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      <title>jackson&#39;s poetry project &quot;rational&quot; by JACKSON EUTSLER</title>
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      <description>&quot;I never made one of my discovery&#39;s through the process of rational thinking&quot; - Albert Einstein</description>
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      <pubDate>2017-11-15 13:53:50 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>introductory poem (Jackson Eutsler)</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>"be rational".<br>thats all i ever hear.<br>"be rational my dear".<br>irrational.<br>thats all ill ever be.<br>irrational is me.<br>but right now i cant be me.<br>i need to think rationally.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-11-15 14:01:26 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>why i chose the quote.</title>
         <author>jacksoneuts</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>i chose the quote in the description for it's authors popularity so that way more people can understand and relate.<br>i also chose it because of it's insight on rational thinking. being rational is something people value but hardly do they relize that inorder to achieve something like a dream or goal, sometimes you need to be irrational.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-11-15 14:04:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” — Kurt Vonnegut</title>
         <author>jacksoneuts</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>This war cannot be won.<br>The memory of the garden illusion caught me up<br>again in the turmoil, viewing my inner self<br>as an old person looking at distant scenery.<br>Add whenever the owner was asked to put on a demonstration.<br>When he gave the mule his first command.<br>Add the badly painted backdrop. Plus<br>my gaze to the left. It is not a good place to be,<br>to follow any verbal order you’re given.<br>First you have to get my attention. Someone<br>somewhere is trying to get my attention.<br>The query came from somewhere inside me, quite gracefully.<br>Add tired. Tired, tired. Plus decide<br>what such-and-such really is. Add effective<br>tools in the war against so monstrous a wrong.<br>Add ideology superimposed on us during the course of our learning.<br>Add the maverick must be allowed to retreat<br>to his private domain and live in any manner<br>he finds rewarding. Add interminable<br>conversations with your cats. Plus<br>watching television all day long. Plus as long<br>as we don’t interfere with the freedom<br>or well being of any other person.<br>Plus easier enforcement will catch more criminals.<br>Plus the international politics of debt.<br>Add a lot of what I’ve been talking about<br>has to do with the other guy. Add more and more<br>companies are requiring pre-employment urine testing.<br>Not just bus drivers and policemen, add furniture salesmen.<br>Grocery store clerks. Add recipients of public housing,<br>university loans, or academic grants. Add veteran cops.<br>Add the daily<br>shaving of the head and body. Today verbal assurance<br>is acceptable, but what about tomorrow. Add tomorrow.<br>Add what extent do you feel it is justifiable<br>for someone else to control your personal behavior<br>if it contributes to the public benefit?<br>Add I have questions in one pocket &amp; secrets in the other.<br>Add I’ve got nothing to hide.<br>To this delicious feeling of being alive add definition<br>of a police state, were it to quietly materialize around you.<br>Plus proportions of any serious effort to help those<br>with debilitating mental illnesses. Add children<br>who have no families, no food,<br>no education and no hope.<br>Plus interactive software.<br>Add we’re a drag strip.<br>Remodeling experts.<br>Add redneck gangs with names like the Spook hunters.<br>Add panicky local authority.<br>Subtract modernism.<br>Add propaganda. Reasonable suspicion. Swift action.<br>If you are a person in authority,<br>you now don’t have to confront the suspected wrongdoer;<br>you confront their possessions instead.<br>Add quick-witted reporters.<br>Add legislature. Boot camps.<br>To “six pack” stucco tenements add weed &amp; seed urban rescue.<br>Weary populations preoccupied with fantasies of becoming Byzantium.<br>Electrified teenagers of all classes.<br>Deceptive technology.<br>Add your personal limits.<br>Add our parents’ permission.<br>The social burden of servicing the deficit.<br>Add comment.<br>I had a horrible nightmare<br>last night, far more intense than any dream I’ve had in years.<br>Add I was at a hotel. Add everything I owned was in the room.<br>Plus I’m naked.<br>This wonderful glow inside my being—<br>the expanse of green grass and the shimmering<br>leaves vibrating in the sunlight<br>making this a wonderful place<br>to sit and contemplate. Here is what happened.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2017-11-15 14:24:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>enter poem here</title>
         <author>jacksoneuts</author>
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         <pubDate>2017-11-15 14:32:36 UTC</pubDate>
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