Monday, November 16, 2020
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Friday, November 13, 2020
grazing the grass
Grazing the grass for breakfast
Eating the kernels of wheat
Ground into flour and cooked
Delicious staff of life
Enjoying sweet fruit as well
Inviting me to partake
A mouthful of ripened ovary
Container of seeds
A seed eater by choice
Favoring the beans and nuts
Along with rice and potatoes
Excellent nutrition
The leafy greens providing
Vitamins for good health
Roughage for good digestion
Farm fresh food
Grain cultivation made possible
All the ancient civilizations
Humans are primarily herbivores
Like all the great apes
I have lost my taste for flesh
The butcher shop smell of death
Though I would consume it
With no other option
A carnivore no more
A different sensibility
A kinship with animals
Feasting on plants
Thursday, November 12, 2020
no going back
There is no going back
To a life of nostalgic innocence
As if that ever existed
No matter how hard this is
The worst part is knowing
The worst is yet to be
Every day more cases than the last
Increasing exponentially
The virus running amok here
Spread most by those denying facts
With ideology running through it
Asserting their individual freedom
There will be a reckoning
That cannot come too soon
The success in China beckoning
Begging for comparison
Why no universal health care
Why only medicine for profit
Who benefits and who suffers
Who holds the strings of power
The changing of the palace guard
Removing that erratic incompetent
In favor of mister diplomatic manners
Does not alter the underpinnings
The military industrial complex
The worldwide imperialist hegemony
The systemic racism and misanthropy
Continue unchecked
Capitalism created global warming
Unabated pollution in all forms
Driven by business logic
Must stop now
Let us go then into the streets
Mobilize in massive demonstrations
Demanding an end to all that
To seize the day
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