Category: poetry

We did not go to drink their oil
(we already dood that)
We could not spread democracy
(we already knew that)
We did not have an exit plan
(we do not plan to exit)

736 US military bases in 140 countries
Come on good ol’ white boys we’re almost
there…over there…(all is never enough)
all 50 states get military dollars
either military bases or weapons manufacturing
with 100 Senators who follow orders to get the $’s
that buy the votes to to insure the contracts
that keep the people’s knees locked.
Don’t need military bases? “Oh, yes,
it is our major income, can’t be closed!”
How do you test new weapons systems?
Evoke a war.

Bush’s way to negotiate with Iran
on giving up their nuclear arms program:
“We won’t negotiate about nuclear weapons
until they give up their nuclear weapons program.”

Timothy Garton Ash:
“Marx thought capitalism would have a problem
finding consumers for the goods that improving
techniques of production enable it to churn out.
Instead, it has become expert in a new branch
of manufacturing: the manufacturing of desires.
It’s that core logic of ever-expanding desires
that is unsustainable on a global scale. But
are we prepared to abandon it?

“We may be happy to insulate our lofts,
recycle our newspapers and bicycle to work,
but are we ready to settle for less so others
can have more? Am I? Are you?”

leaked report about US war plans prep:
24 hrs to Iran Shock and Awe
called “wrong, misleading, and mischievous”
by our stute would be ruler

When Swiss Miss comes calling one quarter
of a century later will you answer Arby?

Have you returned to Iran which
you politically could not then?
Are you now the age of your mother then?
And did your wish come true
before she left us if she did?

Swiss Miss did not know then
Miss America’s involvement
in your woe and Iran’s
for This and Thee she now burns
blue candles at 3 a.m.

Were she in Switzerland now
passing secret messages between
Miss America and Mr. Iran
years best Oscar song?
“Wake Up America!”

Let’s remember Iran/Contra
Illegal money to illegal Contra
let’s remember bombing Cambodia
both high crimes and treason
Instead of impeachment we get
Nixon downed by the lesser crime of Watergate
while the Reagan White House got white washed.

Let’s remember the clatter of impeachment
tax dollars spent for a lie all false lovers
are bound to do…

Now remember
all our politicians thus far refusing
impeaching Cheney and Bush.

Is this really the 25th anniversary
of the stupa building consciousness
in that lively rural community in Colorado?

It is dream time in New Mexico Arby…
I’ll trade you a million man march on Washington
and another million women all against war…
for equal rights for women in Iran.

there is Nelson Mendella and Ghandi
reminding us there is a people’s power of the purse
Ghanddi taught us non violent resistance
Nelson taught us not to hate the oppressor
and when the oppressor agrees to stop oppressing
to find compromise
when there’s peace in the heart there’s water in the soul
differences in culture or belief need not be deadly
tick tick tick tick
waiting for the tock tock tock tock
keep your titles just give us our raises
your net gain 1’000’s of % times ours
when the elected state officials
no longer serve both nation and state
must we to have another bloody civil war
it is always the poor who lose most of the blood
it is always the rich who think there blood is worth more
when there’s money in the heart there’s calcium in the soul
come on people now
let’s get together now
right
now

Does the sunshine bright on your ol’ Kentucky home
Mitch McConnell is no Davey Crockett
he, your Mitch, your Minority whip
will block our Senate
from bringing our boys home.

O Paducha little Jimmy dickens
O Kentucky blue grass
Who the horse and who the whip
and who the McConnell that runs your state?

I only know how history corrects itself
like the Golf of Tonkin, when confronted,
“I…thought they were shooting at us!”
so will your history O Kentucky
correct Mitch’s mistake?

No I guess not he’s a rich good ol’ boy
what can rural country folk do?
Today’s news:
Iraq buys $5.8 Million Mansion in Washington for Diplomats
that’s what politicians can do for themselves
be they Iraqi or American we get
political pockets lined with pork.

More today’s news from Senator McConnell:
“morass presidential election” – translated:
a soft low-lying area of land that sinks underfoot
The land is America. Who the foot
and who the Fool that keeps her there?

Oops I got the date wrong…
the proposal will be for March 8th, 2008
to Start removing our troops from Iraq
well no, it may be a mistaken date,
but who will count the bodies
of our children and their children
that fastly bleed to death
every day after March the 8th, 2007
till our troops, safely, come home
to their little brown house in Kentucky
or their adobe where
the deer and the antelope play.

TV Fox “24” makes torture sound
like the feel of masturbation ending.
Want the sound of torture break a leg
then move the broken leg without support.
The ethicist goes to sleep at night smirking
believing he has rationalized torture
because the person being tortured
has a human moral duty
to save the lives of his enemy
by betraying his friends.

What would the ethicist deem most evil
the violent death of 3,000 or
the violent death of 650,000 plus and rising?

Hear the clamor over building 18 Walter Reed
then see the size of beds in hospitals in Iraq
see they are no wider than a gurney rowed
upon row and growing lacks of medical supplies.

The lowly cockroach, whose species will survive
the deadliest nuclear attack – the “civilized”
shudder at the sight of even one,
Meanwhile back in the third world they eat them
for nourishment to the body.

