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		<title>A message to &#8220;Occupy-ers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First and foremost, thank you for having the courage and ambition to get off your ass and do something about the direction that our nation has been steered over the last decade. Now pack up your shit and let&#8217;s start working toward real change.&#160; So far, we&#8217;ve all called attention to some fairly relevant issues [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=330&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First and foremost, thank you for having the courage and ambition to get off your ass and do something about the direction that our nation has been steered over the last decade.</p>
<p>Now pack up your shit and let&#8217;s start working toward real change.&nbsp; So far, we&#8217;ve all called attention to some fairly relevant issues but the problem is that there is no real leader, no real goals, no real anything other than emotion.&nbsp; Your actions have been successful at receiving attention but it&#8217;s gone on for too long.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve got to get out of the parks and into the county council meetings.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve got to run for offices and take money out of the pockets of the 1% and begin empowering each other.</p>
<p>Stop fighting over who the leaders are and just become one.&nbsp; Take the time to listen to someone other than yourself and make changes in your personal life.&nbsp; Things can&#8217;t continue on the path they are on.&nbsp; By causing chaos and anarchy, you force the hands of military and police personnel and are losing the sympathy vote.</p>
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<p>There are people who are fighting for our rights.  Are you?</p>
<p>When you break the law, you become a criminal and you allow the powers that be to act accordingly.  I get the occupation on the streets when there is a purpose, but what do you want?  What will get you back in your homes?  This country and the 1% now has an excuse to turn on and declare Marshall Law.  Do you get what that means?  </p>
<p>Martial law means imposing military rule by military authorities over designated regions such as New York, on an emergency basis—and although USUALLY only temporary—when the civilian government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively (e.g., maintain order and security, and provide essential services), when there are extensive riots and protests, or when the disobedience of the law becomes widespread, it could be long standing. </p>
<p>In most cases, military forces are deployed to quiet the crowds, to secure government buildings and key or sensitive locations, and to maintain order. This means that generally, military personnel will replace police departments and perform some or all of their functions. </p>
<p>THE CONSTITUTION COULD AND WILL BE SUSPENDED.   When we are in full-scale martial law, the highest-ranking military officer would take over, or be installed, as the military governor or as head of the government, thus removing all power from the previous executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m NOT saying to let anyone off the hook, but let&#8217;s be real and get organized.  If there are organizations that have too much money or power then we have to do something about it.  Sleeping in a park will NOT solve the problem.  File lawsuits, join the government, if you want to hold protests, do them with purpose.  Stop fighting and breaking the law and expecting cities to tolerate it.  If you broke the law without the mob of others behind you doing the same thing it wouldn&#8217;t be tolerated.  </p>
<p>There HAS TO BE some form of order in order to be productive.  Start demanding accountability from those who want to hold you accountable.  Let&#8217;s make the auto makers, bankers, insurance companies, etc pay back the money they stole from us.  File complaints in EVERY CITY over JP Morgans monopoly on handling food stamps, because they are continuing to keep us all poor so they can make even more money. </p>
<p>Stop thinking you HAVE TO HAVE things that come from companies that use your money to fund hate groups.  </p>
<p>You want leaders?  Hold your own elections.  For every 100 or 1000 people there should be a leader.  The leaders should then have leaders and so forth until everyone&#8217;s ideas are being communicated because all we hear outside of your protests are a bunch of people complaining about a lot of issues with no resolution in sight and to be honest, I&#8217;m not willing to give up my rights because of your egos.</p>
<p>So be honest and stop being an asshole. If you&#8217;re not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem!</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve done it again&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have, for far too long Attempted to be what I thought I was supposed to The way a good little girl ought to But each and every time I fail And end up here At the bottom of a milkshake or a beer I quit smoking 7 months ago though I could really use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=328&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have, for far too long</p>
