“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
-Rumi
foot for foot
eyes for eyes
peace prize
after peace prize
let them face
their bullshit and lies
call them
from their radio stations
call them from their televisions
and family relations
if you cannot lift
the poor in heart,
what is your worth?
if you cannot believe
in the Spirit of Love,
what is your reason for birth?
if you cannot live
to bring harmony to everything around you,
why are you here on Earth?
“The CIA does not serve the interests of the American people, but instead milks them for the subsidy that funds the careerism of its covert bureaucrats, who engage in international crimes and intrigues that degrade peace, justice and honor generally, and stoke well-justified resentments abroad, which degrade the psychological basis of effective long-term security: goodwill. It would take an incredible revolution of popular democracy in the U.S. to regain control of the CIA and abolish it completely (as Constantine the Great did to the Praetorian Guard in the year 312, even to the point of razing its fortress in Rome, and grinding up the tombstones of its dead). Such an event seems as logically and politically impossible as it would be gloriously uplifting.
Ironically, though death is permanent, assassination does not terminate the ideas motivating the designated enemies du jour of the state. Killing people does not kill ideas. Campaigns of assassination can remove the intelligentsia and leadership cohort of a minority rights and social justice movement, but since such campaigns can only stall and frustrate liberation movements and not satisfy them, assassinations only prolong and coarsen the resistance to imperialism and domination. By removing the early, more educated, moderate and politically-oriented leaders, assassinations clear the way for impatient militants, whose resort to pitiless brutality is all too easily justified and supported by their constituencies, because of the failure of honest engagement by domineering powers (whether foreign imperialists or domestic authoritarian regimes). As the liberation struggles degenerate intellectually, militarily and humanistically, the prospects for a stable negotiated resolution diminish because: the popular leaders with demonstrated political skills — those who personify the ideas of the struggle — have been assassinated; careerist militants gain control of the war, be they rebels, insurgents, or government agents; and outrages committed out of despair by the frustrated and radicalized (or now “fundamentalist”) liberation movements, and out of hubris by the imperialist or authoritarian forces, blind reason to vengeance.”
-Manuel Garcia, Jr. (The Assassination Bureau)
you need time
to take a look
to read a book
to build and farm
to be safe from harm
you need time
never easily gained
never meant for you to claim
repetitious cycles
again and again
-
morons never change
hating
redlining, redbaiting
wars, weapons,
weeping, and waiting
for Jesus
-
it is time to quantum leap
beyond political diseases
disguised fascism
sham democracies
all dogs with fleas
bring
spring
generation release
cardio-energy
seeds of health
spirit-body anew
break the mind-chains
purge the planet of pain
explore a higher plane
the obvious is the arcane
the mortal system
keeps you busy
purposely makes you dizzy
paying taxes
controlling your axis
swinging axes
it never relaxes
break away from
this gravity
this tragedy
levitate
into greater space
evolve happy
break away
find a better space
stop allowing
these senseless fucks
to waste your time
to waste your life
whores
of waste and wars
who gives a fuck
where obama was born
or if hitler had horns
who gives a fuck
enough damage done
made this earth a prison
we have been sold out
each and every one
clean up bad police
deport liars and cheats
fuck this racist heap
corruption we must defeat
the New World is still new
run these heathens through
we of this land ain’t got shit to prove
they have killed democracy
there is no will for democracy
they will ever fail democracy
we must move to other concepts –
natural systems that no one can reject
cosmic harmony
eternally
“Digging in the dirt,
to find the places we got hurt . . .”
-Peter Gabriel
the spirit of humanity
has been kidnapped
by military-religious-fascists
hypocrite-racists
humanobots
pretenders
of the Soul
you cannot put a price
on that which is really holy -
give a rock a name, it is still a rock
build a house on sand, it is still
just a house on sand
that which brings
senseless death
and robs all children
of peace and happiness
is nothing holy
any place of war and blood
building walls while bulldozing neighborhoods
without bringing a divided land
into the light of common good
is not holy
is not holy
is not holy
is not holy
let the sellouts
turn their heads
again they bow
to those who crucify instead
let the dead
bury the dead