LIBRARY WINDOW
It seemed a simple miracle
to make a tunnel of nothing,
by burrowing through fertile space,
ensconcing me in ennui’s embrace.
When your incarnadine dream
lit up the dreary cold darkness,
warming and bathing with light the heart
within a heart from our wonderful conflagration.
Now, the stupendous weight
of that immense emptiness
oppressively bearing down
brutally extinguishing every higher human motif.
The precipitous gaping abyss
echoes with belched redundant absurdities,
the deluded endeavor to afflict with anguished darkness
spawned by warped love and profound ignorance -
realized by nascent fascist’s inane antics;
while, the life I lead
glimmers with the radiant beauty
of sweet dreams only we see.
You intuitively lean toward it,
a chaste chiaroscuro canvas landscape
that expands emanating from this reflective window.
FIELD TRIP
Transferred from the strange
uniformity of the bifurcated society’s lower class –
more weird homogeneous
herd –
Boys & Girls!
the greatest
amalgamation of life
ever assembled
the zoo
exhibits a diverse array of species!
In varied barren habitats,
where basic instinctive needs are stupidly met.
Sick
of the uniform sea
of bright shining faces,
all alike as peas in a pod;
the small people
seem the same, as Spring’s
little leaves
and undifferentiated budding sprouts!
Speaking!
They never say anything
soughing, blowing off steam –
white noise.
The throng surges
through the facility,
a tide of live flesh,
an enormous wave of small people!
The concession stands
are open,
besieged,
they do a brisk trade
in hamburgers and hot dogs
swallowed whole,
like propaganda;
burger after burger down their maw.
Are they even tasted?
Unnoticed, the animals
forced into strange
stress – full environments
exhibit various
neurotic behaviors
passing back and forth,
perseverating
and apathy.
A heart rending cry,
at random intervals,
rivens the cold
opaque grounds.
The troubled
eyes
turn from forest
and plains.
They should be
returned (but pragmatically
speaking its impossible)
to their
own natural
habitat. Gaping,
strange expressions
on the old inhabitants
expressive wizened faces
with scraggly
white beards.
And, the only sense
to be gotten
from the field trip
experience,
is expressed by
the woman’s little girl.
“Yes, it’s nice;
but, they should be
put back,
to wherever
they came from.”
The forests and the plains
that are
no longer there.
Then,
the children
start to leave
returning
to the buses that take
them back to schools;
and, their rectangular classrooms,
and, the fenced in playgrounds;
and, then its home,
or, perhaps to stores,
each carefully constructed
(an artificial environment)
complete with postage stamp yards,
and self contained green space parks.
All webbed
with asphalt,
and chain linked with TV, internet,
and cell phones.
In a shrinking World,
where they, too,
live in cages
complete with invisible bars:
and, wage slaves, they think that they are free!
WHO RIDES WITH McDOUGAL
To
The
Who will go riding with McDougal now,
and penetrate the dark woods
and dance through the deserted streets?
Young man, raise your sanguinary gaze,
and raise your sweet eyes, maiden,
and ponder high hopes and real tears no more.
And, no more pause and ponder
on prostituted loves bitter entrapments;
because, McDougal, transformed into Judas, leads the brazen cars
and orchestrates the sylvan shadows,
and alluring harsh glare of the city buried, impoverished and enslaved,
under a totalitarian system’s filthy yoke,
that leaves us prostrate beneath all of the poor faded stars.
MYSTERIOUS TWIN PORTALS
Yes, of course I understand
that this is nothing; but,
the affirmation of Your love.
The rarefied light twice a day
that sits, at dawn and dusk,
a mysterious portal to parallel universes.
The blue flame of morning
flickering across the leaves of the trees,
and reflecting off the colorful clouds that scud across the sky;
or, the roseate colors of twilight,
its incendiary
breeze igniting
a coal that glows like radiant cool fire.
The morning light dances in my eye
conveying a timeless message of gnosis to my heart,
Your radiant face arches over heaven from the distant horizons.
Your eyes gaze into mine,
and my uplifted heart
rises toward Your feet.
