Poetry's Power

Poetry helps you go and see
as someone else instead
like trading someone's eyeballs and putting them in your own head
I could just tell you something, but you might not get it
as a poem, an inserted minds image shifts perspective
ever wonder how Ghengis khan ruled a continent before telecommunications?
with a vast army of illiterate men, conquering all kinds of nations? 
through word of mouth, but how could a message be remembered? 
and not change from one to another, from August to December?
how could he be in Korea and give orders to Afghanistan? 
surely something would get jumbled, passed from man to man
he sent messages through poetry, look it up
because a poem can get in your mind with a hook and tug
it escorts you on a journey and displays ideas the way it planned to 
if poetry can conquer almost all of Asia, imagine what else it can do

#AvengeFloyd

He'll never be back
Father of two that rolled with DJ Screw
H-town to Minnesota for a new start
keeping kids out of gangs with a true heart

he was big Floyd in the third ward
we send his words into the world
the kind of man we need
the kindness we could see
a soul that planted seeds
silenced by a knee

another unarmed black man killed by a white cop
Those protesting for haircuts couldn't quite stop
these white cops from killing black kin,
the constitution wasn't there for him
it sat in a vault and didn't do shit
rich politicians that talk about freedom?
This spot, the campaign trail didn't lead them
the pro life protesters must have been busy
caring more about a zygote
than a lynching of black folks

You can't oppress
and not expect
to be met
a cause with effect

newton's third law
will ensure raw
it's gonna fall
to avenge them all

Avenge Emmett Till & Rodney King
Philando Castile & Joseph Mann
Eric Garner &    Alton Sterling
Breonna Taylor & Sandra Bland
Ahmad Arbury & Rekia Boyd
Freddie Gray, Meagan Hockaday, 
Avenge George Floyd

The Present's Present

Allow my present

Allow my present self to present

Allow my present self to present this present

It's the present

Bodies of atoms of cells

Bodies on planets

Organelles of the cell

Particles in the atom

Systems of the body

Systems of the planets

Orbits of the planets and the atom

Part of a galactic shell

This amazement can't be contained

This engagement happening in the brain

When I'm sad and need some reversal of mentality

I think unclad of the universe and become happy

One second of being present

and the mind would explode

trying to handle the load

way too much to comprehend

yet here we are, perplexed

the complexity is relenting

disorienting, it shouldn't exist

but it does, persisting in flux

in between bosons and galaxies

a big bang and entropy casualties

non sensical light and dark energies

biochemical fights rage in our bodies

electricity goes back and forth in our heads

thoughts zap along through neurons

until we are gone, dead and forgotten

eventually.

But until then, every femtosecond

every atom with us is sacred

every chance to understand more

every stance against what we abhor

must be seized and not wasted,

we have it within us to all be the greatest

the most compassionate and curious “we” we can be

the best culmanation of humanity we can see

to enhance how we can our gifted time segment

in the present

Up for a spin?

