A hearty congratulations to Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Axis of Logic columnist and resident poet, for the publication of his exciting new anthology, The (Un)Occupy Movement. This anthology is a topical, historical, forward-thinking, and holistic look at some of the problems Mother Earth and humanity are facing and how... » read this article

Reinvent America and the world. -Lawrence Ferlingehtti, from Poetry As Insurgent Art  About the only inventions that the guardians of the corporate-state covet and have recently employed are high and low tech gadgets. While the high tech is mostly unleashed by the military for wars, the low tech, being used... » read this article

Can you hear us calling out from a Freedom of Speech Zone? We are able to say whatever the F*&# is necessary so long as it is being emitted from this oxymoronic Zone of the status quo, a classroom under the supervision of the corporate-state where learning to count numbers... » read this article

. . . . The cork has popped, the cat is out of the bag, People are coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the closet, some are going out of their minds, some are fed up with going hungry being out of luck, out of touch, on the... » read this article

I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? - Leonard Cohen, from his song "Hallelujah" There is music in the voices of the People declaring real, impassioned concerns and demands. Personal and communal truths... » read this article

Ed. note: Mankh's poem reminds me of an admonition from the I Ching: "Hold fast to the lessons learned from nature." - LMB Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small... » read this article

Editor's Note: Mankh, our Resident Poet wrote the following poem for Axis of Logic Readers ... his response to a recent article, "Unrepentant Cheney Stands His Ground," published in the Chicago Sun Times. - LMB   When all Heaven breaks loose When all Heaven breaks loose Dick Cheney will have no underground... » read this article

NONCONNAH YARDS One railroad came from Chicago, bound for New Orleans Or vice versa One railroad came from Little Rock headed for Charleston Or the other way around In Nonconnah Yards south of Memphis The rails crossed My father knew that My father rode those rails Long before the Great... » read this article

We will not think about death or life. We will think about the call of the duty. ~ Muammar Gaddafi, 7th June, 2011 Once upon a time, not so long ago, and maybe not even so far away from where you live now, there lived many animals in a deep,... » read this article

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning and who's the fool who wears the crown - Pink Floyd, from "Fearless" You are about to order lunch and the waiter has a sudden panic attack about the availability of salmon. Suddenly, what was a $19.95... » read this article

note: While a recent essay by the author, "Theaters War, Absurd, Educational, and Otherwise," addressed the variety of archetypal theaters in the world, this piece highlights a cast of characters aka actors. As the theater saying goes, "There are no small actors, only small parts." However, in the mainstream media... » read this article

A Sea Change (22) (from "White Egrets) Derek Walcott is a writer and painter from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia.  He was born in 1930. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. This is his poem #22 under “A Sea Change” in his latest volume of poetry, titled... » read this article

Riffing Orwell George Orwell prophesied much of the current doublespeak with his phrases such as: "war is peace." Nobel Peace Prize winning president Obama, currently commander-in-chiefing of war in six so-called theaters -- Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia -- fits the bill, or more so runs up the... » read this article

The only poem worth writing The only poem worth writing is the one to be discovered after the death of the poet. The only poem worth writing is written on the obelisk and never in the life of the life, do you understand? The only poem worth writing is the... » read this article

Dan Lewis is a poet residing in Worcester, Massachusetts.... » read this article

  Reel Mower went back to the future and bought a push mower no gas no fumes no cacophony of vibrating noise and suddenly a pause to talk with people first time the neighbor waved hi while the mowing was going on some teens walking by laughed as if it... » read this article

As he spreads his tall, lean wings sounds like the honoring of a Queen or a King so tune your dial to hear the choir of angels sing. Temperatures heating quickly in the late May sun. Look! What's that in the sky? . . . it's the Gil Scott-Heron! As... » read this article

  The Ballad of Jackey Mary - not the mother nor the sister not at all the baby-sitter Its simply Mary. She lives near the high way where people crowd the cross-roads to pack their shopping bags with groceries and Oxfam goods. But Mary - not the buyer nor the... » read this article

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken wordperformer in the 1970s and 80s, and for his collaborative soul works with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion... » read this article

It is not difficult to get lulled into thinking that one’s actions have little effect, what with the powerful rule of the corporate-governmental elite too often hiding behind their armies, mercenaries and three-card montes, or behind their “press # to speak to...” a real person, if they even have a... » read this article