AN OPEN LETTER
Dear Mother,
Now the last of the Winter rains descend and the Willamette River hurries past its dikes, the partially submerged debris flows rapidly toward the confluence with the tumescent Columbia; and, along its banks between buildings in the concrete canyons deciduous trees swell with water, their buds about to burst into pink and white blossoms, while in the vague distance silently float two apparitions, Mt. Hood and Mt. Saint Helens, who glisten with snow. I’m not sad having returned home, like the spawning salmon: I’m not all that I would be, but, I’m all that I could be, considering the fact that the extreme fascist faction have corruptly controlled the circumstances that I’ve encountered. At least, I’ve kept my honor and integrity intact. Life has been one great big adventure, where I’ve lived fully in harmony with the nature of my being. And, I’ve neither risked my soul, nor violated anyone else’s human rights and prevented them from exercising their right of free will and self-determination. Refusing to be a tool of iniquitous tyranny employed facilitating its inherent destructive effects I’ve not selfishly impoverished the country, and forged chains for future generations. And, I’ve vainly tried to warn others about the degenerative and destructive consequences of faction that morally and economically bankrupt a country, as faction’s would be masters utilize right wing radicalized populist elements to compel compliance to its will and acquiescence to its capricious prejudices, by duplicitously subjecting the potentially dissident elements (which means almost all of society) to severe persecution. I’ve started publishing an electronic rag on internet, where I educate my contemporaries about the negative effects of faction, which include the destruction of Democracy, the erosion of individual Civil Rights and Liberties, assaults on Justice, and dysfunction of market driven economies. There are many who owe me thanks, I expect, and many others who actively hate me, for exposing the Truth about faction’s transgressions and misconduct, but, though I don’t seek either gratitude and recognition, or, the antagonism and attacks of any person and/or groups. I know that like all freedom loving poets on occasion I speak Quixotically about paradoxical things, and in our specious age I’m viewed superficially as poor, though that pertains to only material things, in other domains I’m rich as Midas. And, after over half of a century of life, I can honestly say that there isn’t a person who I’d rather be, which is not to say that I’m perfect, or better than my contemporaries for these are relativistic subjective value judgments, when each of us is a unique miracle of life; and besides, being invidious is counterproductive, for there will always be greater and lesser individuals: it’s just that I’m happy being me, and satisfied with how I’ve lived my life cultivating myself and learning about the universe in which I exist.
Remember the day I promised to take care of you when you grew old? In spite of my dear Dad’s earnest admonition to take care and be wary of your children taking advantage of you financially and leaving you old and destitute, I take great satisfaction in proving him wrong, in at least one case, for I not only didn’t hurt you I manfully met my responsibilities, by taking care of my parents and children, too; and, keeping you in your home, per your request; or, bringing an older parent into our home, which we did with my mother-in-law, when she was too old to live alone, rather than subjecting any of you to those abominable private profit institutions that are one of our nation’s disgraces. To the extent that any person can assist another in so personal a concern, I strived successfully to retain your independence and dignity and I strived to maintain a high quality of life for you, while looking after your basic needs and wants. I supervised your finances and maintained you in your own home, per your request, in that difficult time during your declining years. But, that is not why I write, to pat myself on the back for doing what was right and needed to be done.
