Friday, June 26, 2020

not black and white, we're red and brown

all those essential lives you never notice
all those who die unsung, barely seen
all the little moments little meanings that so enrich us
falling to the side as we run
 toward unkind judgment against true liviang
 
 
 
Are they socialists
or are they anarchists
or are any not loyal
to total authority your enemy?
What America do you glorify?
Not the hope and promise of Old Glory.
We agreed on a story
of honor, of enterprise
fueled on freedom.
 
 
 
I am not blind to color.
I have never seen a black human,
nor a white.
People appear in various shades of
browns and reds.
Why do we not thus perceive --
Earth's fertile richness in our skins: browns and reds?
How did we come to  need to pretend cold
simplicity of colorless You and Me?
Black + White -- not natural life but
pre-judged categories, static and deadening.
 
 
 
Just doing your job?
Why is this your job,
to do what ought not be done?
Who put you in this position?
How did they make you agree to stay?
 
 
 
Ritual rhythm, pilgrim dance
along, within, enchanting river.
Every day our world awakens,
emerges anew.  Who do you create
to assimilate, swim that experience
in grace?
 
 
 
Who cares about the Children?
It's all about how they reflect upon
their masters.
Climbing arduously into this
complicated world, not to thrive,
but as adversarial competitors in our
cynically zero-sum game.
More survival gets successively cheapened.
More children objectively strive as if alive.
 
 
 

6/21-25/20

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