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Party Like It’s 1865

The party

Of Lincoln

Long

Gone,

Seceding

From itself

Like angry

Dangerous teens

With weapons

And platforms

Slamming

Doors

And stealing

The keys

To the

Car (and worse),

Driving

Just

To 

Drive, 

Enjoying

Owning

Anyone

Else.

Flailing, 

And easily

Stoked

And used,

A confederacy

Of evil

Corruption

Cynically

Separating

Devaluing

Threatening

Menacing

Deconstructing

Then

Reconstructing

With hate

And deception

Regardless

Of consequences

Anymore.

The party

Of Lincoln

Was

Assassinated.

Embracing

Violence

Claiming

Freedom

How free

Are we

In the

21st Century?

The anti

Elites

Fund

A “Billionaire”

Reconstruction

Begat

The KKK

After

The 14th

And

15th

Ammendments

Expanded

Citizenship 

And voting

Rights–

An expanding

Trajectory

Some seek

To contract.

But really 

Now 

It’s 

Power;

Pure,

Sickening

Power

Of Hate.

Dancing In the Dark

We

Cha

Cha

Cha

Thinking

We’re 

Stepping

Forward

But

One foot

Is touching

The floor

Then

Side by side

Both step

In place.

Starting

Again,

Feeling

Initiative

Until

Alternating

Stepping

In place.

Dancing

Isn’t 

Linear

Movement.

We move

Our stories

Along

Paths

Looking

Backwards

And ahead,

Intending

To explain

Ourselves

And our

Actions

Reacting

With purpose,

Aiming

For success.

Dancing

Isn’t

Seeking

Accomplishment.

Performing,

Expressing

Inspired 

Movement

Flowing 

Energetically,

Rhythmically,

Socially,

Fast,

Slow,

Partnering,

Solo.

Dancing

Is 

Four

Dimensional;

For

All 

We do

Is dance.

Life Expectancy

The headline today:

US losing

Life 

Expectancy

Due to 

COVID19

The average

Lifespan

Is 

One 

Year

Less.

Life expectancy

Has generally

Denoted

Progress

Referring to

Extending

Years

Of living.

The goal

Has been

To be

Alive

As 

Long

As

Possible.

Now,

Some seek

To define

Life

Extending

Before

Birth

As long

As possible.

(Thus far,

We’ve counted

After birth.)

What to

Expect

When

You’re expecting?

Your

Life 

Matters

Less

Than

Potential

Biological

Processes 

Not yet 

Formed

Or 

Counted

On 

The scale

Of Life

Expectancy.

My unscientific 

Analysis

Suggests that 

Most of us

Want to approach

 A century

 On earth

 Outside a womb

Feeling ok

Then passing

Peacefully

In our sleep.

I don’t expect

My life

To end

That way

Or 

Unfold

Without

Issues. 

What

Do we

Expect

Of life

After 

Birth

Before

Death?

That 

Deserves

More 

Attention

As we

Are losing

All that

Too.

Zero In

Nada.

Not a chance

In Hell

On earth

By the sea

To lake

Or island

Of Manhattan

Nor

County

Of

The Braves

Where 

Claims of 

Nothing

Wrong

Defying 

Justice

Threatening

Upheaval

Even talk

Of Civil

War

Anew

Will 

Stop

This

Crazy 

Train 

Of 

Lies 

And thefts

Barnacles 

All,

Clinging

To 

A Zero

With

Nothing 

But shilling

For 

Self

For 

Power

And money

As 

Investigations

Zero In

On

Facts

It 

Figures

Are crimes

For which

We are

Paying

The price

Of

Losing

Democracy.

That 

Zero

Must be

Indicted.

Right Away

You’re right

All 

The time;

Always

With 

Good

Intentions,

Presumably.

And 

So

Am I

Also

Right

Knowing

What 

Should 

Be

Even when

A counter

Is proposed.

Days 

Are unclear;

Anything

Can happen.

Anything

Can go 

Wrong

It seems,

Despite

Knowing

What needs

To happen.

Good luck

Feels certain

These days.

Unfortunately,

Rational thought,

Assumed

Necessary,

Seems secondary

Or irrelevant,

Never 

Mind

Truthiness–

That

Was

So early 

Aughts.

Truthiness

Was

Truth

Adjacent.

Sort of

Sounded 

Like something

Actual,

But false

In reality

That we

All shared.

As a

Matter 

Of fact

No longer

Exists

When

Facts

Don’t matter.

Only 

Being

Right

Matters

Even 

When

Right

Is wrong.

It’s

Power

And 

Oppression,

Micro 

And 

Macro

Aggressions.

Personal

Is 

Political.

Or

Are we

Each

Always

Exerting

Dominance

In the

Name of

Being right?

Too much

Is Wrong

With

The world.

I know,

Right?

Left Handed

What’s left 

When what’s

Handed down

Is cruelty?

In the name of

Jesus

Or The

Forefathers,

Decisions

To upend

And reverse

And ignore,

Or pretend that

Conception 

Is holy

And immaculate,

21st Century Puritans

Called Originalists

Or just

Christians

(Which is an insult

To Christianity),

Have left

A heinous legacy.

