International Poet

Now Normal It is now normal, the way that sea level has been shaken upside down, a perfect way for have-nots to drown. now normal, the way the deranged order you to pull yourself up while they whip you with those proverbial bootstraps. now normal, to out an operative, and, two tired years later, when you are finally indicted, to be referred to as noble by the news. now normal, to prosecute blow jobs, but not treason, this age of absent reason. now normal, to look back on Nixon with something bordering on nostalgia – but not quite. now normal, to pretend poor people are better off in a dome than a home, though it is sort of scary – for you, not them. now normal, to rebuild a Catholic church by adding a fountain and some marble flooring, forgetting the pedophiles you’re supposedly abhorring. It is now normal. They don’t even need to make this stuff up any more – unless they want to wage official war.

Unknowns Drawing curtains back on ageless Life and lives I never Bothered caring enough about to Touch or be touched by Far removed world less distant After having moved there been Moved by still moving while Standing still getting caught up Clearing out collected relics of Eons ago ruins revealing mostly Fake antique forgeries spread out Filling time and space dispossessed More remains concealed than confided Long guarded secrets spill out Reserved for private ears to Hear nobody ever listened keepsakes Unaware I was ever lost Though admittedly never saying so Reliving history not yet recorded Searching for buried treasure chest Digging up bygone fragments of Eugenic past reduced to rubble What never really was might Have been exiled to oblivion People attitudes places emotions things Changed my life starring roles Cast of characters keeps changing As do endings curtains drawn

Unemployment Unemployment is the sea of desert sea of tranquility sea of scorpion crumbling and slipping having no direction but it is a sea in mind Unemployed is a treee of wooden structure tree of black burnt wood no green bird , except vulture, eagle preys starving for flesh under the tree foxes wolves hunter dogs liquid of mouh of greediness an unemployed is a deaf having hearing power a dumb being a good speaker of the teen blind even being selected in air force earlier a handicappied being skilled physically Unemployed is sufferer from society, family mentally, individually spiritually as well materially hence a diseased like epilepsy abnormality and parlysis Unemployed is a illiterate with a degree a lonely man with thousand friends and relatives a frustrated man seening the youth moving luxuriously a jelous of wealthy playing and dancing youth a blamer of fate