Icebergs / Civil Unrest

How many times around the sun

and still

I am

the one

still floating

for every bright 

eye

there are unrealized 

seasons in the 

sun

withering dreams where death's henchmen 

ride

and a rusting cart 

drags behind

a million bones

on broadway.

they say iceberg's dangers lies

in what's beneath

like flames underfoot

like the knife unsheathed

glimmers,

glances

glaciers

rapture

raptors

vapor.

gone.

Whores Of Babylon: Michelle Duggar

Apparently if you have a clown car for a vagina you can move enough of your followers to help repeal an ordinance to protect LGBT people - I'm speaking of course of that humanitarian(as in, she is actually recreating civilization with her uterus, one child at a time) Michelle Duggar.

The sad irony is, she is super into the 'sanctity' of life-as long as that life doesn't turn out to be a gay one, in which case it can be damned to hell for all eternity for all she cares, and don't even think of giving it equal rights-or love. Wouldn't want that, as that would be something Christ would do.

Er, Waitaminute!

Yeah, a big old fuck you to her and her whole family full of bigots and baby worshippers. They are nothing more than users and grafters from the religious community that have for years sucked off the teat of society, from their FREE 'Big' government subsidized health care to their tax right off of their entire property as a 'parsonage' since the Father ALSO magically runs their church from their house. Not just parsonage, but any and all profits they make from church work goes right past you and I and into their pockets. Many of the children are magically ALSO pastors-working for-you guessed it-the same church. Many of the other kids also work for their church or its affiliated organization. In addition they are using their fame and notoriety to advance their own fucked up biblical narrative, the Quiverfull movement. Never heard of it? Its basically "make as many babies as you can for god's divine glory" and anything that inhibits that (like gay people who don't make kids) is godless and immoral, deserving of any and all torment available, beginning with public shame. Glory!

Only the Duggars upped the stakes by getting into politics. Since they are also an independent family and legal voters, they are not forbid from becoming involved in political issues as they would be if they were recognized solely as a 'church' due to separation of church and state laws. Dad IS a career politician after all.

Fucking sick!

Calm (implicating water quantities)

You can feel a storm coming

The first faint rumblings
low frequency dips
deep bass frequently
tumbling
into the hiss

of rain
diamonds falling in formation
sky fathoms movement rushing
repetition, repeating, replication
multiplication, reproduction
implicating water quantities
     drips out pooling
as a coral sea
at once

tears of all ages
blood, snow and bile
    cooling in the muddle of puddles
so revisited
ad infinitum
pharaohs, landmarks, history and light
raindrops and race cars and robots fight
for spaceships exploding into splendors in flight

tension
in rusty unhung
windy trances relegated, commanded
    for the un-mended fences to dance
in the tendency, modestly demonstrate
corroding Swan Lake
an aperture focused
on fates

keep a ladder in your pocket
every lamp needs a socket in darkness
    Waiting for lightning to illuminate
to the unchecked
box you climb
Mountains I am,
as a sky you lay over in a starless, seamless black
like storms need a calm sky
a blank canvas
to imbue
with fury
and meaning.

For Tweed 3 Years and So Many Tears How I wish you were here...

Not a day goes by where I don't think about you

You and I, we went through so much together

You held me

while I held you

You visited my soul

when I was in darkness

and needed me

as I needed 

you.

Through the veil and the time and the ages, 

here you are again, 

with some stranger's face, 

with some stranger's grace. 

In every cat's lovely face, I see you.

(But I'll never get over you, my cranky old man)

Tweed ( 1997 - 2011)