religious Zebediah . . . 
standing stone still . . . 
abhorring rhythm . . . 
breaking drumsticks . . . 
chewing harmony . . . 
those resonant notes . . . 
into little chits . . . 
every single thing . . . 
calling all around us . . . 
all these blasting fits . . . 
as this fanatic world . . . 
twists and turns . . . 
earth burning up . . .  
our Mother morphing . . .
leaving coarse ash . . .
grieving charcoal . . . 
those remorseful bits . . .
still yearning . . .
chillingly I hear . . . 
Babylon screaming . . . 
everything mashed up . . . 
all those vocal quips . . . 
as Jerusalem burns . . . 
churning in fear . . . 
Zebediah falling . . .
onto broken tribal knees . . . 
praying token something . . . 
articulate only . . .
what spoken God . . .
might ever hear . . . 
dare to kneel . . .
we're nearly there . . .
as reborn Babylon . . . 
this modern Zion reality. . .
condemned it burns . . .
Zebediah feeling . . .
God is dreaming . . .
we're wandering . . .
even crawling . . .
defiantly reeling . . . 
does God truly care . . .
with all this , . .
flame and thunder . . . 
all this brazen blunder . . .
innocence spurting blood . . . 
what would God . . .
simply speak . . .  
what should God . . .
openly say . . . 
or even dare . . .
that burning bush . . . 
those Holy words . . . 
this sacred place . . . 
where we are born . . . 
to live and seek . . . 
yet religious Zebediah . . .
standing silent there . . .
feeling very holy . . . 
wanting ego . . .
to behold sacred . . . 
seeking untold blessed . . .
religious Zebediah dares . . . 
while recidivist war . . . 
invites contiguous corruption . . .
all these mad hurricanes . . .
all this arresting eruption . . .
brings humanity to its knees . . .
while virulent God arrives . . . 
contesting Zebediah's prayers . . .
all this worldly disruption . . .
detesting every burning bush . . .
something David and Solomon . . .
those sorrowful holy cries . . . 
drowning in desert tears . . .
deservedly frown upon . . . 
as for peace and love . . . 
mournfully pouring down . . .
from soulful heaven's gate . . .
but revelation is too late . . . 
so relevant God . . . 
that infinite . . .
Holy finger . . . 
has touched us all . . . 
made us wonder . . . 
let us seek . . .
yet religious Zebediah . . .
something fallen . . .
everything but meek . . .
religious Zebediah . . .
incoherently unbalanced . . .
thinking he was chosen . . .
incongruently able . . .
thinking chosen . . .
meant entranced . . .
religious Zebediah . . .
imagined enlightenment . . .
where he thinks . . .
he's always been . . .
yet never . . .
truly chosen . . .
on consignment . . .
rivers of sacred . . .
universal Holy water . . .
can wash away . . .
unforgiven mortal sins . . .
religious Zebediah . . .
never close to complete . . .
unable to maintain . . .
remain upright . . .
even imagine in kind . . .
that sacramental . . .
burning bush . . .
or actual God's . . .
infinite Holy feet . . . 

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I hear old dogs
out howling
something desperate
such basic hunger
other raging dogs
rabid pack animals
raving into howling 
something unfavourable
not just simply starving
more virtual howling
anointed with sour
dressing obstinate greed
moreover each personal
appointed wobbly need
pointedly messing up 
more of everything
hobbling irrational serfdom
bejeweled bitches whining
their perversion defining
every foolish kingdom
disappointment stinging
dry bitch bags
unable to feed
pups and whelps
those ragged hags
vying to remain rich
defining maga help
armies of tag teams
wild howling dogs
some shot up
shut up into bleeding
others ground up
flagrant errant bombs
lover's of tombstone tanks
rolling over them
mortars speaking loudly
back and forth again
roaring unnatural language
old howling dogs 
perhaps finally understand
all this futile war
brutal feudal screams
crude war dogs fear
explosions breaking bones
drones causing moaning
oddly rattled bearings
shattering Sodom's prattle
vicious grinding gears
Gomorrah's battle mind
defeated bleeding soldiers 
wishing they were home
relishing Babushka's perogies
instead of daily feasting
on personal excrement
splattering impersonal trenches
neat piles of resentment
scattered here and there
a rapid collection
relentless aggravating
those constant grenades
more frontline perfume
navigating bitter bullets
death enhanced by gravity
mortal aroma entranced
within that battle stench
pulling life down
into shattered pits
still a smattering
of ratchet howling
old dogs licking
mad hatter wounds
while young dogs
lay there bleeding out
as wretchedness sounds
a fetching recipe
for every battle call
but those old dogs
far from frontlines
keep relatively safe
entrenched in deep bunkers
for each bleak breakfast
they drink vodka neat
speak in foreign tongues
so no sane person
understands or hears
all their demented howling
making our floundering world
shake and virtually spin
ripping out quaking hearts
each token dead body
etched by broken souls
every dreadful soldier dog
once alive and howling
screaming and scowling
at each blood red moon
those old assaulting dogs
crowned by scalding battle
their unenlightened war
presidents and generals
drowning in delight
all that gold braid offal
such degrading ballroom light
huddled masses
astounded by this gore
afraid of losing innocence
reticent because of war
still old dogs howling
aided by excreting horrid
shouting exalted evil
speaking dead meat lies
such morbid humanity
shrieking orwellian hate
all their bloody flags
tellingly draped around
war's fruitless state
howling old dogs
touting propaganda
so freaking loudly
in their hatchet fight
all their sinful execution
grinning followed closely
by their rabid bite

