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Unknown Wisdom
When children regard war and terror as normal Films, television, video games just the siren’s call Can we wonder how fucked-up our life’s become Reality a child dismembered by a roadside bomb So grab your toys, run away, find a place to hide No help, as down the razor-blade of life we slide Our mad […]
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
This was originally published on February 9, 2013, written in response to a need to speak in some way to the insanity that took place all around me and specifically to the Newtown school shootings. I have chosen to repost it every year on the anniversary of this tragedy that left 27 dead, 20 of […]
#ASCOW
#ASCOW people, Any Solid Color Other than White Face violence and degradation all day and all night Each day fear, as the police state grows, gets worse Our legacy of subjugation, prejudice our daily curse Never will we change until we choose, join together Discard our past, or we perish, perhaps we’d rather The choice […]
A Fistful of Five
For those in need at home and abroad How can you believe that any of that’s healthy Because it was given me by someone wealthy Even so, you have no idea where it has been Besides, it’s not like you were given it by kin Why must you always be so nasty, so negative It’s […]
Ere We Fall
Who knows what we have lost to the cause of war Music, art, novels, plays, poems, films and more Bachs, Da Vincis, Berninis, Monets create wings The Shakespeares, Elliotts, Cassatts gone missing Would we find saviors numbered among the dead No way now to know to where they may have led Wars are equal-opportunity, high […]
Three-Letter Folk
We have absolutely no idea how our world will change Despite those who have wild hairs of how to rearrange Someone may push a button, start the last of our wars Perhaps we finally see the dream of having flying cars What of the three-letter agencies hidden in plain sight Who tell us they are […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Fourteen Toliver climbed into the low branches of the tree with the densest foliage. He planned to wait out the day, watch and learn from his hiding place. Initially, he wedged himself into position, with his feet on a branch and his back pressed into the trunk. He still feared he would be found […]
A Different Day
In this instant generation is it ever just now? If each moment is an anticipated future, how? Recording all our lives for future delectation Can existence contain any new expectation? Will it ever be right now, this moment, day? Can we live now while deciding what to say? It is said, history is written by […]
Answer to an Unasked Question
Passionate Pacific my daily inspiration, sunlight, sand and surf Murmured messages wash on shore, chased by crashing waves Warm strand, moonlit, twinkling on the swells, reflecting earth Wind, water, weather form transient art, nothing the sea saves Humbled by such vastness of ocean, rolling beyond the horizon This and more besides to stir or calm […]
A Mime’s Message
Without thought or conscious knowledge of the anniversary of the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi, Kenya, we watched the documentary about it on Friday night, 9/19/2014, the one-year anniversary. In 2012, visiting good friends, chosen family, we went to the mall on more than one occasion. I didn’t know when I started watching the documentary […]
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