Dust galaxies Planets & Stars

Mercury, Venus Earth & Mars

Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Comets and Moons

Jupiter, Saturn Uranus Neptunes

Kuiper Belt into the Oort Cloud

Sirius, Polaris

Rigel, Rigel Kentaris,

Atria, Seganus,

Vega, Regulus,

Altair, Canopus,

Achernar, Arcturus

Capella, Anteres

Volcanos, Geysers, Attmospheres, Rings

Herds of trojan asteroid things,

Nebulae, Novas, Blackhole Jets

What we havent discovered yet,

and what we haven't figured out

Zubenelgenubi, Acrux

Zubeneshamali, Gacrux

Menkent, Kraz

Minkar, Acrab,

Saiph Nunki Hadar

Procyon, Nekkar,

Unukalhai, Cor Caroli

Rasel-Hague, Enif, Rasal-Gethi

Dust galaxies Planets & Stars

Mercury, Venus Earth & Mars

Asteroids, Dwarf Planets, Comets and Moons

Jupiter, Saturn Uranus Neptunes

Kuiper Belt into the Oort Cloud

Danebola, Al Geiba

Mintaka, Mirzam, Hassaleh, Ruchbah

Menkalinan, Alderamin

Alde-Baren, Sarin, El Tanin

Mirzam, Wezen, Al Maaz

Megrez, Mizar, Alpheratz

Alnilam Alnitak,

Aludra, Adhara, Phakt, Mirfak

Volcanos, Geysers, Attmospheres, Rings

Herds of trojan asteroid things,

Nebulae, Novas, Blackhole Jets

What we havent discovered yet,

And what we haven't figured out

Gut Manufacture

Heightened memory machine

Sensory of every scene

Vivid sound and scent

Moments archived for later

The way that time was meant

To be felt, intensely

Locate or create meaning relived

Past reflected into now

Appreciate time's fleeting gift

Massive redwood from a sprout

Moments change and become us

We are the sum of events

That we succumb to, that shape us

Time is a jagged spiral

Not a line

We climb troughs and peaks in a cycle

It stops in our mind, repeats and stays present

It becomes who we are

Personality is memory

That we can't forget

A reality alone that is ours

How we feel and make sense

The documentary that we direct

The experience we etch in steel

What percolates into our essence

And long after memories fade,

And neurons with age wash away

Just the important moments remain

In our gut, as feelings we can't explain

As the best parts of the final amount

Let's make them count

Second Count

Don't let em flip
The calendar days
Make every first count
Make every second count
Make every second second count

This will wisp pass
Moment gone
Last
Second like it

No way to know
It'll come
Next
Go to past

Learn it's ways now
Come again
Check
Hear it fly?

See it come from
Far to close
Most
Make it with it

Not guaranteed
Nothing is
Leap
Make it deep

Not under six
Feet of clay
Still
Is a good day

Flip the Eyes

Let the back light shine
Up in your mind
Flip the eyes
See the Brain
See thoughts pulsate
Bias Extinguish
Glide cognition

Bar the discard of specifics to for generalities
Familiarity can deceive, it seems better
We believe if it's repeated, or if we already think it
We think our shit ain't stinkin
Defend what gets the cheddar
Flaws in others are easy to see
We're blind to our own
We notice what's closest when light isn't shown

Sparks in brains keep you alive
If refrained from believing lies
Skull's electrified fat
Can project anything adapted to the world
Flip back the eyes, Truth taps on perception's door
Open to that, bias ignored

Milky Dip

Milky bulge
Scutum arm
Belly flop splattered
Sagittarius Arm
Facing the
3 KPC Arm
Feeding the form of the
Norma Arm
Sun and us in this
Orion-Cygnus Arm

Milky bulge
Frisbeed egg
Flung Squid
Tentacle twist
Dusty Disk

Galactic Halo
Referee
Photogenic Clustery
Globular squeeze
Magellanic Spiraly

Carina Perseus
Flying off the long bar
Seems worth us
To not be on the wrong star

When the Sun's out
Hop on top a cloud
As far as it seems
Centauri Dreams

Milky map on the wall
Of the ship
Let it be hip
Future's a mutual dip
into the milk
Tickle the curtains of silk
Let us be more than a blip

Please don't kill yourself

I'm sure everyone here has heard

the typical spiel about us and the universe 

how the atoms in our bodies were fused in stars

how insignificant Earth seems from afar

 

how we are all the cosmos understanding itself 

to care for Smart Life, it may exist nowhere else 

but I want to focus on the fact that we're here

 

that you can ponder touch someone and drink a beer 

at the same time in a glorious machine

that we call a body as you careen

 

with an air bubble stuck to a rock

where inside spins a molten magnet top 

flying through the cosmos a Thousand Miles a minute 

but you have in your skull the most complex thing in it

 

you see space isn't much more as far as We Know

than fiery gases and Dusty snow 

it has no feelings it can't fall in love 

these glorious inanimate objects don't think of

 

anything in particular they just are  

hurling and whirling along with the Stars 

you, on the other hand

 

you think

 

you love

 

you create

 

you fuck

 

you breastfeed

 

you dance

 

help those in need

 

advance

 

yourself to be better than who you were 

bring meaningless chaos order 

the exception to entropy 

the light of consciousness

 

you, my friend are alive

Donald J Trump Victory Speech

I would like to thank the Republican party for this nomination
Thank you for gerrymandering the districts, defunding education and for years insinuating what I finally came out and said. Establishment- ya losers, my opponents- ya losers, and my supporters .... ha ha.. ya losers
Man who am I kidding I don't even talk like this.

