my sister fell down into the dark side, not trusting
believing lies on the web about ivermectin bleach for Covid
and now Cancer  her fears led her to this point of no return
she is dying. I blame that Orange man his lust for power his lies
deceit, immorality. his fake news he fed her fears and mistrust
taking her down this path to death. Tumor could have been
stopped but she lost her trust in medicine clinging to lies on the web.
now we wait and watch her early demise.

I’ll tell you the same way
I told that reporter from CNN –
The rich don’t care if we live or die.
Put that shit on the record.
Matter of fact, if we don’t bitch about it
too awful loud,
I believe they wish we’d just go on
and croak and rot and get out of the way.
And I mean what I say.
And I mean me and mine.
The poor folks.
The ones who can’t look up high enough
to even spot the poverty line
without breaking their necks.
I mean the kids with bellies growling
who know breakfast ain’t coming
on sunshiny summer time mornings
after school lets out.
I mean white trash just like me –

broke ass backwoods human damn beings,
undesirables swept downstream by mud and flood
literally leaving their lives and their limbs
and their hopes and their kin
swirling off to land in a slurry pond somewhere.
You think they’re gonna drag them ponds
for our dignity or our dead?
Ain’t nobody coming to save us
and we damn well know it. 

So I said, let me ask you a question, 
                                            and he said, nobody ever asked this question

and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT. 
    Very smart. 
                                            He goes, 
I say, what would happen if the boat sank
from its weight? 
And you’re in the boat and 
        you have this tremendously powerful battery 
        and the battery is now underwater

                     and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards                    over there,
                                
                                by the way, a lot of shark attacks lately,
                                do you notice that a lot of shark [sic]?
                                I watched some guys justifying it today.
                                Well, they weren’t really that angry.
                                They bit off the young lady’s leg because of the fact that
                                they were,
                                they were not
                                hungry,
                                but they misunderstood
                                what
                                who
                                she was?
                                These people are. 

                                                He said there’s no problem with sharks.

                            They just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming now.
                            It really got decimated
                            and other people do a lot of shark attacks.

So I said, so there’s a shark                                                    10 yards away from the boat,
        10 yards                                                                                 or here,
do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking?

Water goes over the battery,
the boat is sinking.
Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted
or do I jump                                                                               over by the shark
and not get electrocuted?

Because I will tell you
he didn’t know the answer.
                                                  He said, you know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.

I said, I think it’s a good question.

I think there’s a lot of electric current
        coming through that water.
                But you know what I’d do if there was a shark
        or you get electrocuted,

I’ll take electrocution every single time.

(TFG/DJT, stump speech in Las Vegas, 09 June 2024)

dog knew the whole time
anxiety curled tightly
tail wags with relief

You’ve often made algebra out of my hunger
& fed me the five letters of garlic & excited me
so much that quiver becomes my genome,
that serious science believes, & how
many times have you thrilled me to seizure joy
& each of those grand malted times I’m reminded what
a xylophone sounds like because its exactly the sound
you summon from the metallic remainder
of my spine.

a new book to read
pages crisp as a whisper
the world in my hands
my mind becomes so absorbed
in adventures awaiting

please God, 
you can stop now
the strongest soldiers
do not want all the battles 
you continue to send us

if i can read
this poem

then i am still
alive

if i am still
alive

then i can write
my wrongs

if i can write
my wrongs

then i can
spell the truth

if i can spell
the truth

then I can be 
free

we are a secret to most
everyone but ourselves 
as we blast queer joy
in your hunked up jeep 
teasing each other about
who we might be if real
ness wasn’t served, if 
we didn’t give up tight
jeans and a septum ring
so soon. what world
have we left behind
this bright side so shielded
ashamed, despite love
in all directions.

I tell you my perversions
during breakfast, eating
eggs stupidly slow. You 
take my plate then hold
me and I forget how to cry. 

A teacher has an understanding heart
A teacher is one who is sensitive, kind and musically in tune
A teacher is one who knows the importance of bringing a 3rd grade girl into the life of Christina Rossetti’s poetry
A teacher is one who has ignited human feeling into what could have been a dull subject
A teacher is one who knows that feeling warmth is vital for growing the soul of a child

It was Carl Jung who noted the many significant psychological influences on children especially those who are exposed to the unlived life of a parent,
He also was the one who shined light on the importance of play,
And he capably shared the insightful match, which lights the darkness of being and noted this as our mere existence. 

Gratitude to you C. Jung for your many pearls . . .