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


Saturday, August 27, 2011

THE STATE OF TEXAS (Aristophanes)


Willy was a Houston musician-
cars,guitars,women and drugs
Fast life with faster folk
until middle age found him homeless
under a bridge with diabetes

When frogs disappeared,i blamed the drought
(69 days @106 degrees-world dried up
Teachers stressed/people in ill health
Perry living off public taxes
while demanding there be none!

Waterholes dry up/folk get burned
Even the homeless cannot bear the heat 
when applied by the overpaid APD
When the streets are bare/no frogs there
We weep for the loss of trees

We are aging,too,and each death a notch
that chops another forest for more homes
They all rush to Austin for some fun
Like Dick Whittington,they think the party's ON!
The party has long long gone

Now they remake SLACKER origins
The CHRONICLE will not print poetry listings
What can the frogs do with no waterholes?
They will go where the Rainbow Serpent glows
Back in to the rainbow.

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