Thursday, October 9, 2008

when?


on the eleven and fifty seventh hour mr. olhmert states
that israel has been mistaken.
oh Ehud!
are you about to die?
does losing your golden spikey crown just feel that way?

and that’s why you finally say that israel has been mistaken
and that “the palestinians” have a right to have?*

when will it be – more than safe – heroic
for any leader to speak and act against the grandest injustices
no matter their popularity?

when will WE stop thinking in terms of
these mine ours!
those you yours!
and whether y’all are wrong for hoarding or
when are who gonna take that those what which
shoulda been mine ours
anyone’s but theirs

globalized corporatized governments
monetary resources
bailouts passed
hand to hand and hand and hand and hand and
again master’s indulgences forgiven through
the capture of slave-gland secretions
still we have the nerve to brag and bully
of mine and yours and ours and theirs

further still, why suffer when we are about to die?
the questionable wisdom of agism says
let the problem be solved by the young
and the younger after that
so long as my stock are stocked in that false god’s resources
wait till I get off (this planet)
till then postpone the great depression part two
no matter this means pretending that we’re not
already in world war three and four and five and etc

think of this as a call to action
for our youth and for everyone
who has dis-allowed the shriveling gods
of our resource hoarding system to
permanently distract the last heart in our minds

when will america’s politicians
the beloved saviour-types and
the cartoonish alike
give their word
use their over-exposed images to turn our eye towards the
people whose struggle-laden lives
can’t be mytho-euphemized into the generic middle class

when will our imported yogic advaitic** teachings steer our hearts
out of petty-eyed I-nsecurities and up
through the light and free-state of WE-consciousness

this is a call to action
let go of national and racial and sexual and religual
and all other jealousies

and replace owning with loving
eyes and minds renewed daily


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* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-will-have-to-reinstate-pre1967-border-for-peace-deal-olmert-admits-946124.html
**advaita philosophy promotes absolute non-dualism