Pests

Ubiquitous

little ants occupy bed;

writer is displeased.

Stuck

My stomach

feels the way that man’s

in the movie Alien must have

as if something horrid lodged

itself in intestinal track.

Consume frosted Miniwheats,

rest… cramp… wait.          

Standing With

for Sharisa

Found out my friend

was latest victim of nation’s

 institutional bias, incarcerated

in one of those “supposed” homes

where people who would rather not

look at people like us think we belong.

Instead, we gather in defiance

on internet, in person, to plan/plot/petition   

vowing the powers that be will fail

in attempt to sentence you to a life

so different from the one you  desire/deserve/demand.

 Sigm petition

Rhythms

It’s impossible for this palsied body

to boogie in daylight without evoking

stares of strangers

on street corners, but long ago

I decided I wasn’t cut out

to dance only the dark

obscured.

Fright

a found poem

ankle creature’s  leg
“Wait.” need
trigger detonation
loud enclosed  space cellar
leg and catered
floor beneath ignored ringing
assesed the results bright gushed
wound slower pulse
viscous sliver of bone showed
damaged tissue, pale moist
After the gunshot,
thoughtful. knelt
duct  tape stunch bleeding,
rotten flower stink

Source material:
Wilson, Robert Charles. Burning Paradise, Tor, 2. 50. Print.

Aflame

a found poem remixed using

The Lazarus Corporation Text Mixing Desk v2.0

Maintain the infrastructure needed,

sell it truth

Nestlé is trying priceless resources;

trying priceless resources.

We need to demand

out of the bottling is coyly marketing

this awful plan financial straits.

Offer them peanuts.

And get this:

Oregon is getting conned.

Is getting conned.

The cost

the pockets of the public. Of the public.

The becoming even more reckless.

Even more reckless.

Now is protect Oregon's water from Nestlé.

Water from Nestlé,

0but the reality is for weeks.

And yet, amidst all this destruction.

All this destruction.

 

Source material:

Schommer, Joseph. "Stop Nestle from Sucking My State Dry." SumOfUs. 30 June 2015 (approx). Web. 30 Aug. 2015. 

SIGN PETITION
 

Adieu

I used Wordles to compose this poem out of my decreased brother-in-activism Gary Isaac's name.  After a shocking departure, I'm sure he's resting in power/partying his brains out/cheering the still Earthbound of us on along with the colleagues who've gone before.
   

I cry...

Air grays...

Scary!