You all outta be ashamed of yourselves.

I, Donald John Drumpf, brought out the worst in all of you. All your delusions of grandeur, thinking you are better than someone else because you were expulsed from a womb on one side of a line, thinking the old book you live by is better than another old book on the other side of the world someone else lives by that's almost the same, thinking America was great until the brown people fucked it up. NEWS FLASH! America was great...until white people got here.  I have been waiting for years to expose the bigotry of so many in the American right.

Meanwhile I've sold this primitive juvenile concept of luxury to shit for brains like you, there is no such thing! You pay 100 times as much for a hotel room because it has an aluminum chandelier with gold spray paint, it's all in your head, its the same shit! I buy gas station wine, put a drop of soy sauce in it and sell it for a grand and people fall for it! It's the same as my political circus, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I've been bullshitting my way through this whole thing asking myself "what would Joe six pack do?" Thinking people were too smart to fall for it. I'm just a jagoff with a surgically implanted toupee, I can't run company without bankrupting it much less the world's biggest economy. I'd have waaaay more money if 30 years ago I had invested my fathers inheritence in mutual funds and retired retired to start a career ion water colors instead of gallivanting around hiring lawyers to save me after every failure. Skepticism is sexy people, quit being stupid.

Hillary Clinton is my homie, she came to my wedding! I confess, I lost a game of poker to her 20 years ago, and she bet me a beer that I wouldn't make up this crazy persona to corral the idiots of our country into a festival of ignorance to hijack the republican party, and y'all dumbasses fell for it! Well Rodham, I prefer Shiner and look forward to tasting sweet victory.
I've been a democrat for years, I've only started saying racist shit recently, I've changed every position I've had, I figured it would be obvious!

Now let me tell you some stuff that should be obvious, we are one humanity, God does not see race, religion or borders so neither should we. He just wants us to love one another as if every human being anywhere were your own child or parent. Showing off wealth is not only immature, it's ridiculous. Focus on lessening the suffering of others and feeding your brain if you want to earn the respect of those around you. Hillary, I love you but you had your chance in '08 Bernie is the man for the job we need now.

Effective immediately I am giving 99% of my wealth to charities that look after Syrian refugees, I'm moving to an island in the south pacific to get as far away from you nutjobs as possible, I will conclude with the speech at the end of Charlie Chaplin's the great dictator,
listen to it carefully, and get some counseling you people make me sick.

What Matters Most

Saturn V Rocket, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

What matters to you most?

Who is most dear to you in your life?

What makes you at peace more than anything?

FUCK IT. IT DOESN’T MATTER MORE THAN THIS.

NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT I AM GOING TO GOING TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.

Life on earth.

4 times before, shit has come from the sky and killed most living things.

To not worry about it because it hasn’t happened in a while

is like a roach comfortable in your cabinet or crossing your floor tile

in front of you because she doesn’t know anyone who’s been stomped,

and yeah they fumigate sometimes and every little roach heart stops,

but it hasn’t happened in so long, things should be fine.

In the meantime, this divine house is so nice and cozy,

and yeah it might behoove to plan in case this rosy situation changes,

an escape route to avoid obliteration to save us,

kill the human so roaches survive, or at least make it move for the sake of roach life,

but… why should we? Let’s just make love, eat, and sleep, life is good, see?!

This planet is a billiard ball, rolling towards whatever might come our way,

 like the 48 tons of space rock that fall from the sky every day,

there are flying asteroids everywhere waiting for us,

most of which we don’t notice until it’s under our noses

Like people in Russia a few years ago that saw a bright blaze

Like a second sun it raced through the sky as they run to the window

Before they could react as they gaze in wonder,

glass breaks in their face from the impact as the wind blowed

The Chelyabinsk meteorite landed in 2013 the day after valentines

and released the energy of an atom bomb but multiplied by 30 times

it had been completely undetected, unsuspected by astronomers

the suns glare blocked cosmic binoculars of this rock heavier than the Eiffel tower.

