Howl
A wolf howls deep on a mountain top lost to the human eye. As we shop down below on the open, strip mall prairie. Cornered. Hunted down. All rational instinct stolen. Forced to believe in the supernatural. Not natural. Not the here and now, but the hereafter. He no longer hunts. He sits on his […]
Stand Your Ground
Florida. What will you do when they come for you. On your coasts. Never hiding from the storms. As you beckon to carpetbaggers new to perch on your beaches. To steal your sacred views by destroying animal habitats. To buy homes to retire on buried cul-de-sacs. What will you do when the big one comes […]
Dance With Alladin
The clouds are magic. Painted desert smoke signals signs of coming trouble. Thunder blossoms outward. Bombs dropped all around. Schools. Nurseries. Hospitals. There is nothing civil about civil war. There is no target too holy or too sacred. Children are brainwashed for food and water. Massive bombs strapped to chest. Their enemies draped in armor […]
Opera of the Puppets
[reengineered puppeteering] among the seven billion we are the cantastorie we are not the corporate heads or bankers doing the Russian Mafia’s laundry washing the filthy gains of the Karzai brothers cleaning for the cartels we sing of the dancing marionettes forced to fund the weaponized might- actors of enforcement for the global manipulators we […]
One Would Think
One would think a poet has memory The ability to not only write but recite Birth words into the world and unite The zeitgeist’s voice With little choice Of not doing so The mission of the bard One would think a poet a master of words Planning out the cogency of propositions In order to […]
Thirty Second Flash
It all moves so fast Through the hour glass Let us move slower Let us make it last As your limbs reach out to grasp As your head and body fall back Careening from consciousness Your life as you know it A video in fast forward Stitched together Nothing to second guess Only the best […]
The West
We aim to detox from you Not from a drug or an addiction But from you, our culture Which has polluted the environment Which has poisoned our bodies Which has programmed our children To believe they always will need your products To believe they can never be here, now As we always look for the […]
Float
The cosmic river thrives. It pulls you and moves you. It’s within you. It surrounds you. Magnetic zeros unite and pull. Making heroes of the unknowing. Making the poor rich. Making the healthy sick. It does not flinch. It does not know names. It does not know preference. It does not ask to be forgiven. […]
The Butterfly Effect
Another year as nostalgia bites. As memories fight. So many tragedies. So much pain. Targeted. Politicized for monetary gain. As the calendar unfolds. The day’s story told and retold, again. Twenty-four-seven. For where have we been? Humans are capable of such magic. Some, gifted shamans create culture. Some, cursed vultures eat their own. Whatever media […]
The one true God is dead
The one true God is dead. We shot him in the head and watched as he bled. Because he grew fear and hate. Because he watched us and did nothing to state That love is God is a word. A feeling that we all have but do not deserve. Because we have massacred our own people. […]
Meditation on Legacy
Coloring Books Coloring i am writing for you. twenty years from this view. your mind not ready to receive. the words i wish to retrieve. from the recesses of our memories. will the data dump be achieved. as you thumb through coloring books. as you play princess dress up. your daddy thinks of legacy. of […]
From a Letter to A (foreign) Friend
October 2001, Manhattan I catch myself calling myself a human before “American,” but no one seems to understand, or at least acknowledge, that. And I wonder if I am human, and I wonder if the other things I call human are human. The mythology is thick, and it’s hard to distinguish truth from mere tales […]
