Poem: RECURRING DREAM MOTIFS 2021

lost shoes

lost suitcase

missing wallet

naked in public

taking a speedboat to a marina at night

staying for months in a hotel room

flying to London alone

worrying about being evicted

worrying that something’s missing

worrying that someone’s missing

 

Poetry Video: TEXAS, THEIR TEXAS PARTS ONE AND TWO

 Assembling a portion of an earlier poem with a recently written one about Texas’s horrible anti-abortion legislation.  Aware that the state I grew up in has a very imperfect history, but I never expected this kind of  demagoguery.

https://youtu.be/ZQ3i5G0BEfA

New Poem: TEXAS, THEIR TEXAS PART TWO

 busybodies now busy policing women’s bodies

 when they’re not celebrating shooting without a license

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 pendulum swing could be foretold in 1982

 when middle of the road Governor Mark White

 had the absolute nerve to enact No Pass, No Play

 intended to make high school athletes get passing grades

 before they could play the Holy Game of Football on Fridays

 there was a rebellion and a stunted notion of freedom even then 

 and Mark White was defeated for re-election 

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 the sidewinder snake with an appetite for Lone Star Beer

 and a SECEDE bumper sticker on the back of his pickup

 became hungry to enforce simple values on everyone 

 and, later, simpleton governors like GWB and Rick Perry

 plus Greg Abbott acting the role of fiddle-playing Covid patient 

 had no trouble offering laws and protections for the snake to excrete 

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 kids get sick, teachers die, a school closes

 but that doesn’t matter to the angry freedom bludgeoning people

 making it harder to vote, impossible to think for yourself 

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 this is what you get when you wrap bloody meat selfishness 

 inside the tamale husk of performative righteousness 

 allegedly in Jesus’ name