<p>Attempted to be what I thought I was supposed to</p>
<p>The way a good little girl ought to</p>
<p>But each and every time I fail</p>
<p>And end up here</p>
<p>At the bottom of a milkshake or a beer</p>
<p>I quit smoking 7 months ago though I could really use a joint right now.</p>
<p>Its been 3 months since the last time that I had sex</p>
<p>And I’m tired of going without the pleasures of this world</p>
<p>For the sake of others</p>
<p>I need my mother</p>
<p>And another</p>
<p>Shot at it all</p>
<p>To rewind time and take what should’ve been mine.</p>
<p>I’ve had enough of my own victimization</p>
<p>I’m tired of intellectual masturbation</p>
<p>I dream and I scream</p>
<p>Silently</p>
<p>Amongst myself</p>
<p>Wondering when, things will ever be anything else.</p>
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		<title>Changing Changes Everything.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to take the time to stare at all of the art that inspires me I am creating the soundtrack to my life for the feelings it evokes in me speaking of which, when&#8217;s the last time that YOU felt anything? Wake up sheeple It&#8217;s time to be heard do you hear what I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=325&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want to take the time<br />
to stare at all of the art that inspires me<br />
I am creating the soundtrack to my life<br />
for the feelings it evokes in me<br />
speaking of which,<br />
when&#8217;s the last time that YOU felt anything?<br />
Wake up sheeple<br />
It&#8217;s time to be heard<br />
do you hear what I&#8217;m telling you?<br />
The world is turning<br />
and it&#8217;s creating a movement<br />
I&#8217;m tired of pretending<br />
that everything will be okay<br />
and waiting for others to make the change.<br />
I don&#8217;t want to exist<br />
in a world where<br />
Normalcy is measured by<br />
how many pills you eat.</p>
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		<title>8.20 blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of days, weeks, months, who the hell knows how long, I&#8217;ve had time to think about everything that goes on around me and I&#8217;ve got to admit I&#8217;ve finally reached a conclusion.  I&#8217;m not the only one who is plagued by confusion.  I hate the feeling that I have every moment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=319&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the last couple of days, weeks, months, who the hell knows how long, I&#8217;ve had time to think about everything that goes on around me and I&#8217;ve got to admit I&#8217;ve finally reached a conclusion.  I&#8217;m not the only one who is plagued by confusion.  I hate the feeling that I have every moment of every day. I hate feeling like the one who will always be on the outside, but then again, I look around at all of the suffering and wish I could move just a little further than having my face pressed up against the glass.  Suicide is running rampant and I wish that I could stop it.  My shrink thinks that&#8217;s a disorder all of it&#8217;s own and maybe I should be a little more careless about it all.  I mean, no matter what we do, at the end of the day we all face a final curtain call.  Who cares what I did with my time and if anyone else agreed.  The more I pay attention, the more I learn that everyone has their vices and maybe I should&#8217;ve worried less about what mine were and allowed myself to feel the eupohoria of the ecstacy as the bass was pumpin and vicks was blowing, rather than contemplating rehab and how to become one of them.  I should&#8217;ve slept around a lot more and worried about relationships a lot less.  I should&#8217;ve spent money and stopped trying to hold onto it because either way it didn&#8217;t last.  I wish I would&#8217;ve realized earlier that the past was the past and the bullies were insecure stuck up bitches who knew nothing about me, or life, and celebrated the fact that Karma would kick their ass for me and that I didn&#8217;t have to kick myself for not standing up to them sooner.  I should be happy about the fact that black holes make my memory resemble swiss cheese and rather than trying to make them hole, I should be able to start again, and again, and again, until I get it right.  I mean after all, this is <del>my</del> <strong>MY</strong> life.  Right?</p>
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		<title>This place</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in this place right now that I can&#8217;t explain. It&#8217;s somewhere between crazy and insane. The people around me are in turmoil The people on TV flashing pearly whites, don&#8217;t seem to get it or notice. Maybe it&#8217;s all the xanex? Everything I&#8217;ve ever learned is a lie everything I&#8217;ve ever believed is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=316&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am in this place right now that I can&#8217;t explain.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s somewhere between crazy</p>
