Archive for May, 2008
This Mexican Jumping Bean
Posted at 2:44 pm | Filed Under poetry
It’s a travesty of justice
This Mexican jumping bean
I mean it’s just a worm in a nut
that dies
Twirling whirling the moon, sun, solar system, galaxy, cosmos
always in motion
here I sit
And then to find meaning
Meaning in what?
For there to be meaning there must be an other and an other and an other
What a travesty of justice
Plato tells [...]
Inequality in Health Care
Posted at 5:06 pm | Filed Under international health
Health cannot and should not be focused on some while ignoring others. Living in a country that plays lip service to equal rights for all often neglects the material needs to many. Nowadays with services being cut and wealth being appropriated by the upper classes health care for the poor has suffered greatly. [...]
Before the War
Posted at 2:41 am | Filed Under poetry
Random acts blow right by
Civil attack in the sky
Virulent this banded bow
Resting shattered down below
Musing of the bridled man
Searching through the garbage can
Lifts the lid and beholds a door
That exits back before the war
Cataclysmic robe of doom
Tethered in this lonesome tomb
Rallied onward upward bound
Traveling past the speed of sound
An explosion of furies might
Travels upward like [...]
A Dandy Day
Posted at 2:14 pm | Filed Under poetry
It’s a dandy day
A lonesome dream
Kaleidoscope
Of measured means
A dalliance
Of fractured bones
Buried in
The deepest tombs
Rarified
Like a devils dream
Of platitudes
And desert scenes
And measured to
The days gone by
A varied hope
Of selfless pride
To more right on
For not denies
The truth that sits
Down petrified
Meandering on
A placid care
Of broken dreams
And dream filled dares
Slavery and Prostitution
Posted at 2:05 am | Filed Under international health
What does slavery mean? Oftentimes in this country we think of blacks on a plantation driven by their plantation masters. But slavery means much more than that. Slavery can be children forced to work. Slavery can be women and female children forced into prostitution. Slavery can be immigrants who become an [...]