A 16 year old innocent boy died 5 years ago today
in this rural New Mexico town
and thousands in their silent grief
created a wave in spirit waters
imagine the tsunami created with Shock and Awe
then lift your feet
the in breath is coming.

is it to the land of which we pledge
and to the spirit of which it was born?

and to the flag for which it stands what do we pledge?
to the cloth that bears the stars and stripes
or of the liberty for which it stands?

will we be one nation or two?
that is still the question.

ok, so “they” inserted, “under God”
“they” want us to pledge to a Christian God?
and call ourselves a Christian Nation?
turn a democracy into a Theocracy?
thee o crazy?

But we are pledging to this Republic and for which it stands!
With liberty and justice for all!!!

All righty then
describe this Christian Nation of America.
That’s too vague of a questionnaire.
Describe the current most powerful sect of Christians today.
wasn’t that easy: Evangelican
And what do we get when we get Evangelicals
we know what they expect – to get rapture and on their way
they expect to look down on the rest of us
burning in brimstone and hell fire
Do they look forward to this sight?

Yes there other Christians in these, so far, United States
the ones that understand what Jesus meant when he said,
“What you do to the least of these you do unto me.”

So if we pledge allegiance to the land
why are we polluting it with our toxic waste
Do we pledge allegiance to the land because
it grows our food and how about the water?
When we were young we could drink from any flowing stream.
When we were young there were not so many breathing diseases.

And if we pledge allegiance to the Republic
how do we protect it?
Especially in these dividing days?

Go figure.

it’s been good to know you
not in my lifetime will i see
America change it’s evil foreign policy
of empire building
John Fitzgerald Kennedy would have changed it
Bobby Kennedy would have changed it
who has a profile in courage today?
not the 10 Senators who refused to vote
nor the 34 who voted against
changing Bush’s policy in Iraq.

Yesterday’s news:
America now has 2 and 1/2 million millionaires
and 371 billionaires

of course Empires seek to control
the “known world”
today’s Empire builder, America, know the entire world
and since greed knows no limits
our top Dogs would weaponize space
with satellite technology and precision strikes
obliterate all opposition

adieu adieu

Rep. Putnam full of zeal for the Iraq war
takes only the icing of a Frost poem
“The best way out is always through”
in the House debating Bush’s “surge”
and leaves the cake in the oven…
The fullness of this quote is:
“He says the best way out is always through.
And I agree to that, or in so far
As that I can see no way out but through–”
Least ways for me–and then they’ll be convinced”

sorry sorry Adam Putnam, in so far as HE can not see
the “always through” does not translate
to stay the course, it means
when a person or a nation
is found to be in a quagmire
the way out is first admitting
to one’s contribution to it, then
boot by military boot – extraction!

Well do forgive myself if you could
i pick aggressively at words
these days
alive in the shades of 1984
if you twist i will turn
your very own words back to you
when you change the subject i will bring it back
when you huff and puff i will turn away
and write a story…

my honorable friend, for a cup of coffee,
will debate me with an honorable voice
if our levels climb they climb together
in mutual understanding
we never hit that note
of attack the messenger, both agreeing
stop signaled is stop meant.

my honorable friend has yet to learn
in the parting there is the last word
and the question of what it means to have it
you know…
the last word
well how many goodbyes does it take to go
how many goodbyes before one says hello
how many treasures can a treasure chest hold?
What is the heart hunting for?
Forgiveness? Validation? Vindication?
Wildness? Safety? Acceptance? Companionship? Adventure?

yesterday i say that i am happy to be living alone
this lonely heart is stalking misusers of words
in the beginning was the word
and some people learned the power of the word
and some did not and those that knew the power
used it on the people who did not
and that is why a democracy that truly believes
we the people can Rule ourselves (and we leave open our Rules
in order to alter them as we learn to negotiate our disputes)
and we believe in education for the masses – the Big 3
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic…
“They” have fooled most of the people most of the time
until now the hand writing on the wall is indelible
“In order to form a more perfect union…”
will not be flumboggled with…
What is a good name for a manipulator of words?
The Deceiver, The Great Deceiver, The Almighty Deceiver?

Timothy Souders
dying of thirst, found with bed sores
shackled arms, feet and waist
on his back on his jail cot, in Michigan

every innocent death
is just another Jesus
tortured, ridiculed, martyred

The Great Manipulator Bush
presents the world with “evidence”
weapons made in Iran
are in the hands of Iraqi insurgents.

Will the honest journalist come forth
and present to the world “evidence”
of weapons made in other countries,
especially made in the U. S. of A?

Will the honest State Governor come forth
and refuse to take the payola or political favors
for maintaining the support of arms dealers
If we don’t make ’em they can’t sell ’em!
What is the likelihood any given
US soldier was killed by a weapon, American made?
Ho! Mr. State Governor, Clean Up Your Prisons
before thinking of climbing the political ladder.
Ho! Mr. Would Be next US president
Write Your Own speeches! We want the heart
of YOUR message, not the stylized manipulated version!

Like Mother Mary, Mother of Timothy
watched her tortured son unto his final hour
when he ingloriously collapsed
naked on the flour
with his hands shackled behind him
Unlike the crowd at Calvary, this time
it was the world that watched

Jesus said “What you do unto the least of these
you do unto me.” What don’t the jailers, warhawks,
arms dealers and war presidents get about this?