            * * * 

 

so we are
searching
wanting
seeking
needing
unification
so time is
leading
feeding
peaking
reaching
daunting
impeaching
unification
time must be
continuity
unity
perhaps clarity
disparagingly
testing
impunity
confessing
disparity
contesting
immunity
addressing
all of us
resisting
so in time
socially insistent
moral investment
though we feel
so far apart
without unity
all that connection
time won't renew
between me
can't be
somewhere
with you
time is that
blazing finger
of fiery God
reaching out
constructing you
with that
time line 
instructing me
perhaps within
those moments
mounting time
we all must see
love affords
amounts of time
share daring love
a graceful chord
everything given
within doubtless
astounding time
perhaps boundless
caring concord
relief of overbearing
painful stress
in lordly time
a masterful caress
something meaningful
an eventide of joy
something wonderful
surely enlightenment
a lasting peace accord
some lasting light
purity cast upon
this vast earthly mess

           * * *  

 

wandering through
everything resonating
somehow reaching
morphing universe
corporal vibration
if we think
moral libation
untold heights
top to bottom
in reverse
reach inside
down deep
keep inclined
to that
mountain steep
outlined verse
under ultimate
personal control
engage surreal
existential multi-verse
some of this
uncaged resistant denial
evidence of that
seemingly irreversible
elemental vial
that ethereal image
a personal stronghold
engaging tactful Will
a fact of able
that silver backed mirror
you won't see me
bold or fabled
or wholly catch
simply peace forever
desire enabled
a deniably sober
factual glimpse
when all
of actual this
suddenly disappears
when all of us
are lost asunder
where all of me
even all of we
are broken mirrors
shards reflecting
chaotic thunder
tokens of lost
this frightening blunder
encompassing lies
fiction from between
a tyrant's pursed lips
our salivating torturer
chanting emperor
your palisades
of war cries
their lasting cost
as this last of us
Mother Earth's
vast sacred host
so recklessly chained
being under that
theoretical fat cat
strangled and staked
under that heretical thumb
blinded and shackled
by all that
yearning raging cackle
politico chat
undermining freedom
unimaginably numb
with all that
racist fascist fear
reminding us that
hell and danger
being always mindful
remains forever truly
always very near
 

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despite everything
no matter
frightful time
even enlightened
or what
brilliant dreams
or when
sublimely divine
despite life
hard times
all those
righteous challenges
that have 
simply lived
managing over
given time
still everyone
first born
then lived
despite everything
then died
no matter
just how
we came
to be
or even where
whether crawling
perhaps we
treasured flying
every noble calling
still all this vying
even worldly air
we all breathe
is oddly neither
just yours
nor mine
despite what
trying views
anyone's mind
might think
despite all
this worldly
populace gain
still earthly
lordly refrain
those real problems
our modern pain
all this tragic
sustained suffering
how can we
solve enough
beyond all this
buffered rough
fairy tale magic
something that
truly matters
such precious
elementary gifts
all this air
all this water
so we might
breathe life
here we are
drinking revelation
God so willing
this earthly
blessed incarnation
breathing sacred
blessed air
drinking holy
blessed water
such precious
earthly wisdom
despite everything
our errors in judgement
this blessed garden
divine elements
relevant consummation
fulfilling ardent
spiritual elevation

