House of Paine

November 23, 2003

medicare and medicaid 


 their sisters 
right ?

twins even

since 
they both 
came 
out of
 the same sack 
at  about 
the same time 

but they're
 far from 
 identical

well

 i think 
Sister Care 
oughta
do the right thing

and 
eat
 Sister Caid 
alive 

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Continue reading "the medi twins"

November 22, 2003

 
  braking the social contract
part 5 


some dared
call it 

“ defacto  social democracy ”

but they’re fools 
and pastors mostly
 
what we
  really are hangin on to here 
is this shady
shabby 
 fuckin old coat
 called 
“ the new deal two ”
no actually its the new deal 
part 2.2

the .2 being LBJ’s add ons
called the great society 

and its fucking
 in tatters complete functionless
tatters 
and has been
 for 25 years at least 



Continue reading "the lost new deal"

November 12, 2003

this post 
will be brief

its just going up 
 so I can  cover 
an uncovered 
 base or two 

 every jack ass knows 
     we need to overhaul 
  the methods we use to 
provision our health system
and that we need to cover
 everyone and be fair about it 

well
 I PREDICT WE WILL SOLVE
THAT PROBLEM 
IN BUSHES SECOND TERM 

the why is obvious
 corporate America 
is tired of all the hassling 

so its just a matter of how 



Continue reading "MEDIVAT / MEDICARE"

  every once in a while i see something 
on the web 
worth  copying 
here’s one I found 
still can’t imagine how stuff
like this can’t make it over
the press corps fit to print bar 



Continue reading "border wall"

November 06, 2003

come 
  back with me again 
to the dawn of our era 

this time we’re stopping in 
 the roaring 1530’s 
of course we’re still  in Europe

time has past and 
the renaisance is flickering 
to an ever less 
 self assured gaudy  close 


 there has been too much upheaval  
nothing can be put back 
to what it was before 



Continue reading "the abbey of desire"