Political Fireworks

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paper petitions circulating
by people “qualified” because they
have survived at least eighteen years
of life.

One more thing to change, go
where poets don’t naturally go,
but what is it the CIA says?

“He is a threat, wipe him off the
face of the Earth!!” Oh, I kid
my brothers and sisters in Service—

God bless the Langley workhorses
and grunts, patriotic to the bone;

Just ease back on the violence, remember
church and its teachings growing
up; the Bible reminding us to pray
in private—yes, but at least at Church
we got some gospel—

Always Good.

Bombs light up the night, and kill me
slowly, my dogs going crazy, when
I moved into Los Angeles, I didn’t
know the war with Mexico was still
being fought! Holy crud, don’t say
it’s not.

I have met illegal immigrants, forced
across the border from there to here
because of abuse, drug wars, gangs,
violence.

They even tried to apply for Visas three
times; denied thrice, they hopped the
border on a truck that puttered over
a desert road late at night…

What if there was a Trumpian wall, add
some flowers and bushes to look nice?

That border-hopper’d have to take a trip
to Mexico City instead of my city, set up
camp on the steps of their Presidential
Palace, green white and red, cabbies
running around la catedral, el Zocalo beautiful—

Demand that beauty find its way to the
farmer, Zapata still fighting his own
war through sons and daughters of revolution.

Their murals are ours—I know we are neighbors
and close; but that does not mean we
need to leave the backdoor open if they want to
climb in at all hours, we must
have some rules, call them…

Laws!! Oh yeah, already named, law—
that collaborative artform making Mona Lisas
of ideals, dreams, what we are and what we could
be…

Please stop reading this and study law right now,
if you have not already. If your school
was incomplete enough to leave
out Law and Civics… They “prep” us for
“College,” a lot of hoopla for the rich!

I reject all that does not yield peace of
mind, including personal-use fireworks,
perverting a national birthday and proving
it national Mexican-American war day
in the city I live in, the City of blown-
up angels…

They’re on the floor, can be mended,
can fly again; let’s listen for
and adhere to the best ideas, for now
a nice wall, teaching law, and banning
alcohol ads a great start.

Kill Amendment number two, murder
lethal policing, destroy private campaign
spending and I’ll be the first
to propose a great legal firework show
to celebrate the Rebirth of our weird,
fractured, effort-filled Nation…

God bless all of us, one day at a time;

God bless America, its neighbors,
and the boundaries that make our
relationships manageable and useful…

BOOM!!!

Plastic Bags

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You look at the easy way.

It’s easier. The easy route, please
some people, score some money
do what the last guy did and win
that political seat.

We forget to pause in the workaholic
anti-Tao of perfectionistic
American society, so that we
may be divinely perfect.

Absence of action is needed when
they call for “Death to Plastic
Bags.” The bags, they must
have grown legs and jumped into
the ocean, let’s quick fix it—pass
a law, it will keep me in office,
get me elected next time—

The voice of “green” is hot right now,
go with the first flow you
see on TV, they’re ticked because
plastic bags wrapped around
a pelican’s beak, it’s plastic
blood they seek!

We can act – or we can step back,
and think.

Maybe it isn’t the plastic bags at fault, but
the people young and old
who litter them.

Maybe law and civics should
take precedence and importance
over reading and math at schools,
break to principal’s orders and clean
up the school when litter is found
on the ground—

Teach kids something of value.

Perhaps the U.S. Constitution
should not be on the pedestal it
is on, let’s reinvent—especially
where it age discriminates, asserting
a man’s worth by how many times
the earth has rotated around the sun
while he’s been alive—Age discrimination!

No matter that he’s incompetent, he’s of age.
No matter he’s drunk swerving to the
polls, he’s of age, so let him go, better
than the twelve-year old who knows
everything about the candidates and wants
to help?

Better than the eight year old that wants
to be a part of things, has learned
to read, has a favorite candidate, cares
about his country.

Then there are the ladies, busting loose,
songs can sing it racial freedom growing
faster than the age barrier already mentioned—
police shootings?

That’s about violence not race, don’t
tell me it’s okay to shoot white people
in the torso, no thanks.

Go to non-lethal. Works for European
police, why not ours?

The 2nd Amendment needs serious review,
scratch that repeal. Justification
for every violent sin, a horrible “Right”
written by 18th century racist, violent men
doing the best that they can, but please:

Let’s knock ‘em off that pedestal, for once
and for all.