I write this to thank you – for the strength to grow up a well rounded man of parts, to learn discipline, virtue, and strength of character – though some would say that is only partially correct, the part about being a character. The effort began early on, when I reared myself and started by picking my own role models from the best possible examples available throughout human history, where I would pick and choose the characteristics necessary in order to successfully construct the man I wanted to be; and, I read extensively in order to educate myself and to find great people to model myself after, which enabled me to establish the architecture that later became the man that I am today, and which were the basis for my personal beliefs. I deliberately created myself, and before I became acquainted with their great works I reinvented their design and truly accomplished Thales’ axiom that has echoed down throughout history, via noteworthy individuals like Aristotle, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Descartes: to know thyself! I grew up, without your unconditional love, and like Seneca, Locke, and Rousseau had to educate myself what it meant to be a good person, one of substantive worth, who was consistent in all of their thoughts, words, and actions, and, one who was strong of purpose and will, and proved themselves according their own exacting standards, which were based on the best available models from the history of mankind. The education and experiences that I had were in part deliberately cultivated and consciously developed, and in part a product of serendipity, where I performed a dichotomous function as the tutor and the instructed. These were used to create the important personal characteristics that in part included self-reliance, self-knowledge, personal strength, and a sense of humor, which where integrated into a balanced harmonious whole person. It was from you that I learned the value of strength, to withstand and thrive under adversity, and to delight in the absurd is what saved me when times grew hard, and, it was not enough to be smart and good; when, I was subject to severe persecution by faction’s degenerate herd of radicalized fanatics. It saved me and kept me from drowning in today’s sea of tears, and lost lamenting in the corrupt faction’s duplicitously created tragedy that was forged from their campaign of heinous crimes and grievous errors. And, I’ve even managed to keep a few for you, and all the other victims of faction who wait unfulfilled by fate. Ah, the terrible torture and deplorable murders that sick sadists subject to degenerate conditioning have created, as they vaingloriously march back to re-invent past tyrannies. They are lost in time, too ignorant and stupid to understand about the importance of Democracy. All my childhood has passed on those hard cold rain swept streets, where I learned about myself and life; and, it gave me the wide variety of experiences, like Goethe, which were necessary to make one type of a worthy life. The promenade of the seasons come and go, which you used to record in your personal journal writing what flowers would blossom on which particular date. Spring, Summer, and Fall and the birth, growth, and harvests of the year, which are followed by wise Winter’s fallow phase, re-written in words for those who follow and are concerned with the lessons obtainable from history, where in two dimensions a record of multi-dimensional life is left as a part of our cultural legacy, its dormant nature at rest and dreaming of life for the coming year. A written record of what it was like, while life was lived free. Outside, today’s wet blotched and barren leprous walls surround and artificially constrict, where everyone is a decaying mutilated grotesque reflection of dishonest, immoral, and cruel distorted shadows, as empty as the vanity that they silhouette; and, before the abuse of power caused the people to degenerate, and society bifurcated into a few rich masters and the rest impoverished and enslaved homogenous herd, which are motivated by extremes of fear and hate. Where, everything is absurd, and, nothing is what it seems. And, to quote another time’s poet “Something’s happening here”, and what it is, is finally becoming clear and it too had better, “stop, now”! Perhaps someday they’ll understand that each day is its own reckoning. O death sweet mercy, death, the merciful democratic lesson in humility. Farewell, Mother, and thank you.
The pack of wolves bayed in the woods,
where they run flitting like shadows; and, where as before they had circumspectly
been content to silently
reside, now they rose against
The mayor in the sumptuous chambers sat and stared inert,
stiff as the sculpture of Portlandia.
The city council fidgeted with computers, whose capacity for errors was exponentially
enhanced.
A gray flood rose, on four fur covered paws,
and snarling, the raging current thrust through at every yielding crack
exposing their dingy gray shaggy backs.
The wolf pack hurtled up, the wolf pack hurtled down,
refusing to be restrained by any decorous moral leash
nor legal restraint of sound council by wise leaders.
O, the corrupt government buildings and courts are submerged,
and, the international rose gardens are the wolves lair,
and, the cruel wolves idly cruise the ruined highways -
hypocritically wrecking and devouring their friends.
OLD OPPRESSION FOR NEW TYRANNY
Cruelly clipped are the wings
maliciously mutilated am I,
which no longer lift me
as a wave, a leaf, a cloud
somewhere over the rainbow,
where there is surely light
to guide our wonderful flight,
before we fall into fanatics foul nets
and profusely bleed on the thorns of life.
Something inside of me
did harmoniously resonate
and, I aspired to aim ever higher
but, grotesquely mutilated I limp along
sometimes crawling through filth and dirt
dragging my wondrous wings behind
that no longer lift me flying free.
And, among the domesticated fowl,
and the visiting dictatorial Dodo birds, there is much rejoicing.
