Saturday, July 25, 2020

Hanks Pond July 25, 2020

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Monday, July 20, 2020

and so it begins

And so it begins if I am not mistaken
The secret police deployed out in the open
Answering only to their takeover orders
Putting fascist boots on the ground.

Their objective is to suppress all opposition
Imposing police state control through violence
Against the numbers of people rising up to protest
Everything that is wrong with this government.

The police murder of George Floyd awakened so many white people
Becoming more aware of systemic racism and becoming active 
Marching in the streets in solidarity with people of color
Threatening the power structure by demanding to defund the police.

In advance of the election the calculus has shifted 
Between the massive demonstrations for Black Lives Matter
To Trump's abject failure to contain the worsening pandemic 
The white supremacists and science deniers are losing. 

Despite all their undemocratic schemes and machinations
From the electoral college to the many forms of disenfranchisement
The writing is on the wall for them to be swept out of office
Except not if they drop the pretense of democracy. 

For some time now we could see this coming
Just like we can foresee the terrible suffering of the unemployed
Soon to be homeless and hungry and desperate
For any kind of work no matter how dangerous. 

Do not think it was an honest mistake to reopen too soon
When anyone could predict the cases and deaths would rampage
It’s obvious they deliberately chose to cause the COVID surge
In a desperate hurry to return to taking profits from exploitation.

In this the unrestrained brutality of their rule clearly stands out
Growing resistance to how they would sacrifice our lives
Bringing people together speaking out denouncing them
Hence the storm troopers to try to force their will upon us.

In a time of great crisis great changes are possible
When the masses of angry people mobilize
When the government in disarray has no answers
When an organization emerges from below to lead the way.

Friday, July 17, 2020

Skylands July 17, 2020

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Celery Farm July 15, 2020

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knee deep

Knee deep in the first wave
New records for the number of cases 
Rising ever faster spreading uncontrolled 
On its way to being up to our necks.

When the response to the crisis is denial
For sure it's going to get much worse 
Even if the information is kept from us
What we don't know will hurt us. 

The government suppression of facts escalates 
From blaming increased testing for the increasing spread 
To stopping the CDC from getting the hospitalization data
And attacking the messenger Fauci for speaking truth.

If the shutdown had been done right 
Kept in place until the incidence subsided 
Continued until widespread testing and tracing existed
This would not be happening of course. 

Instead we get the push to crowd the children together
Back into their classrooms with their teachers 
Compounding the disastrous premature business re-opening 
Dismissing the obvious impossibility to do it safely. 

But the stock market keeps going up increasing the holdings
Of people who have much more money than they need
Which is the point of the capitalist administration after all 
Sacrificing expendable people to preserve profits. 

In countries where science determines policy
And human lives are valued over protecting private wealth 
Where healthcare is one  of many universal rights
The contrast cries out against the criminals in control here. 

This dysfunctional government literally threatens our lives
Forcing into consciousness the need for complete system change
Driving ever more people to protest in mass demonstrations 
Opening the way to overturn the ruling class and transform society.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020