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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

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)

(?)

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.

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the day draws near
Americans will make the connection
between Oil Wars and Drug Wars
as heroin users supply the dollars
for terrorist attacks which fight against
stealing Arab oil
when America stops the drug war
and treat addiction for what it is
a disease.

dreaming of my dearly departed
i see them wearing a favorite face
they’ve planted in my heart
last night it was a bygone love
who hid the tent in his hospital bed
when our fingers touched
of course when they have no corporeal bodies
there’s no need for sexual determination
of course there are boy and girl flowers
not so with angels
but they can take any form
their former loves dream them in
i do what i can as the days draw nearer
to being with my beloveds, anew.

#26

every evolution changeover brings pain and sorrow
growing pangs so to say
time speeds up when a species feels threatened
by extinction, for the human species
they called it “future shock”
now is the future
and the past
turning to salt is only how dry one feels
looking back looking back at
past faulty rationalizations
seeing fully why we do not wish them
in our future
water is the staff of life and all of it is holy
these children of the millennium changeover
give elders comfort as they are able
and their children the freedom
to be children
curious
playful
with loving safety nets
the days of
“Do as you’re told not as I do”
are dead and gone
when coming into this garden
of the children of the millennium changeover
come as a feather or a bird might