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hands off

BF Skinner is asking
what motivated his death.
His birth,
or why his little mother wore the ring.

career minded, warm blooded-
woman, you are
unaware of the home

you are in, the people put their
plates down on that morning table
concentrating on the roundness.

a perfect simplicity
you have not spoken with.
 


— whitetea, Oct 15, 2008

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Region, Country: United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Chrystos, Mark Strand, Adrienne Rich, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rachel M. Simon, Donald Justice, Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Bukowski, Mary Lambert

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barbsdad2003

17 years 8 months ago

Wow!

Insight. Sharp insight. Tangential and otherwise. I esp. like "i have you down for breaking and entering." As do so many doctors, psychiatrists prescribe ... and often compound/complicate the problem. Unnecessarily. Sometimes to a flagrant, morally impeachable degree. The degree serves to confuse, obfuscate greater realities. It proclaims an authority rather unwarranted. It serves to separate doctor from patient. I find even the terms "doctor" and "patient" reprehensible, distasteful. As in up/down. As in "I'm better'n you; I know you, you don't know me." As in "Cast your judgment aside for one coming from one who holds degree(s)." As in "I'm worthwhile; you're less so." "I'm knowledgeable, you're not." "My brain holds Gospel, yours doesn't." "I'll share my wisdom piecemeal ... and for a price." Et cetera. Thanx for this. Holds much promise. I'll keep watch. Yours, Chuck PS: The wise person with a degree ... was wise without it. My take on BF Skinner? He demeans people by making of them objects. Mere checkers/chess pieces. Is prone to extravagant, excessive intellectualizing.
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orgami

17 years 7 months ago

social tolerance

so much sadness up here people affected effected but for the better shuffling around dangerous with the meak victims and social circits more prescriptions more jail time move em around keep the file extension i think people were suprised when they just moved everyone from the institutions to the streets taught them skills "learned them" how to take buses to the mall new jobs its amazing to think that B>F> skinner was not that far ago that beyond that was primitive the land where no one wanted the streets like cities of medieval times also saw a program on the sixties that tested people giving electric shocks to "subjects" in another room through a person of authority an amazing sixty five per cent shocked people with lethal amounts of electricity (The "Subjects" were actors but still) Horrifying to hear this lately This poem is very good at least someone is watching caring feeling the frustrations of a yet infantile system in the new millenium

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