          * * * 

Red Sea
parted living
liquid God
take a breath
weathered Moses
set foot
a measured quest
on that giving
ancient place
speak of dreams
lofty in that
prophetic space
people it seems
swept up
in that
immigration race
out of one
mitigating desert
into some other 
world of consuming
singing sand dunes
Moses reassured
camel backs
a desert ass
once carrying
pastoral truth
along with
that unassuming
spectred wrath
of assuming man 
those stone tablets
resume God
that burning bush
so tell me
what treasure
whose commandments
can there ever be
besides a prayer
pleasing God
let me see
pleasure my lord
let me be
desert leisure 
X into Y
enacting Z
of factual things
we actually buy
what can
everything is possible
go wrong
let me fly
but we 
all know that
spectral truth
is just a sip
of ceremonious poison
a wretched trip
drowned in sweet
Zionist vermouth
so Gaza parted
while trying Egypt 
standing silent
reported violence
just outside
their Palestine
purported door
while resigned Moses
standing there
stares out to sea
wondering what
about Jewish justice
wondering who
not just God
would next
be set free 
just like old
pondering Moses
wondering exactly
if not you
then why me

        * * * 

 

Comrade Lenin
never thought
too bad
but this
Trotsky died
deflected sad
so literal masses
reflected mad
logistic pride
up then down
more spiral
than cycle
a pathetic ride 
no brilliant up
trial knows this
we virus survivors
constantly rising
subliminal oceans
comets don't forget
seas are coming
asterisk sun visors
reality's radiance
converging incisors
surging into
radical regret
so we are
totally smoked out
how many kernels
completely burned up
seeds recently downed
drowning in record floods
swirling hurricane politics
entirety blown around
whirling in high wind
factors like slurp
detritis left overs
those tangled things
like frothing suds
conjuring mangled
like urgent sin
crazy wartime
tangible blood
mindless scuds
Comrade Lenin
your internal
migrant earthquake
changing urinal
at stake atmosphere
nations caught up
in that infernal
reverberating wake
headily still
Trotsky pissing politics
gutted and insane
would have been
fanatically worn
been readily born
yet so forlorn
so utterly torn
Comrade rice and corn
even red potatoes
get spectrum blight
which racial battle
should be political
or be heretical
profound ground
those radicals
soundly lost
muggle gangsters 
hooded thugs
racially salivating
white nights
factual cannibals
a gangland cost
sightless and wandering
rightly left
taking over
selfish self pleasuring
pondering up
hill measuring dale
recording down
covertly capturing
downfall earth
stature drying up 
evasive CO2
so what
rapid rapture
did that
insipid crown
solve cooking
resolve fire
shake life
give a grappling sigh
hanging on
by intentional hook
an eventful reaper
evolving humans
resentful re-education
by conventional book
collects gold
accumulating diamonds
by stealthy crook
pulling humanity's teeth
so this apex
glacial ice
endless mountain
solid stuff
hammering us
remodeling life
as we suffer
rough folds
those remarkably tough
oddly smooth
strangling holds
some where
please please us
please let me
finally find
appeasing mind
sacred springs
a compassionate kind
some time
before that
foretold end
each passion
that free kind
revoking fascism
needing to
invoke rational
a truly spoken one
humanistic find
defining token officiality
social sarcasm
prophetic chat
emotional tradition
micro movements
conservative worms
Stalin's comments
reconfiguring norms
incessant barking
whipping republic dogs
Edison knew it
rigging up storms
why not profit
a metered grid
some regrettably new
social manifesto
so much daring
though morally
worthless words
those mixed up
profitless messes
crutch sharing
silly cordial sentences
marking Lenin's
even Putin's
ordeal place
stamped on
Trotsky's file
they sorely knew
those immoral
wretched intentions
corruptible inventions
marked with blood
remarkable politics
spewing red hot
construing words
like lava power
rivers of molten
irrational flowing
into outer space
more over sinner
this winner
human race
wearing this
tearful whining
war face
song birds fall
colourful fish fail
displaced tigers
violently roared
such a primordial place
more than primal gore
forward into horror
such emotive places
authoritarian grace
elemental dictators
daily marvel
thumbs up
openly applaud
rich into richer
their idol God
but by and by
two thumbs down
frown upon instigators
secretly disappear
protesting mitigators
something like Trotsky
an icy situation
similar to dicey Lenin
or that
current president
which reptilian alien
resident then
lord and master
enthusiastic cheering
drinking fresh blood
securely holed up
surely hunkered down
in confounding bunkers
those elite women
those elitist men
surrounded by astounding
founded in fact
golden ballrooms
each intact buttress
a dictator's zen
each castle fortress
a murderer's den

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