Current Poem

AMERICAN DREAM DEFIBRILLATEDThank God. At last. Americas long nightmare is finally over. Of course
not everybodys happy. Because its a big disappointment for soccer
moms, ditto heads, knuckle draggers, unibrows, flagwavers, gaybashers,
right-to-lifers, everyone who puts country first and hates liberals.
Unfortunately not a good day for gun nuts, gas guzzlers, racial profilers,
dollar averagers, Joe the Plumber, the Watergate Plumbers, all those who
still believe Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Yes. Its a brand new day in America. Unless youre a stock flogger,
derivatives junky, National Parks pipeliner, selling Freedom Fries, clear
cutting, making Revolving Door or Swiftboat ads or drilling for offshore
oil. Morning In America. Thousand Points of Light. Except for Jesus
freaks, Bible thumpers, The Base, granny dumpers, flat taxers, no taxers
and whale killers. Black Day In November for the Vegas Family, managed
health care mob, camouflage wearers, waterboarders, minutemen, surf
and turfers, global warming deniers, Fox News believers, war lovers,
Castro haters, the walk softly and carry a big hydrogen bomb set.

Tell me Im not dreaming. Is it really game over for cowboy boots, Stetsons,
Dallas Cowboys, leveraged bullbleep, Confederate flags, gun racks, the
tobacco lobby, attack helicopters, full metal jackets? Pinch me. Surely
salad days havent ended for depleted uranium, school vouchers, home
schooling, billionaire tax breaks, nude pig piles, Breaking News, the
Situation Room, CNBCs Closing Bell and High End Living?

Believe it. Its a whole new ball game. Earthshaking. Homeland Security
renamed Homeland Hilarious. No more sour airport greetings by surly,
identity checks, presumptuous luggage searches. Everybody warmly
welcomed with sexist racial kneeslappers pulled from secret background
profiles. John Wayne renamed I Love Lucy Airport. Ronald Reagan
Building now Iran Contra Complex. American Enterprise Institute
morphed into Dick Cheney Early Warning American Fascist Watchtower.

CIA abolished. FBI reigned in. Everybody enjoying generous health care,
fat pensions, authentic education, 24 karat human rights. Bridges safe
to cross. Air okay to breathe. Americans welcomed everywhere. Because
its the dawning of the New Age. Bright happy well-adjusted America.
Pentagon in its proper place. Talkshows talking real freedom, spouting
genuine democracy. No fear. No cheap partisan exploitation of 911,
Armageddon, healthy family life, illegal immigration. Ralf Nader,
Secretary of Consumer Affairs. Allen Ginsberg, Secretary of Defence.
Lenny Bruce on the three dollar bill. Rational self-interest replaced by,
Hey Man, hows it goin?

Tokyo, Monday, 11/03/08

THIS JUST INIn our great global gettogether, everybody drinking from the same
page, eating off the same crap table. Time falls apart, nobody wants
to seem discontinuous or miss a fantastic buying opportunity.
Bad chemicals happen. Space explodes.

This Just In. Fireballs in Bali. Iceland crashes. Everybody everywhere
losing confidence in everything.

The future hangs over us like a crumbling circus tent. Everybody
holds their exit ticket wondering. Asking, will the mechanical elephant
actually work? Who will be the new Bobo? Wheres the next tightrope
walker?

Economics is dead. Reality is Starbucks and a Visa Card. China runs
it up the flagpole. India salutes.

History has disappeared. Today is today. Everything under construction,
chaos. Nobody in charge. Money keeps kicking ass and taking down
pension plans.

Of course its easy to look at the present state of torn jeans and permanent
warfare. The human condition top-heavy with social decay running 
past waving its hat.

Borderless. Violent. Hilarious. Globalization is our capacity for mindless
destruction disguised as mans struggle for personal disintegration.

Disillusioned disposable souls adrift through car dealer cultures
populated by tax collectors sociopaths brand names and energy
shortages.

But its not all gloom and doom. Boom or bust. Everyone under 250K
at the mercy of inscrutable authority. Because life still has meaning force
vitality. Its good points. You know what I mean.
And Im not just talking self-righteous fascist rhetoric. Or Marxs comic
sad farcical banana trilogy.

We cant just blame a diabolical leader, the spirit of the times or crushing
peer pressure. Not when theres human sacrifice nymphomania and
loose cannons rolling around talking to themselves.

As adequate life deteriorates tempers turn ugly. Churches mosques
synagogues rock with angry shouting. Metaphysics bitterly disappointed
by historical humping. Irate wounded deer demand world-wide 
coordinated intervention. Jump-start true meaning of sleeping-on-your-
side.

Rootless. Lonesome. Unable to connect. Connect with what? How about
a 1929 Doublecrash? Wheres the beginning? The middle. Closure. No
end, satisfactory or otherwise.

In the end life leaves us this choice. Either more bodybuilding or
another Jerry Lewis fundraiser.

     Tokyo, Sunday, 10/12/08