Current Poem

VERMINWhy slander honest hardworking predators by calling
mean dishonorable Wall Street bankers low-down dishonest
blood suckers? Maggots dont deserve being tied to finance
devil tongues, evil pushers peddling subhuman junk fixes
to mainlining money addicts.

And why are vile presidents and vicious congressmen 
equated with mellow laid-back cockroaches? – a hearty 
patriotic species thats outlived everyones worst expectations
without starting radioactive trench wars; without promising 
the next Golden Rotten Apple Paradise.

How dare unprincipled journalists compare Japans sullen
robotic salarymen to well-rounded worker drones? Ants
have much better manners, broad outside interests, dont
watch tv baseball demanding beer and rice balls from
one-step-behind obedient housewives.

Whos worse? A pack of innocent god-fearing hyenas,
lovingly munching a downed gazelle, or a merciless mob
of bad-smelling paparazzi relentlessly pursuing an
exhausted diva through the streets of New York, Seoul,
St. Tropez?

How about sweet courageous sharks, cruelly libeled 
whenever cowardly real estate horror developers unload 
their decayed Florida swamp lemons on retired mom and 
pop sandwich boards?

And which soulful family values Siberian wolf pack,
heartlessly torpedoed defenseless Allied hospital ships in
the frigid North Atlantic?

Yes. Its a tear-jerking tragedy. In our excessively exuberant
take-no-prisoners quest for the perfect society, we
needlessly trash the sterling reputations enjoyed by far
too many of Gods divinely chosen creatures.

Can you name even one attractive self-respecting rodent
who joined Sinatras ugly ego-driven rat pack?

Identify a single industrious church-going vulture
currently operating a major oil company or lobbying 
for a socially destructive faith-based defense contractor.

And why do we tolerate bad-mouthing clean responsible
bedbugs by calling Hong Kongs notorious Chungking 
Mansions a cheap lousy fleabag?

I know these are tough times. Things arent getting any
better. But thats no excuse to take out our frustrations
on loyal law-abiding carrion, to liken the worst elements
of the human world with the least understood, most put
upon inhabitants of the natural world.

     Tokyo, Sunday, 02/07/10

MONEY TALKSThats it! Ive had it. Im going hard right. Hard left. Moving
to the middle. Going Green. Going Crazy. Looking to the East.
Looking to the West. Looking to the Lord. From now on Im 
burning only free-roaming born-again politically correct hydro
carbons. Biofuels. Clean coal. Sacred anthracite bathed in the
biodegradable Blood of the Lamb.

Because we/re in trouble. Big Trouble. Because now the Fat 
Cats can spend whatever they want. Just like it says in the
Bible. Or as shown on tv. Checkbook Diplomacy. Back Pocket
Leadership. Money Politics. Welcome to Everythings Going To
Hell: Mother Earth, Big Brother, Uncle Sam. Because now
carbon polluters are people too – got just as much right to deny
global warming or bomb Iran as Mr. Nice Guy White Bread
Average Psychopathic Dimwit Boob Citizen.

And its all the governments fault – Revelations: Book 222,
Chapter 99, Verse 3.2. Why doesnt somebody do something - 
The Larry King Show: Warren Buffett to Tammy Faye Baker,
December 7, 1941. Prez gotta do something. Get constipated
economy regular. Give bunged up banks another dose of
bailout taxpayer Ex-Lax. Take shackles off Daddy Warbucks.
Unchain Uncle Scrooge. Free Bernie Madoff.

Can you believe it? Huge monster greedy dont give a good 
goddamn about you me or the common good corporate trash 
barrels can now legally piss away zillions of shareholders 
denaro lying slandering buggering up whatever worthy cause
honest thinker public-spirited institution or progressive leader
threatening to investigate indict or otherwise question their
narrow boneheaded totally selfish dumb imbecilic money 
interests or slow derail thwart or put the brakes on their 
ignorant deadly worthless Nazi business ambitions.

So of course theres no money for education arts bridges sickos
but plenty for their secret Blackspot contractor army, Jason
Bourne Vanilla Sky cameras, regulatory bribe corruption,
the Afghan puppet dork, Mexican hog farm swine flu breeders
and Trump Singapore Dubai duty-free high-end bagrot
entrepreneur startup bullbleep.

Yes I know. I should lighten up. Have fun. Because its 
important polite democratic to stop and hear what deceptive
stupid people have to say: Energy CEOs, knuckle-dragging
English teachers, Hoover Institute money-whores, asskissing
salarymen, Maria Bartiromo, George Will, Sarah Palin. But 
lifes too short important valuable to waste listening to fools 
and idiots. I understand and sympathize completely why good 
people turn to booze drugs sex Emily Bronte, anything but
being sucked into the collective double-dip corporate mind rot.

And so it goes. On and on. This morning on the radio instead
of trying again to prove intelligent design or anguish over 
uncertainty, schizoid callers shared how during a disaster they
could survive indefinitely on canned cat food.


     Tokyo, Tuesday, 01/26/10