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		<title>Letter to a Friend: Former or Otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Roufberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll let you know when I’m dead Since I haven’t heard from you in a while Busy, as you are, with your newfound love Riding high on your accomplishments And your fat pockets How can you forget that I imagine you&#8217;re too busy to notice Other &#160; Me, well Almost everything around Is rubble bones [...]]]></description>
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<p>I’ll let you know when I’m dead</p>
<p>Since I haven’t heard from you in a while</p>
<p>Busy, as you are, with your newfound love</p>
<p>Riding high on your accomplishments</p>
<p>And your fat pockets</p>
<p>How can you forget that</p>
<p>I imagine you&#8217;re too busy to notice</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Me, well</p>
<p>Almost everything around</p>
<p>Is rubble bones and blood</p>
<p>I’ll be joining the pile soon</p>
<p>To be sure</p>
<p>Nourished in heaven with manna</p>
<p>Not available to collective me</p>
<p>Here while alive</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I thought about calling you</p>
<p>To see how you are</p>
<p>I’m not the only one suffering</p>
<p>Everyone in their own way</p>
<p>Silent or otherwise</p>
<p>Bombs or no bombs</p>
<p>Food or no food</p>
<p>Love or no love</p>
<p>To be true</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Because my heart is bigger than yours</p>
<p>And I can only feel</p>
<p>sorrow  for your shallow</p>
<p>But  can not justify</p>
<p>You your</p>
<p>Ignorant violence</p>
<p>So we live together</p>
<p>In silence</p>
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		<title>Out, Camping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Roufberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People all over the world are camping That’s what you do in your tent, right? People around the world Are on vacation permanent That’s what you’re in on vacation, right? A tent. When you want to get in touch with nature. They destroyed everything. Our homes Our hospitals Our place of prayer Holy Places They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People all over the world are camping<br />
That’s what you do in your tent, right?<br />
People around the world<br />
Are on vacation permanent<br />
That’s what you’re in on vacation, right?<br />
A tent.<br />
When you want to get in touch with nature.</p>
<p>They destroyed everything.<br />
Our homes<br />
Our hospitals<br />
Our place of prayer<br />
Holy Places<br />
They murdered our children<br />
Our Children</p>
<p>My mother lies<br />
In part, in parts<br />
Most of her hot vapor sprayed<br />
Against the wall<br />
Updating paintings<br />
Soaking into the soft cushions</p>
<p>I’m in a tent<br />
On vacation<br />
Plenty of food<br />
Like “Victory”<br />
It’s within reach<br />
A few more meters<br />
A few more deaths</p>
<p>You’re in a tent<br />
You say to me<br />
Rent-free<br />
I should be happy<br />
And quiet<br />
For the privilege I endure</p>
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		<title>Talus Puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Roufberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In that dream you had Last night I was raven to your hawk At first you were rock In the talus puzzle Later it seemed You were a wave of wind Atop the trees Cascading along the ridge Toward the infinite Then that strange blue light Bounced from the sun Shone through The one cloud [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://theenchantedprison.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/49877434298_aa9fab19a3_b.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-959" title="49877434298_aa9fab19a3_b" src="http://theenchantedprison.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/49877434298_aa9fab19a3_b-300x212.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="212" /></a>In that dream you had</p>
<p>Last night</p>
<p>I was raven to your hawk</p>
<p>At first you were rock</p>
<p>In the talus puzzle</p>
<p>Later it seemed</p>
<p>You were a wave of wind</p>
<p>Atop the trees</p>
<p>Cascading along the ridge</p>
<p>Toward the infinite</p>
<p>Then that strange blue light</p>
<p>Bounced from the sun</p>
<p>Shone through</p>
<p>The one cloud in the sky</p>
<p>From which appeared your final form</p>
<p>In that dream you had</p>
<p>You beckoned me to partake</p>
<p>In our next fake</p>
<p>Royal joust in the sky</p>
<p>A game we engage</p>
<p>For the dream catchers</p>
<p>Passing by</p>
<p>On the way</p>
<p>To the great thing in their mind</p>
<p>Where everything plays</p>
<p>A fantasy</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Bio-mimicry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 13:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Roufberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are not countries Countries are not people When we blame one A well-defined entity With natural borders For the actions and ideas Of a limb of Earth Whose boundaries are an imposition Of said other We turn people into objects And objects into people We annihilate the inhabitants And exalt occupation Our feet confounded [...]]]></description>
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<div dir="auto">People are not countries</div>
<div dir="auto">Countries are not people</div>
<div dir="auto">When we blame one</div>
<div dir="auto">A well-defined entity</div>
<div dir="auto">With natural borders</div>
<div dir="auto">For the actions and ideas</div>
<div dir="auto">Of a limb of Earth</div>
<div dir="auto">Whose boundaries</div>
<div dir="auto">are an imposition</div>
<div dir="auto">Of said other</div>
<div dir="auto">We turn people into objects</div>
<div dir="auto">And objects into people</div>
<div dir="auto">We annihilate the inhabitants</div>
<div dir="auto">And exalt occupation</div>
<div dir="auto">Our feet confounded</div>
<div dir="auto">By the ground misdefined</div>
<div dir="auto">By the head founded</div>
<div dir="auto">In false narratives</div>
<div dir="auto">To replace organic order</div>
<div dir="auto">With its toxic twin</div>
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		<title>United Nations General Assembly Declares Decade of Reconciliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Roufberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by h. Gibrain Under the directorate of the United Nations Secretary General, the UN&#8217;s General Assembly has been instructed to exercise its full legal authority under international law by instituting a number of programs and reforms to the structural organization and function of the UN – as a whole and for each of its specific [...]]]></description>
