Once hearts and flowers/now heart transplants
and wilted winter weeds.Once expanding frontiers
now closed systems.SECURITY .Controlled release
Once fairy tale childhoods.Now police ,crime,gangs,curfew.
Once shared visions projected Futurisms.Now limited expectations.
Comparative democracies.Media monopolies.Mock liberal press.
Right wing cartel fixated on their free speech.(Hate radio)
Nostalgia coats chocolate kisses .hugs and cuddles
Protection orders,cease and desist,rapists,stalkers.
Even schools have massacres.Prisons privitized for profit.
He still tried to find a bright side to downsizing and offshoring
Sacred lands-Gulf of Mexico,New Orleans?Legends say,pre-us
this earth was garden.Suborbital flights of fantasy for millionaires
Jail for the poor,foreclosed,dispossessed.He looked for rainbows-
they were oil spills.He wanted to believe.He was conned by Nigerians
in a computer scheme..Now he paints rainbows in rehab.
Voltaire's eternal optimist,leaning in to 2011
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