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Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, or How the Capitalist Controlled World Ate, Vomited, Defecated on Itself and then Again Ate itself to Death
$10 for cleaning the windows, $5 for making the bed
walking the dogs, washing the dishes, the dark-skinned
immigrant does random acts of light labor for dollars
employed as a joke on tv, on keeping up with the
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Happy Birthday to Me; Eulegy to the New World
October 12
in palmarcito, el salvador, a small town
next to a river, a young dark-skin man in
a wheelchair explains to us that the number
one thing this place needs, his town, is water
as free range turkeys are slaughtered on
special occasions, as the youth of palmarcito
lose their teeth on salva cola and their
grandfathers die from common diseases ( Read more... ) -
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time
we were born wrapped in barbed wire
with pain so barbarous and ordinary that its memory
has been repressed by all guilty participants
only to be adequately replaced with brilliant, original
and new pain; the bum on the corner of laguna ave
and echo park that covers himself up to his head
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If you Dream, you are Guilty
More people die in their sleep than awake.
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Relax, This isn't Poetry.
This isn’t Poetry
when i am awaken in the middle of the night
[always at 3 am] by bad dreams or cats jumping
on me, i am comforted by visions of ghosts at
my bedside, staring down at my inactivity and
ridiculing me: that men can sleep and experience
the luxury of nightmares while thousands are
tortured by their government’s callousness, by
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Livebook
Oh, and as most of you can see I am the last man standing using Livejournal. And Livejournal, since I am the last and therefore the only one posting things, has been transformed into a Political Poetry Journal.
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You have Zero Memories, Bitch!
This journal says I have 0 memories, but that is a lie. -
In the Passing of the One Year Anniversary of the Coup in Honduras
In the Passing of the One Year Anniversary of the Coup in Honduras
a year has passed since the coup
in honduras and there were 50
people demonstrating in front of
the honduran embassy, and i
asked, where are all the people
the americans, the hondurans
did they know what was going on
what had happened
but as civilians are slaughtered
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The American Soldier
The American Soldier
as the american soldier
locks his sight on iraqi
journalists in new baghdad
thought to have ak-47s, does
he know that the oil used to
keep his gun greased is silicone
based, does the soldier know
that silicone is made up of tiny
beads, like sand; does he know
that, that the same desert sand
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First We March
Hello everyone: comrades, camaradas, colleagues, family and friends:
As most of you are very well aware, there is going to be a massive demonstration in Arizona this coming Saturday, May 29th. Many organizations and movements are sponsoring and endorsing this historical demonstration, including altoarizona.com.
The Communist Party USA, Southern ( Read more... )