The polls
And the podium
Punditry  
Funding spree
Populist
Pageantry
Palace
Of luxury
Muse to my drudgery
Fuse to my thuggery
Drug to the content
Creator’s
Skullduggery
Masterfully dealt
To a Democrat base
And to Bible Belt’s tightening
Heavenly laced
With an ******
Mass appeal
Classes dismissed
For the brass taxes
Cut with
The sinfully rich

Abandonment issues
Don’t cut it this time
If I lose you
That’s it for me
End of the line
So I want you to stay
Want us both to feel safe
In the longing for always
The other’s embrace
Not just pitched
In an argument
Soon to forget
Soon enough
We’re conflating
It all as a threat
To respect
To the debt
That we owe
To the photos
To memories
Fade to pain
Only
Alone knows

So proud to be American
Forget
Humanitarian
That neighbors
Might be strangers
Rearranging
Their vivarium
That we are all
Just prisoners
Within the planetarium
As free to be
Convicted
By a jury of our peers
As we are to form convictions
From a 30 rack of beers

Live for the moments
When even unspoken
In love
Can be broken
Wholeheartedly open
And peering deep into
The festering wounds
As you kindly
But blindly
Bind them
And refuse
More immediate
Medical help
Convalescence
Forgive instead
Live for the moment
Transgressions

You people
Are crafty
Got deals
To attract me
Entrap
Not exactly
I’ll hear you out
Gladly
But sadly
Not buying
A stay here today
Million ways
You can say
Don’t delay
Getaway
That my family
My time
Is most precious in life
Overestimate
What I would do
For my wife
But if dollars
And cents
Don’t add up
In equations
I’m sorry
I don’t in fact
Need a vacation

Better luck next time,
Until then take aim
At what’s lost in their budget cut’s
Capital gain
Isn’t merely our livelihoods’,
Neighborhoods’
Bane
It’s the state of our
Nationhood’s
Skin in the game
So play yours
To its strengths
Make your mark
More precisely
Be it
With a ballot
Or bullet
Politely
Propelled from the chamber
But echoing
Kansas
Still bleeding
Its greeting
Sic semper tyrannus

Infinite fragments
Distorted
From focus
The deregulation
Continues to choke us
And swarming like locusts
The banking clan
Broke us
And spoke in its
Serpentine
Privatized
Tongues
Stole the breath
From our
Microplasticity
Lungs
Pumped our veins
With arterial rage
Donut glaze
And what’s left of our minds
They keep locked
In a cage
They keep blocking
Progression’s
Diminutive leads
While expanding their
Theaters of war
Overseas
So it’s high time we seize
The whole picture,
Reframe it,
Imagine a nation
Of us
And reclaim it
The wealth we create,
That we generate,
Ours
We are masters of Earth
To their ******* of Mars
And the starlinks
And golden domes
Building their iron thrones
Shame will embrace
When we all lose
Their game of bones

To some of you
Once a good man
At first glance
Or first happenstance
Chance
I might find you
Entranced
But the rants
And the rancid
Cantankerous
Raving
Is lunacy
Set to default’s
Isolating
Increasingly fringe
Foreign take
On the issue
That leaves me with
More paranoia
To sift through
And sitting through
One more superfluous meeting
Might soon reveal
Looks
Can at times
Be deceiving
My name, image, likeness
Empire of thieving
My pound of flesh
Wounded pride’s
Internal bleeding
Not fit to be leading
A nation of many
When personally,
Morally
Bankrupted
Plenty

Left to discordant
Decay
Left to disarray
Iron fist’s
Fiscal bliss
Impotent  
Power play
Towers and walls,
Bits of coin
And coal mines
Lots of bribes
Underlying
More sinister crimes
And the party line
Drawing
More polarized
Borderlines
Warning signs
Blinded eyes’
Views of supremacy
Racial in nature’s
Dehumanist tendency
Make nemeses
Of the poor huddled masses
And kindles their fears
Like a downfall of ashes

No no
No thoughts for me
What are they costing me
Losses amounting
To only
Exhausting me
Lost causes
Lost track of time
Always agonize
Over the top
Of the hill
My allegiance lies
Cries on it
Dies on it
Bides its whole
Life on it
Further entrenched in its view
Stakes its life on it
Like a false flag
With a ****** of force
Buries
In roots and the soil
The toil
And wearies
The mind to more critical forms of it
Racking
The brain
With its myriad
Don’t feel safe
Cracking

