the sun came out after three days
of rainno bitchin bout thatnot if you live in California
he did too
he had been waylaid by a cold
he made a rare exceptionfavoring
himself indoors and listened to the rain at the windowpanes and pound overhead
on the roof mesmerised he slipped into
delicious colourful hypnagogic notions that moved like oil on the inside of his eyelids then
darkened them and lent him to deep healing naps
keenly aware hed fall asleep he
set an alarm to wake him for his evening shift to shower off his sweat dress
for work and drive fortunately only eight miles
he had the world by the balls
he walked in the sun delighting in it mostly recovered
it occurred to himrather he
realised most of the towns overhead lamps and streetlights had been
pinioned with thin metal spikes diverting
birds from roosting atop them
as if the birds were the nuisance
when light chokes night of its
natural element it ought to amount to more than
his pained issue
however community leaders sought
and made the quiet investments defending them with citations the responsibility the necessity to provide secure lighted
ways and protect of the citys economic storefronts
their whining always wearied
him
somebody was making a buck
he wondered what ssh quiet
portion of that buck worked it way backhe also wondered Benjamin Franklin Those who would give up essential Liberty, to
purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty or Safety.
to be sure the quote is appropriated
contextualised a pull-quote a thesis regarding money more than liberty however when money means more and has always
meant more to select individualsindividuals who were publicly electedwho were
granted power to act only in behalf of and for the betterment of their
constituents its overlaying sense albeit
unspoken implied they were to regard an equality for the Whole of any disbursement realised not holes secretly torn in the Wholes pocket
he holed up for three days
now sunlight was his best disinfectant
were birds the nuisance
the uncounted trees taken down
an exceptional few replanted
was the displaced wildlife considered where were
they to gowhere were the small smashed communities of fourlegged sixlegged eightlegged and winged earthlings to go
AH who would humanly have a fealty to them theyre lesser
no handholding they havent hands
no having their backs their spines arent upright
victimised no compassion was allotted them
when the mad rubber eventually
hits the road this ugliness will have to
be owned owned first by the ignorant hapless
pawns then those who all the while had pushed
the pawns forward from behind hoping whatever it is is appeased and glutted and
thereby they can save themselves
it doesnt feel like hyperbole
1447, Monday,
26 3. 18
1306, Twosday, 27 3.
18
Starship Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ds7QQf0q0
