why I’m a Buddhist and socialist –
a socialist because wealth needs to be redistributed to the needy – health care, education, food, housing and employment… and a Buddhist because I believe in the sanctity of life; and to keep from being ground down and numbed into passivity, the way I see economics affecting people – scarcity ideation
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Men of power, their vassals keep
o’er the air, a foggy sleep
at infernal days end, we mewl as sheep
the fiery furnace, ‘fore to keep.
– A fog of gloom and helplessness
depression, grief – it’s just business
The status quo and its deceit
has sprung its trap on our conceit
For those who dare to dream so free
for immigrants – just misery
*
In Palestine, just look and see
the shattered lives – land, sky and sea!
locked down for life, “They must be freed!”
we mutter vaguely, in our safety
*
These wars I would not subsidize
homeland insecurity institutionalized
blaming the raped,
the victimized
In the name of democracy
and justice
we know what’s best
– what’s best for us!
*
the recent past, COINTELPRO
shot down the leaders here below:
farm workers, Panthers,
anti-war, Chicano,
Native Americans,
feminists and queers,
socialists –
anything that threatened their status quo
*
What present COINTELPRO will the future reveal?
The original, so damnably effective!
at creating divisions and scaring
away the righteous
*
Lady ‘Day, Lenny Bruce
squeeeeze them for their bitter juice
the drugs, the jails, the brothers still
in slavery’s continu-ation
the cops on the corner, clubs all drawn
hunger for the bloody dawn
*
Locked down ourselves, our ruin looms
as millionaires through empty rooms
wander aimless, in laughing fits –
they piss themselves as here we sit!
June 21, 2011
the foggy keep
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why I’m a Buddhist and socialist –
a socialist because wealth needs to be redistributed to the needy – health care, education, food, housing and employment… and a Buddhist because I believe in the sanctity of life; and to keep from being ground down and numbed into passivity, the way I see economics affecting people – scarcity ideation
_______________________________________________________________
Men of power, their vassals keep
o’er the air, a foggy sleep
at infernal days end, we mewl as sheep
the fiery furnace, ‘fore to keep.
– A fog of gloom and helplessness
depression, grief – it’s just business
The status quo and its deceit
has sprung its trap on our conceit
For those who dare to dream so free
for immigrants – just misery
*
In Palestine, just look and see
the shattered lives – land, sky and sea!
locked down for life, “They must be freed!”
we mutter vaguely, in our safety
*
These wars I would not subsidize
homeland insecurity institutionalized
blaming the raped,
the victimized
In the name of democracy
and justice
we know what’s best
– what’s best for us!
*
the recent past, COINTELPRO
shot down the leaders here below:
farm workers, Panthers,
anti-war, Chicano,
Native Americans,
feminists and queers,
socialists –
anything that threatened their status quo
*
What present COINTELPRO will the future reveal?
The original, so damnably effective!
at creating divisions and scaring
away the righteous
*
Lady ‘Day, Lenny Bruce
squeeeeze them for their bitter juice
the drugs, the jails, the brothers still
in slavery’s continu-ation
the cops on the corner, clubs all drawn
hunger for the bloody dawn
*
Locked down ourselves, our ruin looms
as millionaires through empty rooms
wander aimless, in laughing fits –
they piss themselves as here we sit!