Bare The Dancing Bears

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Corruption and deception

Are a flirtatious pair

Public politician or Corporate Private

Human is primate?

Is their nom-de-guerre

They dance in cohesion

In all seasons

Keep your eyes transfixed

On the never quit dancing bears!

As their insider stock growth increases

With each flamboyant step

Up the neoliberal economic stairs

The Ballad of Income Inequality

Plays louder and louder!

As they divvy up the economic shares

The Social

The Political

The diminished Economic

American Culture

Is entranced in

The entertainment and legislator?

At the moment stars!

And billionaire highfalutin affairs!

Look at me!

The ascendant politician or celebrity!

Actors are a dime a dozen

Yet are consistently treated as if producing a mystical artistry

Fantabulously!

Why must I perpetually be forced to idealize

Mundane mediocrity?

Advertised incessantly via old media television and print/internet gossipy

Pretend these prating pusillanimous non-legislators

And artists?

Own the creative prize

The pesky fly has multiple eyes!

Laugh when the joke is not funny!

At your days at gallivanting Scamelot

Grifting play!

Propagandizing political posterity

Banal illusory vulgarity!

Performing to a village of idiots!

Unwind to Shakespeare’s “What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”

Electing a narcissistic wanna-be Emperor

Under the unyielding eviscerating poor and middle class

Economic faux sunlight

TEMERITY

Temerity is the clarity

Of seeing things

All the way through

Ingenuity and Congruity

Come along for the rendezvous

With Conscientiousness

And Perseverance

You have gathered

A most formidable crew

But it is Temerity

With all Sincerity

That acts

To form the glue

Surely as the Singularity

Guided universal consciousness

The Observer

Into view

General Custer

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Read a Book

About A General named Custer

Thought of Fighting Indians from Night 

Until Muster 

Pompous and Ambitious 

He was filled with Bluster 

Little Did He Know

In A Dream 

 
His Men Were Seen 

By Sitting Bull

The Great Indian Cheif
Of The Teton Sioux 

Attacked via the warriors led by Crazy Horse

And Slaughtered 


At The Little BigHorn

General Custer's Massacre 

Doomed the Indians 

As They were Met With 

American’s Eternal Scorn

And Thus Was A New Nation Born

Amongst The Rotting Corpses 

Of Union troops and the Native forlorn

Gratitude To The Warriors

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  Do not call me a hero
And expect me to believe it deep
When I come back home
After the horrors of War
On another shore
And I haven’t a place to sleep
Not a house
A job
Nor a bite to eat
My broken body
And mind
Reveals this as deceit
So you can go ahead and
Send another
Later on
To replicate the feat
Save your corporate slogans
Exceptional glories
And commercializing
Of my limbs incomplete
This must cease
Advocate for Veterans
Needs in education jobs and homes
But most of all
Strive for peace
http://www.veteransinc.org/about-us…

REMEMBER THE ILIAD

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One quite puzzling predicament

Of the U.S. Afghanistan War

Why is more heroin

Produced there now

Than was ever before

Since our battalions

Arrived on their shore

Uncomfortable truths

Are not worthy of inspection

When National Pride

Covers light and reflection

Truth and Honesty

Are Shunned

At the Officer’s Dance Floor

As the Weapons Makers

Marketing

Ramps up the Home Team

To cheer once again

For more War

Homer’s tale

Played the symphony of the score

Long ago

Hector’s brutalized body

Aptly symbolizes

The price of the toll

DUBYA’S DILEMMA

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Endubinantly

There is a strong bias against an incubent President

I commadeered this the hard way after I put a bounty on Osama

Sumbitch was spleelunking somewheres up in the mountains

Daggone intelligence was circenspect

Dammit if I can’t find where that repulsant

Pungy vermint is wholed up

How’m I supposed to get him to draw!

The Whole Thing was Just Plain Unscrupulate!

-Bushwhacker Memoirs

SONGBIRD

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The beautiful songbird’s
Majestic music

Soothes the troubled soul

A pleasant interlude
That enhances the mood

On this early morn summer’s stroll

How fortunate is gentle he

And unbreakable she

Providing perfect pitch is their goal

Lifting up the broken hearted

Restoring hope

And for but a minute

Making them whole

May all songbirds in Heaven

Have a place with which to go

Which lifts them up

Brings them joy

And has a stage set

For their show

ALLEYWAY

Random structures

Emanating from a withdrawn skyline

Sewers regurgitating intake

On a garbage strewn street

With cars parked uniformly

Haggardly homeless children

Collect cans

Whilst discarded food and clothing

Lie haphazardly

Scattered on a manicured front lawn

Myriad noises

Screeching blandly on the senses

As if clamoring to distill distraction

Broken windows

Cracked panes

Wires hung in disarray

A bright ray of sunlight

Intersects through the dilapidated tenement buildings

Illusions of grandeur

Heightened by the possibilities

Once cut off from

Now epiphanies arise

On this brisk stroll

Through a short New York City alleyway

New York City Games

NYC Games

Killer Diller 1 2 3

Fire hydrant

Spraying on your feet

Skelly’s game

Played up and down the street

Lifting the Johnny Pump water

With an aluminum soda can

Oh So Sweet!

Ringalario

Booties Up

Tag

Hopscotch

And Hide and Seek

Marbles I couldn’t be beat!

All these things were such a treat

Make growing up on 20th Street

In Astoria Queens

Seem so complete

All topped off with a

Mr. Softees treat