Requiem for America:
Wake Up American World Citizens!


Many will not be able to read this
and most simply won’t.

 

The civil war has been exported (again.)
The red and blue are battling with Iraq and other
foreign turfs. Don’t kid yourselves, the two Americas
are at least a dozen--
Republican, Democrat, neither, other,
Hispanic, Latino, White, Mexican American,
African American,  Arab American, American Indian, Asian American,

Fill In The Blank Americans…

 

It’s all done with sleight of hand and demographics,
b/c the minorities combined
will soon be (if they aren’t already)
the majority!

Yet, many are numb and number,
numbered and branded like animals,
many have grown complacent…
many quietly do the work.

 

The war on drugs is more about pharmaceuticals
than healing, the educational system more about
a pacifier in the mouth than pacifists, the homicide numbers
another (un)civil war.

 

This tripping of tongue is a mixed metaphor
not a metered foot from my mouth,
and metaphors mixed are my placebo
for media-sad-news-world.

 

By the way, your Indians are not your Indians,
they were here so long before you...
so long before that cameo appearance
on the cold hard street of fame called Hollywood.

 

Shut your loud obnoxious voice

and take a rest.

Quiem!
Quies!
Quiet! America…

 

hear
whispering
in the pines

 

many tongues talking
from one mouth...
many quietly do the work.