Tuesday, November 7, 2017

A Song For Our Time

Photographer Mark Lennihan's picture of "Charging Bull" & "Fearless Girl"

Illusions of paradise; we hoard them all, those graven images of liberty;

and Wall-street’s silos storing needs

sing well an indivisible nation’s liturgies;

doctrine of trading farmers for industry,

flow of life follows the Nile’s fertility

right through the ghettoes of prosperity,

“in God we trust” in Caesar’s currency

buying up Victoria’s secret iconography,

found tranquility in mindful mass captivity,

ordaining the weak, the prop for our longevity,

gun proliferation blessed my weaponized-economy,

quick sanitize their bodies under gravestones of sanity,

honored for sacrificing the children to the Flag; finally


we are free from the need to need, feel, receive, fail, forgive and grieve.

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