<p>and insane.</p>
<p>The people around me are in turmoil</p>
<p>The people on TV flashing pearly whites, don&#8217;t seem to get it or notice.</p>
<p>Maybe it&#8217;s all the xanex?</p>
<p>Everything I&#8217;ve ever learned is a lie</p>
<p>everything I&#8217;ve ever believed is true.</p>
<p>What the hell does that leave me to do?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m tired of being tired</p>
<p>tired of feeling a lone</p>
<p>tired of struggling</p>
<p>every day just to get out of bed</p>
<p>let a lone accomplish something with my 24 hrs</p>
<p>My mind is frantically trying to wrap itself around this</p>
<p>clock like ticking and hammer like pounding</p>
<p>Why do I have to live my life as if I were drowning?</p>
<p>Is it any wonder why I want so desperately to get out of this place?</p>
<p>Is it any wonder why all I crave is an escape?</p>
<p>How much more of this can I take?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Sleep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost 3 months since I slept, on a regular sleep schedule or even a decent one.  I can&#8217;t keep averaging 4hrs/night.  UGH!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=314&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been almost 3 months since I slept, on a regular sleep schedule or even a decent one.  I can&#8217;t keep averaging 4hrs/night.  UGH!</p>
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		<title>Ask Viv: Let the Economy Crash, Not your Relationship!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://wp.me/p1Ftst-kC">Ask Viv: Let the Economy Crash, Not your Relationship!</a>.</p>
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		<title>Contempt.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She says that she still loves me, but I&#8217;m not buying it. I tell her that I still love her, but she&#8217;s not buying it. I don&#8217;t remember ever taking that turn that turned us around and knocked us on our ass I don&#8217;t think she does either. There was a time when I looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=310&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She says that she still loves me, but I&#8217;m not buying it.</p>
<p>I tell her that I still love her, but she&#8217;s not buying it.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t remember ever taking that turn that turned us around and knocked us on our ass</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think she does either.</p>
<p>There was a time when I looked at the woman next to me with adornment and lust</p>
<p>and now i look at her with just..</p>
<p>ugh. a sigh. a sign. an i don&#8217;t know why.</p>
<p>We can&#8217;t get a long anymore no matter how hard we try</p>
<p>nothing is right and it&#8217;s the one truth we still share</p>
<p>the one thing we have in common is this</p>
<p>need to piss each other off</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve played this play</p>
<p>and played this game</p>
<p>for far too long</p>
<p>I&#8217;m over it</p>
<p>and it&#8217;s over me</p>
<p>hanging there like a dark cloud with lightening bolts</p>
<p>raining only over Charlie Brown.</p>
<p>Is it better to leave</p>
<p>or work it out?</p>
<p>What&#8217;s left to work out?</p>
<p>other than this depression induced gut</p>
<p>that I wear across my mid section</p>
<p>like a seatbelt</p>
<p>it restrains me from the inevitable collision</p>
<p>that will come as soon as I take it off</p>
<p>and try to begin again</p>
<p>on my own.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m too old to believe in forever</p>
<p>too young to feel so done.</p>
<p>In my next life,</p>
<p>I will do my best to be contempt with loving me.</p>
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		<title>The best of times?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something in the air.  Perhaps it&#8217;s the end of summer beginning of fall that my soul is smelling.  Or the sadness in knowing that 1/2 of yet another year has run away from me.  I feel trapped with our one split between 2 drivers car scenario.  It&#8217;s getting old, just like I&#8217;m getting old.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=308&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s something in the air.  Perhaps it&#8217;s the end of summer beginning of fall that my soul is smelling.  Or the sadness in knowing that 1/2 of yet another year has run away from me.  I feel trapped with our one split between 2 drivers car scenario.  It&#8217;s getting old, just like I&#8217;m getting old.  I miss the freedom of having fun whenever in the hell I wanted it.  I sometimes question why I ever traded it in for this box that I&#8217;m beginning to hate called an apartment.  I&#8217;d rather sleep in my car, so that the first thing on my mind every day would be &#8220;where do I want to go today&#8221;? Rather than the last thing on my mind being, why didn&#8217;t I go today?  I hate being held back by money.  If I could go back to 17 with good knees and stay there forever I would.  Who would&#8217;ve thought that the worst of times would become the best of times?</p>
