that simple, that’s all
break down and cry
cry for the human species
hardened to harm an other
cry for love lost
on the material girl
and the material boy
cry for all the fear filled people
who gird themselves with neckties
with gated communities
the daisy turns into a mushroom cloud
little Johnny running thru the streets
on fire and bare naked
How can you be that angry
with someone you once loved?
when we all break down and cry
an ocean of tears
Will this be enough
to wash the pain away?
yes
Category: poetry
Empire, Door #2: A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
boots all around
boots on the ground
then along comes Poland
“A people,
united,
will never be defeated.”
let go of the pride and the fall
will not be so precipitous
the whole of human history
is one of empire building
sometimes religious sometimes secular
but ever more and ever more
falling, falling, all fall down
in Poland
in country
after country
“A people,
united,
will never be defeated.”
the people’s revolution is, often,
stolen by the man of the hour, in power.
Castro and Chavez
Learned from Their history, if they did not comply, as a
“state(s)…that owe(s) allegiance to a foreign power”
that power would use covert means
to replace them.
Musicians and politicians are screaming,
“Wake up America”
Mourners are crying,
“We know you aree awake America,
have seen the gory instead of glory
from the deeds our “leaders” have done
it is as our founding fathers warned
“A secret government”
our ’60’s revolution opened eyes
step by step it opens more…
Dear Big Brother Bush Cheney
thank you for listenin’ up
to all our emails, posts, et al
’cause we got a lot of questions.
do ears get pointier as they burn?
is as lonely as they say at the top
where even yer dog bites the hand
that fucks the world behind its back?
no dear Bushites Cheneykins
with our lungs chained to an oxygen tank
come on babe light our fires
we felt the witches when you burned ’em
the lash when you lashed our brother’s back
know why dogs bark in the middle of the night,
one answering an other?
they’re wondering how bad it will git
before it gits better?
happy anniversary you ol’ fools
fallin’ in love over and over
it’s only yellow metal Floyd sang
come on over Rove’r
we make ourselves in the image of our God
in the nuggets of our Rivers in due time
find all the gold coats.
like the lizard who loses its tail to a predator
too the dog
will sacrifice a tail
when wagged to the extreme.
Pigs Feet In A Pickle
As long as our electorate is divided between the range of 40-60
the rich Money Changers in the Dem’s and Rep’s parties
will control US foreign policy
with their carrots and sticks will lead party
to vote their way or get the stick
to vote their way and get the carrots
history was over in 1989?
(meaning capitalism is severed from governance)
declared the Capitalists who are Pigs
(Forgive me Babe,
for i know you understand the concept
of one pig being more equal than an other pig).
then along came Tiananmen Square, from 1989
unto today with many Tiananmen Squares
the Bush and the Dick have topped the scale
way over the limit of 60 percent of we the people
awake Americans
but can we get awake enough
to smell the burning coffee, burning oil, burning flesh
we feel the terror of the mothers and wives and children
of miners trapped in Utah nine days and counting
but can we get awake enough
to taste the burning flesh, sandy metal,
coffee bean labored sweat?
American bridges falling down, my fair lady.
“Shut the crap up.”
3 p.m. in Georgia, hot and humid
3 a.m. in Nuevo Mexico
i set my coffee down, leave the room
when my most available friend cries
“it’s spilled all over the place!”
it ran down the rocker turning red
more innocent blood
another crazed working mother
Congress spends another $460 billion
for Pentagonal warfare
and momma works double time
while down in the deep south
Christians chant to her ovaries
“be all you can be”
two more little lights go out in Georgia
one more momma crazed
(but don’t move to Baltimore
their babies are coming out with asthma)
pausing, i light two candles,
pausing again i light a third
for the momma who can’t imagine life
waking up this morning
with two dead children there oughta be
a hush all over America
and coffee spilled
black like oil.
What happens when a tiny light goes out?
you die George /w Bunker and Osama /w Cave
each little light lost deminishes us the more
when we are snuffers of any light indicating life
we become less human than our best intentions
9/11 was a wake-up call for Americans
set aside Bush and bin Laden’s lethal logic
it requires of a great republic democracy
to admit to past and present mistakes
elevated consciousness
(otherwise known as enlightenment)
is what we gain with truth
America was in it’s infancy when we allowed slavery
and we have mostly (not totally) corrected this mistake
Colonizing has a long history of brutality
and is not disconnected from Osama bin Laden’s complaint
The nightmare of our founding fathers
of king and empire is in our face today.
