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Lies, cries the CultPopNet’s new news nose, The Knews Knows.<\/p>\n
Standing\u00a0with his ego and a firehose, shooting out wet prisms and some rainbows.<\/div>\n
While around him bruised waves circle, seeking optimum ways the world flows.<\/div>\n
The Knews Knows nothing chant may echo between banks.<\/div>\n
Compassion for old fashion decorates too many tanks.<\/div>\n
The waves one braves in seeking out the eddy and the flow<\/div>\n
may get points in your heaven, but no luck in Kokomo.<\/div>\n
The CultPopNet is gorged with fish, all multicolored scales.<\/div>\n
A talking dolphin is their God. He says please don’t kill whales.<\/div>\n
The Knews Knows many languages and signs with Janie’s apes.<\/div>\n
He once fell in with Hubbard and has his brainwashing tapes.<\/div>\n
His hurricane of colors sometimes threatens black and white.<\/div>\n
But birds and bees and trees agree The Knews Knows way is right.<\/div>\n
Outside, the constant crying of the antis and the pros<\/div>\n
abates late night so size regenerates while helpless doze.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lies, cries the CultPopNet’s new news nose, The Knews Knows. Standing\u00a0with his ego and a firehose, shooting out wet prisms and some rainbows. While around him bruised waves circle, seeking optimum ways the world flows. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2510,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2510","url_meta":{"origin":2524,"position":0},"title":"Warming to the Future","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This wouldn't have to happen if we raked\u00a0our forest floors. 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