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Four of the past five nights I’ve fallen asleep, sitting upright in my computer chair. I’m feeling totally run down. Writing the poems is wonderful as always. But draining when combined with actually trying to live a life also. So even though I’m not sure what this topic is going to be, I do know. It has to be short. I can’t endure a long session today. I’m working on poems about Sacrifice Zones & NIMBY politics (Not In My Back Yard). So this little lightly ironic poem was pretty easy to write. Just what I needed.

The Poetic Factoid was found on the same page as other research & made my day simpler. 

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fracking NIMBYism

no one likes fracking near them
no, not even Exxon King CEO 
& briefly US Secretary of State 
under Donald. J. Drumpf
   — Rex Tillerson — 
who once joined a lawsuit 
opposing fracking near 
his $5 million Texas home
worried it would lower property values

Rex drops his own microphone

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Day 10 – TIL about election contributions

Republican Rex

Rex has given a total of $468,970 in contributions to Republican candidates & committees between 2000 to 2016

according to 
Federal Election Commission records
he contributed to the campaigns of

George W. Bush
Mitt Romney
Mitch McConnell
Jeb Bush

ironically (or not) he never donated 
to Donald J Drumpf