Jalapeno Peppers

to brace the calm before the storm
all praises our ancestory
marking four seasons stardust
we birth
we blossom
we harvest
we die
do we worry our seeds once planted
[…]

last seen he wed himself to water boarding
proclaiming, “I do”
in response to a reporter who asked,
“In light of water boarding being illegal,
do you still support it?”
then weds his “I do” with wedding vows
“We obtained good information from
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”
who was water boarded over 100 times
then as a gift to his puppet Bush
demanded his minions obtain […]

in the middle of seven siblings
and the middle of the great depression
momma made our dresses, even underpants
from cotton flour sacks, only one pair of shoes
and everything was hand-me-downs
every summer was barefoot country style
three older sisters had all the responsibility
when momma went off to the factory
as one by one the three left home
and i am the […]

“This is the government’s last hurrah,” Daskal said.
More precisely, a Bush wannabe, “last hurrah”
with 41 days left and counting
to Obama and closing Gitmo with the expectation
of true justice in a real American court,
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and others
after all these years in prison
with every reason to believe they were tortured
and humiliated beyond belief
will suddenly confess
this, we […]

an American Green economy is not in the interest
of oil giants like Saudi Arabia or oil men like G.W. Bushed
ok, maybe G.W. is only a little barrel but to Arabia
now the Saudi’s Arabia it is their only economy
and they are spending $300+ billion
to extract oil buried under the shifting sands of their desert
by pumping salt […]

Dear Samantha Power,
As an American born citizen and an Independent voter, I found so many holes in the first four paragraphs of your review, I stopped reading…but was moved to find you, and mention a few of the holes.
I read your bio and noted many of your writing awards. The one that disturbed me the […]

and was there a pre-birth plan
you would know the door out
when the world became
to much pain for you?
and
when you turned away
in my dream about you
i’m cope acetic now
it would have been too great
a shock on my tocker
it would thrill me to death
as has been said?
did ya hear?
they want us to protect ourselves with plastic
(at least […]

probably not
maybe so
holy stains
and politics
have taken
their tokens
now
i’m searching
(pronounced surching)
no
i’m waiting
waiting for
the magic school bus
full of tolkins
wondering if i’m spongy enough
to get a free ride
…another…

why come
from 2000 to 2004
a Republican Senate
with a Republican president
only needed 51 votes
to pass a bill
and in 2009 we are told
the necessity of
a Democratic Senate
needing 60?
who come
from Alaska governship
the land of incest and rape
go to Georgia to hype
a flabby ol’ white man
posing for a family pic
with his hand on the breast
of his pubescent granddaughter
o i […]

Each morning, I sit in the big red chair
with Nubi, the owl-eyed cat. I sip tea,
exhale a prayer or two as the poems
of Rumi shine warm, honeyed light
from the pages on my lap.
Certainly I do this for myself.
I hope the needle of my small compass
will yield to some true direction.
But there is more. Each day […]