ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
(This title callously suggested by a radical right fanatic)
Under dead skies rests so many miseries,
observe this pale blue cold corpse.
Nothingness exists inside this scarred skin contained bundle of bones.
And, as a forest of elephants’ torn trunks tremble in their fall
exposing their remote ages of pain in growing concentric circles,
so I’ll reveal now their insidious torturous years.
A thing of decaying skin and bone,
the nation’s body, too, is merely scarred skin
containing sinew and bone and misery.
Hail Mother, full of grace
take your child in your arms’ loving embrace
and try not to think
what they did to him!
PERHAPS
You hold in your helping hand,
the unknowable and unknown, You never let us down;
as we travel the morning bright vistas,
that bridge the great expanses of the dizzy depths,
where wait the gaping jaws of darkness – incarcerated.
But, darkness inevitably escapes at last, across the landscape.
Soon it will silently ensconce your bridges,
colors will bleed across the sky, and twilight die.
Then, evening will hang over your bridges
easing by slow degrees deeper into night.
And, you will perhaps depart,
and, I will be devastatingly alone.
MAINSAIL
God grant me strength! That I might endure
the long weary years of never ending now,
would that I could obliterate your smug self-satisfied insipid stupidities.
The sail mutters its disgruntlement with a flutter,
and falls off its course again before filling.
What can one do?
The bird briefly alights on the rail for a rest
and taking wing about the mast it finally departs.
Give up!
Live like the sail,
be driven by the wind, taking shape from it,
drawn forever into the silent void of now!
To set sail, an invocation to the voyage,
or, else not steered by somebody else’s hand
or, beached an abandoned wreck, that suits me, too.
All the fluid mystery of the water
silently submerged beneath the mirror surface.
How many stories are written wandering on the waves?
The plastic diptych universe contained within our binary bifurcated perceptions!
And, here I sit spinning my tale, I who know nada,
but the dada of the moment, and the greatest thing of this world
stretches away naked below and before us reaching towards ciliated shores,
and our tangential course, extending experience, the busy bustling mainsail
the color of shrouds.
Scene, constantly changing always the same,
feasts for our foreheads, picnic fore and aft,
the oscillating long silences and quick clamors and alarums!
The tidings of a journey and message on tides whose readings are available
to the perceptive.
Oh blissful libations that brighten up the days ,
and serve as sacred homage to the Gods!
And, the ubiquitous presence of the white wing,
sail, the great forever restless soul.
Here among these strange days,
the warm wind and trackless seas,
where our silent passing marks our own invisible path
the billowing sail marks each pregnant moment.
Truly, the universe that we inhabit
is but a tiny insignificant electron
lost somewhere in the
infinitely vast –
body of God.
PRISTINE
PHONEMES on
In the humble poverty of my battered body
as you see, Father,
I receive your gracious gifts – happy;
and, floating free along with the breeze,
who playfully stirs whirlwinds,
in the dust of the streets.
Still, I could not stand
to silently watch, while my life was mutilated;
and, now I avidly write with my hand:
pristine phonemes, bottled and cast, on hyberspace seas.
JUNE MORNINGS
The background is a gray misty morning
of a quiet bay and soft lit forest,
as dimly sketched as dreams are drawn.
The curtain ascends, and, Spring dawns –
a bright and beautiful presence
cool illumination with a blue flame – revealing its rich varied forms.
FOOTSTEPS
The echoing footsteps fall
unseen
down the darkened street,
they reverberate
along another street,
where
I hear them beat
their mysterious polyrhythmic path –
down this street,
where
only the step, darkness,
and fog are real.
MRS. M
Do you remember that you wanted
to be another Florence Nightengale?
Your beautiful face’s strange expression
is stapled inside the cerebrum of my mind;
when we went camping together, on our first rendezvous,
on a happy night that will never come again!
