Angels Sound Like Banshees Today

The ambulance sirens are ringing out like crazy 

down the hill, audible every
hour, sounding more
like screeches than sirens as
the hours advance.

Riffs

This riff feels invented to capture all that I love about New York, 

Brooklyn/Queens in particular, & also makes me feel blue being 

barred from my home state...riffs

James Baldwin: To Be Revered, Unlike Venal Politicians

Photograph: Dave Pickoff/AP, 1963

Juxtapose

 A flock of birds flying in formation backdropped by the mountains visible in the distance 

during my walk, rising, rising, passing as a group, altering the airfield, restoring calm

followed moments later by the whir of blades, a red helicopter 

pushing forward, low, in the opposite direction

Positive Reinforcement

I sat out at the park for more than a few minutes today, a rare thing these daze, and a hot guy walking by my bench with his dog said good morning to me in a hot guy voice, keeping his distance and being respectful yet vibrating hot guyness, which I am taking 

as positive reinforcement

Our American Society

Amazing how many problems could have been prevented if problematic people had taken responsibility for their underlying beliefs and general mental health...instead, we're collectively mired 

in crosscurrents of oppositional defiance, nitpicking (aka projected self-loathing) and the consequences of prioritizing obedience/de-prioritizing intelligence, all in this weird bid for control that so obse$$es too many of the people running things, and running them into the ground, and guess what, there's no such thing as control, and your hierarchy is nonsense unless flipped upside down—fool!