All posts by victor

summer sleeps

Poetry

published on VerseWrights 01/21/15

on cold gray water
ducks
,unable to create,
sleep
with their beaks
under wings

broken trees
moss and
the dried blood
at night
when the houses
become silent
and flashing
windows go dark

children are
disciplined
in the ways of
the choking deer

eternal winter

remember
eastern woodlands
brown
two hearts
in silence

in the meadow
a singular
sea of
dead leaves
rusting cars,
that dream
into the ground

of ancient people
carburetors
and summer eves

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choking on public safety

Poetry

published on VerseWrights 03/22/15

“I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner’s final 33 words 07/17/14

as long as the police,
are permitted
to police the police

a grand slurry
district attorney
– makes with police
much like family

the police
– the enforcement arm
of the power structure

the golden arm,
the arm
that can do no wrong

the strong arm
the confiscating arm
the escalating arm
the arm in search of
a loosy in the sky

the arm that chokes

the arm that snatches,
institutional murder
from the scales
of lady justice

lead and brutality
for the black man
lead and brutality
for the black man

violent state
secret proceedings
from the sham jury
the state’s enabler
– the district attorney
; renders unaccountable
blue sleeve homicide
of the golden arm

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ebola free nation

Poetry

11/12/14

ebola on a plane
ebola on a bus
ebola in the air
ebola in your hair

panic

kneejerk politicians
fortress america
the spread,
of “ebola-like” symptoms
ebola coming for 10,000 of you!
a vote for me,
is a vote against ebola

why don’t you save it?
save it for the genuine panic
the real pandemic
– the future arrival
of ebola’s deadly cousin
on our shores
airborne to you
a mysterious mutation
and natural selection

calm heads will prevail
science will serve you
politics will enslave you
the facts will set you free
– ebola is only contagious,
   when the carrier is exhibiting symptoms
– ebola is only transmitted via body fluids
– ebola is not airborne

but for now,
ebola has left with the midterms
will ebola be back?
back for the presidential election?

EBOLA! stop playing politics
but if you happen to enter,
the voting booth again
; be sure to leave your cousin at home

the immigrant is from here

Poetry

erectile cacophony of handguns
oxymoron anti-intellectual
high salute downward spiral
crowds drug emergency rooms
commercial vaccine for religion
invisible hand clap abortion
unaffordable scientific results
political capital asset war
same greed different stripes
do-nothing-body donations
dark money victory dance
clean-coal virus for economy
sea-level rising body-fluid ebola
fear in a voting booth manikin
strip mall american skeleton
strangle your brother’s keeper

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