Your lips blushed red with passion from our kisses,
the small perfect pipe balanced delicately
as a wisp of felicitous smoke curled languidly up
in a perfect circle from the center
of the universe that was our love,
and diffusely disappeared, your hand held
the bouquet of wild flowers, with varied colors,
harmonically singing a chorus of love.
I adored you! And after,
we emerged from our winged chariot,
amidst billowing clouds of smoke,
into a world of pseudo-fulfillments
and the great decaying mask of
Democracy in the
and the wise elders looked on with laughing eyes.
You laughed, too, and smiled at me your joyous reaffirmation of life,
Your musical laughter, your fragrance, and mounting breaths were mine,
as I was yours.
And, one sad day of a sublimely beautiful fall
hatred, the cruel envious one, to test if I really loved you
after all that time we lived loved and grew together
came, like a dark cloud and chill breeze,
and tried to steal you away:
from the heart of our family circle,
whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere!
DESOLATE MINUTES
Over the dark cove
the white birds have flown away,
at twilight the full moon is veiled in cool mounting mists.
Across our graves
creeps the ravaged face of night,
beneath the scarred fir covered cliffs stealthily steals silent silver ships.
Eternally, the white waves call.
Through the brambles formidable battlements
we
climb the blind mendicant minutes to
CLOUD CHARIOTS
If only the cloud chariots were mine!
On clouds I’d ride, while wild storms tossed us through the air,
with the moon languidly reflecting from the mysterious seas
inky surface glinting its shattered image
in a thousand shards of light.
If only the cloud chariots were mine!
I’d race the wind woven waves
across the billowing deep; and, at last
by making a prodigious leap land on Mountain tops
and commune with the radiant beauty of the night sky;
before off again I’d fly free,
plowing the fresh waters of the glistening lake
skipping like a stone over the fast slumbering tree tops below.
A CENTURY FARM
It was called a century farm.
Back then,
the sun didn’t scurry through the sky.
How things lit up, every pedestrian thing
pertained to the Art of the possible!
Dew damp
glistening fields like pointillist paintings,
a pane of gossamer wing, when I was elevated
with a wagon load of wheat peering at the edge
of the green fields filled with homers of grain.
Bale after bale
conveyed toward the baleful loft, wedged to the roof –
layer alternated on layer, hook in hand,
hundreds of bales, dust filled hot air, impossible to breath.
Golden Sun and sapphire sky,
shone over emerald and blonde fields.
A short sprint and furious pump later brought crystal clear
artisan water more cool and refreshing in the sun sizzling air,
something tasteless never tasted so good before.
Day in day out
I labored over the harvested fields in blue jeans and t-shirt
sticky as another layer of skin, proud as Voltaire
planting and pruning an orchard of fruit trees culling the biggest basket of produce
from my domain, a scalped field and great castle constructed in the loft
floating like a Marguerite.
I’d only set
one foot in a u-pick farmer’s field of strawberries –
and, a sea of chest high grain, with rippling waves,
expands away into infinity from inside my minds eye.
BEFORE NOW
I’ve never noticed, before now the true shape of our planet.
The Earth has the form of a woman bearing a child in her womb,
where
within her all creation is mysteriously contained.
I’m beginning to understand that a woman’s intuition is nothing but maternal awareness.
The undulating ground is the female’s curvaceous form, as she watches us;
the Sun and shadows play about her body all day, and in evening fog curls up in her
lap.
I think of the
whose courses vary along their diverse fertile terrains.
I’m like those branching waterways, from laughing and singing streams to the strong
silent
I’ve given of myself to make her fertile, ‘till now our children grow and soar toward the
light.
All ideas presented in the following essays and discourses are the opinions of the author.
