The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Here is a running list of comments on my poetry. My poetry books can be found at the following links: https://www.amazon.com/Penetrating-Heart-Life-Ambiguous-Ambivalent-ebook/dp/B00B1F0LIY/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=craig+rozniecki&qid=1612997714&sr=8-6 https://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Come-People-Grow-Journey/dp/1411694899/ref=sr_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=craig+rozniecki&qid=1612997842&sr=8-17 A Hollywood Fantasy - "'A Hollywood fantasy, How I wish it were true, Instead I'm stuck in reality, Not knowing what to do.’   LOVE this part. This one rocks. Like this poem. Wonderful, amazing and beautiful."   A Hypnotic State - “'Uncertain if I'm dreaming, Or am wide awake, If she's real or a figment of my imagination, As I remain in a hypnotic state.’   Love this part. This is wonderful and beautiful."   Alien - “'Alien are my surroundings, Alien are the faces, Constant tests and experiments...

I just received this comment on my poem, Long-Distance , from the book, Penetrating the Heart of Life: Ambiguous in Thought, Ambivalent in Feeling : - "Damn... That's beautiful work right there. Simple, but so accurate... F*ck, that hits home. As per usual, you're amazing with words!!!" The poem can be read here. - https://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2011/07/long-distance-another-poem-of-mine.html The book from which it came can be found here. - https://www.amazon.com/Penetrating-Heart-Life-Ambiguous-Ambivalent-ebook/dp/B00B1F0LIY/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=craig+rozniecki&qid=1612997714&sr=8-6

I received the following comments on my blog, entitled, "The Civil War Never Ended": - "'The Civil War wasn’t just a battle; it was a mentality'...' PREACH." - "Unionists vs. Confederates...well put." The blog can be read at this link: http://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-civil-war-never-ended.html?m=1

I received this comment on my blog, entitled, "The Civil War Never Ended": - "Brilliant article." The blog can be read at this link: http://thekind-heartedsmartaleck.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-civil-war-never-ended.html?m=1

The bass ackwardsness of America has reached such a dire point, it’d be appropriate to now refer to the country as Acirema. It started when whites stole the land from Natives, yet we claim it’s the freest country in the history of the world. In addition to that, as we read the Ten Commandments – especially “Thou shalt not steal” – we contend this is a Christian nation. Oh, and these very immigrants who stole the land from Natives are now saying we should build a wall to keep out other immigrants. We brought slaves in from Africa; “progressed” by referring to them as three-fifths of a person; and then “freed” them into a system which had already been stacked against them – again while shouting that this was the freest country in the history of the world. In the so-called freest country in the history of the world, it’s commonplace for law to permit men to dictate what women can and cannot do with their bodies, yet not vice versa. It’s common for the richest among us to b...