Connection Almost Made But For the Rain
it’s raining out.
sitting and pondering another tattoo
in a coffee shop filled with them…
the Dewar’s and me
the iWhatsit drones out information
to an otherwise empty table,
the Dewar’s and me
you looked.
(Dewar’s do)
everyone heard you.
(and me)
i could be an average unknown artist,
my tattoos.
my iWhatsit.
my information-free table,
the Dewar’s and me
you heard me.
(Dewar’s do)
everyone saw you.
(and me)
it’s raining out.
it’s always raining out.
***
Spoken Digital Rhyme for The Spending Classes
WSU Coach Mike Leach
$2.25 million per
year
UW Coach Steve Sarkisian
$2.25 million per
year
about 180 state ferry workers
make over $100k per
year
coaches are not paid via our taxes
but by ticket sales
television rights
and beer
ferry workers are not paid via
ticket sales
television rights
or even beer
it’s how you learned to prioritize these costs
that pays Bank of America
to screw you in the…
***
Alouette, Gentille Alouette, Alouette, de la Boétie
For the present I should like to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him….
~ Étienne de la Boétie
for voluntary servitude
your consent
is required
***
Let Bill Gates Eat Cake
the question of the millennium.
7 multi-billionaires
or
a billion
multi-millionaires
?
***
Locked Out from Within
I’m not trying to photograph a new stairway to heaven.
I’m trying to write an old path to reality.
***
Quoth the Empire
If it weren’t for the military,
we’d be saluting a different flag
while shopping at the same stores
and
dodging similar bullets in grade school.
***
Passive Aggressive Art
actively participating
in
being unseen on
any.
gallery.
wall.
***
The Vigilant Lens 