RUMOR MILL
Concerns Effecting Contemporary Democracy:
Faction at the State and Local Level
In an era of oligopoly supplied markets and constricting wealth, with its inevitable corresponding rise in faction, its sometimes asked in discerning quarters with an anxious conciliatory air, what inducements exist between various sets of affluent interests to continue existing in peaceful co-operation competing for market share and a percentage of different natural resources? But, unfortunately for us, the question admits of a peculiar situation that has specific particular political, social, and economic manifestations. There are differences between divergent national contingents that even subject to the restraints of a Federal Government Constitution give rise to concern, we’ve had sufficient experience witnessing ruthless competition, rationalized by unsatisfactory superficial explanations like Game Theory, to enable us to form a judgment of what can be expected if those restraints are to be continued to be ignored with impunity by duplicitous factional machinations.
Phony
foreign wars that pillage other regions resources have at all times been found
to be one of the primary lucratively profitable sources of exploitation for a
nation’s anti-democratic factional elements.
The greatest cause of war that impoverishes the planet and leave nations
desolate have been derived from this avaricious origin. And, in an era when
In the relatively untapped domain of States and local government, therefore, we perceive an abundant theatre for false factional pretensions, without any fair and impartial umpires and/or judges to warn the public and restrain the ravaging extremist elements of faction. To reason from recent past examples to the future, we have good cause for concern, that the radical right faction Republican Party will overwhelm elections with money utilizing already established PACs expressly for that purpose, as is the case in Or., which has one with over a million dollars under the control of Republican Senator Gordon Smith, who has publicly stated that its purpose is to prevent persons not compatible with, or who will not be warped to reflect, the corrupt goals and beliefs of the radical right faction Republican Party from successfully running for public office as a Republican candidate in Oregon. The historical role of the Republican Party is over, functioning as a national political party representing a pluralistic constituency; and, in its stead America is experiencing the radical right faction Republican Revolution, where the Republican Party is transformed into an extremist right wing faction party, who because of political expedience tries to maintain a phony plural public façade, but the homogenous voting records of its elected members clearly demonstrates that the Republican Party campaigns for only candidates who are sycophants, and the party exists exclusively to pursues exploitative policies beneficial for the radical right faction interests, at great public expense. The move to purge the party began during retired actor and puppet-president Ronald Reagan’s first administration, when unprecedented numbers of moderate and progressive Senators and Congressmen were driven from the Republican Party ranks, in Oregon the state lost the head of the Senate Finance Committee, the Appropriations Committee (?) chairman, and the Head of the Ways and Means Committee, as the radical right faction willingly sacrificed Oregon’s control of the three most important Committee Chairs in Congress, the experience of three key powerful political careers, and the state’s economic interests for the extreme right wing ideological purity of the Republican Party; and, Republican Senator Packwood was set up and expelled after the radical right owned and dominated media deliberately with held a story prior to the election of information of behavior so improper as to deserve impeachment from office; and thus, prevented the good citizens from the state of the opportunity of voting for a Democratic candidate as a viable alternative to faction; and, during the same time frame Republican Senator Hatfield was subject to slander and encouraged to retire, and, the former effective moderate Republican governor Vic Attieh’s sagacious council was ignored by extremist elements in the Party who were controlled from Washington DC and funded by the radical right faction. All that is stated in this essay about these events can be confirmed by other independent sources of information available from public records. The duplicitous behavior of the radical right Republican Party, on the question of so called tax reform at the national level, should serve as an example for those who still contend that the radical right faction dominated Republican Party functions like an honest national political party, when all they did was to shift the tax burden simultaneously in two directions, first from the national to state level of government, with the majority of citizens receiving no tax relief, and second, a shift occurred that changed the tax system from a fair progressive tax structure towards an unfair regressive flat tax pattern, where those who received the most benefit from government and who could afford to pay more for their share of taxes without experiencing any hardship were given unneeded assistance; and, the middle class and lower classes who could afford it least had to pay more, which stupidly served as a factor to increase the national debt and impaired the consumer demand which serves as the main spring for our economy – a move that later came back to negatively impact the national economy. In many instances, in the besieged and beleaguered middle and lower classes, taxes were actually increased, not to pay for fair and prudent programs beneficial to all classes of citizens; but, for programs exclusively beneficial to radical right factional interests in the industrial-military, banking, oil and natural gas interests, and insurance industry and its subsidiaries in health care, as equitable programs beneficial to small and big business interests alike were neglected, and as were social service programs that helped benefit people; and, only the very rich 2% of the population who controlled the overwhelming majority of the nation’s concrete assets received real relief, while as previously mentioned the nation’s middle and poorer classes of individuals were unfairly left confronting the greatest tax burden, people who received the least benefit and who could least afford to pay, while the system became disadvantageous to the nation by gradually taking the majority of concrete assets off the country’s tax roles, which when coupled to incompetent greed driven fiscal policy and phony foreign wars soon generated the largest national debt in the history of the world, in what constituted a surreptitious attack on the nation’s entitlement programs.