Power,

Greed—

The usual

Culprits

Hand down

To the young

The American

Nightmare.

Fossil fuels

And fossils fuel

A changing climate

Devastating now.

What’s left

After being

Handed

Destruction

Regarded

As victory

For themselves

Only?

The uncivil

War

Or revolution

Is revolting.

I know

It’s 

Too

Much

But what

Will you

Leave 

Ahead?

The Right

Left lies,

Insurrection,

Gun fetish,

Retraction

Of women’s

Autonomy

And health

Threats to 

LGBTQ+,

And 

Elections.

There is much

Left

To do 

Starting now.

Hate

Needs apathy

As much

As support.

Democracy

Demands

Participation

For all.

In addition

To voting,

It’s in

Your hands.

Still

I still believe

In evolution

Despite

Breaking News

And broken

Norms,

Laws, and

Utter Climate Change.

We can’t go

Backwards

Or

Remain still

Anymore

Than we can

Be

Young again.

This moment

That feels

Endless

And also still

As a dark

Cloud

Or maybe

Smog

Hovering

Oppressing

Menacing

Polluting

Seemingly static

And yet

We still

Continue

Seeking

Clarity

Distilling knowledge

To become

Still better

Positioned

To meet

Change.

We choose

How 

We live

Still.

Perhaps not

Our conditions,

But our

Responses.

Are You My Other?

I have branded you

From habit-

Both yours

And mine.

I see 

From glancing 

At what I’ve

Seen before.

I know this

And how

It goes

Forever

As though

No 

Time

Has passed.

What passes

For time

Is

Absence.

Aren’t we

The same

Yet

Growing?

We aren’t 

The same.

We can’t

Be.

Stuck in

The past;

Living in

Remembering

We have

So much 

More

Experience

And 

So much

Less

Naïveté

Just from 

Having

Lived

Life.

Muscles memorize

And categorize

In our

Brains.

We see

Without looking

And hear

Without listening

To 

The moment

Occurring

Anew.

Be

Curious.

Value

Appreciates.

What’s new?

Not much.

I beg.

To differ.

Nothing to See, Hear

Nothing to see,

Hear,

Just keep

Going.

We’ve got

This

Under 

Control.

Over controlled

Girls

And Women

Suffer alone

While we

Await

The next

Mass shooting.

Nothing to see,

Hear,

Or do,

When it’s legal.

Here 

The law

Is

Evil.

Personhood

Is claimed

For cells

And corporations

But 

A fetus

Is not exempt

To the IRS.

Nothing to see,

Hear,

But potential

Through ultrasound.

Yet potential

To massacre

With each

Purchase

Is abided

Because

It is

Legal.

We are

Not

Blind

Or Deaf

Just hostages

Of Prayers

And 

The 18th Century.

Not known

For nuance

Or complexity

But purity,

Our reality

Is 

Complicated

By myths

And systems

That feign

Deliberation

And calibration.

Yet absolutism

Is our DNA–
From Puritans

To Purell.

Unintended 

Consequences

Are nothing

To see here.

Hearing women

Capitol Policewoman

Caroline Edwards

Testified

Bearing her Trauma

Divulging the truth:

On January 6th,

Slipping 

In people’s blood

“I was catching people

As they fell.”

“It was carnage.

It was chaos.”

“…I would find myself

in the  middle

Of a battle.”

Fulton County Georgia

Election workers

Mother and daughter

Testified

Of threats and abuse.

Shaye Moss recalled

Her living nightmare

“All because 

Of lies

For me doing my job.”

“A lot of them

 Were racist,

A lot of them 

Were 

Just Hateful.”

“Be glad 

it’s 2020

And not 

1920,”

Shaye recounted.

Shaye’s mother,

“Lady”Ruby Freeman,

A proud 

American citizen

Who

Stood up

“To help Fulton County

Run An Election

In the middle

Of the pandemic.”

“Do you know 

How it feels 

To have the President

Of the United States

Target you?”

“But he

Targeted me—

Lady Ruby…

A proud American citizen…”

Ms. Cassidy Hutchinson

Mark Meadows’ 

Assistant

Overheard and witnessed

The callous and crazy.

The 25 year old

Aid

Repeated what she heard

The POTUS 

Say:

“I don’t effing care

That they have weapons. 

They’re not here

To hurt me.”

“Take the

 Effing

Mags

Away.”

“Let my people in.”

“I’m the effing

President.

Take me up

To the Capitol

 Now.”

“Sir,

We have to go

Back

To the West Wing.”

Said the Secret Service

Driver 

of the

Beast.

“Ketchup

Dripping

Down

The wall.”

When Meadows was asked

About 

“Hang Mike Pence”

Mark said to Pat (Cipollone the lawyer):

“You heard him

Pat.

He thinks

Mike deserves it.”

To which Pat 

Responded:

“This is 

Effing 

Crazy.

We need

 To be 

Doing 

Something 

More.”

“Mr. Meadows

Did seek 

That pardon.

Yes, Ma’am.”