Auguries of Angst

1
Lying on the beach in the sand
Looking up at the sky surrounded by high rise dog hot stands
Fingers on infinity trying to hold it back
But infinity seems slippery and slack

2
Seagulls drop clams on rocks, dive for fish
Re-cycling PCBs, and I get one last wish
On the beach seeing the sparrows flying into caves focused and swift
I finally catch the drift.

3
people picking thru dumpsters for food
In the air someone's swinging dangerous moods
Long lines and longings for a long vacation
Holding back the time space continuum for that feeling of elation.

4
Each time a brain wave turned into a marketing strategy
Reduces insights to farce filled tragedy
A child run roughshod thru the classroom
Debases the business of the womb

5
Each bulldozed olive orchard
Turns the screw of the torture
Each tender touch that's attempted
Turns that moment to time in a temple suspended

6
Every bullet that's manufactured
Leaves a little love fractured
The chimes of laughter of a child
Would wake up wisdom if compiled

7
A straight talking human without the manners of the mansion
Is like a knife flashed in the faces of the pirates of expansion
The supply guy who orders in the the cluster bombs
Will never see the sweet side of the psalms


8
The credit card pushers who target pockets of poverty
Will be awakened in the night by a knock on their property.
The fearful who collect photographs of lynching trees
Have strung themselves up by degrees
The bullys who bite at your back
Will one day taste the counter attack


9
A polar bear drifting on a melting ice floe
Is a 911 call saying there's nothing more to blow
Protecting the millionaire's market instead of protecting a million species
Is the mating call of an absurdity struck disease
Investors in depleted plutonium tipped weapons
Are digging us deeper into suicidal delusions

10
Clean up the mess
And the rats will leave their nests
Wash off the illusions of the sword
And making love will be restored

11
Each telecasted image of fathers picking up pieces of flesh
Smothers an infant at the breast
Each innocent act of a tree hugger
Clear cuts another ominous act of an
eco mugger
12

Both the the red carpet glitter and the threadbare tatters
Eventually become landfill matters
Truths that are relative
Are just tricks that have had a hell made if it

13
Call it , What goes around... or call it Karma
You can't live without hurting or without the sorrowful side of the drama
Whether it's a hug of love or an F16s hollowing out your apartment
What matters is what's in the breath department.


14
The sorrow and the sunny always leave shadows
Gotta navigate thru the nicks and the narrows
Broken hearts and broken bones
Can only be healed with all the compassion you own

15
Questions dwell in every child's eye
And deep in the well of each person's phantasmal belly comes a reply
Picked up by awakened from woe people without a prayer
Lullabying during a lull from cares.

16
Tears and stars seem to be eternally transmitting
The secrets of hearts and the universe emitting
Moments committed to memory
Are spoken out about and made ambulatory.

17
The sounds you can hear when everything's unplugged
Is the organic world coming out of its pandemic panic undruged
Grinding the beautiful into the grim
Sets the stage for the last note of the last violi.

18
Those freezing for lack of fuel
Gives the finger to infinity's jewel
The soldiers armed with F16s and IEDs
Are like strikes of lighting at the seas.

19
A moment of pleasure to the many
Is worth more than buried treasure to the greedy minority, funny.
A miniscule tic of the ubiquitous
Can shake out the shtick and fan the affectuous.

20
The mockers with deep pockets
Shall feel the shock of sticking their fingers into too many sockets.
That pure feeling that shows up in the eyes
Is due to a thinking process that tries

21
He who kicks at the call of the wild
His own self shall beguile
Cheating the child of its treasures
Will get loneliness meted out for your leisure
Thrilling to the cry of the newborn
Gets you a lifetime listening to Gabriel's horn.

22
The imaginations of children and adult understandings
Takes the the crash out of the landing.
The professional questioner settling for pat answers
Is spreading mass confusion like a cancer.


23
Bowing to the the BS of the system
Puts another nail in the coffin of a wisdom
The weapons most deadly
Come just after the singing a diplomatic medley

24
If kids were taught the process of peace in school
We might get war's infrastructure retooled
When empathy is the accelerator of economies
Maybe we won't have to pick up body parts and put them in baggies.

25
GPSs and compasses can't pinpoint the spot
Where philosophy and enlightenment wiggle into the slot
Where enigmas entertain eternity
Is where the axis of earth meets the eagle's acuity.

26
Dabblers in doubt
Take the wrong route
Nibblers of certainty
Eat out the pantry.

27
Since the mind controls the passions, the mind can be deadly
But only thoughts put together by a passion can sing a peace and prosperity melody
Selling sincerity at market rate
With a signature signs away eternity's fate.

28
Thirteen year olds working the streets
Is an indication of hypocrisy's victory and harmony's defeat
Armies of the night and 24/7 surveillance
Sniff out and snuff out any belligerence.

29
Everyday it seems
The world is coming apart, if you listen you can hear the screams
Everyday it seems the world's wonders get more vulnerable
And can only be defended by making visible what's venerable.

30
Lies that dig into the mind like fish hooks
First simmer in the soups of academic cooks
The power rush at any cost is never worth the cost
And when broken down is expelled thru the exhaust
All lies are lost
When you remove the gloss

31
Whether the issues are presented by Thomas Friedman or William Blake
It's not hard to catch on to which one's dead on and which one's the fake.