Those fire eyes
pinon needles lifting, scurrying
shadows in updrafts
embers talking talismans
her bright words penetrate
craggy cynicism, cull
meandering skeptics
all lawyered up and full
of cash, old guard
lives born from Jack$on-20
Frank$lin-100, amazing
bouts of devil clarity
that old minstrel mush
one side of mouth to the other:
only you can pull yourself
up, only you are responsible
for your predicament
slavers of language, old
time religion like uranium
tipped Hellfire, launched
from unholy church of tax
deductible lies philandering
political class, those Monopoly
Park Place covetous ones
parasites gnawing brains
. . . .but sisters of dance
new disconnected youth
from this shit-storm of infinite
aisles bursting at seams
those tears, those deflated placentas
all those weapons of salary
hunched over soldering, stitching, gluing
they are untouchables of THE Empire
black pools of pollutants
children’s skipping puddles
ones easily marked, some
Romney or Ron Paul
those flagrantly stupid
Reagan-Bush-Nixon-‘s
end-game of offspring
Chelsea from Clinton-clench
sacks of Goldman
so many others in sheep’s
clothing, dry mouthed
digital musclemen
honored Nobel laureates
of the scam of economies
speaking gibberish
not so easily outed
snake oil millionaire
thespians, airport novelists
those seemingly inane, innocent
junk emanating from digital
orifice to digital alimentary
canal of death news
they announce their
own lack of vision
but honor those brave kids
no matter how tattooed
or stuck with nose rings
pause to remember…