The Statesmen

How blest the land that counts among
Her sons so many good and wise,
To execute great feats of tongue
When troubles rise.
Behold them mounting every stump,
By speech our liberty to guard.
Observe their courage—see them jump,
And come down hard!
“Walk up, walk up!” each cries aloud,
And learn from me what you must do
To turn aside the thunder cloud,
The earthquake [...]

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What An Aborted Baby Knows

On Christmas eve there laid I awake
Waiting for sky and roof to quake
About events earth soon to shake.
A celestial son devolving like Darwin;
A baby evolving into rustic man then
News of his expected apocalyptic sin.
Empires rattle when temple veils tear
A repulsed foundation earth does swear
At holy blood it has drunk yet unaware.
The sky abhorred at the [...]

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Truth Is One

In long devotion to forms that cheat
Thou hast suffered the days of thy life to fleet:
But outward forms are still passing away,
Changing their fashion from day to day.
Tread not ever on the stones that are rough to thy feet;
Nor shift from branch to another they seat.
Seek high o’er the sphere of the world thy rest;
In [...]

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Ode to America’s Boy Martyr

In Chicago a monument must be built
To honor America’s courageous martyr,
A black young boy who faithfully refused
To sin against his parent’s moral instruction.
His honor must resound across modern society
That justifies vice and violence and putridity
Because slum lords in marbled halls legislate
a profitable drug industry pushing perfidity.
The magnanimous boy who refused to believe
The promises of riches [...]

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On The Occasion of the First Official Recognition of MLK’s Birthday

The former director of the CIA
stands solemnly over the grave
of the man assassinated by the FBI
less than two decades ago.
TV projects the dead man’s image
accompanied by ads for the UAW
not to mention
plugs for Coca Cola.
Diana, Stevie, Lionel and Liz
appear in sequins and feathers.
Each proclaims with a tear or a grin,
“I am part of the dream.”
(The [...]

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The American Struggle

Cerebral convulsions agonizing pain
Midnight vigil struggling to be sane
I screamed with terror in moonless night
Unnerved by night visions causing fright
A scene fading from troubled memory
A colonial time radically revolutionary
That blasted Boston tea causing tyranny
Dead lovers embracing usurped security
Fiery torrents raining down from gray swift sky
Years of petitions bloody guns addressed awry
Soldier’d lives ascending in ash [...]

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Which Craft?

Two vocations you must choose
Which determines if you will lose
A destined way future’s tomorrow
Volitional aims to reap no sorrow
Look deep into nature’s crystal ball
See interests flow thro’ veined wall
As a heart pulsates out liquid vitality
Genetic code streams scripted ability
Jabaric stars twinkle in dark galactic night
Daily rebirth’d they broadcast in day’s light
Shining brilliance they blind all [...]

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