Jalapeno Peppers

I see a star high above,
Shining down upon us all,
It is the star of hope eternal,
Audacious in every way,
It calls to us,
It summons us,
To give our peace the best,
To others in our need,
From others in our own,
I see a star,
Bright and brilliant,
Studded with our common dreams,
To rid our earth of needless war,
Ugly violence,
Blood upon the […]

a little bit younger and a little bit verse
a little bit older but still here
“3 o’clock in the morning”
it was a favorite tune way back when
fourteen and dreams were still possible
church was still important enough
to pedal my bike nearly daily
to church and holy things
how blind i was?
how blind was i!
the fear of death upon […]

Friends,
It would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn’t it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America these days. Is anyone surprised?
4,000 dead. Unofficial estimates are that there may be […]

today I am a great grandmother of one, expecting another,
my father was born in 1903, and
as language skills are first learned in the home, so
what had been passed to him was passed to me,
i had to learn for myself that “jew” was not a verb
now i understand, even 100 plus years later
just the reminder […]

Poor ol’ Elvira Hill
runs to Evan Byah
i don’t know why
she swallowed the fly
perhaps because she’s losing?
second verse, more worse
they can’t call him Muslim anymore
psst! psst!
his Reverend Wright called it like it was
in nineteen sixty-four
and the grief of losing one more leader
Martin Luther King
but Obama is white and Obama is black
has heard the racist comments of […]

even as Fox News circles their prey
the alpha dogs snatch at bits of flesh:
“some will say” today’s speech was deceptive
his speech was “clever”
in chimes Major Garrett
“Politicians will say anything to win but
Americans are not stupid.”
now the plates are cleared
the linen table cloths removed
especially the lace table cloths
etched in the sturdy oak faced table
America’s racial past […]

70% of Americans reject my policy
but these last 7 years have been joyous
doing the soft shoe while waiting for his man
he would pass his torch to
he who
seven years earlier planted a kiss on his cheek
in the light of the public eye
no inhibition singing his own words to
“the green green grass of home”
the REAL terror for […]

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked By Greg Palast
While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an ‘escort’ $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with […]

no pat on the back then join’em
hoodwinked you say we might be
True.
Would you rather be without hope?
we’re talking about real scruple Changin’ politics
no more ears of porks and barrels
this time it’s corn on the cob and on the table
it’s corn teeth and hairy ears
(who felt to close to Neanderthal and shuttered?)
How many less rapes would […]

own a Ferro
drive it full speed
into deep
south
white
voters

where did we come from
where are we going
the energy of
“Be Here Now”
becomes fierce
violence of a violet
the volatile flame
our ancestral gift of words
words
got words worth?
Give us a leader
who speaks from the heart
to which we are honored
to vote for
yeah
even to work for
maybe for the very first time -
thus fulfilling our civic duty…
“I do not run for the […]

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ha ha at 3 a.m. even
even as Big Brother tracks every click
not only of websites but every keyboard key
those that say they have nothing to hide
don’t mind their conversations monitored
but get angry when Big Brother knows what they buy
well sweetie caller on C-SPAN this morning
what don’t you see about the connection
of war of economy of […]

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“I’ll leave scratches so bloody
your opposition will need little more
to go for the jugular.
If I can’t win I can make sure
the prize is available again
in only four more years.”
“Obama should not have fired his co-worker
who used the adjective ‘monster’.”
He did.
How many “advisers” has the Hill fired?
Several.
All the while media pimps ask H. Clinton
if she would […]

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“This election is about judgment.
Yet tomorrow is perhaps
one of the most important
days of your life
and you’ve chosen
to spend the night before
talking to me.
Senator,
as a host I’m delighted.
As a citizen,
I’m frightened.”

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first knock down the presumptive victor Barack Obama
follow up with a story
that Hillary Clinton also said her remarks were “only political”
now, in this hour of Neo Cons losing power,
make these two fear to speak about the sins of NAFTA
sin? yes! one of the seven deadly sins: GREED
no you can not take all the thorns out […]

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What does it mean to “civilize”?
verb: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
verb: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
What does “civilized” mean?
adjective: marked by refinement in taste and manners
Military in Iraq are suffering less mental health problems
and more problems in Afghanistan since the level of violence has escalated
Congress set to pass a […]

we’re gonna cry a little
die a little
and then we’re gonna shake a little
even as the mud slingers gloat a little
did you see Cincinnati vote 72% for Obama?
when you live on a river muck is more obvious?
how is Obama like Jesus?
an honest man shows the people a better way to live
but they did not want to […]

:(
et tu
have your richest growing richer
and your poor getting poorer
despite your 1989 resolution to climate poverty by 2000
didn’t happen
medium incomes for poor households with children under 18:
Mexico - $940
Canada - $6,900
America - $8,700
with middle class fearing the fall into poor class
and the first politician to stand up to NAFTA
takes a hit in the gut […]

who does not remember the provocateur
how does a story get created
that “a member of Barack Obama’s camp”
speaks to a Consulate of Canada and told him
“Obama does not intend to keep his words about NAFTA”?
even as the Canadian Prime Minister claims “plausible deniability”
while the provocateur and the consulate make sure
there is a paper trail called a […]

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this morning’s Washington Journal brings us Rose
who tells us the citizens of Russia are very excited
following our 2008 Presidential Election –
the freedom of debates
broadcasting political rallies and most of all
the growing public participation –
which is all to say
the whole world is witnessing
whether the people’s choice will win the day
thus fulfilling the ultimate dream of our […]