Those who are old enough to be present at gucchi gulch who witnessed the travesty of the proceedings during the initial phase of the radical right Republican Revolution can verify how money and special interests received protection, as well as the radical right faction’s ruling elite who were obviously a significant part of the very wealthy; and, they can attest to the iniquity in a system that has been radically altered to run primarily for the benefit of right wing faction, which in spite of serious handicaps could have been conducted competently as witnessed by the Democrat President Clinton and Vice President Gore administration’s successful attempts to balance the budget and eliminate the National Debt and efficiently manage our nation’s Democratic government and market driven economy. Two motives preponderate the radical right faction Republican Party: one a blind lust for power and world domination; and the second, the radical right faction’s extreme avarice exposed in exploitative policies that impoverish the nation and ravage the land. Even the States, which were previously relatively insulated, are now being subject to corrupt programs, which adopt responsible Democratic legislative efforts and warp them to meet radical right pretensions. The instance in California on Health Care, where the Republican governor tries to muscle in and take responsibility for admirable, responsible Democratic efforts to address a Republican created national health care problem, where 10 million more Americans have in the last four years not been able to afford any form of health care coverage, which creates a situation that leaves their families at risk. And, in another issue in Oregon, the state’s energy grid was privatized after the states radical right lead Republican Party held the state’s children’s education hostage irresponsibly refusing to fund a $200 million Democratic budget item until the energy grids were privatized a move that cost every state citizen a 100% increase in their families energy bills, and more families and children than ever before were forced to live at or below the poverty level, and business suffered by a corresponding reduction in demand for goods and services; and, concurrently the same ploy was used by the radical right dominated Republicans for increasing the states phone rates. To review, these are only three of numerous concrete examples that are available of radical right faction policies that have already exploited and impoverished the nation and its good people at the state and local levels of government.
The free trade zone should’ve been an area of commerce and competition fruitful for jobs and increased profits. The states favored by geography and circumstances in the Sun-belt and traditional industrial centers would’ve been blessed by further growth and development, and eager to avoid problems associated with unbridled economic expansion and their particular local circumstances, and, a ripple effect of increased prosperity would have transpired and resulted in improved government revenues for these two regions and in their fortunate neighboring states, each state, &/or collection of states, would’ve pursued compensatory commercial policies peculiar to their particular interests. This would occasion a healthy diversity, regional preferences, and competition that could be facilitated by national assistance. However, none of this happened, because the habits of radical right faction, on the basis of corruption, greed and avarice, to which we’ve been habituated since the rise of the radical right Republican Revolution, has dulled the country’s economic impetus and provided rise to more wide spread dissatisfaction than the nation would have experienced under traditional Democratic models of government aided by Keynesian economic theory. We need to correctly and critically identify those radical right faction elements injurious to the nation, and not needlessly scapegoat damage to things which in reality are justifiable acts of independent individuals freely engaging in the recreational pursuit of Happiness. The spirit of enterprise, which is characteristic of American commerce has been badly dampened by the constriction of wealth and left without room to exercise its native genius by the oppressive measures of faction, whose subordinate tyrants’ actions are designed to optimize the radical right faction control of society by extreme means, and it chains the spirit and bridles the initiative, which when coupled with corruption that exclusively benefits faction and its minions who are political fanatics and misanthropists, arrests progress and prevents prosperity. The impaired labor inputs of the radical right, who advance based on their useful vices, loyalty, and sycophancy not individual initiative, industry and abilities necessary for prosperity, progress and productivity in a competitive market environment, factor in systemic dysfunction that overdependence on computer technologies can not compensate for and correct. The infractions, and deceitful malfeasance, and unnecessary burden of personal regulations all combine to prevent and repel economic activity, which simultaneously leads down a slippery path to moral degeneration, violent outrages, disenfranchised citizens and a festering enervated society, and ultimately leads to stagnation and worse the cumulative circular causatory spiral in a negative direction that naturally results in poverty, ignorance and depressions.
