Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Window-shopping on Buy Nothing Day





Trickle down time


The Day after Thanksgiving in the USA
Buy Nothing Day
Some call it Black Friday,
of even African-American Friday
a day of both dissent and
of excessive materialism


Grand Ave in Oakland



The Day of the Dead
and the death blow election
hung like an unhappy specter
over the city

The seasons change
in front of my eyes



Shock and awe
the first strike is the deepest


Hey I'd rather have voted
for Snake Pleskin
than the putative "winner"





If my son came home
 looking like this...



I'd hide his car keys




 That's more like it, babe



The Europeans gave the natives
their first drink


And from them the Europeans
learned to smoke tobacco,
A mutual exchange
of Trojan Horses



Stop the petro-monsters
from destroying life,
Clean air and water are
 our most basic rights


 Grand traverses
the head of the estuary










 Days when you
seem to
drift away



Life is transmuted
transsubtantiation




Unattainable
Glamour doll

 Even looks like Dennis Hopper


 The trees rustle
a rattling laugh



The Tarot
was taciturn



Turning to Alchemy
and things that explode




 Old Man Winter
was then on his way



Beyond here
lie the Dead











25 November 2017

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