gather round the glow that is everywhere

November 27, 2007

small mansion
two warm voices
thanksgiving

dirt hut
two warm voices
thanksgiving

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Heroes

November 20, 2007

Every no-name human who has to live
in the frightening shit holes of this world.

Every person who struggles by their side.

All those who stand up to tyranny
in the face of beatings and death.

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I will

November 15, 2007

When I can no longer walk
I will watch.

When I can no longer see
I will listen.

When I can no longer hear
I will tell my stories.

When I can no longer remember
I will make them up.

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Halloween

October 31, 2007

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The sky is a cauldron!

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go ahead

October 25, 2007

They
call us
whistle
blowers.

 Truth
calls us
Partners.

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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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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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drooling purple

September 28, 2007

little vampire
brings his face to the toast
sucks in the jelly.

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strange spiritual bedfellows

May 24, 2007

pro-life
pro-death penalty

 

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