may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Monday, September 6, 2010

I BROUGHT A WHALE TO THE POETRY READING

Well,he was homeless-he had nowhere else to go
BP was drilling in his ocean,so poetry was the flow
I also brought a rainforest-seems they are chopped and cleared
to make room for more condominiums like you see outside here
I brought a gray wolf(she was about to be shot
like moose by Sarah Palin.Glenn Beck suggested
i bring free speech as an issue here(but she is already here!
so i invited some dolphins from Japan
(where they are slaughtered in the Cove)
gorillas from the Congo(ditto)-and a rhinoceros and tiger
almost extinct because of their aphrodisiacal qualities
I know it may get a little crowded-but habitat is like that
When Noah comes around there may not be 2 of every species left
Dodos and dragons and dinosaurs extinct
butterflies dying daily-and do not ask about the bees!
Humans are next-we are turning digital(virtual
Soon it will be hard to find a REAL book at all!
Techno robots "develop"land for profit
without regard for habitat of indigenous
Displaced refugees from Pakistan to Somalia,Haiti to Sudan
Maybe we need a Human Zoo to show our evolutionary origins
A Museum of Humanity-revealing all we have killed in history
That is why poetry readings are becoming somewhat packed
every body wants to live together(no escaping that)
but we are all displaced species from our native habitat

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