A Politician's New Year's Resolution, 2012

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A Politician's New Year's Resolution, 2012

By Ruben Rivera

Heavenly Minded & Earthly Good blog©

31 December 2011

I resolve not to be the lackey of deep

pocket interests, but to serve the common

people who still believe their vote actually

matters. Though I do owe favors to the

special interests without whom I would

not be here. But as soon as I take care of

them, it's all about the people, so help me,

or may my right hand sprout mushrooms.

 I resolve not to sell out my values to

every trade wind of political expediency

or the corrupting lure of conflict of

interest enrichment opportunities.

But I am also a realist. After all, the

world is thus and thus must we live

in the world. That aside, I shall preserve

my values inviolate, or may my taste

buds switch places with my bile ducts.

 As a politician who's been an outsider

in Washington for years, I resolve to

take the politics out of politics and

work with my colleagues across the

isle for the good of the country --

after all, the things that unite us are

greater than the things that divide us --

assuming I can find someone from the

other party with a brain-stem. These

I resolve to fulfill, or may my tongue

forever be forced to speak the truth. 

On the even lighter side, see here.

Pictures: free clip art 

Crazy Gift

By Ruben Rivera©

Heavenly Minded & Earthly Good blog
22 December 2011
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The gift that
was too big
too small
not the right color
not the famous brand
deemed obsolescent
in a society of planned obsolescence

The gift with

no material face value

like store coupons 

that will get you half off 

on milk and honey but are 

not exchangeable for money 

why don't they just give us the money

The gift waiting
in long lines for a refund or
exchanged for what we really want or
accepted from the giver with a diplomatic smile
then promptly disappeared like some political dissident
and years later we can say
with a straight face that we still have it

The gift from
that crazy God
crazy and crudely in love
like the child that makes a clay handprint
crude as all get out and wrapped even more crudely
yet the most cherished object on the parent's mantle

A crazy gift
for this crazy world
that has everything and nothing
the only gift you can
take with you