Premonition

Premonition

The swagger-boys

came at nine

to set back time;

forgot the tics.

They shaved my head

with Occam's razor;

forgot the brain

burned down my house

forgot the windows

confiscated bullets

forgot the gun.

At last they showed the knife

and took my legs;

forgot the heartbeat

that let me crawl away

on love alone.

~February 2017

" [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all 'progressive' thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. ..All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people 'I offer you a good time,' Hitler has said to them 'I offer you struggle, danger and death,' and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet."  

 ~George Orwell, from a review of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, New English Weekly (21 March 1940) via wikiquote

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Image: Premonition of Civil War, 1936 © Salvador Dali

Pride of Their Makers

Pride Of Their Makers

The monsters are coming

their heads in their hands

mouthworks drooling

 piano-wire screams,

with a vitriol kiss

to french through clenched lips

acrid and hot, frozen but soft

masks falling off.

The monsters are coming;

clown cars in the dark

unload at the QuickStop;

pass round the fear,

drink that flag beer.

The monsters are here.

The monsters are listening

with their crucifix remotes

mob on the knob, gloat upon gloat

brains slowly tugged out 

coaxed through the nose,

 thoughts ground to dust

in a hate cooked like meth 

love's disappeared death,

hell's stinking breath

shrill screams at the bus---

the monsters are coming

the monsters are us.

~July 2015

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Challenge: I Must Refrain

The often heterodox Herotomost, Corey Rowley (Mexican Radio) challenges us to use that time-honored poetic device, the refrain. I did my best, in this little cynical spit-poof of bitterness on our glorious times.

Optional Musical Accompaniments

"I know you're out there..."

Images courtesy google image search 

Bottom photo : Anti-immigration Protests,7/7/14,  Murrieta, Ca~Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images

Curds

Curds

When you strain milky truth

through the cheesecloth of fear,

 the whole churn clogs with

the curds of your distempered freakout.

Candor claws the clowns; she

drags the rags off the social mediums

selling  their crystal-bald confusion,

but the cowardly ant-lions

continue

fooling on the Hill.

lying their meat-eater's way

through the last Missed America.

~December 2013

55 Fiddles While Rome Burns for        the g-man

Process Notes: The current U.S. Congress, the 113th , which has the lowest approval rating since such things have been measured ( < 9%) is also set to go down in history as the LEAST productive ever in our 200-some year history. Way to go, guys! On the other hand, maybe the less they do, the safer we are....

Image: Capitol, by Paolo ordeveza, on flick'r
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