I Pledge Allegiance
my Safeway self-checkout machine
requires no healthScare
zero smoke breaks
and not one paid holiday
my Safeway self-checkout machine
doesn’t need a lunch
dental care
or a 12th trip to diversity training
nope
no unions
no raises
no feelings
know
my Safeway self-checkout machine
it does what we let it
it does what we won’t
no
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Start Here
if you find yourself at the end of the road…
rejoice!
for yourself has been found at the beginning.
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An Optimist and a Former Voter Walk Into a Bar
Driving Tranquility to Death
photography no longer pays the bills,
so i drive a truck in seattle.
i drive past the noise of business
and add to the business
of noise
today i drove past the bus driver who was shot.
i drive past the noise of business
and add to the business
of noise
so i drive a truck in seattle,
photography no longer pays the bills.
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The Fukushima Diaries
we will fund Zach Braff’s project,
we will not fund education.
we will fund the expensive skies for a North Korean tongue depressor and used tinfoil rocket,
we will not pay for your dental care.
war makes grand profit for a few,
we are not willing to get outraged by much more than what A-Rod did.
pete and repeat often
oft-repeat and pete
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Realities Vary
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The Vigilant Lens 