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<p>Under the directorate of the United Nations Secretary General, the UN&#8217;s General Assembly has been instructed to exercise its full legal authority under international law by instituting a number of programs and reforms to the structural organization and function of the UN – as a whole and for each of its specific organs.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>This action, according to a spokesperson for the office of the Secretary General, has largely come in response to a symbolic lawsuit presented to the International Criminal Court suing the General Assembly, the International Court of Justice and the Security Council on the basis that, though it is commonly perceived that those organs have no legal authority and are, essentially, a whole lesser than the sum of its parts in that the member states are responsible for the net result of the respective UN organ, the UN Charter does, in fact, grant legal authority tantamount to statehood to each of these organs and therefore those UN bodies can be tried under international law as states for failing to carry out there respective mandates.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Accordingly, while it is argued that, for example, the Security Council is only as effective as the veto of its member states and, historically, this veto has been used by the permanent members to block any initiative, legal action, or principle on the grounds that it doesn&#8217;t fit in with the narrative of their hegemonic future, it is the absolute responsibility of both the Secretary General and the General Assembly to take actions to hold the member states accountable that fail to live up the their legal obligations.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>To counter a potential “legal” battle between the ICC and the ICJ the UNGA has begun to take steps to exercise the full might of its authority. However, they have expressed the intention to cast a positive light on these initiatives; rather than take legal action against states, they are taken proactive steps to support relations among states and between states and their respective civil societies. The biggest initiative release to the public thus far is the United Nations Decade of Global Reconciliation. “Well, let&#8217;s face it, the globe is a wreck and the only thing that is going to change it is a long process of global reconciliation,” states C. James Ernstrum, a spokesperson for the office of the General Assembly.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The main idea between the UNDOGR comes from the acknowledgment that the UN, itself, and international law is largely formulated by the victors of war – empires. This structure and formulation entirely leaves out indigenous perspectives. IN recognition of the fact that the western model has proven to be both destructive and increasingly violent, the UNDOGR is attempting to incorporate the reconciliation and mediation processes of indigenous cultures who survived and thrived for thousands of years in relative peace without all of the incredibly powerful destructive forces preeminent in the last century and a half.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“The indigenous peoples relationship is to the land and the narrative is one of survival as a part of the infinite web of life. The western mentality is based on possession and domination which, as we are all witnessing, has incredibly destructive power and natural processes can&#8217;t compensate for this without the help of human beings repairing the damage they&#8217;ve done to the environment – to the extinction of species, to the natural patterns in the weather cycles and perhaps most importantly, to the realization that we are in fact all tied together through water, blood and the great spirit that keeps our hearts beating as one,” spiritual leader of the Wasichu Thunder Clan notes in the UNDOGR&#8217;s publication soon to be released to the public and the member states of the UN. He continues, ““This is to be a global effort incorporating member states, civil societies and indigenous cultures and, the indigenous peoples of this planet will have the role similar to the UNGA for this initiative – not the member states, who have proven that they do not represent the will of the people nor can they unite on any particular initiatives for the benefit of the global civil society that stand counter to their respective hegemonic goals.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“The first actions should be a symbolic giving back of stolen lands to the indigenous people,” said former UN Undersecretary General Robert Mueller. Obama would have to symbolically return the lands of the US to the indigenous – with the understanding, of course, that the Native Americans would let the descendents of immigrants and colonialists to remain since they are now, too, indigenous to this land. Netanyahu, or his successor, will give the land back to the Palestinians. Australia would give the Island Continent back to the Aborigines, and so one. The process, you can imagine, would continue until all stolen lands were given back to their original owners and, the underlying mission and intention, is to highlight the fact that we are one species living on one planet and we will, necessarily for our survival, need to live beyond the nation state: trans-nationally; acting with the intention to promote our own welfare in that our welfare is directly related to the welfare of all species and the organic systems upon which they rely and we must work to protect the children of all species.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Beyond that there will need to be fortuitous gestures of reparations to the enslaved, dispossessed and murdered victims of empires and colonialism. This would entail reparations to the ancestors of slaves in the US and all around the world. Compensation to victims of war, refugees and internally displaced persons and so on,” adds Mueller. Again, the underlying intention is to illustrate that the “initial insult” can be traced back to some point in our common history through this series of reparations since each group will likely at some point in their history committed some injustice against another.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When we&#8217;re all done acknowledging the injustices we&#8217;ve perpetrated, apologizing, paying each other back and reconciling our pasts we will achieve a state of equality necessary for us to move towards our common destiny in cooperation and not in competition through the injustices perpetrated by states against nature and civil societies for profit and domination. Somewhere in our common history our narratives became dominated by a proclivity towards an unjust hierarchical system yet we have now reached a time where civil societies have become organized to counter the injustices of their respective states. We&#8217;re taking it to the next level through this initiative to weave together a global civil society who all share the same aspirations for peace, equality and a unity based on our common humanity and destiny.” Mueller concludes.</p>
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