Buddy Knows First
April 3, 2026
He leaps
from the couch
to growl at the sky.
Then looks back at me –
as if goodbye.
Soon roll the winds
straight from hell
all we can do
is bark and yell.
The Earth now an Ember
our spirits release,
another failed planet,
another failed “peace”.
In a flash.
To have no care of wrong or right
July 10, 2017
To have no care of wrong or right
have no thought but decree,
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.
View the red as black and white,
kill then eat the flesh, be free
to have no care of wrong or right.
Practice not duty nor requite.
Screech hemic cries of victory.
Soar and see as a hawk in flight.
Have no pretense but your might
Take no knowledge from the tree.
To have no care of wrong or right,
soar and see as a hawk in flight.
2006
Discovering Tyrants
July 5, 2008
In the days of antennae
atop wooden consoles –
we pulled in whatever
was out there.
Much of it,
old war footage:
tanks in mud
men on stretchers
cannon flashing
Zeros falling
and Der Fuhrer
pounding his fist
in truculent German
to adoring masses.
I would wonder:
what is he saying?
why is he so pissed?
why would people like him?
(Just as a non anglophone might think
when first seeing and hearing a Limbaugh)
“class warfare” accuses Rush disapprovingly
July 4, 2008
Our country was born of
contempt for privilege.
Yet today we are besmirched
for having those same
patriotic opinions.
qazse 