<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Territory, a Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I am Located</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>At the Intersection Between Land &amp; the Rivers</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>To My Right</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Those Birds Over the Waterways are Not Leisurely</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>They’d Screamed at One Another</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://lifetheobstaclecourse.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/13b15-politicians1.jpg" />with their separate agendas in mind&#8230;not my photo&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Hitting Each Other Hard</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Fighting Hard Over, that Live Fish that’s Already </em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Caught in One’s Mouth</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Ferry Operations, the Fishers, the Waterway Police</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Too, Were Setting Up the Routes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Making Those Non-Believers of God to be Able to</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Walk on Water Too</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>To My Left</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://lifetheobstaclecourse.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/7300f-politicsus.jpg" />what that looked like back in the day, and still looks right now&#8230;not my picture&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>It’s the Streets with the Shopfronts Made with the Filled Up Land Masses</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Shops Set up the Lines Outside</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Preventing the Customers from the Neighboring Stores to Cross the Boundaries</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Men, with Their Arms Around Women</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>To Show Ownership</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Those Dogs Who are Too Worked Up Pulled on Their Owners</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Crying Children, Guiding the </em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Direction to Which the Adults Traveled</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Over My Head</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Those Flights Local And International</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>With the Birds in Flocks</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>All Had Separate Routes to Travel</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>The Clouds Were, Pushed Along by the Winter Winds</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Headed, Toward Where They’re, Destined</em></p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>To Become Rains or, Becoming Thunders</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Underneath My Feet</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">party politics, AT its worst!!!  Not my cartoon&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/atstockillustration.com/1024/vector-illustration-of-a-political-aggressive-democratic-donkey-and-republican-elephant-tearing-through-a-wall-by-atstockillustration-6772.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>At the Intersections of Land and Ocean</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>And Yet, in a Little Bit</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>I Shall, Return to My Home</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>To Add the Locks, to These Small Territory</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>The Word “Freedom”</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Was Enclaved by the Four Walls</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>There Was Also a Handle on the Cage</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>That You Can Lift Up, to See it Clearly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><em>Or to Toy with</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, this, would be, the values of freedom, it’s basically, useless, and can be played with, and this would be, a reflection of the current political situation, because the world is still in a state of CHAOS right now!</p>
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