020241107

if you be 

accused of being

a snowflake 

hang on

we want standardization in

the products we produce

the processes we follow

you are a 

global citizen 

not a product

you are a star

in the darkness

burn bright snowflake 

the journey is far

and we move so slow

020241107

well we did a few things right

we elected to serve for the first time

two people with a shared identity 

we, i heard while working from home

elected our first transgender person to congress

likely around the same time

my spouse was holding a student who

was dealing with how unsafe the world is

to those who say we lost because we

didn’t speak to those in the center

that we must listen to them and 

meet them where they are if we want to win

are focused on the wrong ideal 

and maybe I am too

we have to remember

very simply 

if it isn’t anti racist it is racist

winning is never achievable

if we have won we are now the problem

before they hand out the medals

let us make sure we are on the street

let us make sure we are in the community

let us open our ears

let us make vulnerable our hearts

let us roll up our sleeves

020241022

i voted yesterday

today reflecting in haiku

culpability

moral, my vote, revenue

I am genocide

i am guilty

morally culpabile 

choosing between ignorant evil 

and a lesser evil i am still

supporting a system

guilty of genocide

in more than one incident

it has become systemic

020241006

oh for the day

when we elect 

poets intentionally 

their ability to evoke

feelings of hope

of love

of sorrow in a way that

builds reflection and reason

020241006

may the social norms

be ever in your favor

020241017

are there just too many words? Is that why we cannot label it truthfully 

Generational transfer of wealth

Generate good will

Genuflect

Genuinely love one another

Generally learning from failure 

Genetic adoption 

Genomic mapping 

my phone didn’t want to auto correct my inability to spell it - maybe that is why the truth cannot be labeled

is it too inconvenient, is this once again somehow about the price of oil

i don’t want to understand because I think it can be labeled acceptable 

i want the truth

why can’t we call it what it is

when we said never again

these acts committed with a clear intent to destroy in whole… not just impart… 

Genocide

020241017

some times you just wake up and know

it’s going to happen

the urge to pee

or maybe a bowel movement

so much pressure

it’s why calling it

Woke

is so apt

one movement you are dreaming

lost in a world of joy

purchasing without awareness 

of what pain was caused to get you

that low low price

the next moment you realize

the racism of the system

the ecological damage causing mass migration 

the bombs dropped on children’s play grounds

the bullets lodged in our collective future

the pain, the pressure the urge to rage or give up

awakened to the reality of the responsibility of the self governed 

as pop culture would have us understand

with great power comes great responsibility

truth is an absolute necessity 

keep those senses attuned to it

don’t turn away

do not look for the easy way out 

it may be that this is

inevitable

human nature

but let us decide that with full understanding 

maybe we can collectively find a way

to conquer and dominate 

without so much pain

maybe we can honestly participate 

rather than one day waking up

and finding that we are all suffering 

020241017

i cannot dance

no no it’s not what you think

yes my dance is very limited

but that isn’t why i say i cannot dance

you see two megalomaniacs…

they dance very much how I do

and i don’t not look similar to one of them

and they are… well ass holes

so you see when i dance

i know that i too am an

ass hole

i need a new groove to save my soul

020241010

i speak only one language 

but i hear the pain 

in the voice of a fifteen year old

begging to be rescued 

explaining that their mother has been

killed

i hear this second language

pain

i attempt to speak the universal language of

love

i fear learning to rage against the evil speaking only

fear, hatred, war

i read

every atom the tapestry of life

every life a universe 

communication part of the answer

listening an equal part of speaking

020241005

i don’t know how to put it in words

then just say how you feel…

eight years old

a poster of faces expressing feelings

doesn’t cover

the pain

how do you ask 

a nuanced question 

about the structure

of a system that

watched your mother die

no child left behind

we can make sure

everyone suffers

quantity over quality 

not even quantity because it isn’t number of days

it’s only the number of entries

missing the number of exits

the painful exits

the goal is not wrong

but the execution

is flawed 

humans confronted with absolutes

with binary only rules will….

what am i feeling how do i say this

what’s the antonym of thrive

020241005

if you put

that much lead

in your food

you will be poisoned 

instead of skilling up

we found a new material

we need schooling

our comprehension of the

second amendment proves it

020241005

i am not saying i am a moral person

but i understand the ethics

i know the difference 

what is right 

and what is wrong

and while i lie

i avoid pain not just my pain but shared pain

i will tell you honestly what is evil

020241005

comfort wears a hug

020241005

you talk about

happy path

you setup the

golden path

following you

i feel like i am on the 

psycho path

020241005

i write from my pain

—and it is almost childish 

and it is infantile 

a Palestinian writes and it

touches God

020241005

i don’t write poems

these are lines of code

020241005

like sand

i filter tears

into salt free

ground water