where
to stand to see the pond
the
boreal forests 
are
being cut down 
for
tar sand and 
the
extraction 
of
long process petroleum
even
the dinosaurs would know 
this
is not the way to go
we
need not to find more 
sources
of black gold 
as
much as develop 
sustainability
outside 
these
carbon dated footprints 
walking
along waiting 
for
the next great asteroid 
on
a perpetual eve of destruction
2012
Mayan
calendrical madness
in
the United States 
it
is a Presidential election year 
and
we the plebes 
are
being treated as erection sleeves
and
not the kind that might 
glove
pleasure either
we
have been fried
cajoled
and chattered
stricken
in a bind 
from
what matters 
while
all the chickens 
have
come home to roost 
just
to find the hen house 
is
laden with rabid foxes 
waiting
for more
the
scary survival mechanisms
that
are locked into our DNA
from
the ancient past of being
lower
on the food chain
drives
technology to take us 
to
the Moon yet we still swoon 
for
the rich divisions of wealth 
beyond
hard work and good ideas
to
somehow protect us
it
is as if every wizard of Oz 
came
ballooning through the clouds 
and
plopped down 10 percent 
and
borrowed the rest 
to
hoist the deeds into their pockets 
while
sticking us with a debt laden humanity
wall
street 
fleet
street 
fleece
meat 
peace
mete 
the
lease is up 
and
the eviction notice 
is
on the ready 
can
you be steady 
with
only hope in your eyes 
when
the changelings 
are
ding-a-ling puppets 
on
a string to take the blame 
to
shade purpose 
to
hide the real estate 
prospecting
in space 
eventually
the Earth 
in
our current state 
will
be a blank state 
and
evolve around 
the
viral contamination 
of
mankind’s
giant
leaps, reaped 
with
greed and sown rape
by
decrees and disease 
that
says, it is all ours 
because
our might says so
so
if any of you protest 
the
rest of us will laugh 
and
get high or drunk 
so
we don’t have to look 
out
the windows anymore 
those
wizards know 
they
don’t need curtains 
for
they are certain 
we
want to be blind to this 
and
know the line 
behind
which we will all stand
waiting
for pieces of Heaven 
to
fall as manna and
kiss
us back
into
a princely race again
EJR
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