autumn

you should be so gleeful 
your face, the one you put on
can drop even for a minute
is enough to know the feeling
freeing you up on makin new
things possible again
and again and again and
i love this fact, again
i represented the vested
interested of the vested few
who still scrape diamonds
from humanity into private
hands are soft but quick
i gift you the lilac
no subtext
just flowers and giggles
i gift you the lily
it’s biblical and rolls off
tongue lilting, slyly
shy and angry all the time
rightly so i think
but placed where?

Haiti – No to the Intervention of Foreign Special Forces!

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How can Canada, a country that calls itself a so-called defender of human rights, agree to be part of the Core Group, an illegal association of ambassadors that is destroying an entire society, Haiti? Where is the respect for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed by Canada in 1966?

No to Canada’s activities as part of the Core Group in Haiti! Haitians are also full-fledged human beings like Canadians. We demand, without delay, the dismantling of this group, not only for the respect and dignity of our country, but also for the honour of our ancestors.

Continue reading at: https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/D52028.HTM#1

We invite the entire Quebec community to join us Saturday, October 22, 2022, in a strong mobilization, because we are no longer in the time of colonization.

Do not do to others what you would never accept be done to you in Canada!

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all night long

do for you for you do for you do do
do for do do for do for do fo what?
do si do do si do do do birdie bye
do be do be do be do be do be do 
doe eye doe eye doe eye doe eye doe
luv me do luv me don't say yes
you know yes u do not know me so
where is it where is u where u go
is none of mine none of yours o
ma pa and daughter doting daily 
sailing sally set adrift a flailing
schooner song was sung by many mans
who never came home and boys grew up
without a pa or pain or bread or brain
o well o well still turned out swell
still rose with tides and ides of 
marching on and staying strong
and staying up all night long