speak

 There is a great deal we can do -- if we are willing

to do and not just post complaints.  We can create

bit by bit that world we want, first small steps

until we get into the swing.  Most "government"

happens locally -- yet we focus almost

exclusively on the national, POTUS, whose

power would be greatly diminished if we

all practiced democracy from the bottom up.

 

 

 

Political "reality" (as it differs from

actual reality) -- this is a common dream.

 

 

 

It's not on me to convince you

because I know I can't.

You are so opposed to what I say,

there is no way you will hear me.

 

 

 

If the family is our basic unit

of society, how might we better

grow and value our familial world?

 

 

 

True freedom fighters --

antifascist as realpolitik philosophy

 -- not organized politics.  Real

people in the streets.  Claiming this land,

this nation, this historic experiment

in self-rule, for every me and you.

The battle cry that made our

Revolution, our Constitution

worthy of worship as country's

creed. 

They've said we need to bleed

each generation to feed

Liberty.

What we need is to stop bleeding.

Find better language than violence.

Speak.

 

 

 

What if paths lesser traveled

lead you to endless pain,

trolls and vampires and

nightmares' despair?

What if nowhere exists to escape,

no better days, no promise

unbetrayed, no symbolic siblings

to carry on?

What if screams to some barren

universe lead (ironically)

only to bleeding throat?

That fork in your metaphoric road,

that importantly poor decision

has become whatever our popular

tongue translates

as fate.

 

 

 

It's not tribalism --

it's mass hypnosis.

Real tribes could save us

from divisive delusion.

 

 

10/3-9/20