poetry

take.

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take.

take it down. take it slow. take care.
take your time. take it easy. take back, what’s yours.
take it all down-

all the heroes and churches,
idols and figures,
social and political.

will all
remember you
as some clown from around.
the one,
no one knew well enough
to care about.

don’t
allow anyone
the ability
to turn you
into an insignificant
little ant.

then again,
whatever one may do,
let no one
take one down.

life is ones.
let no one
take it away.

07.25.02.

revolution pose.

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revolution pose. 

I. 
cannot afford the 
patience of a 
pacifist, 
fist, 
fist 
through the air. 

II. 
long, long meetings, 
readings, 
leninists and marxists 
speaking 
without ending. 

III. 
an alien 
under this nation, 
a dissident 
that can’t pretend- 
consent/defend 
an international incident 
created by capitalist governments. 

sitting under a wishing 
tree, wishing 
to be palestinian or muslim. 
stuck inside this mexican skin, 
wondering 
where the revolution 
migrated to or went. 

IV. 
how goes the movement now? 
red work and mass work. 
theory and practice and schisms. 
gentrification and police brutality and the masses 
          slowly fading away. 
wasting like energy inverted on itself. 
how goes the movement now?

09.10.02.

corporate democracy confuses.

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corporate democracy confuses.

what’s up with governments acting like corporations? 

should i be confused, amused or what? 
should i keep on staring into the idiot box? 
should i choose to participate or not? 
should i just get on my knees and pray that it all stops? 

anyone want a world of activists or puppet presidents? 
let guns decide while the world divides over markets being 
     globalized? 
dream of aliens on distant planets or settle things at home? 

what’s up with governments? 
what’s up with governments acting like they care? 
what’s up with governments acting like corporations? 

can anything be fixed without reading marx? 

because the 
third world debt 
isn’t getting paid, 
and the g-8 can choke them by it with a chain, 
but it isn’t getting paid. 

what’s up with governments acting like corporations? 
what’s up with governments building space stations? 
what’s up with this country pimping its new world democracy?

07.24.01.