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Hikikomori

There is never loneliness among the people you know. For them, you never really know. In cyberspace, no one is ever really alone. A childless divorcee weeps in solitude. (Wedding pictures on her profile

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Lost

Some nights when exhaustion rocks me to sleep. I find myself in the dark searching for you. I call your name but only an echo in the pitch blackness responds. I wait for your reply but nothing I hear.

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Lucere to the Bloodied Man

Lucere to the Bloodied Man

Source Out of the mud that prisons me Soiled as a pig from crown to toe I thank whatever fates there be For my unbending soul Here, in the icy hands of circumstance I have not flinched nor cried a drop

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Is it Fair to Force People to Choose Between Religion and ganja?

Is it Fair to Force People to Choose Between Religion and ganja?

Source For some ten years now I have dispensed with my religious beliefs and have taken the route of a freethinker. I believe that one should be at liberty to do whatever one wants as long as there is

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SOJA and the Grammy's

SOJA and the Grammy's

Source Though this is a bit late in coming I feel impelled to give my thoughts on the matter. Now, while much of the world was preoccupied with Will Smith’s shenanigans at the Oscars, Jamaicans and other

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Wimbledon? Really?

Wimbledon? Really?

Source The decision by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (ALETC) to ban Russian and Belarusian players from Wimbledon and all UK grass-court tournaments is downright ridiculous and might I daresay unfair

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Upturned

Source At the Long Island Rail where once I sat. Waiting on my train for Long Island Land I chanced upon many marvelous things. A scene that never before my eyes had seen. My ears, however, heard many

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Stamp

His screams curdled the blood when on the floor of that dingy dungeon as the jailor pressed the rod iron in his skin. “Confess,” he ordered the condemned man. “Confess.” “I don’t know,” he screamed. “Please,

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To A Loved One Passed

To A Loved One Passed

A wreath upon the fireplace for you I place For you are not here this year Joy to the World, for you we sing, but you cannot hear. Dearest Uncle, no joy is here. For you are not with us this year. Each

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Ditch the Queen

Ditch the Queen

Source Like many Jamaicans, I, until recently, was indifferent towards the monarchy. That Queen Elizabeth II is head of state is immaterial to many of us. After all, she is thousands of kilometers away

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The Is That Is

Source And if I told you, that the space between you and what is, is really not And that, the you, you say is you, is not you But is fictitious FUD that is given meaning by you And if I told you that the

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Home

Source No Home is a house where bodies pile high from shots that pierce heart and soul where the shots that are shot are not really shots but the shit-laced utterances of mouths loathed to soothe where

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Maybe it is Time for the Petro Yuan

Maybe it is Time for the Petro Yuan

Source For some time, many have been warning that the Green Back will be dropped as the world reserve currency. From academics to analysts, to social media personalities, all have agreed about this. As

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Ode to My Cane Cutting Grandma

Ode to My Cane Cutting Grandma

Source Her scars are beauty Meandering across place and time Callused, lacerated, are my hero’s hands A stick in your left. A cutlass in your right. My hero has no statue. She has no plaque. No prize I

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Control of Cryptos is Impossible. But...

Control of Cryptos is Impossible. But...

Source In a previous post, I discussed the Biden administration’s signing of an executive order to give the government oversight of cryptocurrencies. The aim, as was stated, was to have the administration

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The Deep Unknown

The Deep Unknown

Source No one can fathom the value the ocean great and grand A deluge of blue many fathoms deep Unfathomable even the learned few Marvelous you are, thou blue watery behemoth Source Spread across this

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Litecoin Goddamn

Litecoin Goddamn

Source In 2017 when I entered the cryptosphere, Litecoin was up there on the HODL list. There was also Ethereum, Xrp and a host of others. This particular coin was being cheered on because of its utility.

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Elites Target Cryptos

Elites Target Cryptos

Biden I was dismayed to learn that President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order to give the government oversight of cryptocurrencies. So what’s the rationale behind this? It is said that the

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The Lonely Bird

The Lonely Bird

I listened to your hollow flute-like song. Your mating call. You sang for a female that would never come. Kaui-o-o. That was your name. The lonely bird they call you, for you were the last of your kind.

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Awoken

So what we be but naked? prostrate before flagellating barbs of circumstance. Expectation’s chained. Destiny. Preordained. Clairvoyance etched in places determined by (s)he. Predispositions. The feeble