The Zimmerman Rewrite
I surrender I. Flight not fight. Not seeking to invite another strike. Moving ones weight to another state. No gun needed to subdue anyone running from you. No more snake eating its tail. No more head to swell. This short exchange is done. Both opponents live on. Both soon to rise. For I surrender I. ...
The Cleansing
A sphere rotates Inside energy migrates From the land to the sea. Connecting everything. The stars. The sky. The clouds. The streams. The rivers. The oceans. Morphing together as one. An arm, a leg an eye. Pulled inward and outward. Cleaning the Earth’s blood. The soil. The plants. The water. The animals. The bacteria. The ...
The 100th Monkey
We work our days. We continue to play as Dividends are bundled and traded. Futures bet against and faded. So that we might extract oil from sand To keep the same experiment going, again. Continual growth no longer charted. The population has boomed And we all know there is little room. Peak oil has passed ...
The Word
The wind blows. The birds sing. The water flows. In the beginning was sound. A frequency that blew through the ground. Rising volcanoes from bursting stars. Energy compacted and thrown so very far. The up and down of a wave comes from our lips as sound is made. Attempting to describe all that can be ...
Lady Eschaton
Painting by Ken Vallario Mystic clouds. A pyramid. The Sun. Magical. Surreal. A field. A valley.
List of Demands
There is no list of demands. No single line that can be drawn in the sand To disable their plan. To stop the corruption that has began. The majority ignored too long. Labeled as we sing our song. The hope and change promised turned into blame. The secret handshakes continue again. Selling the shirts off ...
Feeding China
Freedom is exaggerated and abused As many cling to their Bibles and Guns China’s economy continues its cruise Selling the seas of cash funds. Beating Captain America. For the U.S. has nothing to teach China. No moral high ground to seek. No words of wisdom to preach. Because its middle class is shrinking. Because it ...
The Atomic Heart
tis the season
tis the season to get in one’s car. meet all one’s friends at the local bar. get drunk off one’s ass. try not to drive very far. tis the season to bite one’s lip. sitting with family as you hear a short quip. to think of all the baggage we carry. that weight we need ...
Don’t ask don’t tell can go to hell.
Don’t ask don’t tell can go to hell. For making people lie to each other. For not allowing us all to feel like brothers No matter what sexual orientation. As we fought for human rights and liberation. For all the money spent on its misconception. For making others feel less than equal. As if, what ...
He Will Drink Hemlock
the war will be silent. global citizen dissidents against information being suppressed. no more silencing the innocent. data will flow freely online. this is our voice and time. our technology a tool to enable me and you to stand up for human rights. to topple corporation’s might. an example has been made for others to ...
Frozen and Thawed
I see 23 A dozen times a day. The more at peace the more I see. I am a man with a mask stumbling astray. His face too scarred for people to see. His arm too limp to use freely. Who sees his reality Frozen and thawed From the outside looking in. I wonder if ...
The Practice
To feel one’s feet. The space between one’s meat. To find one’s balance. The symmetry that is substance. To extend one’s back. The spine inside intact. To open one’s lungs. The air inside unsung. To have one’s joints torn apart. The re-alignment gained, a new start. To know one’s body again. The spaces between friends. ...
Fern Hill
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below ...
Take Me Tonight
There is this thing about being a survivor.
Living with something that will put out your fire.
A ticking time bomb continues my strife.
They say go on. Live long. Live strong.
Bleached Like Me
I am waiting for you to feed me. I am waiting for you to clean me. I shuffle in my feces like another species. I have been bred to be fat. I mate for you so you can take My children and feed them more. They never know me as they are stolen. Put in ...
Flea Ridden
I don’t need an MBA
Because it is of no use to me.
I am surrounded by degrees.
People have diplomas like fleas.
If Freedom Exists…
Burning Man Burning I was there last night. I watched the burning man take flight. Go up in fire and fall. I watched the crowds and all. The fireworks as the burners rejoiced. Feeling the connectivity and one voice Heard over the desert. If freedom exists it is in the twist Of the match that ...