HAPPY FOOLS DAY OUR “ REAL” NATIONAL
Being convinced that selfish
faction, aided by its dull tools the
nascent fascist elements of society, makes profound errors, usually in a
reactionary mode through precipitous actions to extreme deceitful devices that
they create, not using the true aid and assistance readily available to
humanity that nature amply provides and that are at man’s disposal, which are
confirmed by historical examples when judiciously applied; and, selfish
faction, assisted by its propaganda machine that manufactures phony public
opinion spun complimentary to its interests, is the primary source of America’s
multiplicitous ignorance, and of the injurious facts
and circumstances that confront us, and the cause of the infinite destructive
effects ignorance realizes, whether responding to natural disasters like the
hurricane in New Orleans, or right wing faction contrived international
terrorists attacks, and corrupt domestic oppression responding to faction
contrived local drug scenes, whose harsh right wing reactionary measures
severely persecutes private citizens that impairs initiative, mutilates
society’s essential deep structures, and serves as a damper for the
economy. Previously, America experienced
the combination of a balanced society, where extreme elements neutralized each
other, and moderate policies that exhibited the merit of common sense
prevailed; and, the beneficial result was a resilient national economy based on
the laissez faire application of market dynamics that applied the untapped
resources of the continent toward unrestricted growth and development along
natural harmonic lines that lead to a healthy tolerance and diverse symmetrical
society, with the one significant exception slavery that lead to a disastrous
civil war and a whole host of subsequent negative consequences including
economic distortions and perturbations that followed in its wake during
Reconstruction, which were strikingly similar to our own present problems. But, the basic health of the American economy
prevailed, which resulted in the previously mentioned sustained growth and
development from the classic business cycle that fortunately passively produced the balanced symmetrical structures
that compliment our species inherent diversity, and readily established a
prosperous economy that provided a myriad of opportunities that included
storing up resources and accumulating vast concentrations of wealth utilized by
special interests, then known as the robber barons that were the enormous
national economic trusts, and for the common good, particularly after the anti-
trust laws were passed that were an important part of the Reform Era
legislation, as America continued to follow isolation policies to become the
most prosperous and powerful country on earth.
In the radical right faction Republican Revolution, extreme errors
prevail that previously had been avoided, except during the Reconstruction Era,
and just like in nature, when a force continues until another comes along to
alter and deflect it in a mitigating manner, faction would have continued
forever down its destructive course, except for the collapse of the American
economy that generated negative international ramifications, all of which were
due to the devastation produced by faction’s erroneous policies. The most singularly destructive component was
of course the catastrophic oppression from domestic radicalized populist
elements that even surpassed faction’s international terrorist counterparts,
duplicitously used to catalyze foreign wars of aggression, in terms of the
damage done to the country. The
government was transformed from a Constitutional directed popular elected
Democracy operating from a moral base, to an
iniquitous tyranny with totalitarian tendencies that manipulated the
majority and manufactured popular opinion with propaganda, as it abandoned the
checks and balance system and brazenly abused power; and, the radical right
faction subjected the nation to the capricious bigoted biases of its ruling
elite; and, the primary function of the government that represented faction’s
money rather than people was altered from protecting individual Civil Rights
and Liberties to one that corruptly seemed to make large amounts of money
exclusively for faction at everyone else’s expense: but, in fact, in a
surprisingly short time frame, faction was merely impoverishing and enslaving
the country, which was left devastated with the short term profits proving
illusory, when they quickly vanished.
The fact is no one benefited from faction’s fundamental errors and
failed experiment. The political
experiment that was the radical right faction Republican Revolution was quietly
initiated by faction’s ruling elite with Republican puppet-president Ronald
Reagan at the close of the Twentieth Century, which ended in abject failure
after approximately two decades; and, the country’s economy was left lying in
ruins, its people’s standard of living plummeting toward Third World levels,
and business prosperity reduced to lower levels, which the country had already
accomplished almost half century before.
Under faction directed corrupt incompetence, the country had been
mismanaged to an extent that negated almost 50 years of the industrial nation’s
hard work, and, in spite of tremendous monetary advantages and the control of
an entertainment-news propaganda machine, it created a public consensus that
made possible the spontaneous constructive political opposition to faction’s
failed extremist measures, and, it reversed faction’s erroneous retrograded
antiquated patterns that were pre-Keynesian and curiously similar to the inept
and inadequate historical antecedents that transpired during the reform era,
which generated its own set of difficulties.
