith/love/matrimonial bond  I contract

with my mate.  I have no right to deny another couple any right marriage has bestowed upon me.   To me this case seems simple, but this court, with its Citizens United and Hobby Lobby decisions, defies logic and  precedence.  To believe you will not create an oligarchy or plutocracy should the limit on campaign funds by an individual or corporation be eliminated . . .  really?  Or should an employer have the right to deny a female employee birth control coverage because of his religious beliefs. . .  really?  It is amazing how far the Founding Fathers went to exclude religion from the laws of a nascent nation and how it is up to nine people now to interpret what the Founding Fathers meant two hundred and sixty years ago.  Marriage is never mentioned in the Constitution and the 14^th  amendment came 100 years later.  Marriage is a STATE CONTRACT and a RELIGIOUS CEREMONY; thus, religion has nothing to say on the legality of marriage.  Who  I f**k in my bedroom has nothing to do with the kitchen where your beliefs are baked. 

     . . .  That’s tough to top on poetic thought.  Give it a rock shot: Most of the old white men on the U.S. Supreme Court are iconoclasts.  The integrity to change is not in their blood.  To them, the U.S. Constitution is a dead document that does not change. . .  but some of their decisions act as though precedence is non existent.  Where the logic to repeal a decision of Teddy Roosevelt’s time ($ in politics), then declare how hard it is to extirpate hetero marriage because it’s been around for x thousand years?  Any decision by SCOTUS should grant rights, not limit or take them away.  Loving v Virginia  (legalizing miscegenation marriage) granted a right, the Dred Scott case granted a right to slave owners at

 

the cost of a slave’s liberty.  Makes you wonder where “all men are created equal” came from

when, for voting purposes, black men  were worth 3/5 and women 0 ).”  Prohibition and

Unprohibition.  Giving and taking away.               

 

The Wolf and the Bush

The stock market went over 10,000 yesterday.

The news said  Haliburton overcharged the Pent

agon a buck-eight a gallon.

Bush stood firm on his ‘coalition-only contracts’

while Europe and NAFTA burped

and the press no longer had access to Iraqi deaths.

Cheney insists he can wet a washcloth

over the nose of a hundred Kahlid Sheik Mohammeds

a hundred times wherever and whenever-

as if Wounded Knee never happened

as if Atta had a Czech stamp in his passport

or WMDs teemed in the Iraqi sand.

Sure like to see this guy Pinocheted

on his way to the rendition land of Pinnochio.

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