Seeing only red
Dilutes the stop light
Colored
Dread
And all the rest
Is free to go
Into a
Hasty
Guilty
Pled
So slow you roll
Before creating
One more not so
Special ed
Another crime scene to be fled
Another pipeline to aWOKEn
The arrested walking dead
Another anthem of the victimized
To fill your little head
And wedded foremost
To your infantries
You hiss and lash
And shed
The superficial
Artificial
Skin decisions
To conform
To recapitulate
Submissively
And watch
The global warm

Insider traitors
Still trading our lives away
Charging us more
For the right
To go work all day

Mother
I wonder
How could you not smother me
Shrieking for twenty plus years
Out of infancy
Violently
Lashing out
My insecurity
Clashing with
Crippling doubt
Nothing new to me
Felt all your rage
And your anguish
Get through to me
Clearly
More resonantly
Than didactic
Could ever successfully
Teach us
The tragic
Downfall of the love
That still lives in
Your son,
In the ghost of his father
Now comfortably numb
But in baring such burdens
Alone all these years
You kept sparing me from
Far more nightmarish fears
Through reminding
At times
To the tempests and maelstroms
Of mind
We are thrown
But our interlinked hearts
See our wayward souls
Home

Either you’re broken
Or broken right open
So let go
Of no stone unturned
Goes unspoken
And throw yourself
So unreservedly
Into
The passions
You bask in
To mask
What you’ve been through
We all do
Go onward
And reap what we sow
We all weep
In the withering wastelands
Of woe
With the infinite void
Of our sorrows
In tow
High and low
All the while
Stay searching,
Resisting
The often alluring
Submission
Insisting
We offer ourselves
To the last
Sweet escape
And instead
In the interim
Content create

Rather take culture
Than power
All day
But my counterclaims
Waging their wars
To the grave
To the say no more
Nemeses
Seek to enslave
Though if any
Among them
Demand I behave
It is not an enraged
Won’t go quietly
Cage
State of mind
I would seek to portray
For the slobbering, driveling
Man babies
Wave
Their unfurling economy
Banners
In flame
For some impulse control
Wholly lacking
Performance
Their victimized,
Histrionic
Self-endorsement
Is not how my dormant
Internalized
Torment
Awakens to its
Catastrophic
Disruption
Or floods the zone
With more
Amoral
Corruption

And words give way
To waves
Give way
To worlds
Give way to graves
And we are all together
Digging
Deeper
Living
In our caves
Just facing out across
The bluest
Of expanses
One could dream
But seldom looking
Back the other way
Unless upon a screen

Gatekeepers
Guarding
The access
To knowledge
And some
Greater evils
We had to abolish

Start shredding the news
I’m grieving today
You play not so great
Parts
In the heart
Of LA
And ablaze
Is encroaching
Where lives matter
Most
Where the homelessness spreads
Avocado on toast
And the host
Of the talk show
Or podcast
Awoken
Amassing
Vast fortune
Non-fungible token
A hope that delusions of grandeur
Sustain us
Oases of plentiful
Potencies
Tame us
Proclaim to us
All the solutions
Salvation,
That Satan himself
Is the PBS station
But all machinations
Of waning states’
Greatness
Must propagate
Some form of hate
To create this
Supremacy culture
War’s winning mentality
Dog eat dog
Alpha male’s
Failed nationality

Not veracity
But frequency
Determining
The truth
And it is just
How many times
The jingle ringing
Ears of youth
Have heard
Routinely
What is schemingly
Alluring
And seductive
And its limiting
Abilities
To reasoning
Deductive
What its function
Is inherently
To pacify
The meek
But in reality
Adherents
Are empowering the weak

Sever synapses
Themselves
Or take heed
That deep frying
The circuitry
Amplifies
Greed
In a world
Where monopolists
Still rig the game
And their brands
Build the boardwalks
And jails
To detain
In a blackout
Of hunger
And thirst
To reclaim
A more clarified sense
Of exigency’s
Belly
When starved for attention
Like some
Megyn Kelly
But ultimately
We’re all *******
And warring
And boring
Ourselves
To a blissful
Oblivion
Entering
Wealthy
Or peasantry
Synonym
Judged before
Faced with eternity
Swimming in
One cataclysm
More costly
Than last
If we still fail
The basic exams
Of the past