Much bigger rocks have come several times to end most life with their meteor showers

Any day, a rock like this could land over Manhattan, Lagos or San Antonio

We could be those roaches in your cabinet, say ehh fate happens man, ya know?

Or we could expand demand and the pace of our space program,

We could vote people in power who care to see that humanity

Should last past what could be our last meteor shower,

Encourage our children to look up, and dream of the future,

Of course we have pressing concerns and lessons to learn,

You have to look down to tie your shoelace

So you don’t trip and break your head

But look up cause a paint can misplaced

Off of a fifth floor ledge is fixing to make you dead

When the dinosaurs died from a space rock in Mexico’s Yucatan

But they had a peanut sized brain, and as far as we know, no space program,

What’s our excuse?

The Bathing Family

Illegal gold mines in the Awacachi Nature Reserve, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador

Cocaine.

We all know what it does to people.

The violent crime by the hooked, the conniving tendencies of those with a habit, and the normal occasional user that is just looking for a good time and doesn’t want to hurt anyone.

A few lines every once and a while couldn’t be that bad, right?

I mean unless you’re addicted, or doing it to keep from feeling bad, it has to be harmless, right?

I mean ain’t nothing with a little cocaine am I right?

Well, no, no and no.

It doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. Let me tell you a story.

In the early 1500s, a cargo ship on its way to Peru was packed with human beings who thought they would be cursed into a lifetime of forced servitude but found themselves escaping a shipwreck off the coast of what would become the border of Ecuador and Colombia. They swam to shore, established communities in rainforests, beaches and mountains, intermarried with the natives and later provided refuge for others who escaped slavery near and far. To this day you go there and in many towns there are no Hispanic or mixed looking people, just dark black people, who find themselves historically exploited like black people everywhere on earth, but some in addition are literally poisoned every day through the profits of cocaine.  

I was blessed with the opportunity to work there during my time as a geographer in Ecuador for 2 and a half years, my third day there, I got in a small airplane with a team to map in high resolution the last tropical rainforest that connects the Andes mountains to the Pacific, an area filled with pristine waterfalls that glisten as a prism for sunlight, with an anarchist choir of endangered birds each song stranger than the last, all strutting their outlandish feather outfits for a mate to earn that sex that everyone deserves. Then there are the practically extinct insect dependent plants and flowers each of which could be a cure for cancer, their pollinators feeding the reptiles, amphibians and mammals reliant on wildlife corridors, ecological fauna highways from the mountaintops to the mangrove wetlands for which we had been contracted to make aerial photography. The Awacachi reserve is so important that the Ecuadorian government has deemed it illegal to enter without permission and only under strict regulations to protect nature’s fragility, but cocaine funded paramilitaries had smuggled in bulldozers to make illegal gold mines, with lakes filled with neurotoxic mercury to separate the soil from that yellow metal that people like for some reason.

Months later after the monotony of tetrising a puzzle of thousands of aerial photos, I returned to the area to collect GPS points to align our mosaic to the ground. After passing trucks full of diced trees to finally reach a more desolate clearing on a bridge, we waited for the geographical data to collect and couldn’t help but notice a beautiful scene. A naked Afro-Ecuadorian family bathing in a creek, the chiseled father whose machete and fishing nets are normally an extension of himself was contently soaping his obsidian child, while others hop around chasing each other splashing water, the potential beauty queen mother whose figure was not phased in the slightest by years of breast feeding, they smiled and waved, I smiled and waved back, before turning away to respect their privacy but wanting stay to take the moment in. Maybe, they saw me and my co-worker and envied our luxuries, absolutely, I saw them and envied theirs.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but that same beautiful family that I waved to, who may have distant west African descended relatives you know, were having their brain cells deadened by the heavy metals dumped in that very creek, and in the clams they eat that will be filtering those heavy metals out of river bottoms for decades to come, made possible because of money from cocaine. Maybe a better reason to not do this drug is its funding of a civil war in Colombia where villagers are massacred, children are kidnapped into sexual slavery, child soldiers kill innocent people for the FARC, and family members of businesses are murdered one by one until extorted rent is paid. Or maybe a better reason is the thousands of unaccompanied minors escaping drug gang violence in Central America, the bodies dumped over borders for not complying with demands of drug cartels, or communities crippled by a brutally oppressive mafia power structure that couldn’t exist without money coming from the north. Or maybe better reasons are the cartel wars a few hours south of San Antonio, journalists tortured and killed for exposing the truth or the intricately intertwined sexual slavery taking place in the neighborhoods of every major city.