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		<title>For the Love Of Kyle, I Can&#8217;t Take it Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess LeMin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My heart is broken at the way that otherwise good people so smugly sit on national television, smirk on faces as ignorance takes over. It&#8217;s not them, I tell myself.  But let&#8217;s face it, it is. A woman who represented the school district in Minneapolis has said that she felt &#8220;neutrality&#8221; meaning the silent condemnation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eastcoastpoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19088332&amp;post=297&amp;subd=eastcoastpoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My heart is broken at the way that otherwise good people so smugly sit on national television, smirk on faces as ignorance takes over.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not them, I tell myself.  But let&#8217;s face it, it is.</p>
<p>A woman who represented the school district in Minneapolis has said that she felt &#8220;neutrality&#8221; meaning the silent condemnation of gays is enough of a compromise and &#8220;What else do they want?&#8221;.</p>
<p>I look at her and think, she looks like she is probably a nice lady, somewhere in that hypnotized heart of hers, but really, she&#8217;s not.  Anyone who can say that as a representative of all that is holy that Queer&#8217;s, even young ones, deserve to die for being queer&#8230;.well, they represent the devil to me and that, I&#8217;m not ok with.</p>
<p>Queer&#8217;s are weird mystical creatures, I&#8217;ll give you that, but if you want to know what&#8217;s going on inside of our minds, just ask us.</p>
<p>See the thing that goes on in mine is this need to maintain a life line with my higher power.   I like to call him God although if these psycho&#8217;s have named their higher power God, then maybe I&#8217;ll change his name to Kyle.</p>
<p>So Kyle and I kick it often.  In fact, he&#8217;s the only one I like to talk to about everything.  And Kyle says that we were created out of love.  In fact that 4 letter word that seems to seer into the souls of some is the only reason we were made; LOVE.</p>
<p>Kyle doesn&#8217;t like it when people pretend to be close to him and use his name to promote hate. The rest of these sheeple outside of my door who watch psycho&#8217;s that snicker at the death of children make me feel like I&#8217;m living in one fucked up version of Zombieland which is why I&#8217;ve given up on my need to leave my home.  There is no love out there.  And if it is, it&#8217;s so far and few between that I&#8217;d rather just stay online.  In my facebook like bubble where I can listen to birds &#8220;tweet&#8221; and see faces of people who actually do have love in their hearts.  Not these horrible people who make me wish i could find an exit.</p>
<p>Is it so hard to understand why a kid would feel there is no hope, when the adults around them would rather let them die than give them rights?</p>
<p>My heart is broken tonight and no amount of booze or pills or pot or morphine or anything could cure these blues.  I need love, and a platform to talk to these confused people who think that I look at a vagina and like a wolf salivate.  That&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s done.  The body part I&#8217;m the most attracted to is the heart.  The mind.  The soul.  And once in awhile the ass, but it always comes last.</p>
<p>Even if I was attracted to tits why should it be a crime?  If I put a penis between my legs then suddenly it&#8217;s ok.  I don&#8217;t think with my cock and neither should you.  I&#8217;m not a hateful person, in fact I don&#8217;t know many Queer&#8217;s who are.  If anything, we have to be the tolerant ones who make excuses for the abusiveness of our society.  We are the date raped sub culture who has to take it up the ass anytime some sweaty guy thinks it&#8217;s ok to stare at us with drunken eyes, mount us because he&#8217;s been given that right, or even belittle us because he feels he&#8217;s better than us.  Let&#8217;s face it, this is a man&#8217;s world, especially a white man&#8217;s world, or a rich white man&#8217;s world.  None of which I am.</p>
<p>No, I&#8217;m a poor puerto rican with an IQ of at least 145 who happens to have enough balls to stand up for who I am.  I&#8217;m telling you all of this because it&#8217;s time that some body does.  Fuck being nice.  It hasn&#8217;t gotten us very far.  From this day forward, I&#8217;m starting a blacklist for companies that do business with hate groups.  Anyone who is a part of these groups will be boycotted by myself and hopefully every other Queer in the country with 1/2 a brain.  We&#8217;ve got to stop funding these terrorists like Michelle Bachmann and start doing more to promote what&#8217;s real; LOVE.</p>
<p>Because whether you believe in God, Allah, Karma, or Kyle, at the end of this road we will all be held accountable.  I want to know that I did everything I could.  Don&#8217;t you?</p>
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