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Woody Harrelson

From Woody Harrelson’s poem “Thoughts from Within”

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

Hey, I’ve read worse.

From people who haven’t also starred in Natural Born Killers.

I like these lines:

And blaming the President for the country’s woes
is like yelling at a puppet
for the way it sings.

Reading a NYTimes profile of Harrelson, who’s long been one of my favorite actors, I discovered that he and his wife run an ecological activism web called Voice Yourself.

We believe all life on earth is sacred. VoiceYourself promotes and inspires individual action to create global momentum towards simple organic living and to restore balance and harmony to our planet.

It’s a pretty neat site.

He’s also got a not-much-publicized role in No Country for Old Men, a movie I think I’m going to have to see in spite of myself.

You can view “Thoughts from Within” as a Flash performance piece.

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