Render freedom irrelevant
July 4, 2017
Keep the masses
occupied –
celebrity
focused.
Feed them
must see
must hear
must play
must have
content.
Imply jobs
are supposed
to suck.
Escape!
Consume!
Normalize
EXCESS,
call it
life’s GOAL.
Believe it
uncool
unpatriotic
to think
otherwise.
“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly
May 24, 2008
Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.
Yet we are now besmirched
for having those same
patriotic opinions.
hdtv
January 18, 2008
high
definition
drug
flags wave from golf carts
October 23, 2007
You are
trailer trash
until they need you.
nine was was
September 9, 2007
It seemed a time of respect.
Skies were skies,
no chalky lines
of jet smoke –
only bird and cloud and flag.
Terrorism
was not yet entertainment.
Booty and bullets
disappeared from the screen.
Reflection and restraint
seemed a collective value.
Never to return,
we lived briefly
in the eye of a blood storm
I heard “oral sex”
August 19, 2007
I heard “oral sex”
ten thousand times more
than “terrorism”.
I saw her face
ten thousand times more
than bin Laden’s.
If only it had been otherwise…
“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly
May 15, 2007
Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.
Yet today we are besmirched
for having those same
patriotic opinions.