fade of Taurus

  

if you don't want to be replaced, do better

in an actual capitalist system the

goods go to the better

 

 

 

the most sacred, intimate areas of human

life ought be outside of the purview of politics

 -- this is who we are well before we get

together for social contract of law and governance

 

 

 

 

maybe if we understood that our personal intimate

lives are not politicians' to decide for us,

that government's role is meant to be about

our social, not personal selves,

and acted accordingly we would

create the governance we actually want and deserve.

 

 

 

all I need do is

find my calm center and stay there

 -- everything else is happenstance.

 

 

 

the party of "government is the problem"

 is destroying the legitimacy of our

institutions from within

 

 

The kind of free speech restrictions

commensurate with sanity – like not

metaphorically shouting “Fire” in a

crowded theater when the only fire

is the one you are hoping to spark.

 

 

 

It bothers me when people say

“nobody is talking about ...” or

“nobody understands” as if “Look

how clever I am to see what nobody

else does” but plenty of people are

talking about, understanding better

than they.  Maybe they don’t know

about those people, all caught up

in their own imagined superiority.

 

 

 

I see the world through a veil of

wounds.  So often scorned, or ignored,

or abused.  So seldom secure enough

to let loose, to feel fine, to feel good.

 

 

 

It shouldn’t be so hard to have our

outrage heard, acknowledged, respected.

We shouldn’t need to be outrageous.

 

 

 

That long, immense trail of experience.

Fragments scattered breathe urgent

tones, flash symphonies.

 

 

 

5/11-20/22