Monthly Archives: June 2013

The US Supreme Court said to minorities this week
you gays can marry

but the rest of y’all are breedin’ like flies
so we gonna fix it so you cain’t vote.

Why in thirty years white people gonna
be the new minority in the US of A.

Now that just ain’t gonna cut it.
Be damned if we just gonna sit here

and watch our sacred traditions and privileges and our wealth
be trampled on by so many niggras and wetbacks.

We rigged it so it don’t matter how many of you
vote anyway–hell, we lost the last election by a million votes and still kept the House.

So you gays go dance around and be happy and suck up a lotta news cycles
while we undo fifty years of civil rights struggle and bring back Jim Crow.

Now pass that bottle over heah. Did I evah tell you the one ’bout
what has eight legs and goes “ho-de-do! ho-de-do! ho-de-do!”

Someone saw a cougar in the parking lot of the medical school yesterday.

Today I ate a sour cherry from the tree in my side yard where there are no cougars.

The neighbor has somehow gotten
my trees to stop growing over his property without being too obvious about it.

On my lot we have trees gone wild.
On his every leaf gets picked up.

It’s like Shakespeare said, all the world is a stage and we all have our corner of it
where we strut and fret for an hour.

And pick cherries.

President Obama,
Chameleon Kid,
shape shifting
constitutional scholar
who prosecutes more people
for espionage than all other
American presidents combined,

wearing your expedient reticence
like another college degree,
something you learn, like torts,
on the way to the top of the class.

You cannot blame the opposition
for your repression of whistleblowers,
your pervasive spying on us,
your murder by drone of Americans.

Even the ruthless Kennedys
ate their sorrows and quoted Aeschylus
to turn the raven on the shoulder
into the eagle of grounded hope.

When will you eat your sorrows
and become a man for our season?

An absent father does not excuse
an endless stay in the shade
of the enemy within.