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Month: May 2022

Buffaloed

May 31, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Here we go again:

one more white supremacist,

hopped up on Tucker Carlson,

popping off in nurtured rage!

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Dawning Images (37) Deep Pockets

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

The price of fatigue

and indifference must be paid!

Shall we sacrifice the weak?

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Dawning Images (36)

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

When booms turn to dust

Those who are the least exposed

Are also those best prepared.

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Dawning Images (35)

May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Why am I dreaming

about the damned DMV?

Nobody needs night terrors!

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Listen Up!

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

When the onus

on a penis

is no less

relentless

than the stigma

on a vagina,

men may have the option

to discuss abortion

but drafting legislation

to govern procreation

must remain the mandate

of those who have to gestate!

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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

They cry, “Liberty!”,

but as far as I can tell,

the only freedom

they respect is the freedom

to tell her what she can’t do.

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