Jalapeno Peppers

inside or out
hard to keep
a species sane
who’s nature causes so much pain
to all living things, and to mention,
their own species.
hold his hand
be a mother
a sister
the beloved you are
he is you and you are he
and we
are in this soup of tears together.
hand to heart and heart to hand
salty tears thru deserted land
we are the loves we’ve […]

if i could remember
the hills of december
i’d be ever more
a charter member
and when i remember
my heart is a flitter
feelin’
those happy smilees
one day in a life time
or maybe two
we gave to each and there beyond
a metal eye opener
hand hewn
not electric anyway
any way you like it
we’ll be there
generator generating
just us and juice
pass it around
Black Friday’s turning Red
turn […]

we unfurled the flag and shot the salute
then we sent his daughter Jill
marching marching always war
father plods off to the factory
with only oleo spread soda crackers
dipped in creamless coffee
to quell his growling gut
thru one more mind-numbing shift
high brow with high calm
coins a new term - “middle brow”
unsatisfied with only low brow
to feel better than
or […]

(responding to articles in The New York Review, 4/17/08)
Ma Judd was real Robert Gottlieb
a pity you have never met…
“Her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced
all possible tragedy and to have
mounted pain and suffering like steps
into a high calm and a superhuman understanding”
try traveling with Charley.
“intellectuals vs “philistines” Zadie Smith
is not your shoddy interpretation of philistines […]

for the very first time
it was a wife
cacklingly asserting
a new found treasure belonged to Her
not to her husband
my brain went hee hee hee
my mouth repeated the sound
my heart said omg
it feels insane
and then it was crazy scary
was it she or me?
will i need to prove i’m not
yesterday my poems were love
today they’re only “interesting”
ok, i’ll […]

when they get it they don’t treat it so well”
magic is the giving
getting is the forgetting
the source
from which all blessings flow
envy is the root of evil
fear is not the devil’s keep
stupid makes the angels weep.
he writes the dreams of his fathers
she writes the dreams of her mothers
oh mother of father
what dream will you dream
tonight?
now i […]

It depends.
How can know or not know depend?
It depends on whether
you are asking the question
because you know the answer or
you want to know the answer
because
if you know the answer and only
want to talk about the subject
is is more amenable to simply
talk about the subject in question
eleswise
the question would be more accurately posed:
“I am curious about […]

as CEO of the National Intelligence Council he states
“The World wants US to be in a leading position.”
this scriber wonders where Fingar’s finger lives
in this world of this new century
of worldwide anti-war protesters.
Finger Fingar’s “intelligence” tells us
world resources are owned multi-lateral
instead of belonging to the people that live on the land
while on the other hand […]

you killed JFK many years ago today
who will eat another turkey now, not killed by self?
you thought a turkey wallah didn’t get angry with his work
raising turkeys with the largest breast possible
cause all the gentile love the white meat
(it takes a hooligan to love a drumstick)
maybe that’s what happens
when one’s been drummin’ a lifetime too […]

Reuters: Chiquita sued
in NY over killings in Colombia
Nov. 14th 2007
not to mention other indigenous peoples
in other countries who slave-like
pick bananas even as
the trees were sprayed with insecticide
causing greater physical harm.
No Tom!
No old guard Democrats
Time to change their diapers
and hang them (the diapers)
on the line
long enough
the sun is able too
to bleach out all the stains
and the […]

!
Mr. Suing Lawyer wants to know…
Had an MRI?
Here are your symptoms!
Here is your claim!
But call ‘im right away!
His offer is time limited
which implicitly implies
if it’s been too long since your last MRI
it’s to late to claim the symptoms listed
so ok yeah - call him
if your symptoms don’t fit the timeline
he won’t waste his time.

.
It took a while to realize
the resistance was all in me
not wanting to admit these poems to poetry
that so unobtrusively sought
a place in the pantheon
but here it was in hard-back
bound like a geisha
serving up such soft words
as subtle tea
way too weak for me
homeopathic poetry
and gentle simples
with no side effects
effortless laxatives of the mind
ideal for […]

but Pat
we’ve already “rendered unto Cesar what is Cesar’s”
do we continue to turn our backs
from child labor working in the toxic dumps
of our throwaway cell phones et al techno waste
41% interest rate in Mexico?
World Economic Summit in D.C.
does it look anything like
the Economic Summit at Hobo Hilton?
“Ha,” he seys,
“with the US dollar worth only a […]

!
$290 BILLION lost in action
(next time you read a nasty letter
change all the “he’s and she’s” to “we”)
we are in this slog together
EVERY leader of every country KNOWS
Hillary Clinton lied about being “under fire”
got nightmares?
Hillary Clinton Head of State!
the goal is to bankrupt America
so the World Bank can forgive the mortgage
or own all
From […]

(..)
money that makes money pays a lower tax
than sweat that makes money?
now comes the Word War
between liberals and conservatives
in America as in England
how long oh how how many times
will they pass the rod to and fro
left then right then left then right again
the money makers care less the swing
they hoop we the people thru
they still […]

.
don’t sell us cheap
and don’t take us down that
hypoallergenic Clintonian road
either
we know
the difference between
hypo and hyper
and we know
Palestinians and Israelis
are Mutts with the same father
Abraham
and different mothers
Snap a heart string whadda ya git
fight or flight take your pic
there ARE “hypoallergenic”
mutts in dog pounds too
and
there is no peace without justice
so choose.
There is no mercy upon our […]

(..)
please Mr. Future President
shine one of your lights on
irresponsible pet owners who create
3-4 million cats and dogs every year
please take your young daughters
to the nearest animal shelter
let them save one dog’s life
“what we do to the least of them”
include our pets
thank you

and we get a dictum
“win by any means necessary”
brought to you by all American cheating athletes
“when we are number one our fans
can believe they are number one too”
got mud fights by grown, well groomed, adults?
for septuagenarians it was Harry plus Pendergast
did it start earlier octogenarians?
did it ever stop? haha vomit
ah, no, Charlie
Here comes the sun
carrying […]

Friends,
Tomorrow.
All of us.
You, me, and everyone we know.
Eight years is enough. Eight weeks was enough.
We have a chance to redeem this country, to prove we’re better than this, that which Bush has made of us.
McCain is right about one thing: Barack Obama is the most liberal senator in the United States Senate. More liberal than […]

somewhere between the deep south
and our northern exposure
lies the belly of a beast
full of acid ready to eat itself
and wants to write a creepy love song
with slobbering done-me-wrongs
“fear him…we don’t know enough about him-
we’ll take the 42 yr old that traded in his wife
for two 21 year olds
blond/blue eyed the better -you betcha”
West Wing show […]