Kennedy killed by rogue CIA’s, Truman’s
perverted outfit still preaching and
perpetrating Covert and Secret ops like it
was written into that backward constitution,
and so becoming the fourth branch of
government behind our backs,
Cold War serving their payrolls, making them rich—
the blood of the world bowing to their
Capitalist expansion.

Lethal weapons are the Devil; stand by
him and do your evil, God Will Win;

And our country will too, it belongs
to God, the Indians.

I’m not saying we go back, we fought
them and won some fights, the British,
the Spanish, the Mexican War still
being fought—mostly in Los Angeles.

A border wall could go up and should
as long as landscaping, flowers and trees
make it all pretty.

When you accumulate territory, fence it off,
the mansions of Beverly Hills have walls,
why not our country?

Would make Mexico stronger too, they’d
have to look to themselves more, and
Mexican people running from violence,
abuse, drug wars and hell, will have
to hunker down and elect a woman or
child to lead them out of Porfirio Diaz’
European adventure gone bad—the scoundrel
acts politicians repeat over and
over again, we’ll see it as long
as we allow money to buy leadership
seats.

My dad is ninety, he and I opposites in
every political way but one: politicians rape
the process, and lack the balls to win
with ideas, scrap it out, trust in ideas,
scrap it out, let media take hold the
ones that care and really work—scrap it out…

Or we can just teach kids it’s okay to litter,
just not plastic bags. And by the way, you
are the future, young people, BUT NOT
ALLOWED TO VOTE OR PARTICIPATE in
our country. Until you are jaded like us, run
for the senate when you’re balls and boobs start
sagging, now you’re ready to really give of the
anger from your failed lives.

Plastic Bags? Shoot Kennedy in the head
and lock up the documents that point
to LBJ, Allen Dulles, Nixon, Bush, and every
coward to ever take the oath of office
on JFK’s blood.

Next to his, the blood of Oswald, the
fallen Patriots John Lennon, Martin
Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy,
all the courageous JFK witnesses snuffed
out by rogue Cold War coverts bent
on putting the fight against Communism
ahead of human life.

God bless us, I forgive us, can you?

My uncle served to the highest navy
level, left his mark, achieved greatness
and could make a nephew feel like
a champ, I salute the Navy
and Army—all the Defenses, not forces,
serving not killing, the effort to
scramble and hustle until you promote
your way up—Yes Sir!

God rid us of the Diabolical side, help
us study the path of non-lethal politics
and policing; forgive us our stepping
in front!

(one thing the forefathers did better
than we; supplication to Higher Power,
they brought not religion into politics,
but God.)

G.ood O.rderly D.irection, Something
under which to be humble, Geocracy
makes more sense that Democracy,
allow me to define:

Where God, Earth and People rule, not
just “people,” an impossibility during
an earthquake or hurricane, we are not
alone!!!!!

Nascar knows it, keeps Sunday as Sabbath,
we’d all be wise to keep a day of the week
to pray.

Knock off those parking meters for that day
and watch Karma rise, the City of L.A.
become more than a bastion
of civil war and illegal aliens, but one day
of Angels.

The wall to our South might help with
that. Plastic bags are a great product,
reinstate them.

And teach our kids, in public schools,
private schools, all schools:

Not to litter.

Get a non-lethal force to help our sick,
violent killing team; relieve them, keep
a handful of SWAT like London does in case
the wheels come off, but stop
patrolling US like WE are the ENEMY.

You are, getting your first holster at
the police academy. Being yelled at
by a drill sergeant, learning to detach,
not to care, and to toughen up;

No thanks, we need caring, not killing;
Love, not the Easy path that is Hitting Back,
getting mad, and delivering mad’s
punch, as if the world needs another death,

Osama Bin Laden not a god—just another
man killed by stupidity and expensive political
seats.

Plastic bags and beer ads—
you ban a bag before those ads?

Cigarettes are no good for TV and radio after
1970 but alcohol is? A flammable,
volatile, toxic substance for “drinking?”

Jesus. I love you, America, this has been
a test, this is only
a test, then a dream, then I’ll
wear the right shirt at the market that
says, “I don’t give a shit about plastic bags.”

Loving What You Hate

There’s no quick turn-around;

A backdoor, when and where it all comes together
unless by prayer or high
action you find yourself breathing
in the beach breeze against sun,

the day arrived, the day we decided to
die, live, make love—fun.

