so long suit

December 15, 2006

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Goodbye pompous officious arrogant dismissive in-thinking betrayer – responsible for the biggest debacle in the history of  U.S. military strategy. Good riddance to a corporate ghoul who showed more regard for Halliburton than his troops.

Should have stopped with Afghanistan and done the job right.

 

 

it feels like America again

November 8, 2006

 

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it feels like America again
like a flag snapping high and proud

who oversees the lines
and says – yes! you can speak for me

 

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If you believe this is sure to happen:
Is peace – right now – your enemy?

let me put it another way

October 14, 2006

If you believe there can be no peace until the second coming, and that future war is predestined, and necessary, and there is nothing you can do about it – how can you truly work for peace? How can you put your heart and soul into building a world which is safe for any child – if you believe you are powerless? If you believe that reality is a function of magical forces.  Forced conversion. Inexorable cataclysm.

As for me, I don’t need “experts” to interpret God’s plea made to all of us time and time again: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR…

those we now call holy

October 2, 2006

those who truly touched the sublime
who walked in the Light
spoke only of

Love
Forgiveness
and Peace.

everything else you are told
everything else you read
are the manipulations

of men

 

 

he is a coward

September 18, 2006

he once stopped by
and promised to resolve
my shattered bones.

he dried my tears,
placed a candle in my heart,
but not a flame.

he proclaimed,
I will never abandon you.
then he left.

he left to have sex
with violence – like John Wayne
slapping a woman.

although he showed up again,
he never returned.
he is not a builder.

wear a cape
look as if you can fly
wear gold and white
appear to be the main man

file your horns so they’re sharp
maintain an exotic sexual allure
accept first-borns and blood in your contracts
supernatural predator or REALLY bad sunburn?
write a play mocking god, cast yourself as lead victim

take the realm between realms,
littered with miracles
and poorly thought-out science
that forgets home,
theirs, yours-
heavenly court
with your secret throne.

support politicians who mind
everyone’s business but their own.
get someone to write you a poem.
paint your nails red. Eat the world.

Vote Republican.

QUESTION AUTHORITY??!!

August 19, 2006

what the HELL does that mean??!!

QUESTION AUTHORITY??!!

you don’t know
what the fuck you are talking about.

But Dad…

WHAT IF ! – the men who stormed Normandy Beach
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY??!!

or the soldiers who won the fucking West
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY??!!

or the Hitler Youth,
or the Conquistadors,
or the Crusaders,

or the…

“SMACK” the big open hand hit his young face with a single head turning blow.

GO TO YOUR ROOM – MISTER QUESTION AUTHORITY!!!
AND THROW THAT FUCKING BUTTON IN THE GARBAGE NOW!!!

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How Not to Lead

August 7, 2006

Put the maximization of profit above all ideals
call it the American dream.

Invite lobbyists to secretly make policy
declare it executive privilege.

Listen only to people who agree with you
pretend you do otherwise.

Paint all who dissent with a broad pink brush
label them traitors

Intimidate rather than dialogue
blame it on evil.

Squander a surplus.
Build a deficit.

Outsource torture.
Ignore law.

Fatten the rich.
Squeeze the poor.

Call yourself compassionate.

 

To have no care of wrong or right,
have no thought but to be,
soar and see as a hawk in flight.

Fly from dark into light,
hold no sense of history,
to have no care of wrong or right.

Wire your brain to plumes that fright,
know only what you need to be;
soar and see as a hawk in flight.

See the red the black the white,
kill then eat warm flesh, be free
to have no care of wrong or right.

Practice not duty nor requite.
Sing bleeding cries of victory.
Soar and see as a hawk in flight.

Have no pretense but your might
Take not knowledge from the tree.
To have no care of wrong or right,
soar and see as a hawk in flight.