There are endless reasons not to do cocaine, to not douse the dopamine of one's brain in the blood of all the innocent people killed along the way, in the screams of starving children locked in closets and forced to please soulless men, or in the gunshots that families pray will end. But for me the biggest reason will always that family that waved and smiled to me, sparkling in the tropical sun, enjoying a lazy Sunday in a creek contaminated by Mercury.

So the next time someone is giddy with misguided evil joy at the expense of others they forced to suffer and they offer you a bump, or a line or sack, please have a heart.

Roughneck Life

Obsessing over the color of my piss for the sake of my life,

heat exhaustion is real and people die out here on the oil field,

all the time. 

Death from dehydration is still not my most urgent concern, this 4 ton swinging pipe is.

My bosses preach safety, but everyone knows their 7 figures are more important than my life is.

Hydrogen Sulfide gas seeps out of the ground and can kill you instantly.

I'm trying not to think about this company's semi annual fatality.

There's caustic that can burn your skin off, 

everything covered in ice and heights that you can slip off,

some asshat not paying attention when lives are on the line,

a co worker throwing chains who's fucked up on meth all the time,

I live an hour and a half away and need to get behind the wheel after busting my ass on a 16 hour shift,

I have to pay alimony out the ass because my ex wife doesn't want to work for shit,

My wife and kids are in another state and theres a good chance she's with a side guy,

I can't remember the last time I wasn't sleep deprived,

My leg is fucked up but I can't afford to miss hours,

I hope this rope holds if I fall off this 90 foot derrick tower,

The blow out preventer could fail and this whole rig could explode,

I think inspectors have been paid off to ignore safety codes,

I see dudes without fingers and wonder if that will be me, 

but I prefer adrenaline to that thought thats repeating... 

I miss my family. 

They say God will redeem you from the hell you carry inside,

and that's true for my mind, soul, hope and afterlife.

But while deep thoughts are nice, I have to focus on my problems in this world,

and if you're a felon, with bills, debts and child support,

there's no place else to escape that hell,

that pays this good without risking jail.

In this life, the oil field is redemption. 

Where else can you come out of prison with no skills, bad english with teeth disfigured,

get hired on the spot and make six figures.

If you're against fracking, oil and gas, 

you're against the only hope that I have.

There are millions out there who are just like me,

we have nothing else, there is no plan B.

To think of climate change but no other jobs for us out there,

would be like holding your breath and thinking about Plato instead of air.

Give us an alternative or shut the fuck up. 

When given a chance we always buck up.

For now we provide you with a product you need, 

for food, stuff on shelves, to get to point B.

You depend on us so give some respect.

We're a special breed, we are the roughnecks

Patajazule

Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Patajazule Patajazule

(11) Bring the baby boobie the bread the pretzel

(13) But blue foot boobie floatin by the boat forboden

(7) The white foot the way they flap

(7) The what the fuck i thought they were blue

Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Patajazule Patajazule

(11) They tried to put the baby bird to birth in the poop

(13) But the blue foot boobie meated by the beak and eaten

(7) Why the blue feet the bird poop

(7) A blue foot duck what the fuck

Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Pata Patajazule Patajazule

Sagan`s call

Flowin circles through
Highways of veins
This engine in
All of us

Squeeze and release
Another gift
Another second of life
Im just a puppy humpin
Humpin the leg of life

To be made of quarks
but to be part of a galaxy
most of it filled with unknown gravity
The mystery of existance enthralls me

Andromedas comin up
feelin us
wantin to be with us

no discovery
would help this recovery
like a bunch of friendly aliens
who could help us get past warp speed

get to know friends in the neighborhood
let em know that things are all good

dont just be alive, thrive
The galaxy will know
that humans were here fa sho

the boots and the cats

Wusup with the boots?
Wusup with the cats?
Wusup with the boots and the cats?
Wusup with the takin the cat in the puddle
Wusup with the boots and the cats?

