Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Park, the Hills, Earth, Virus

I love when it rains in Los Angeles, not just because this climate needs it, but because the rain suits this environment somehow. People here get nervous about rain, yet go out driving anyway, a phenomenon that is both comical and best avoided.

I got caught in what was considered a significant rainstorm on my walk last Saturday, a legitimate downpour, even with my planning against the hourly weather.com report. Oh, well. Here, I enjoy a downpour, the release valve of rushing water, life, renewal, tonight undercut again by sirens down the hill, blanketing my building, the park, the hills, earth, virus

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Prize Givers

Three weeks ago, a guillotine was constructed on the lawn of the Capitol, just right out in the open, in public, and now we hear nothing about this event? How long did that project take? Who facilitated?

Unfortunately, seems many of our politicians have the same lack of regard for their own safety as they do for our health and survival. That is a depressing realization in the sense that we're dealing with people managing our tax dollars who not only don't care about doing that job in an ethical or competent manner, but don't have any motivation to maintain basic guardrails when their favored category of white, right-wing domestic terrorists strikes. 

On the local loco, firefighters are refusing vaccinations and are now being offered prizes

as some sort of incentive to be vaccinated. I know we're all so cynical now, and how dare we expect anything, but the term "public servant" has a very specific meaning. And that role requires a person who will act in the public interest, not endanger the health of people they're supposed to be serving during a pandemic. 

Hundreds of thousands of people have died. 

Have any of these prize givers asked their loved ones how it feels to pay taxes to finance firefighters, as well as cops, city contractors and politicians, who are likely to be culpable in these deaths based on their hostile refusal to wear masks, socially distance, get vaccinated, be even a bit humane?

Thursday, January 21, 2021

I'm Only Asking

Hard to hold someone accountable for restoring a country's soul or decency or keyword keyword

Did you vote for a politician to restore your soul? 

(Is your life that bankrupt?)

What does that even look like

I'm Only Asking

As You Peasant About


They're laughing at you, promising intangibles

as you peasant about, scolding fellow 

citizens in a democracy for calling politicians

on their obvious lies as they dine out on


your crumbs, depriving you


of a meal, backdropped by their own abundant

cupboards--because it feels good for them to

play you, even if and when you die of this

trickledown desperation, a deliberate drip to

keep the peasants bustling on their behalf. 


That's why they laugh so much. 

They're not joyous; they just enjoy this.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

None of the Best People You Know

None of the best people you know are on television, 

none of the best people you know have incited violence, or 

kept kill lists, or moralized while 

building their fortunes on their own lack of morals 

and your money, yet 

these are the people dominating the frame 

demanding worship and what's sad is 

you give it to them.

Politicians & their Deadly Pageantry

Reminder: 

You're paying for their pomp and circumstance as

hundreds of thousands die

due to a lack of care, based on their deliberate

refusal to do more than yak about

humane tax dollar allocation.


Stan on, though; stan on.

To your graves.