Jalapeno Peppers

the yellow green of springtime
promises potential
where the dead horse lay

The Health Care Debate Was A Healthy Debate
it was healthy for America to learn
more exactly how the US Senate works
we have Right Wing Foxy News
screaming
“Do away with the filibuster,
it’s undemocratic, and threatened
‘the nuclear option’.”
oh so recent in our history…
now we have the Same Foxy News
having filibustered the vote on health care
THREE TIMES?:>!
ooh the lucky charm
last […]

o
caint hep his’en self
habitual liars turn out that way
that gotta have someone
prove it
like
saying there is no president
when he IS the president
oh if only
he had a son with one wish:
“his daddy would tell no more lies.”
somewhere they seek a truth serum.
on McCain’s behalf ask i
what senators will consent to that?
truth is
we hafta find it in our […]

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the karma of tit-for-tat
keeps the wheel spinning
round and round
the personal karma
acts like a boomerang
time of returning unknown
the family karma
the good book says
is seven generations
the nations karma
not so unlike
the personal
the karma off
destroying the planet
we know the wages of that…
The End

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175 memories of Flower Power can be yours
at less than one dollar apiece only if
you buy all of them
a painted fly on the bottom of your toilet
will dramatically depress
the amount of spillage
after a full half hour listening
to clips from the ’60’s
heart bump after heart bump
how many hours of listening?
i don’t know
i
don’t
knowwwwwww o o
that’s one […]

was it not spring when congress started
debating health care changes
all the way thru summer
now near the end of fall
4 days until winter
some rightwings pray God will intervene
and kill the proposed bill
some leftwing leaders now call
(like Dean) to kill the bill.
is any one counting how many Americans
have died during these argumentative days?
you say you don’t care […]

truth
is easy
to remember
lies
not so much
ask lobo
who knows not to come around
until he’s heard enough lies
that he’s coming, then
thus he comes when
no one is believing…
as in
when we become
a known liar
nothing said is believed
are there white lies? yes
when noses dip where they don’t belong
but mostly
trouble comes
when lying becomes habitual.
truth
is easy
to remember.

poor little brown hands
placed you sideways in a little pot
atop desicated ‘magic soil’
all placed inside a pretty box
to be shipped across the ocean
across the ocean
poor little white hands
twiddled their thumbs, waiting
knowing all the pretty boxes
would not find a home
in her homeland of opulence
at half the price she would save two
one for herself, one for […]

outside my bare picture
window is black of night
i see my dead mother
rocking there
wearing the same
flowered granny gown
now i’m sure
she knows everything
exactly like my little
child mind knew.
having learned
from my dear dead father
there were things he could not tell…
so dead mother and i
conversed of memories
and was she pleased now
with her black sheep?
“it’s good to know black and […]

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tell your story to the Inuit
in Shishmaref, Alaska
your proof
via emails & “scientists”
they are not losing their homes
due to the ice melting beneath their feet
pigs don’t fly
why are you trying to fly the obvious LIES
oh yeah…OIL!