Oh the joys of living in seclusion…
the book says it’s not good to drink before bed
so i start early…after my morning coffee
and i get up at 5am…
The good news
The book “poems for the shaw”
has been nudged along
and as one of my editors suggested
i am adding…
instead of subtracting
newsflash:
bill gates did not invent the personal computer
More good news
the trees are quiet and their is a day of merciful sun
i can see snow covered mountains in the distant
this is real time
miles and miles away
from the maddening crowd
as my good friend Daniel once said
“the peace lends itself to ritual.”
or at the very least a schedule
An Aside
the rich will inherit the earth if the victories continue
on purpose or not
it is a dead end
and nothing get through
because nothing wants to…
The bad news
i spent some cold times
in a house in Richmond
as Shawn knows
poring over the work of a philosopher
who believed he knew a way out of the conundrum
the idea was branded integral…
applying an evolutionary concept
with an underlying belief
in continued improvement
things are better today than they’ve ever been
is the argument
and even Chomsky
despite occasional protesting
would agree…
OK
today
as the sun is shining
and i can write
and think
and say
as i please
most of the world suffers
in ways we dare
not imagine
who knows if it’s getting better
but study after study indicates
wealth is being distributed
in fewer and fewer hands
and this leads to many
inequalities
This is disturbing
American wars are being fought
less and less with civilians
more and more through corporations
and rich individuals with private militaries
re: Blackwater
This is known as “outsourcing”
which saw unprecedented levels
in the recent iraq wars
in hyper capitalism it is no longer
the right to bear arms
now one can own an army
and the lawyers will argue
it is the same thing
Finally
in case you didn’t know
wealth is imaginary
a sum of a billion
cannot fit in a truck
as paper money
and you could never
buy that much gold
it is a number
on a computer screen
says the rich little banker
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