Halloween

October 31, 2007

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The sky is a cauldron!

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self-test for fascist tendencies – item #3

October 26, 2007

You always believe
ends justify means…

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go ahead

October 25, 2007

They
call us
whistle
blowers.

 Truth
calls us
Partners.

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flags wave from golf carts

October 23, 2007

You are
trailer trash
until they need you.

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Katrina

October 21, 2007

– destruction brought on
by men’s sins alright:

hubris
greed
denial
myopia
dereliction
disinterest
inempathy
incompetence

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until

October 20, 2007

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until
there are
no soldiers
we have all
died in
vain

 

picture credit

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long journey

October 17, 2007


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the sky rests
upon the earth
in a pond

 

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The night Joe left

October 2, 2007

Joe asks me
to stay,
to keep
the earthly vigil
into this night.
He speaks no words;
nor do his eyes
look upon me.
No one knows
except he
and I.

This dad cannot
take leave of his family
while lying helpless –
unable to whisper
“don’t worry”
unable to say
goodbye.

exhausted,
the others begin
to go home.

It will be better
this way.
I the sentry
who falls asleep,
He the spirit who sheds
this breaking body.
this sweet life…

Joe continues to stare
at a ceiling he does not see
while his inner core
prepares for
departure.

Across the hall
irritated alarms split
the midnight silence
as some poor soul
gets up to
wander.

tell him
he can go – it is okay
to go.

Sitting in the visitor’s chair
at three
a.m.
I fall
victim
to
the
mathematical
drone
of
the
oxygen
machine…

Soon
after,
he touches me.

I awaken.

He is gone.

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Cavalcade of Anxiety – a participatory poem by chughes, howard, Jak, and qazse

October 1, 2007

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colony collapse
restless legs
identity theft
tainted eggs

leaded Barbie
cancer genes
home invasion
tainted greens

diseased hearts
deadly sin
broken parts
tumbling in

tasered youth
speech bereft
monks for truth
what love is left?

popping pills
guns in school
glossy pages
skinny cool

homeless nola
no one cares
bullies at war
shiny wares

early risers
sound alarms,
can’t convince
of coming harms

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