The “high school” graduate yells “shit”
from his balcony, can’t put sentences together,
and if he has a vocabulary, he hides
it underneath his marijuana bhang,
pride and fear that he’s uncool clouding
every chance light has to enter his
soul until that jump…

Peace is still rainbowesque;
catapulting still off and through
Argentine waterfalls on that border
with Brazil.

Paraguay hopes like me to be
better than it is, some day…

We need further study. Diplomas
less given, and more asked for in return
for them.

Law—the bastard subject next to
Civics, as lost as an Alien on his
way through my TV on the History2
channel (I refuse to call it history)—

is not taught, and so why expect it
to be respected and obeyed?

Morality lost with every “victory” for
Free Speech over God, morality
and religion, the atheists gaining
clout with funny tweets and 16-dollar
a month HBO shows, Bill Maher,
smart and funny but at times under
his own bhang of frilly bling blang,
guests and the mess that is

a scientific “fact…”

Read Borges and see facts becoming fictions,
examine your soul and see the glory
of God within those peaceful moments,
away from the vulgarity of neighbors
lacking effort and linguistic courtesy,
away from personal firework use
and alcohol ads to alcoholics, teens
and pregnant mothers—

Love life, accept death as rebirth and
good ideas as eternal, and know why
you survived until now to spread
the message of Good language
trying at truth, failing miserably,
but trying hard anyway to seek
Peace of Mind, and hence Heaven,

John Wooden’s success and mine
the end of mess and time, facts
and rhymes—

the song only of science sung
silently, sublime.

Exodus—Genesis, moving out
Marley’s people, Jah love, peace

the waterfall under which we
finally marry the wives of our youth, tell
the truth with words we’re “given,”
and close our eyes

Big Yang

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The wolf sees what scientists don’t,
the full circle, Yin and Yang more than
Big Bang, this is the beginning, the end:

The same thing.

1, 2, 3 the dream of all who see, two
plus two? Depends what you’re adding.
The cloth and the sun eclipsed by
spider webbing truth!

One thing remains after the dust settles:

Infinity.

Or does it all come to zero, back full circle
to “I don’t know.” The wolf howls angry
messages of love at the moon—the reverse of
sun, the inverse of none:

We are born…

Birthday rhymes with Earth day as we see out
the shadow call it soul to shade, los musicos preparing
to blast to the bull’s demise but not before a final
surprise, the Earth cringing, its name a lullaby…

Sleep

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The Field

Between lower and upper school
there was a field of sports, love, play—
Dreams of soft and baseball champions
landing from home plate way out
to the wall at the base of the middle
school playground.

Polytechnic was the place, a school
of high repute, manners, uniforms
except on certain Fridays and in
High School.

Across the field you would have to walk;
especially that 1983-4 year, when
Gosney Theater practically closed—and
Garland Theater proudly opened.

A fine arts complex, home to new
classrooms and classes for pre-K
to 12th. At arts period, we in 6th grade
got to make the liberating walk from
there to there…

Mostly without much of an event,
but once in a while, a specter walked ahead
of me—sometimes in opposite direction.
A figure of a young man, seventeen or eighteen
years old, surrounded by friends.

It was my brother, as I kept looking and
walking, he as well—bringing us closer.

I got excited, as we would interact to break
the cold day, a cloud parting, the sunlight
of heroes speaking:

“Hey, Billy!!” His friends smiling too.

I was embraced by the glow that
is “fitting in,” “mattering,” “being cared for,”
and noticed by older, cooler people.

I waved back and smiled shyly,
as my day improved down to
arts I had not yet found in myself,
lunch, more of the grind
‘til sports or Fridays with Dad
bloomed…

First Crush

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Waves crash, suns fall down,
when really—

It is Earth that moves.

It’s all relative, the first crushy feelings
grab some at five, some at ten,
some feel stunted and
don’t trust love…

So how on God’s Green is it to
be expressed?

First crush, first love, first
Wife—Proverbs said to after that
relationship look. Take care, it
is a blessed thing,

And if it should happen that a
child in your care is crushed,
lift them up, open them up,

And welcome the love out—

Even if you never got that chance
yourself!

Pay forward gifts you never got?

Powerful it is to let go our pain,
ease in morning, catch the light
playing with rain and clouds again,

The rainbow not unlike those
prime feelings.