The
issue is this, what’s to be done? The
tokenistic measures that leave faction waiting in the wings for an unwary
public to forget to re-afflict us with the same worn out measures that have
failed whenever and wherever they’ve been employed wont work; but, the
transformation of government into a means of making money exclusively for the
few ruling elite of faction for short term benefits that prove illusory at the
expense of the many are all that faction knows how to do. Faction alters the government from Equally
protecting the Civil Rights and Liberties of all citizens with a moral based
System of Law, and they replace it with an insidiously growing corrupt vice
ridden system that hypocritically enslaves the impoverished lower half of a
bifurcated society, a population that becomes comprised of unmotivated base
sycophants confronting a perpetual whirl wind of contrived agitation, ending
way back where it all began, before the cumulative- circular-causatory-spiral in a negative direction started, that’s
currently being camouflaged by contrived events, like the recent 400 point rise
in Wall Street that was based on nothing, and designed to conceal the full
extent of the faction directed unsound fundamental circumstances. Any plan of faction that’s based on deceptive
measures actually furthers the destructive impact, because any good plan is
best advanced by the truth; and, the greater common good that is in the best
interests of society can only be advanced by truth and reason, by providing
mistaken indicators that put the small time investor at risk, who loses their
life savings and perhaps their children’s college educations, which are
selfishly placed at risk, by avaricious faction efforts that artificially
elevate stock prices and victimize the unwary, who are entrapped following the
false strategies that actually worsen the situation, by bankrupting businesses,
inefficiently allocating resources, restricting demand, diminishing marginal
investment capital, and reducing the number of jobs; and, they increase the
number of unemployed, and they enlarge the ranks of the poor, and the amount
that poor people are impoverished is increased, too. And, all though well aware of the deceitful
nature of the design of the destructive enterprise that will injuriously
constrict wealth further still, faction persists in efforts that transform
government into an exploitative means of making large amounts of illusory money
during relatively short intervals for a selfish elite few at the very real
expense of the many, with negative consequences that are increasingly
debilitative and unfortunately for all the proliferating damage persists. We now realize that faction parasitically
exists, with its interests contradistinctive to that of the greater common
good, and, this can not work. Faction
waits for a chance to bleed the corpse, perhaps one last final time. And, a part of faction hopes to extend the
scheme, if only for the duration of their lives; or, if lucky, as some of
faction erroneously believe, and, their stupid subordinate members in
contemporary organized crime who are the radicalized populist fanatics
staunchly wish to persist gratifying their perverse predatory appetites with
oppressive ploys, and the dull impertinent members who wish to continue
enjoying the miserable pleasure of making other poor unfortunate souls more
miserable than themselves would have us believe, in an example of wishful
thinking that is always ill advised and usually extremely injurious, America
will experience a dismal series of partial recoveries and subsequent collapses,
noting that there is still life in the body and recovery is just around the
proverbial corner, having witnessed the recent 400 point manipulated stock
market rise, and, on a reduced level, like during the decade that dishonestly
extended the Cold War, faction would have us continue to follow folly. America is to repeatedly be reduced through a
series of bleeding collapses, for their exclusive benefit, and the good American
people are to ignore faction and faction’s pawns’ selfish rewards, and believe
the claims of faction’s extremists, whose conflict of interests condition them
to be dishonest, immoral, and sadistic, when they claim to engage in their vice
ridden, corrupt, and criminal actions for a never arriving future generation of
children. And,
The vague time line that delays the inevitable disaster is what causes faction to tempt its Fate. They believe that with effective advertising used in propaganda techniques, coupled with comrade Joe Stalin’s oppressive totalitarian techniques to control and chain the public with selfish, self-serving, self-delusive measures that atomize society that include distracting the people and making them behave like amnesia patients, just enough to stay a step ahead. But, up to now no one has considered what the consequences will be of conditioning aggressive cruel people to blatantly disregard other’s Civil Rights and Liberties, and to have those with misogynous behavioral tendencies openly embrace vices and evil assaults on targeted victims, with perverted technology that can only serve to make problems and existing problems worse function to compensate for a lack of intelligence by those stupid enough to aspire for a totalitarian control of the human race, and to use contemporary organized crime as a barricade between wealth and property