Hot and Humid

Hot and Humid

I want to enjoy

cool breeze

leaves turning

soft blue sky

it is hot humid

ninety today

Polar ice melts

Miami Beach

streets flooded

where will it end

world engulfed

all ocean no land

Noah and Arafat

we learn nothing

centuries pass

lessons ignored

we continue to 

destroy all life

Over and over

again we mistake

our mission to

honor life in

variances all

contained within 

Onyx

Clouds
wet on
nightshirts
line hung

He's He

He’s He

He will 

beat me up

one way or

another

Anew Nuit

Anew Nuit 

I’m alone

first night

two years

gone bye

I’m alone

Only for a

short time

two hours

I sit to pen

in peace

I’m alone

free to be

I breathe

deeply in

out in out

I’m alone

free to be

who I am

I am finely

tuned me

Frustration

Frustration

Seeps out my pores

annihilates him

he lets me know

We are locked

in disharmony

it is my rock

to bare

In the Overall

I had words in my head

to address the overall

he interrupted thought,

said, “What about him if

I don’t take care of me?”

He is right as it is about

having a child again

complete responsibility

for someone else who 

depends upon me. 

In the overall is demand

I am swimming away

from the octopus sucking

me down a dark crevasse

I had words in my head.

War

War

I can't understand war at all

I especially can't understand

when war kills civilians 

accidentally in harms way

mistaken causalities

 

and then

there's nerve gas

that kills innocents in a

diabolical way

I can't understand war at all

I can't understand nerve gas

used on anyone at all

diabolical it kills in horrific ways

How can anyone unleash

such suffering on anyone

especially innocents 

we are all innocents 

except those diabolic ones

Birthing

Birthing

Orgiastic

room full of men

me and my baby

birthing

Rusted

Rusted

Copper gown

burnished green

pitted onslaughts

reveal environment

never adorned as she

We Looked Away

“Postwar America fell heavily under the influence of an out-of-control and paranoid military-industrial-complex. The middle-class kids growing up in 60's rebelled and a revolutionary spirit took hold amongst them. Marx was for many a guiding inspiration for revolution. Their indignation was fanned by the oppression of minority races at home and the killing of foreigners half a world away at the hands of an imperialistic American military.”

Marx made us high

united yet less committed

except for getting high

Eventually we fearful
gave up 
"grew up"
followed the path  

of cookies that lead us

to what was expected

educations, professions, families, houses
military-industrial complex

Marx made us high
united yet less committed
We looked away  

Life is Brutal

Life is Brutal

Always been

from the time

we  brought

down animals

by ourselves

No advantage

but brain, that

brain got us 

in a lot of rain

Now we have

advantage over

everything

our weapons

still get smarter 

Email to a Friend

Email to a Friend

I tried to write 

an email to a friend

all night the phone

rang and rang and

rang again

I lived in voice write

phone call friends

I tried to write

rather than call

an email to a friend

Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt

He’s after me

he’s always after me

before me

beside me

behind me

his presence heavy

he’s always after me

I duck and weave

smile until my face cracks

I disintegrate on the

floor beneath

gasping for breath

from the frontal attack

he’s always after me

He can tell if I’ve had 

something to drink

he’s after me as he 

swills his beers

okay for him but not

for me

he’s always after me

I live in fear each moment

he never lets up so I sneak

sips and puffs

a disgusting way to live

in ultimate paranoia 

I am an adult with free will

it is dangerous to assert myself

Why do I live like this

he's always after me

I'm afraid to leave 

a sad admission

I am a coward

I am one of those women

beaten down

Now I am his caregiver

after angry days we embrace

there is still love and caring

still respect and yet why

do I live like this

he's always after me

it is dangerous