deep spring reflects (no worries, no hurries)

 I tend to think in words and pictures,

to feel in music,

to see pictures, hear words

when in presence of music,

to feel meaningful images,

look for synchronicities,

magic.

 

 

 

I am ready, willing, happy to do

the work, the difficult, detailed,

dirty, eternal work.

I can’t long bear

the slings and arrows,

nastiness,

the assholes.

 

 

 

 

words, when obfuscated by political agenda,

become clumsy as tools for clear

communication.  Perhaps we ought

to indicate when using these words

which meaning we are intending.

 

 

 

 

Capitalism, as imagined by those who

imagined it into existence, is very different

from what we are led to believe by its worshippers. 

When appropriately regulated and companioned

with rational safety net structure, it is a system

for people to be rewarded for sharing their wares

and skills, and through competition to find better,

less resource depletion or other undesirable outcomes,

easier to use and access,

more in line with what people want, good and services. 

The important component is the regulation

to keep the market honest, fair, and safe.

 

Capitalism, like Communism (Marxism) was originally

imagined as an equalizing, community developing,

individual dignity respecing system in contrast to

Feudalism's dependence on aristocracy and clear

class distinctions. 

See how we silly humans take reason

and mangle it with arrogance and jealousies.

 

 

taking responsibility, accountability, away from the

human agent allows for all manner of nasty mischief.

 

 

 

we must disengage from party politics

and learn to have political conversations

based each on our own and our communities'

interests.

 

 

5/15-16/21