lighting hope

  

what I mind about the pro-gun effort is

not so much the guns (mere objects)

as the attitude of arrogant irresponsibility,

fearmongering and escalation of violence

 

 

 

 

I have been consciously nonbinary for years now –

a useful discipline to look for more alternatives

when presented with either/or

 

 

 

 

I like the theater of the talking filibuster,

which would make more sense with a rule

requiring the talking be about the actual bill in question. 

This could be a means of informing the public

about the bill's particulars and the arguments

against it.  It would mean that bills couldn't be

merely disappeared  as a matter of course,

but instead would have vast public exposure

and dialog, the whole press hysteria.

I imagine that full sunlight on the GOP

dirty tricks and cynicism could usefully add

to that dialog.  It might be a fun project. 

However, I am certainly open to any

suggestions and a continuing conversation.

 

 

 

Me, whatever that means --

mammal caught up in social fantasy.

Unaware of my chance to be,

feel reality as wind on bare skin,

as air, circulating within,

as impermanent memories.

This quiet quest to discover,

define humanity,

creatures atune to music,

masters of delusion, insanity,

art. Blind action, wise contemplation,

savage nations, violent revenge,

cycling, devaluing.

 

 

 

I wonder if any of these mass shooters,

consciously or not,

are doing what they can to promote

gun reform.

 

 

 

What have I go give

as I fade, escape like helium

from an aging balloon?

Looming, a spectre of allegiance,

affection, gratitude, familial amity.

Surging smile of grace, of blessing

of friendship beyond boundary of

mundane reality.

Please, never believe your love

less than profoundly valued.

 

 

 

3/23-25/21