Not much
For observation’s blinds
Unless they’re on
Vacation’s dimes
For time is of the essence
Of some all too precious
Prescience
And myopic are
The open eyes
Divining
Not a penchant  
For an overload of senses
Mother Nature’s
Battle trenches
When transparency
Requires
Darker-shaded
Ethnic lenses

Little excites
Like it used to
Ignites
The creative spark
Darkening
Save to incite
An incisive
But maybe
Divisive
Disorder
Identity crises
Of billionaires’
Borders  
And lawlessness orders
Like Wild West
Fable’s
Evangelists
Saying
Its grace at their tables
But saving their scraps
For as always
The trash
As their scare tactics
Home economically
Crash
Into fast money
Supermarkets
To the rescue
And poster boy
Seek and destroyers
To bless you
With testing their products
And formerly “services”
Rendered
By state
And municipal servicemen
All just exploited
Sold off
Or disposed
By the donor class
Capital gains
Undisclosed

I saw some people
In need
And I helped them
Some way
Shape or form
For a moment
I felt them
But also saw
Opportunistic
Endeavors
Fortuitous chances
To watch how it weathers
In whether or not
I decide
To be tending
Acculturation’s
Cultivations
Ascending
To more hungry lion’s
Shares
First feeding me
And what’s left of the carcass
Society
I would sell to the vultures
At auction
And keep
The pride rock
For my kind
To impregnably sleep
And in promises steeped
In self-serving deceit
Subjugate
Sycophantic
Hyena
Elite
And as long as no
Exiled kings
Should contend
You will never go hungry again…
And again

Maybe you’ve flirted
With funeral
Widows
Perhaps even mirrored
Their bleak
Weeping willows
But pillows have ways
Of prescribing more pill woes
And roses
Can’t say
Where the amorous
Thrill goes
And those of us
Willing to
Vow to take part
Should take heart
In unduly
How truly
We mark
The occasions
As often
As coffins
And ravens
Engrave them
And to our most
Sordid devices
Enslave them

All I have sacrificed
Given
Permitted
By seeking asylums
To which I’m committed
In more ways than one
With the refugees
Numb
To the wounds
We’ve inflicted
As lord of the slum
Bidding done
In the shadows
Or flooding the zone
And regardless
What pile of ****
Sits the throne
I alone cannot save us
Just stark raving
Madly
Homegrown
Terror
Raise us
To less ill-informed,
More illumined,
Dissent
To consenting
Too big to failed
Experiment

Remember
We censor them too
Through the screens
Satirizing
And lionizing
The machines
That have codified
History’s
Dissident screams
Surreptitiously
Silenced
Yet echoing themes
Of more radical
Violence
Inflicted to quell
Such repellent invasions
Of interconnected
Manchurian agents
From somewhere external
Hard drive
Or internal
Disservices
Revenue
Revenants’
Journal
Is purged
From the room
And the record
Expunged
But the text is eternal
When wechat
Among
Our unruly, yet orderly
Disciplined minds
Turn the weapons they’ve formed
Against us
Into crimes
Because no can hide
Their free speech
From the markets
And we can Biden to its
Capitol’s carcass
Or Trump card the world
Like a billionaire Marxist
Unplugged from the shrug
And suggest me a drug  
Is the microprocessor
Encrypting the bug

Though haunting
To sleep beside
Restless anxiety
Knowingly some of it
My
Impropriety
Life
Seems a far more  
Heartbreaking affair
If you are not
Somehow
In my everywhere
For when barely a prayer
Anymore
Can sustain us
Your faith in me
Loyalty
Truly explains us
And you are the sing
To my song
Only one
Who has sung me a serenade
Back
To show love
Even when
Not of words
But expression
Reform it
Your warm embrace
Tireless grace
So adorns it
In some more transcendent
More sacred
Devotion
My dearest,
My Evi,
The moon to my ocean

