(remembering Louie Armstrong)<\/p>\n
what will this new species become
\nthe first to comprehend their own mortality<\/p>\n
fight for the day but live for tomorrow
\nsacrifice tomorrows for eternity
\nfrenzy to witness disasters
\naffirmation: they die I live<\/p>\n
Pharaohs knew enough
\nnot to write down laws enabling
\nmaking up them as suits their whim
\n3,000 years it worked then<\/p>\n
until the breaching of arid desert lands
\nin another fertile valley
\nwho’s God was not man and laws were written
\nin stone no less, in the beginning,
\nthe Voice of God coming, as they said,
\ninto the heads of mortal man made prophet
\npredicting false prophets
\npreempting all future God claims<\/p>\n
then along came Mohammad
\nembracing Jewish law and Christian law
\nadding one more: Usury Condemned<\/p>\n
then along came Katrina
\nthe levy breached – poverty exposed
\npleading hearts crying for help
\nfalse prophets and profits rising
\n9\/11 Pat Robertsons proclaims
\nallowed by God angry at America’s moral decay
\nas they build Crystal Temples
\n(live in glass house don’t throw stones)
\nPat’s reward: 66 million Katrina dollars<\/p>\n
Jeffery Rosen
\n“have nots want something for nothing”
\nhalf the baby boomers’ blossoms
\nbecame precious children getting everything they want
\nhalf the baby boomers’ blossoms
\nbecame throw away children
\nin the bowels of New Orleans
\nNew York, Chicago you name it
\nthe bigger the metropolis the larger the slum age
\nhaving been swiftboated, peter-principled<\/p>\n
follow the Turquoise Trail
\nleading away from leaden poisons
\nturquoise jazz man plays our blues and gives us hope
\nit is Louie who led us there
\nit is human angels that lead us home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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