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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Vegetable Nation
Republicans love Americans
turned to vegetables,
on their lies and fake news.
fighting vigorously,
human lettuce must live,
Bush rushing to the White House,
he even concluded a vacation
for signing on
to Terri’s right to stare blankly forever,
getting away from the stink
of executed corpses
of thinking humans
he left rotting in Texas graveyards,
pushing vegetative rights,
Republican should take Terri to lunch
invite her to birthday parties
remarry her and give her children,
Vegetable Nation growing up
in the White House’s secret garden,
Farmer Dubya
bringing in the sheaves.
STEW ALBERT runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is STEW ALBERT?, is just out from Red Hen Press. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com