Jalapeno Pepper Blog

he took us where he knew we never wanted to go
the 911 trick with mushroom clouds
gave us George Tenet’s split tongue
told the left his “hair was on fire” with urgency re Al Qaeda
and on the right “it’s a slam dunk” re intelligence
rights who hate life screamed
“bomb ’em to kingdom come!”
o little bud how come you never opened?
our Cowboy learns a tad little
of going forth without pride but
ok yeah right won somewhat
we all do not need to be told we are there
what is is
show your back packers you do believe
whomsoever the designer
life is intelligent we are it is true
homo sapiens and only a tad
of understanding a foreign language
or as our parents once were wont to say
“look it up in the dictionary”
the downfall of automatic spell checkers is
there is no contact with the definition
Francis de Budah asks
“For whom do you write?”
myself, my family, my extended family, my neighbors
and life
which is love
which would never never be heard saying
“bomb ’em to kingdom come”
most on the right would not either
it is their fringes that are dangerous
as is equally the fringes on the left
follow the money
fringes that live like billionaires are
what got us from there to here
now is a good time to fly a true democracy
we the people do have power over our elected officials
greed’s temptation trickles all the way down from the top
elected officials DO pay attention to polls
denying attention when they do not like the numbers
and citing them when they do
we are more united than they allow us to believe
we homos who became sapiens need not leave behind the flower’s bloom
it is the war tenor in the voice that sounds more like fear unchecked
the ring of panic would displace the tinkling sacramental bell
when called to speak we can speak with civility
there is no other way to have an honest debate
evolution, if intelligent, would choose intelligent leaders
the devil himself/herself is/can be most charismatic

The Last Hours of Tookie

fully awake and knowing
moved to that place of waiting
what happens to a soul
separated from the body
by execution
do the believers in the death penalty
(99.9% purely Christians)
truly understand their desire
is an eye for an eye
and by demanding it from Tookie
they are turning their backs on Jesus
and his teachings?
When will they ever learn?
When will they
ever
learn.

if 7% of the “terrorists” in Iraq are outsiders
then 93% are insurrectionists
home boys in other words
this is a war between fundamentalist Muslims and non
it is time to stop arguing about the legality of this Iraq War
President Bush has placed America in the center
yet we are in the unique position
of proving the superiority of doing unto your neighbor
as you would have done unto yourself
will democracy at home survive, you know,
the democracy that respects the rule of law,
without which there is no peace?
If we protect All Iraqis as being equal
and protect for them, the people,
their natural resources, namely oil
from private greed,
and we remove outside contractors,
thus becoming arbitrators
for a true democracy,
a constitution more enlightened,
than our original one,
of which even they allowed,
this document of the people
needed to be a living document
which could be improved upon.

Is it not hypocritical to believe in Intelligent Design
while degrading intelligence?

call nine eleven! call nine eleven!
hello hello my friend was just bitten by a snake
calm down lady, where was he bitten
on his left cheek it is bright red with a hole in the center!
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now a song from the doodle do do’s doh doh

oh those little goddlings are at it again
this one dispatching lightening bolts
that one raining down fire unless yer his friend
the other threatening to destroy the universe
read my mind dearlings
any god worth his’en or her’en salt
surrenders lovingly to any demon’s snarls
(or like my favorite one would crack a joke)

play the drums Tom Tom Tom
now the fife Mike the son
stick a candle of courage in her chest
come stay play a little longer
take of those hats and throw them in the corner
yet another day is dawning
did you bring your keyboard Ragtime man?

carry me back to old no where
remember me to old square joe
i’m off to join the chanting voices
“we ain’t gonna take it anymore”
don’t want an eye for an eye
don’t wanna turn my cheek again
just gonna tell it like it is
toes, when stepped on, hurt
unless by chance
one’s teaching a child to dance
that ain’t so heavy
any child is every child.

i’m torn i’m tired and i’m weary
sorry secluded but sound
of mind/spirit if not body

the pentagon announces
it can fight two wars at the same time
the sports announcer’s voice is frenzied
how else to whip it up
fore say what
is being whipped up?
US is already fighting two!

please don’t ask me of manana
today is heavy enough