A Grand Mal View
My skull in a clamp as the seizure set in. My entire body lifted and twisted. With my bone flap adjusted. Brain matter open. If only one millimeter off I wouldn’t be here today. A slice of nerve. Too much blood lost. Brain swelling costs. Cranial pressure off. But I awoke just fine. Left leg ...
The Hunt
Tribes holding tight to tradition. Stone aged warriors hunting boar. Bare chested women preparing for tonight’s feast. Ring nosed and ancient. Skin tight, muscled agents. Singing stories of ghosts and spirits, and the magic of the animals. All speaking unique tongues. Tribes living next to each other. Territory not marked but known. Land connected by ...
Never too close
Too close to it. Too close to it. Too close to it. I want to reflect on the ending of the Iraq War. What the hell did we fight it for? No weapons of mass destruction found. But we did find billions in contracts to stick around. To rebuild what we blew up. To grow ...
Dear David Foster Wallace
As if this was the last thing I was to do. The last thing to ever see. Staring at this screen. Grasping for words of hope to leave you. To have something to lean on for me In case I wake up tomorrow. Another day, another sorrow. There is technology. There are miracles happening every ...
#Hashtag Revolution
The Police will do something stupid You know they will Make sure to get photos and video Before you go to jail Maybe the media was quiet hoping we would all go away. Maybe they didn’t want Wall Street to run astray. Taking away more of people’s savings in the blink of an eye, with ...
The NON-RESISTANT
This declaration came about under the following circumstances: Byron King read a comment referencing Leo Tolstoy’s book The Kingdom of God is Within. He then read the first chapter which references William Lloyd Garrison who took part in a discussion on the means of suppressing war in the Society for the Establishment of Peace among Men, ...
News Droplets
I report. Media collides. All voices compete to be heard. From the lips of few to the ears of many. Top down or bottom up. Now all words spoken can be searched. Corporate or public. Citizens or professionals. Hyperlocal or through the wire. Houses will always be on fire. But where. Big media now needs ...
David Simon is God
Hi there, I’m David Simon. You worship me. I know. You and your wife sat on your couch and watched all five seasons of The Wire in a few weeks. I know you were addicted. I could see your tongues drooling till 2 a.m. as you realized how brilliant I am. And you know how ...
Learning to Live
Be it a wave, a flood, a tree. We have suffered, you and me. Roofs ripped off. The wiring is bad. The pipes are busted. Nearly losing everything and glad. Been near death. Seen the other side and held my breath. Seen life flash before my eyes and came back. Life is short and sweet. ...
A Flock of Birds
The tides are changing. A storm is swelling. In real-time. Off shore and abroad. Global revolution is real. It is now. Led by a spring of youth who feel misled Who have gotten degrees and don’t want to beg? Steeped in debt they want jobs and to be fed As the global economy teeters on ...
Season to Reason
I have flown these skies Viewed space with these eyes Trying to find a place to live To make my nest Flying by moonlight Seen super box stores Suburbs squared and rectangle Cities grown out of nothing A once mighty jungle tamed And re-framed I have watched my kind grow I have seen greed choke ...
The Bone is the Spirit
Code, word, spirit, meaning. Social media, information, conscience. A global revolution is coming A manifesto is being written by philosophers That Karl Marx would be humbled by. This world is awake. Hegel’s world spirit no mistake. The status quo will not prevail. It will not be written on parchment. It will not be argued or ...
The Corporate Body
If a corporation was a person its body would be covered with malignant melanoma. No blood would flow into its limbs. Atrophy would soon set in. Muscles would no longer move. The brain would be remodeled with a wonderful office view. Capital would be a tumor that would take over the skull. No more room ...
Killing Death
this life we hold on to nails dug deep into the loved ones we knew cures will begin to blossom time no longer our enemy decades will turn into centuries lifespans will truly span time and space all knowledge embraced the nano and the bio-tech post-human evolution realized through a bar room bet what will ...
View from Atlantis
(the final flight) to explain this from afar to put your thumb on a star and block out all light a satellite from above seeing earth clearly with all its pettiness knowing it is so small the politics we discuss the crimes and unjust the affairs we recycle continually looping continually screwing what we have ...
The Studio Within
I was born a painter I would take a brush to canvas A pencil to paper And feel primordial I stared for years at blankness And created a universe One image to explain it all A series to explain my call To want to make a difference An infinite scream I realized Born into me, ...
Thinning of the Herd
What will it take? How many loved ones must die? Disappear before our eyes. As the floods or fires embrace Their last breath. How much longer must we march Towards the cliff. A species asleep. Singing, dancing and straying From our calling to be good stewards Of the planet we inherited. Must another earthquake happen ...
Inside these Walls
if these walls could talk they would scream they would cry they would laugh they would remember all the lives lived inside this shelter the first footprint set in concrete when you were a child playing only two blocks from here they would come alive recording all these memories they would tell a story of ...
Desert Scabs
I do not grow easily
So you buy me
From a distant land
Grown like scabs
Removed and shipped
A band-aid placed
On the desert you created
