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


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

the age we live in(is a battered hearse

carrying ashes of wars past .warriors walk
with ghosts of those/who left their flesh behind
to remind us of our loss.Words mime.Time stops.
Then starts again.Discontinuous narratives double-speak.
Babble on the TV.Babel in the streets.Revolution co-opted by the Rightwing.
Now the debate is not which war -but more(arms
So boys will be bundled off like GAMEBOYS to drone onwards
Elder PACMAN parents plead.Who listens?TVs everywhere-
HDTV,3D-all that is missing is the teeth of hard content.
Unconscious censorship elides what we wish to say
from what you are reading.Raw wounds remain.Palestine stillborn.
Children abandoned.Adolescents intuit and self-terminate.
Adults despair of retirement benefits(cut in their prime
to be soylent green fodder in rest homes.The good news is
continuance.Each day's momentary epiphanies.Sweet behaviors
Examples everywhere.Invent a new world within the olde
where we can rest our dreams and hold
the future like a rescued cat-and trust like that...

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