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    One Hundred Poems, Volume V
    One Hundred Poems, Volume V
    One Hundred Poems, Volume V
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    One Hundred Poems, Volume V

    By Tuomas Vainio

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    Roughly 500 poems ago I set myself a task of writing 1000 poems at the rate of one per day. A personal challenge to see where I would go, whether I would finish or give up somewhere along the way.

    Therefore I present the following hundred contemporary poems on popular culture, current events, societal phenomenon, and whatever else I might fancy:

    One Million Gamers Strong
    Fallout 4 – Road Goggles – Again
    Four Lines Today
    Local News on Global Warning
    Royalty: They keep it in the family

    Those Governmental Peeping Toms
    Force Awakens
    Blink
    A blocklist of 1,32 million users
    This Week in Stupid, by One Sargon of Akkad

    Trump: Creation of the Regressive Left
    Salt and Steam (For a fantasy novel)
    Too warm for December
    How to handle those terrible online public reactions
    Back Working For Royal Society

    On The Husbands of River Song
    Under Wintry Moonlight
    Lazy Bread
    #FeminismIsCancer
    Reality of Feminist Academia

    Circle of Archers (For a fantasy novel)
    End of the Year
    “Because it's 2015”
    Black Pig's Monologue (For a fantasy novel.)
    #OregonUnderAttack (03/01/2016 – Day/Month/Year)

    The Hugos Approach Once More
    Freedom of Religion
    Steven Universe Censored in UK
    #Cologne
    A sauna

    #JeSuisMilo
    Worlds Apart (For a science fiction novel)
    After A Lifetime On Mars
    Something cruel
    Jar Jar Binks – Ahmed Best

    Before their time
    Drama Queens and #GamerGate
    Art Made of Someone's Fart
    The Big Questions, Season 9, Episode 2
    Abuse

    Orders of Magisters (For a fantasy novel)
    #StrategicButt
    On that possible ninth planet?
    Gregory Alan Elliott, Not Guilty
    Boat

    I Do Not Know
    Fear on the Streets
    Hugo Awards
    #AstroSH – Sexual Harassment in Astronomy?
    Why Censorship Doesn't Work

    Stars
    Dawkins Disinvited
    #UnSubTheFineBros
    An Asylum Seeker
    Self-help Nonsense

    A Good Story
    [Unsolicited Opinions On Israel???]
    Bad Relations Tortoise
    #RIPTwitter
    Trump Nobel Peace Price?

    Red Toy Boat
    Chinese New Year
    Thoughts On New Hampshire Results
    'Mansplaining' in Australian Senate
    “A Study Shows”

    UN tries to ban Japanese video game boobies
    Twitter's Trust and Safety Council
    Sleep typing
    “69”
    The False Allegations of Spain

    Glass Ceiling
    Deadpool
    It ain't new, just a new coat of paint
    Blizzard Wanderer
    Actually it is about tulips

    Virtual Reality Massively Multi-player Online
    Why I Left Twitter Behind
    A price to be paid (For a fantasy novel)
    On this night
    Opening Up Libel Laws

    Sun and Moon
    BLM and KKK
    Headache
    #MakeYoutubeGreatAgain
    #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain

    Six months later...
    A moron in a debate
    Ghostbusters – 2016
    Political Climate Change
    No free speech without hate speech

    No idea what to write
    First echoes of spring
    Popcorn
    How to become a 'GamerGater?'
    #TheTriggering, 9th of March

    Staring at the screen
    Worth of a Name
    'A Safe Space'
    Encryption and 'back doors'
    500 miles

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuomas Vainio
    Release dateMar 18, 2016
    ISBN9781311932280
    One Hundred Poems, Volume V
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    Tuomas Vainio

    I write, I read, and the typos are still there. It is the crux of my life. Anyhow, my published works should not be overpriced and in some outlets you might be even able to set your own price!

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      One Hundred Poems, Volume V - Tuomas Vainio

      One Million Gamers Strong

      Because video game censorship is wrong,

      The goal is to get one million gamers strong,

      In defence of those bikini clad butt cheeks,

      Which gives modern puritans their creeps,

      Makes them shout out: muh soggy knees,

      For they remain impossible to appease,

      So lets get one million gamers strong,

      To show censored games are wrong,

      Against the nature of this medium,

      For fun is butchered into tedium,

      Into another pound of grey goo,

      It does not have to be our stew.

      Fallout 4 – Road Goggles – Again

      I finally got a pair,

      That I now proudly wear,

      And the wait was worth it: I swear!

      But the sad fact is: I have passed level eighty-six,

      And still far more to go to fill my bag of tricks,

      So radiant quest are my source of conflicts-

      Hence I am sent to exterminate settlements,

      Under the guise of ghoulish pestilence,

      Something of great unpleasantness.

      Settlement population is at zero,

      But alas road goggles on a hero…

      Four Lines Today

      And another start,

      Poems as short as fart,

      Flying off just like a dart,

      But got to say; nothing smart.

      Local News on Global Warning

      It appears that nations of the world approach resolution,

      When it comes to greenhouse gas related pollution,

      Although once more what we lack is execution,

      Thus as the time passes we face dissolution,

      So nothing truly new on that 'revolution.'

      But they did mention a humiliation of climate sceptics,

      As Greenpeace ordered studies in favour of sceptics,

      Proving how money alone bends backs and ethics,

      Ignoring the two way street of money and ethics,

      Perhaps they have not talked to enough cynics.

      And all that preaching about saving this world is retarded,

      Not to mention how easily it is forgotten and discarded,

      If daily survival leaves the future but a distant target,

      Thus if this global warming is to be ever thwarted,

      Energy self-sufficiency should not be discarded.

      But the discussion lies in percentages and unspecified goals,

      With those same questions repeating in the public polls,

      Just stuck trying to fix those same age old potholes,

      While energy self-sufficiency is a specific goal,

      Thermal, wave, solar, wind; all play roles.

      But nothing new on the West front,

      While energy self-sufficiency remains affront,

      We but shun the innovations and the technological forefront.

      >Out of the three levels of the Kardashev scale,

      >We haven't even begun to reach the first.

      Royalty: They keep it in the family

      The rumour is;

      A prince dates his sister in law,

      As close to incest you can get (within confines of the law).

      But it makes me wonder:

      Is it a result of royal inbreeding,

      Combination of genes otherwise receding,

      Because cousins kept on marrying and breeding?

      Before it was used to keep wealth in the family,

      And to produce a legal hair to the country,

      So a single name runs in the memory,

      To give crown some security.

      But I guess some are relieved to hear it,

      Even on these troubled times; royalty still fucks family!

      And although they appear to seek genetic dilution,

      I would still prefer the French

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