How would I conclude
How it all comes to ruin
What numinous
Unities
Herd the immune  
To communing
With singular focus
Attuning
To radio frequencies
Secretly
Beaming
Subliminal
Messengers’
Meddlesome
Scheming
With such
Efficacious
Outreaching
Embraces
From nations
And races
To homeostasis
And placing their faith
In the edifice gifted
The natural state shifts
From resist
To submissive

Close as I’ve
Ever yet
Ventured
To fathom
As if
My imagine
Could reach out and grab them
The weapons we’ve formed
Unto prosperous ends
To the victor go spoils
And I write the ends
Of the stories
Of glorified
Government forms
To fill out
And redoubt us
In Ivy League
Dorms
In the master class
Master’s degrees
Culture norms

I would have it
More United
Than divided
If I could
Reignite a revolution
From the test of time
Withstood
In this unrest of mine
No Palestine
Awoken to
The genocide
Need still attest its
Battled tested
Children of thalidomide
To such administrative tasks,
Some feckless
Court of nation’s asks
So kindly
Deafened world
To hear
The sound of greedy leaders
Clear
Beyond the echo chamber
Breaches
How these parasitic
Leeches
Reap and keep us all
Addicted
On forever war’s
Enlisted
From one soldier ant
Who trod
In workers’ steps
As well
As God’s

God is just
Existence
Speaking
Temptress of
Addictions
Tweaking
Tweeting ego
Complex
Seeking
Ever more
The sleepless
Counting sheep into the bleakness
Where it reaps
Its phantom tolls
Like holy ghosts
Rewrite the scrolls
In keeping
With traditions
Old as time
Just follow money trails
And find
Divine is not the maker
But the makings
Of the mind

Depleting
Approaching
The close
Of my business
It’s none of your wishlist
And spent of forgiveness
So much as returning
A glance
Now accosts
Me a fortune
In earnings
I’ve turned
Into loss
And like Ivy
So poisonously
Academia
Billionaire socialists
Boast social media
Ghosting their former
Profile’s
Depictions
Recombinant matrix
Red pillage
Prescriptions
Now written
As freely
As AIDs in the 80’s
Pervaded
Their brains
And turned men
Into ladies

What becomes of the kingmakers
Need I remind you
Or just allow
They continue to blind you
What masterwork’s
Masterful hands
Master’s hills
Haven’t raised enough prices
And drowned you in bills
Existentially threatened you
Racking up kills
As if hunting’s in season
All year
We’re all deer
And the game’s
An election
All year
To steer clear
Of the history lesson
No no
Might reveal
How the power sustains itself
Through a New Deal

Only musing
Long excludes
The madness that this world
Eschews
And leads me once again
To beckon
All the currents
I am swept in
Cast away
Forever kept in
Empty bottles
Dying breath in
Its bereft of hope’s
Last gasp
The sum of all of its fears
Amassed
Should come to pass
Its message dated
Only unto shores
Invaded
By the situation’s
Room
To grow
Its crypto
Oil boom

Dispossession
My enduring lesson
Failing only banks
Who fail to serve me
Up
A Great Depression
Ever there
To pull us out
With more rearmament
Equations
And a place
To place to the blame
On those subversive  
Of persuasion
For the fist of righteous order
Must come firmly first
Then swiftly
How the furies of
Its mighty fallen
Favored fortunes
Gift me
Overzealousness
Tempestuous
Recalcitrance
Averse
To what discursive
Rhetoricians
Still can’t openly
Converse
But I am not the same old
Liberals
In their biblical
New cities
I am not
The pretty power puffing
Chests
Arresting Diddies  
I am merely
Observations
From the outside
Looking in,
As foreign in
My disposition
As I am
American

From whence the wilted wandered
Wondered all
The money laundered
Has it gone
So far beyond
Where they would utter
De guerre ‘Nam
And from those jungles
Fill your lungs
With burning stakes
Of Amazon
But turning rates
Of the disinterested
To actively engage
From highly likely
If it’s nightly,
Daily,
Constantly replayed
To child’s play
Of puppeteers
In their clock working
Apparatus
To addict you
And afflict you
Forceful feed you
Needles madness
Then it’s habits
Gotta have it
You just gotta ******* grab it
Off the shelves
Or off their cellular
Dependencies
Like magic

