Nature Takes It's Course

You, the Shit that shot that little girl in the head,
I would like to kill you tonight with my own hands
asking you through clenched teeth, spit and red rage
if your prophet really has no sense of humor or
if it's just your own unquenchable sense of inferiority
that makes you worship death and bully the small,
beating out of you the reason why your tyrant god
thirsts for the tears of innocents, the blood of children.

You holy  warring shithead...

You are less than human:
that thought blossoms in my reptile brain
the seed deftly planted with the perverse calculus
of your vile action.

This is how you win?
 

Alpha Shallows - Laura Marling

MALALA YOUSUFZAI

The entire world should know your name.

Fear

Hey, Charlie Brown

A co-worker told me she's always depressed
after talking to me.

Run while you can,
is all I'm trying to say.

Not like there's any hope of getting away,
I mean just run to experience the act of running.

Exertion will let you know you're alive,
slap you awake and out of your stupor.

We need that now and again, and also to remember
that the day is coming when you can't. Selah!

Seasonal Unrest

Seasonal unrest.

Watching a video clip of an accomplished writer
talking about writing and the life of a particular place
and it makes me yearn for the bubbling well-spring
of words and emotions and to be part of the life in that place.

At this time of year my choice is to
be a wind carried leaf,  blown vivid in a momentary blaze,
or to stay,  all gray and abandoned,
rushed over by clouds and such falling leaves.

Do what you do,
awake.

An American Prayer