of a privileged few and a chained miserable and impoverished society. Faction is not familiar with how Democracy and market driven economies effectively work, and, they are only familiar with incompetent exploitative models that produce dysfunctional states, which is why faction is committed to a moderate recovery of Democracy with a subsequent improvement in the economic sector; and, faction is resolved to re-institute, as soon as possible as much of the exploitative model as can be salvaged, which will transpire just as soon as the United States of Amnesia forgets – to coin the phrase Gore Vidal graciously acknowledges having borrowed from Fitzgerald’s wife. The reason for the rapidity wasn’t to realize the greater common good, but solicit compensatory gains generated by faction’s disastrous radical populist oppressive ploys and somewhat less destructive extreme exploitative measures that were integral aspects of the recently publicly repudiated failed radical right faction Republican Revolution, that produced a series of precipitous declines of the World’s financial markets, which unfortunately remain (the ploys not the financial markets) intact and the conceptual base for faction’s future ill conceived projects, and some evidence exists that likewise America will be subject to faction’s renewed dishonest manipulative Machiavellian machinations inclined toward displacing government, and destroying Democracy, and assaulting what’s left of the moral based System of Justice. These efforts by faction persist detrimental to the entire human race which will be impoverished, enslaved, and miserable. The cause for haste in altering this devastatingly destructive obsolete pattern of social political and economic development is not ambition for personal gain, but solicitude for the work of re-tooling Democracy and re-vitalizing market driven economies; that will improve the lot of all classes of society promoting a diverse stable economic-grid capable of producing sustainable progress and prosperity through the essential social characteristics inherent in Democracy, which makes the two system interface so effectively. If this is a worthy undertaking, and it is, if any action warrants persevering adversity and accomplishing through toil and travail, then, its timely implementation is important. Certainly, this plan is a totally new way of re-tooling Democracy and utilizing conventional wisdom in a staid application, of what is reasonably extended from proven venerable models very ancient in origin; and, they are harmoniously compatible with our species and the nature of how things work, to advance the interests of humanity. And, to express the truth it is only practical to develop systems that are complimentary to nature and mankind that have in the fullness of time come to fruition through our experience in areas of actively concerning matters long fundamental in established modes, already familiar to any person’s mind. All the rest follows, as the day the night. And, no doubt there is a convergence of circumstances and good fortune that facilitates people’s recognition of what’s recognized as realistically possible for mankind to think, say, and do. But, for our collective experience and the abstractions of lessons learned from theoretical knowledge that I’ve the smiling prospect of providing a quantum leap forward for the good of all mankind that I’ve to offer, it may be attributed to the good and merciful God in all its myriad bounty, and, the felicity of this our mankind’s time, to which I’ve been an honest dedicated citizen forced to the side lines during the past few decades providing me with the opportunity of uninterrupted study of this and other diverse things, that initiated this dawning new light in the darkness of faction’s iniquitous tyranny, which will be the means of making this age famous to posterity; and, the basis for all future growth and development, progress and prosperity. The future will look back on today as a wise time, when we learned how to turn political and economic structures for the betterment of all mankind. Lastly, I solicit your wisdom and best instincts to apply the recent failed experiences and future successes to a systematic study that will sagaciously improve beneficial services to society in a fair and equitable way: that this beginning be firmly rooted in the ground of science and mathematics for happiness to abound in the sky among the clouds as we reach for the stars, but resting on a firm moral foundation of individual Civil Rights and Liberties earned from our experiences of every kind, but applied complimentary to the nature of our species and confined in accordance with the strict laws of Nature. If on the other hand circumstances conspire to prevent my more active participation on this project, then let the work begin, by the further development of institutions of higher education, complete in a diverse competitive environment of academic freedom and rich in humanistic tradition, so that others can conduct this study, after our society collectively experiences enough for education to be effectively employed, otherwise it would only benefit faction and hurt humanity, and an opportunity would be lost for the greater common good, which can only be based firmly on a moral foundation of individual Human Rights and Liberties, as I’m convinced was intended by our good and just God.