March '92

We're marching towards the future 
with deep reverence for the past, 
heroes of a struggle ours, not yet won. 
  
We're marching in a line unbroken 
stretching 'round the world, fates linked 
as arms, with all workers 'neath the sun. 
  
Fists thrusting skyward, we move forward 
through the moral greyness towards 
times when justice for all is done. 
  
For now we see that fairness, 
respect and justice are a global matter 
and not a fight for just some. 
  
From Pretoria to Peoria 
we understand that the struggles 
against injustice are one. 
  
3/12/1992 

In Articulo Mortis

She is a fleshly ghost
Who walk and breathes,
Yet lives not.

She is a sorrowful
Sight who all her
Dreams forgot.

Her soul-less bones walk in
An endless night;
a six-foot plot

That cannot support the
Weight of living,
Growing crop.

She smells the dank decay
Of loveless life's
Deathly rot.

She is a fleshly ghost
Who walks and breathes,
Yet lives not.
  

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On Watergate

Richard Nixon: President, 
Tricky Dick or King? 
Anarchist or patriot; 
Impeachment charges bring? 

Rucklehause and Richardson, 
Cox and missing tapes, 
Judge Sirica, District Court, 
the press and sour grapes. 

Who is right and who is wrong, 
One Branch or the next: 
Senate, House or President, 
Sirica, on the text? 

Blow men blow, oh blow him down; 
Nixon, prangster, clown. 
Dirty tricks and politics - 
to whom shall go the crown? 

11/7/1973  

Summer Eyes

Green brown eyes await


embrace by queried seeker


soaking in his warmth.






*For one who will never know how I feel about him.

Flotsam

She was an infinitismal 
piece of universal flotsam 
acknowledging 
her reality with a 
final flight to a grey 
cement grave.   

Jesus vs. Bigotry

        Jesus vs. Bigotry

I have been contemplating converting from Christianity to Judaism lately. It seems to me that too many "Christians" have too little Jesus in their lives and too much fear in their faith, too much hate instead of love. What ever happened to Love the Lord your G-d and love your neighbor as yourself? Who is your neighbor? Jesus answered that with the Parable of the Good Samaritan: EVERYONE is our neighbor! EVERYONE! But every time I turn around I see another example of "pastors" declaring their hatred for gay people or the Vatican ignoring pedophilia by their priests while going after women's rights to access to health care, birth control and abortion. These MEN have, for two thousand years, systematically built an institution which caters to their needs, demeans women and built up riches at the expense of the poor. They even selected the Biblical canon based on these preferences. These men are not interested in preaching and LIVING the Gospel which was lived and taught by one Jesus of Nazareth. They are only interested in preserving the INSTITUTION of the Church for there OWN self-interest. Period. They really need to get off their thrones and go into the street and feed the hungry...

And then there are the other guys...the pastors on the evangelical right wing who preach hatred for anyone different than themselves. They don't just preach it, they advocate violence! One even hung President Obama in effigy! What a sacrilege against our Lord who was crucified for going up against self-righteous, arrogant paragons of faith like themselves! If you live by hatred, you will DIE by hatred! 

I don't know if I want to stay within such a broken religion. Are there even a FEW good shepherds in the flock anymore, O G-d?  I'm not too sure about the flock, either. 

It is not the Biblical faith that is broken, it is the corruption of the followers. Maybe it is time to wipe the slate clean and go back to what is True and has been for thousands of years... 

A Shakespearean Tragedy?

It seems to me that Susan G. Komen Founder Nancy Brinker falls into one of two categories. Either she is truly ignorant and she is being betrayed by Karen Handel, et al or she knew from the beginning what was happening within the organization politically. At first, I leaned toward her being ignorant and naive. That would make Karen Handel, the VP, a truly evil lone conspirator set on bringing about the cut of funding to Planned Parenthood at the expense of the mission of the Foundation. Nancy Brinker would then be one who was betrayed and an innocent  victim. Unfortunately, a second glance at the situation made this scenario highly unlikely. For one thing, who hired Karen Handel? Presumably, Ms. Brinker would have known Ms. Handel's political point of view as she had run for Governor on the platform of cutting funding for Planned Parenthood. Whoever brought Ms. Handel on board did so with full knowledge of who she is. It is thus likely that the Vice President's agenda was known from day one and tacitly approved.


The insistence that the decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood was simply a result of a policy change rings very hollow. Indeed, it looks very much like the policy was designed to provide an excuse to cut funding rather than the other way around. Especially since Penn State is also under investigation but it is not losing funding. 


Susan G. Komen spent the past 24 plus hours doing everything it could to cover-up the tracks of the primary players in this debacle. Former statements were deleted from the website, unfortunate re-tweets deleted and so on. If Watergate taught me anything at all, it is that a cover-up implies knowledge of wrong doing. 


That is what makes me sick to my stomach - the darkness that has insinuated itself into what was once a noble enterprise. It is the same darkness that pervades so much of government and politics from the Right these days. It is beyond sad. It might even be called a Cancer on our Society.  The question is: can Susan G. Komen treat itself? Or will it remain in denial?