Jalapeno Peppers

i went to the river and what did i get?
a nest of birds in my hair
one was full of malarkey
the other full of sacred
i snagged the river bank and what did i get?
a little bit less sillier
a little bit awed.
here in the blazing son and what did you get?
you found the hole in the dike?
but […]

in 90 minutes he describe
the sins of Empire America
and all the pundits can say is
he “rambled” for 90 minutes
and he was only alloted 15!
well, buster Keaton,
Gadhafi got it half right
the other half is extremist Islam
who beat and rape their women
and send their little daughters
to marry old men
in biblical terms
we all have motes in our eyes
and […]

how evil thou good has become
in Islam they pray 5 times a day
then beat and rape their women 6
times a day
misguided men, neutered men
taught
that’s what men do
and who can explain
the “Christian” country of American men
men will rape their own daughters.
not talking about the current Mama & Papa scandal
the man is dead and can not tell […]

he’s right, you know,
Ahmadinejad,
the Palestinians did not cause
the Holocaust
and it is up to the factors
involved in the decision 60 years ago
to arrive at a solution, as
neither the Palestinians or Israelis
caused the 60 Year War and counting
but it is they
who must look one another in the eye
and both agree they did not start it
but it is […]

(..)
as the daughter shares
so the summer goes
mit and mite go rolling on
fiber fed tobacco bark
what is the dream
twixt summer and autumn?
casting all the shells ashore
find dessication
spontaneous combustion:
choose either fast or slow
all life returns to the compost.
heap the heart to next
next: spontaneous laughter
no second guessing aloud
it’s all about Saturday night
and where we stand
good night, Irene
one more […]

maybe the $3 billion US tax dollars
go for military aid to Israel
but maybe that is what gives her the ability
to provide national health care
to every Israeli
maybe
the ugly American who yelled
“Heil Hitler” to an American Jew who
supported health care reform in the US
was mind-fed by Rush/Beck
and just maybe
the little boys who were spanked by their […]

de fence is on de prow
summer’s all but gone
huff and blow
puff and show
magic alive and well
matey
skip to ma’ Louvre
bring the booze
someone’s forever
crossing over
a few bad apples screwed acorn
got bad apples?
make cider
got really bad apples?
make hard sider
got health care?
try living in Haiti, matey.

scare me terror me
“if everyone gets health care
there will be a shortage of me getting mine!
better some suffer than me wait in line!”
somebody(s) made the choice
of how many students doctor schools will take
keeping the number of doctors
at a controlled level
a monopoly, is it legal?
Pepsie or Coke?
Poor ol’ MacDonald
grew so fat he couldn’t fall over
and when […]

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Other than a few organizations concerned with privacy issues, the matter of Google’s ‘Library Book Project’ has been framed almost entirely in terms of markets and economics. There is, however, another side to the issue that reaches to […]

girding to watch a propaganda agenda’ed show
whether pro war or anti war
does it matter if some religious believe
the day starts with sun down
and some religious believe
day starts with sun up?
sun has a lot to do with son.
it’s a giant leap of mankind
from wars that protect one’s families
to wars that protect a way of life
and it’s […]

in this story
Grace has no mother, no father, sisters or brothers
the funeral is planned by whom we never learn
her children and their father run off to
another name for Disney World
and there in layss the lies
of our ex President and the Iraqi War
it’s worth the sacrifice of Grace, the mother
to give the father’s brother the freedom […]

how many split hairs does it take to skin a frog
how much hate can live in a heart before explosion
how many times does one just Have to be right
before they say, “I’m sorry, I’m wrong.”
how many nits does it take to pick a person apart
how much littleness is necessary
when grandma pulls her own plug
or grandpa […]

poor John Fund his work ain’t done
his ilk, he tells, US is in the end year
of a 75 year cycle
of taking back power for “real” conservatives
and how is that this cycle “we”
will stop the liberals
“from taking over the economy
and stopping national health care”
or in the words of their tired and worn slogan
“stopping big government”
wrong liberals, […]

how much of a land base (training camps) did al Qaida need
to execute 9/11?
if 57% of Americans are against the “war” in Afghanistan
what is the percent against the “war” in Iraq?
the Taliban have never fought any war against another country
they have been fighting invaders forever
this time it is US.
How dry do beets have to get
before […]

it is time to admit you too
were bored reading Dick and Jane
Run Dick run
Jump Spot jump
in Tucker’s neighborhood would you bet for sure
he never knew a black Dick or a black Jane
aren’t you still mad at your dad Carlson
for the punishment and humiliation
suffered between Dick and Jane
poor Dick became a dirty word
and Jane became Plain […]

The summer of nineteen eighteen
I read The Jungle and The
Research Magnificent. That fall
My father died and my aunt
Took me to Chicago to live.
The first thing I did was to take
A streetcar to the stockyards.
In the winter afternoon
Gritty and fetid, I walked
Through the filthy snow, through the
Squalid streets, looking shyly
Into the people’s faces,
Those who were home […]

demi-gods battle hands of hair
supplying the flesh devours eat
striking a cord got me good
at least it’s only an an outward tremor
inside is a harpy angel
awaiting release ! the past
still walks in ghostly beauty
no sacrifice, no pain is left
un noticed
remember me dear daughter,
trailer of the wind,
scent of heavenly […]