The opportunity that faction enjoys rendering others inferior to them, or dependent on them, is compelled by regulation and the corrupt operation of the displaced politicized courts and judicial branch of government. The recent depressions and flight of venture capitol from inter-net commerce, an area of the economy said to be insulated from down turns in the economy, are the direct consequence of the failed radical right faction Republican Revolution and its policies of exploitation and oppression that America has become accustom to associating with radical right Republican incompetent economic policies, and its idiotic labor policies supportive of job flight and bifurcation that relegates the majority to Third World status, and that are directly responsible for the negative consequences already mentioned. Big business must compete for rates of return an impossible task when forced to contend with government corruption, too. A great amount of cost increases are attributable to corruption and energy generated cost push inflation pressures that devour consumer demand and further weaken an already faltering economy. Our citizens being oppressed and driven to Third World labor markets status can’t continue to function as the drive mechanism to the World’s largest consumer market, which is a direct consequence of the radical right faction’s unfortunate two edged policy to improve profits and control human behavior by impoverishing people and preventing them from pursuing Happiness in ways the radical right faction extremists don’t approve. If there were no oppressive measures impeding individual initiative to impair people’s binary function of producer and consumer, American and World markets economic activities would be greatly enhanced. Would the rust belt have to be burdened by taxation at current levels with already developed infrastructure, and wouldn’t strategically lowering taxes increase consumer demand if tax cuts effectively targeted increasing consumer activity, rather than giving a free ride to the rich, in an ill advised effort to level an imaginary playing field of Game Theory? If government programs were implemented equitably to pay for essential social services rather than perks to create wealth exclusively for radical right faction’s power elite, wouldn’t consumer markets be improved and market activity increased especially when augmented equitably by government demand? These are questions that corruption and oppressed timidity alone prevent affirmative answers.
The
national debt of the
Suppose difficulties arise on agreeing to provide a national health care system; still, the benefits would make the effort profitable and worth while, with room enough to provide local control and national guidelines to guarantee citizens receive value for their tax payer money. Those who benefit in more extensive ways and those whose lives create more costs to the system could be asked to provide additional payments to contribute to the equitable operation of the system, where contribution and compensation were based according to their costs. The others would tend to pay at a standard rate, established by the insurance industry’s existing actuary tables which could be used to help establish an amount according to a variable universal scale, which would be determined according to that which benefited the program the most. A reluctance by the radical right faction should be widely broadcast and provide plausible explanation for just complaints registered to the states and federal legislatures and judiciaries, to provide a combination of censure and penalties applicable to the communities and be made in accordance with Democratic principles and their core values: particularly when sound Democratic principles come in conflict with contemporary popular opinion, because there lies the greatest opportunity for factional interests to manipulate public opinion in ways profitable to their interests, but, which injure individuals and erode their rights, which then functions to destroy our Democracy and the core values of Liberty, Equality, and Private Property Rights essential for our species to thrive. The corruption of tyrannical radical right faction has displayed a delinquency in paying their just share of taxes on their extensive overwhelming ownership of the nation’s assets, and it has resulted in the mismanagement of the nation’s finances, and some states, too, and the exploitation and exhaustion of our country’s resources, which includes the incompetent handling of accidental disorders from natural disasters; and, in addition to the previous examples of public malfeasance, corrupt and incompetent administration of government bureaucracies, including the displacement of covert branches of government, until today there is a reluctance for qualified and competent people to serve the public with government employment, and the subsequent failure of the incompetent radical right labor inputs particularly at the leadership level to adopt government to altering economic realities like the rise of international corporate conglomerates, differentiating patterns of commerce, and the extreme constriction of wealth. Transgressions from whatever causes produces grounds for complaint, recriminations, and conflicts. There is nothing more injurious to the mutual prospects confronting the nation than the rise of faction and iniquitous oppression that accompanies it, which undermines the fundamental fact that good government must be conducted for the common benefit of all. All measures that do not produce a benefit fair and equal to all, including coincidental benefits, must be redesigned in order to accomplish that effect. For it is as true as it is obvious, that nothing is as divisive and contentious as money.