Never invulnerable
Left to devices
For sooner
The listlessness
Kindly invites us
To break from the mold
Punching clocks
Growing old
As malfeasance
And negligence
Leaves us exposed
To intense
Hyper scrutiny
Make myself usefully
Not just intrusively
Yours to behold

Unless legions of people
Unequaled
In stature
Go marching
Like ants
In the colony
Fractured
The psyche
Then voices won’t matter
Who hurt you
Like Nike
Incisively
Signals its virtue
Upon the first trend
The Black Fridays we spend
As consumers
United
In rights to defend
Our most sheepish impulses
And wolf appetites
To the death
Of our liberties
In the black sites  
Where the word
Of slain leaders
Still herds its immunity
Deep in the cells
Of what sells
Black community

How to say
Come what may
Where the fault line is laid
What to do in events
You slip through it
Afraid
If you say it
Intrudes
And refuses to quit
If you feel how its dissonance
Widens the rift
Then you must
Find a way
To admit
Why we say it
Or doomed to repeatedly
Weeping
Replay it

Underneath
All the anger
A sadness
It’s tragic
And countless the times
I have rhymed it
With madness
But really
It’s simple
Some complex
Enigma
Is fractured
Enraptured
In mental health
Stigma

End it will
End in madness
End in failure
If you let it
End in misery
In woebegone
In malice
You’ll inherit
Such disparate
Inequalities
Devoid of any
Merit
But you’ll wear it
Like a patriotic flag
Catches the wind
And not to brag
But you will
Reinvent
Its colors
Of the skin
Yet some inherent
Mortal sin
Might in
The shadows
Deep instill
An ever-looming
Private interest
Despotism
Shoot to ****

The Apogee Man
Sees all humanoid clan
Ataraxia
Rooted in
Arable land
Gains his prominence
Earns it
From sharing his keep
Reaps the spoils
He snatched
From the jaws of
Elite
Not in coasting
On daddy’s warbucks
Here to Gaza
Not slaughtering kids
For a lucrative plaza
Not selling out allies
Betraying ideals
Not in lying so much
He forgets how it feels
What it means
To be truly
Mandated to lead
What the doctrines demand
He must fairly concede

And yet
All we take
To the grave
Is most worthless
No plight
Or birthright
Form of life
Could deserve this
Competitive nature
Default to temptation
This cutting edge
Fully fledged
War of creation

Not all I believed
Has agreed with me
Aging
Enraged
A decade
Ago
Seldom
Engaging
What slight inclination
I had left to
Breed
Though defiantly
Calling out
Bastardized greed
In the sanctity
Answers
The books I would read
Clarifying
For moments in time
What we need
Most supremely
Most urgently
Now
We demand
What will feed
Progeny
Redistribute the land

They tell us
They love us
We put them
Above us
And with their
Attention economies
Drug us
And hug us
With warmth
Of embracing
A parent
Society shrugs
Off the bugs
Are inherent
Systemically
Hard-wired,
Virulent
Sentiment
Hasn’t yet made me a patriot
Actor
But rather
Appears
A contributing factor
To war
In its normalcy
All out more
Feeding
Its ravenous industry
Furnaces churning
Out cultural proxies
But all of its gods
Are just monkies
With poxies 🙊

She could be in terrible
Pain
So just go to her
Caught in some really bad way
As you never were
Prone to emotion
No more than provides
What you hide
In repressed,
More effeminate sides
But deprived of your strength
And your take home
Inflation
Of ego
You know
You’re alone
Inclination
Just seeks
Its self-service
Cocoon of eschewing
The over the moon
For you feelings
Exuding
But loses its bluster
Its posture
Its cool
And submits to her
Somehow more powerful
Rule

Promise justice
Into dust
Is this
Fortune foretold
Determined,
Terminated,
Propagated
Stories all
Unfold
From Pravda’s
Driving Mazdas
Writing in
Their power
People
In a language spoken
Woke enough
To scheme a lesser evil

One more thank you
For my students
Who go through this
Education
Pull back curtains
Food desertion
Breaking fast
Their concentration
On the nation
That has raised them
From monopolistic sources
Through abortion
And extortion
Disproportionate  
Divorces
Overwhelming force
Endorsed
Too often
Book reports
Exams
And coffins
Bullets
Barrels
Only blossom
Learning from
Collective trauma
Teenage angst-enlivened
Drama