Sunday, September 23, 2018
Here and There
I go towards the World,
a raucous trip
to an even more raucous
destination where
they fire questions at me!
Acquit myself well enough
to ask permission to
return, which
is never, ever, granted
but always implicit.
Labels: authority, privacy, stress, trap, travel, worldly
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
To the “Journalists”
into arguing against
His Eminence and tru-
ly becoming thus
the story.
Uh huh?
Three Card Monty:
always lose.
Labels: authority, cards, gambling, journalism, sucker, Three Card Monty
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
The Circle
Thinking too weirdly
brought the request
to cease. Easy enough
to just pretend to.
It eased, then
asked to help
with those
who stray. But
who am I
to shift others
to my shape? It
all worked out
though. That is
until everything
unrecognizable,
and everyone.
Can it go on
this new way?
What?
ask they.
Labels: authority, change, conforming, creativity, new, reorganization, reshaping, shape-shifting
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Late Remedy
The authorities declared the only street in town
one-way.
As a result you couldn’t get back!
Unless you negotiated a maze of dirt roads,
and tangled Indian Paths.
Which we did in good humor, often in conversations with fellow pilgrims.
When the authorities got wind of the camaraderie, they stationed police and Guardsmen to funnel us back,
silently, to the main street.
Then the joke became you had to circumnavigate the globe to return home.
A whole genre of Anti-Official scorn and humor
followed.
Got back to them, and they raised a far barrier so nobody could leave town.
Held a public meeting there.
We killed them all at it, the One-Way signs flung on the bodies.
Then celebrated. Dancing!
When the old and children left, it became Dionysian.
When Freedom finally comes, it can take that form.
Labels: authority, bureaucracy, dancing, dionysian, insane bureaucracy, one-way, orgy, perverse authority
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Conflict In the Cancer Ward
When The Wit passes,
the doctors and nurses become doubly
morose.
The new patient, Bertram Runcey
Carruthers, strict in life and worse
approaching death, wouldn’t say shit
if he had a mouthful.
“Oh Well!” from Head Nurse, Frederika,
“They also serve, etc. And, a little nobility
won’t hurt this time.”
“Fuck nobility!” counters assistant, Delsey,
too outspoken for her own good.
“You’re too outspoken for your own good!”
reminds Frederika.
Labels: authority, Cancer, hospital, nobility, nurses, wit, youth
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Aviary
Authories scheme
awful crises,
better to preen
for the lights
at the worst.
Before flying
at each other,
claws first.
Labels: authority, bird, crisis, legislator
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Question Authority
What is function
of friction
within your
jurisdiction?
Do you enable,
table, or convict?
Labels: authority
