mid-May

Counterscreams

eating all our energies

while the real work lies

undone, our world surrendered

to entropy

 

 

 

Speak the language of your audience

for your words to be heard.

 

 

 

Don’t worry

about your future woes.

The world is ending soon

(one way or another)

Enjoy your final days!

(let your best self shine

unclouded by fear of repercussions)

The expanded vision of age becoming ash.

 

 

 

History/Herstory

People who care enough about the future

to preserve their stories

 

 

 

You no longer matter to me, if

you only see me as not you.

 

 

 

Race – a contest

Framing our social castes

to proclaim winners’ rules.

 

 

 

No longer thinking or feeling

Dead, even if still breathing

Existence is futile

No bright future in which to belong.

 

 

 

Emotional, not physical, love

is more than enough powerful bond.

 

 

 

You say “woke”

I say “Duh!”

 

 

 

We do not inspire the vast nonvoter constituency

with Republican lite.  Or Democrat lite.

We inspire citizens to do their civic duty

not by fear or slinging mud for entertainment.

They need reason to believe that leaders

really care, reality listen, really act.

 

 

 

What becomes of unwanted children?

Pimped out or outright sold for

sadistic pleasures?

Dying on broken streets of disease

or violence, drugs of death and

other suicides?

Is this what you meant, what you demand,

vulture-eyed zealots rapt for your evil

deity?

 

 

God gives us freewill, unless

we are fertile females.  The ability to

gestate/bear young

automatically makes one a slave.

 

 

 

Entitled man, don’t make me.

Don’t demand my birth and hate me.

My fate is mine, don’t you declare?

Not in my name – I’m not your cross to bear. 

 

 

 

5/14-17/19