The whole world Is watching.
The Osamas of the world today have one weakness
and it is their human atrocities and degregation of women and
like all abusive behavior, prefers to be hid in a closet
or some corner of creation…one does not change behavior
by killing hordes to give the survivors freedom
one shames them by making it public for the world to see.
Bushs (and Dicks) of the world today have many weaknesses
the deadliest one being not to admit to any wrong doing.
Ike’s first impulse was right
the military/industrial/congressional complex
is powerful…behold…
last night in the House of Representatives the verbal bombastings
were more about how their seats were bought, than spyware
with a few exceptions, most notible to me was
Rep. Anna Eshoo, Half Moon Bay, CA
who spoke as eloquently as Ben Franklin when he said,
“They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
In World War I we were told
“this was a war to end all wars.”
We were told the same in World War II.
Today we are asked to give up a BIG lot of liberty
for what looks like to the rest of the world
Perpetual War.
What happens when a big light goes out?
Same thing as when a little light goes out.
We die.
Ike’s Military-Industrial Complex Nightmare
Even Eisenhower never would have dreamed
the military would be security for contractors
dolling out dollars smack in the middle
of a Civil War in Iraq
build ’em up
bomb ’em down
build ’em up again
well yeah, Ike was an old man
then retiring and seeing more clearly
and who remembers
in the writing of Ike’s farewell speech
he wanted to be quoting as saying
“Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex”
a few congressmen of course
did not want the “body” of congress indited
and yes we know there was/are corrupt members
and no, not all…
but how are we the voters able to discern who is what
with so many tongues snake oil and forked?
motivation and follow the money.
In the beginning was the Combustible Engine
In the middle was addiction to oil
Today
the Russians planted their flag on the North Pole
What oil contractor did not salivate?
What American felt resentment
over Russia’s claim to the oil under the North Pole?
i am weary now so i read a weary poem
by a Master Poet, Ward Kelley
look if you dare!
to the back side of colonizers
http://motherbird.com/taino.html
Jed Babbin’s “In the Words of Our Enemies” and Michael Beschloss’ “Presidential Courage”
i hope you included the words of Osama bin Laden
when he told us 9/11 was about our military on Saudi soil
and our partisan supporting of Israel
we are like a bad marriage
the left and the right
sometimes never seeing before the divorce
there is always a grain of truth on both sides
or maybe you have said about JFK
that he inherited the Bay of Pigs from Ike
which caused the missile stand off
and that you mention Eisenhower’s
“military-industrial complex”
weird
Osama chose to hit our military (pentagon)
and industrial (twin trade towers)
on 9/11 (our emergency code)
and yes, terrorists who would blow themselves up are scary
and no, there has not been another attack since 9/11
on the other side of this coin
are a lot of weeping children, parents, grand parents
and great grand parents…
in America, in Iraq, in Afghanistan
to mention only three…
(let Jed and Michael sort this out)
University of Colorado & Fox News O’Reilly
uses research misconduct
to fire Ward Churchill
for research misconduct
David Lane his lawyer
Ann Erica Whitebird his relative
declare the Devil’s
Original Sin was denying
the Original Lie which was
in the case of Ward Churchill
refusing him freedom of speech
in his case comparing
Nazism to our current
foreign policy
Who are the top Republican contenders
to continue this foreign policy?
All White (Aryan) Males!
Who are the top Democrat contenders
the first Woman
the first Latino
the first Black
And, which will be less likely
to continue this nazi foreign policy.
(and no, not all white men are part of the problem,
and yes some blacks and some women are part of the problem)
American Dollars that become Terrorist Dollars and Prison Dollars
(?)
it was 7 o 9 a.m.
and i barely overcame the fear
of speaking out against the “drug war”
when Washington Journal’s “open calls” ended.
as a great grandmother i wanted to respond
to the caller grandmother
who rightly fears for our children
due to failures of our “drug war”.
it is the nature of our youth to challenge
that which their elders declare “dangerous”
it is in the earliest adult years
when challenge/dare has the strongest pull
dear grandmother caller…
Addiction is a Disease!
please join me in decriminalizing drugs
we Are compassionate Americans(?)
it is 7 22 a.m.