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pen on scrap paper

Poetry

Chesapeake, VA 10/13/15

on a bright fall morning
in the parking lot at work
i sit in my car

interesting ideas emanate from the radio

over the weeks
with a gel pen (pilot g-2, 05) i jot down notes
onto the back
of a used post-it note—a scrap of paper
coffee stained and tattered
folded into quarters
the backside sticky edge, holding it together
(collecting dirt particles)

i unfold it; unstick it
in-order to add
to my previous writings on the back

on the front
is a preprinted, nag-note template
filled in

to read:

to celeste from mom
call about portrait retake
remember and thank-you boxes checked

on the back i have written:

a ghost
boy
s. african

conformity
contagion
breathing
in sync

great robot tutor in
the sky selling snake
oil
cannot read
body language

psychology of
school shooters

the notes are for later; to think about
since my mind
is preoccupied at the moment
preoccupied
with fixing my broken blogs
hacked
to now receive porn site solicitations
through a compromised, comments filter
; a pandemonium of zeros and ones

i have much work to do
but it will have to wait
until work is over

for now—i search my car
for a new scrap of paper

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state sanctioned murder


listen—the drum beat of war
thumping
drowning out the voice of reason

the history of man
is the history of war

don’t worry it’s a just war
limited war
religious war
“a time of war, and a time of peace”
jihid
no worries, it’s just mechanized war

war on terrorism
war on drugs
war on christmas, once every year
war on your neighbor
a minimal level of collateral damage is acceptable

war games, “treating people just like pawns in chess”
singing war songs
“war! what is it good for?”

driving war profits, collecting war trophies
conventional war according to the rules of war
the military industrial complex, subcontracted war
corporate war in a suit and a tie
perpetual war for perpetual profits

proxy war
defensive war (the best defense is a good offense)
preemptive war
war powers act
a war president spending political capital
drinking bottled water out of crystal, in the war room
no war tax, no war rations for the undeclared drone (air) war
what ever happened to war bonds?

don’t speak of class war
be my war bride
my civil war
guerrilla war
war of resistance
an insurgency

war of independence
war of succession
revolutionary war
the people’s war—power to the people
lost in the fog of war, giving friendly fire

hegemonic war
brandishing a war club and a war bonnet
tribal war
telling war stories—counting coup

hot and cold war
wishing and hoping for a bloodless war, for to receive war reparations
beating a tired old war horse
a forgotten war

bot weapons and viruses of cyber war
information war
psychological war
leaflets raining down from the sky
a war of words, jockeying for the spoils of war

shivering in nuclear winter
mutual destruction of a nuclear holocaust
world war III—total war
the war of the worlds

eradication: a new kind of war, where everyone is a suicide bomber
a war of attrition
“desperate times call for desperate measures”
war pigs wear the faces of war crimes

war cry—let your tears fall for the innocent victims of war

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