Third down and Austerity
all my heroes
are crippled ditch-diggers
with a healthy dependence upon
alcohol
teeVee sports and
internet porn
while uninsured without a
pension
because
al Qaeda
***
Finish the thought Wednesday
Seattle Weekly: Alternative Sellouts Like Us
The Beautiful Twin Falls of Revenue Enhancement
me and my iPicturetakerMaker
have no need for a mixed tape
my high school
now a police station,
assisting in the education of the never-ending
Reagan state
old lovers and friends
found jesus in prison
they’re now poverty-level conservatives…
having learned it from our school,
the class of the never-ending
Reagan state
having no need for a mixed tape
me and my iPicturetakerMaker
***
The early riser gets to rise Again
now that it’s
november
and
thirty
i bypassed all the open christMas tree lots
for a costco
to stock up
on easter
2000
and
seventeen
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Or…why dick cheney isn’t sharing a cell with Charles Manson
if it takes many a dead
poet laureate
to remind in rhyme us
of Cesar Chavez,
then i guess we’ve only got 365 shopping days left until…
a dead poet laureate
doesn’t remind in rhyme us
of Cesar Chavez,
again
***
My remaining optimism thanks my pessimism for Everything
as is frequently established here,
common sense
was killed in a battle
with optimism,
in 1824.
i thank those with the courage to speak out
and i thank you for reading and looking at my visual thoughts…
peace, be well
and thanks,
thanks a lot.
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The Vigilant Lens 