in
November, Neil Armstrong says to vote for a world perspective
but
instead we will plant more flags
and
build more fences with our hands
inside
and all around every vagina
we
can keep to keep ourselves
from
burning up all the wombs at once
we
are saviors
in
leather bound winning columns
as
we are hailing and assailing the need
for
more bullets and taxis
can
we just try to remember
to
smell ourselves
on
the shelves of this politicized
narrow
canyon view
that
America has become
and
say, that’s right Neil
let’s
go and do something
besides
giving our minds up
to
be Jacob’s Marley’s ghost
pointing
and shooting our fingers
to
blame the chains we keep ourselves with
no
instead
we
will steal garden gnomes
and
ignore our totem poles
and
say that my America
doesn’t
need to be saved
so
as much as appreciation here
is
an empty blood bank need
for
all differences of the American people
each
and every one of us
has
to know
somewhere
inside us
that
we are each a living will
and
that we the people
are
the constitution of human soul
so
if you think conservation
and
the good booked morality
is
the way to go
then
I say
go
fuck yourself with your atom bombs
and
pencil needs to trade
liberty
for security
so
you can say
you
saved freedom
go
fuck yourself
until
you can see
the
salt that bleeds
when
you crawl across
the
broken glass
of
your hollow life
the
bottled imp bargain
that
no amount of robberies of Peter
can
say you paid Paul
all
that you had owed him
so
instead of planting
flags
and fences
plant
a tree and see
that
you may not get
to
taste its fruit
but
that those that come
to
the great halls
of
the bone cages
searching
for a soul to fill
after
your own body as taken it’s leave
might
find a ripe there
at
the right time to feed
into
a knowledge that loving life
is
what we do to smile
is
what we do to find a way to
those
faraway places
that
are somewhere between
saving
an ideal on a Polaroid
in
a shoebox of forgotten dreams
and
my asking for your forgiveness
for
eating those plums
that
were delicious, so sweet
and
so cold
EJR
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