Celery Farm October 31, 2020

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keeping count

We are counting down the days again

Waiting to leave this cold gray weather behind

Looking ahead to months of warm sunny walks

Ready to make our seasonal migration south 

And we keep count of our time together as a couple 

Not that official events are the be all and end all

We do mark the day our pairing went on record 

Even as our love continues to grow with the years 

I hear your tone of voice when you speak to me

And I know you are happy in our shared life 

And nothing else really matters as much to me

Remembering when you first said what you knew 

Relationships are important you declared 

And we both know from experience what it takes 

For two people to count on each other 

To be there listening and giving support 

There are many personal achievements

You and I can count up to our credit 

Solving problems and improving people's lives 

But my greatest satisfaction of all is in being us

indefensible

If the only people voting were white men

The most racist politicians would always get in

So they make laws and use deceptions to that end 

Designed to suppress the vote of everyone else 

With a government created by them of them for them

This is white male minority rule and always has been

In this country where all dollars are created equal 

And corporations have full legal rights as people 

The advances won in the struggle too soon subverted

Like the racist stars and bars flag taken down quickly replaced 

With that sinister blue stripe flag supporting police brutality 

Defending criminal cops and systemic racism 

I see them parading in their oversize pickup trucks

Pushing up close behind to intimidate other cars 

Weaving around in traffic spewing diesel fumes

Reveling in their white male antisocial privilege

As a white man myself the cops rarely bother me

Though anyone could be charged with some infraction 

I don't fit the profile of who gets harassed and hassled 

Which no one should if we abolish the police 

In these times of mass incarceration of people of color 

Under a constitution that allows slavery in prisons

With police functioning as modern day slave catchers 

To supply the labor to the prison industrial complex 

Getting rid of them and the courts and laws and judges

Means replacing all of it with a true justice system 

That gives everyone the opportunity to live a good life 

Though it will be awhile before all people come around 

Townsend Trail October 25, 2020

 

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Skylands October 24, 2020

 

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McFaul October 23, 2020

 

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