Suffering ceases, a thought of peace;

To be with her or him—it!!

First crush—Love, surrender!!

First love, find it within, give it
still, even if over hills and seeming
so far away…

And whatever you do, if moments
continue to pass, that wave overhead
and for today out of reach:

Pass along what you have to teach,
encourage the young to be honest,
loving, and to marry from their souls.

Else our lives ring incomplete, Longfellow
had something there;

Standing in these cowardly walls, lacking rhyme.

We look ahead, call her bad—the first,
because we were bad, unwilling, unable.

Go back, and say hello, if this is so:

First crush, we all know…

Bloom

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Prosper in no space but your
own; spread out green across the
face of doubt,

The banks of shimmering sunsets
out to pasture.

The peace is bound to be there.

Accept the warmth when cold, the
shadow when hot, cool breezes in
time to heal,

A water emerges from you, from
without too, evaporation
creating the dream of truth
on the horizon as you wait for
wet.

God is watching the rainbow as we
Hers after the rain; Hers on mountainsides
from Greyhound in Spring up
to the Area’s brisk bay.

When I cannot find the Power to
express, undress. Know. The rainbow
is gold before found in pots by lovers
and streams.

God is pleased when we bloom; all that
work to let it out suddenly.

So private are we, so introspective until
the fall. We gather steam, are as much
a self-willed as inspired dream as we wake up
to one more thing, again and again

The Autumn of Regret falling.

Bloom: where planted they say, or
release your pollen of paintings, songs
and books across all divides to end
up at new beginning’s silver intermission.

Elmer Bernstein’s playing something classical
against our laughs, and with us is God
laughing, hopeful like us—

Meanwhile we sift through the soil, private
in that redundant Winter until alone we know:

There will be another summer, with or without
bodies, the essences of Truth
on a JFK flag, holding on to your ideals against
threats and bothers.

War is the sprouting of a seed through snow and
dirt and water and wind.

Ahhhhh! Reach up to the Sun at least one more time,

One more day. Now, then, with me and give thoughts
to your descent, shower in light and give again…

Expression, God on a higher hill laughing…

Waiting, awaiting your bloom.

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So eat, drink, replenish and be ready, and
when or if called… open. If not called, open
louder and brighter.

If never called, know that God was calling,
never more pleased as at the lonely
bloom blooming uphill against the storm.

You are recorded, you are here;
there are no enemies at the core—

Shout “Joy” at blooms to be, so that
forever shall there be more…

Life. The only worthwhile war.

Prepare for Peace

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Police, paramilitary and Military training
that I’ve seen forget a key
course, the most important lesson
of all to take into the world:

Knowing what to do if no one
or nothing is wrong.

If all is quiet, no crimes are being
committed, no borders breached:

DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO
IN TIMES OF PEACE?

I fear (prayer the remedy)—better yet,
it concerns me, the gung ho nature
of violent training, “preparing for war”
and “violent criminals shooting their
guns.”

As depicted in Apocalypse Now and
W. Bush carrier landings, the hoopla
and hype and “excitement” to go to war,
to use training to kill

is sick.

But that’s okay God love you anyway,
just learn how to organize twenty-four
hours of Peace. Difficult, I know!!

Takes an alcoholic at war with himself for years
to understand the compulsion
to seek and destroy, to find some “safe
place” apparently made safe by guns
all around you, but then you forget Jesus
who said “live by the gun, die by the gun”—

you’re painting a target on your heads sons
and daughters…

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I know he said “sword” not gun, by the
way I’m not totally dumb, I used
to be scared and run, and figure that
if I “got you” before you “got me”—
well, then, I was living…

Ten percent of those who go into
police and military should be trained
for the worst.

The other ninety, give’em to me, to
Peace, to helping other nations, ours,
to being of service.

You have to learn to take one on the cheek,
and give them the other one to hit,

BECAUSE THAT IS REALLY SECURING

World Peace, friends

De-Corrupting Politics

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Ay Dios mío, como dicen
debajo la frontera, mi tierra
hablo de mi gente, disfrutando
el día, debajo debajo debajo—

El sol de triunfo!!

Paz, libertad. Bailamos el rumbo!!

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Politics? Really?? Yes indeedy, it starts
with an idea, but recently it’s been squashed
by me, me, me—and this desire to
get elected, be famous, get paid—

What happened to the community?