Laws in violation of individual rights, as they amount to acts of violence by the aggressors on the rights of private citizens, and the government entities who front for the aggressors are a source of corruption and just resentment. We can not expect legislatures to be insulated from popular prejudices and contemporary fashions, but Reason and Common Sense suggest that all legislation be subject to a review process that would at least include how they will be paid for, if they violate sound Democratic principles, and whether individual Civil Rights are transgressed. This process in the both Federal and various State governments has historically been realized by the judicial review process that checks legislation to see that Law reflects the Constitutional Guidelines. We have observed the judicial review process compromised by radical right extremists who’ve intemperately sought to deliberately politicize the judiciary, with predictably disastrous results. In consequence we see systematic corruption, whose enormity is unprecedented in American history, and, we can reasonably infer that this process will continue extended to the State and local levels of government, facilitated by the distraction of profitable fraudulent wars, campaigns of coercion, and severe persecutions against various targeted victims; and, in order to justify breeches of evil atrocities they seek to hide the extent of their involvement and the fundamental fact that they constitute immoral transgressions and undermine any meaningful model of social justice.
The probability of these corrupt transgressions being perpetrated by extremist radical right faction at the State and local level are so great, specially when substantiated by previous concrete examples, as to become virtual certitudes. The effect of this situation is tyranny, complete with its corruption, wide spread vice, and oppression, which will afflict a land whose exploited resources are becoming exhausted and its impoverished communities stagnate, as demonstrated by causes more extensively discussed in the previous discourses. From the view exhibited of this subject this conclusion is to be drawn, corruption will advance like a cancer from the exhausted national level to state and local levels of government, with subordinating tyrants continuing to act to oppress outside legitimate government channels and to subject other targeted groups to severe persecution, with fundamental dishonesty forming the basis for immoral acts and accompanying acts of sadistic violence, which will become so prevalent as to be incorporated as the new degenerate standards for societal norms and morays; and, these efforts will be facilitated along with political corruption by an adjunct propaganda-machine in the news and entertainment industry, helping to realize an impoverished stable society motivated by fear, which was based on Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian vision during the Cold War and imported for domestic consumption by the radical right faction during the ensuing period of peace; and, these effects of the radical right factional tyranny will be destructive of progress and prosperity, because of exhausted resources and oppressed individual initiative that’s complimentary to the coercive and extortion methods employed for social control models of the extremist radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants who, paranoid of losing their privileged position and economic perks, are the willing tools of evil. Meanwhile, the ruling elite and its upper echelon advisors, who will reflect their bigoted biases in efforts to further their ambitious careers, apprehensive of losing power, and blinded by vanity will continue patterns of oppression necessary for exploitation, in efforts to compel society to adopt an impossible Utopian scheme. The destruction of traditional Democracy and its society based on individual Civil Rights will be the inevitable effect, with the nation falling prey to the phony artifices of the foolish power elite, who striving to be knaves, will bring about the very discontinuities and dislocations that they strive to avoid.
And besides, the