To service?

Oh, my bad, wait—is this the self-service
line? Ah, yes!!! Selfishness!!!
We’ve strayed from service, this is
a mess, Politics prey to the same
psychotic temptations to do evil
as any child approaching that bar-b-que
beer left out on the table unattended,

Pick it up!!!

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Clean it up!!

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We can do better, it’s a decision we
make each day to change or fix
what’s broken.

Any institution that murders and covers
up like in 1963, November 22—where were
you?

Me, I wasn‘t born yet, but I can read now
and watch TV. Enough to see when media
spins past evidence and testimony to give you
the solution and easy answer that allow you
to go about your business, thinking those
in “power” (big quotes) are basically okay,
business as usual, never mind Jackie’s PTSD,
it’ll all go away, what’s the matter with secrets
anyway?

Well, they kill alcoholics to begin with,
but let’s keep to politics and define it
for a moment, the way we’ve been corrupted
to define it, on Google:
1. noun: politics:
the activities associated with the
governance of a country or other area,
especially the debate or conflict among
individuals or parties having or hoping
to achieve power.
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I’m almost speechless. I did not
make that up, it’s on Google this
day, March 20, 2015.

It’s hard to move on, but I guess we should—
let’s indeed run from Google, if
that’s the best they can do here.

POWER?!?!!? Laugh out loud, O.M.
Gosh, I’ve seen a lot of Power in my day,
but never from Politics. God, Higher
Power, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes,
The Seasons, Mother Nature, the Stars,
the Galaxy, Infinite wonder—this Universe
beyond reach….

And then we talk about the president of
the “United States of America?” This country
by uninformed called “the most powerful…”
(I can’t even complete that clichéd phrase, it
makes me sorta’ sick!)

Let’s calm down, newbie USA, we are one
of the youngest, brashest nations in
the world to be sure. But the…. “Best???”

‘Scuse me I just puked. I digress, let’s get past this
stupidity and just call our ignorance
ignorance, or at least a big case of
ethnocentrism.

And I digress again to say that
the farther we fall from Galileo’s
renaissance, the closer we stand
in chaos.

And the closer we study the God
of outdated Darker Ages, the sooner
we’ll have peace.

Or visit China in 600 BC. Lao Tsu,
writing a poem, knowing he could
never change the world…

But he tried anyway.

Let go, and yield to nothing. Give
all you got… Wave, sink, float—
vote…

And for God’s sake, let us pray
and aspire—something not religious
but auspicious of properly placed
aerobic undressing of distress
in capitalist marketplaced devils
in sheep—
the goodness in us Grace to keep,
so say thanks, as the wave
passes by overhead. Real Power,
real force—

Peace of mind awaiting only effort,
so show up and let our kids vote.

Ideas don’t have ages, just reasons,
suns setting late, daylight savings
almost as big a joke as Dulles on
Warren, a publically-funded library
dedicated to the king of Watergate!

The Coup of 1963, the last of many
foul cover-ups in the way, let’s stop
the shooting for one week.

Even police and military training

Gosh the birds are heard, ground planes?

Ahh, politics of, for and related to citizens,
so therefore to the corrupt: Good bye,

you are revoked, because…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and Women] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just [blessings] from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its [blessings] in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

DE-Classify TODAY!!!!!!!
LET KIDS VOTE
MAY IDEAS, not Money and Solicitation
Win Political Seats…!
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Outlaw Private Campaign Spending!!

Tell her You Like Her

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Jeez, get some guts?

But it’s more than that, I
needed prayer. Before I even
knew it I needed prayer.

To be the kind of truth-sayer that
could produce the sooth
to sooth the soothing sometimes
cumbersome inkling to love—

Tell her!!

I grew up confused, divorce
was not a ruse, a microchip burst
when at six o’clock I didn’t
see Dad first… so I dreamed all
my dreams alone.

Finally someone got in there,
it was a pro paid money to
get in there—it was super cool
though how he did it—he
did it with soul and care,
not like a robot being paid to be there.

I love life, but this love
must have the courage to be true
if ever you’re to have a wife.

Chuckle and laugh—that’s
okay today… but from pro’s
or honest friends, or priests or
doctors do not stray.

There may be help, and with
dating we all need it because
guess what? It’s a challenge
for every single one of us, adult
and child alike.

So welcome to the club young people,
ask for help and do right!!!