Wusup with the porridges?
Wusup with the porridges?
The brown cake the pancake the peach and the syrup
The boots and the cats in the puddle of porridge
Wusup with the boots?
(hiccup) Wusup with the cats?
(hiccup) Wusup with the boots and the cats?

You´re
With a winner (4x)
That can take it (4x) Can
Lead a lot (4x) That
With a way (4x) That
Good is got (4x) And
Not with the minimum (4x)
Attackin & takin it (4x) &
Better the battle (4x) you
Watch and awaken (4x)

Dig it dig a path in the
Thicket with a hatchet and
Take a pick and wack it and
Check if you can hack it and
Chop the obstacles
Laser optical
Try to pause and then
Dry the paws and because
The cats and the paws and the water can´t be
A winner can lead on to keep the dry feet

Out soon

The nightmare will be over soon
Son, friend and uncle philanthropist goon
Returning after earning a new pair of eyes
To see the world with a new light, to rerealize
Life´s intensity experienced
Freedom understood, more than most ever could
Perspective reborn anew
Like a worm transformed to a dragon fly in the sky
Heightened perception with mind absorbent
A will to achieve like never before, but good enough a will to just be
To feel sand on the feet under a tree on the beach
The Himalaya echos, writing in the snow with ones pee
Friends, family, food and festivals wait
For the son, friend and uncle to get out in a few days

Letter to congressman "You lie" Wilson

Congressman Wilson,
First I would like to thank you for representing 6 million Americans living abroad in the caucus you formed with Rep. Carolyn Maloney (the above address information is my last US residence.) I have been living and working in Ecuador for 4 months now as a Cartographer and am persuing long term residence. I want to stay active in the laws passed in my country so I come to you to voice my concerns.

I would like to urge you to vote against SOPA. It violates the first and most sacred admentment of our Bill of Rights. Anyone who has ever lived in a developing country will have a radically different opinion of the spread of information. Years ago, when I came here for the first time, I saw the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. In a rural town on the edge of the amazon, a college level Calculus textbook on CD was for sale in an internet cafe for $4. I remember 2 years ago going to Austin Community College and having to fork over sometimes $140 for a college level calculus textbook so I could better my life and study to be an environmental engineer. Being able to download files has benefited mankind in ways we cant possibly imagine. Shops where you walk in and get whatever you want on a CD for $5 have been declared out of control by the vast majority of developing countries. The cat has been out of the bag, there is really no way to stop it, hackers will out smart any law that is passed and in the mean time it will just hurt innocent bystanders, limit free speech and inevitably lead to overeach. I hope those around you are informing you well because that is the honest truth. The United States is erupting today online in ways it never has before, people are begging for less government control of the internet. Please join the chorus of voices against this bill.

Joseph Ely

Eye world

In between a place
and another place
This is where

Human selected
Who

This or that or those or one or the other
What

Before, before later or later
When

Prior conditions that led to it
Why

Methods used to make it happen
How

We are the change we see in the world
Another pair of eyes
Another way to see
Another way to fix this

In between a way
and another way
How we made it good

It took us all then, like now

What did we do to make it happen?
Be nice and do good
All the time
That's pretty much it.

We are the change we see in the world
Another pair of eyes
Another way to see
Another way to fix this

New way

See it form
See it appear

That this thing we thought through is here
doubt just disappeared
throughout all the years
the whole world was lying

going on knowing
nothing but the old way
now we create
a new way to go by

owning up
harder than fighting for
to heal the horror
to use the mind for peace

Sowing seeds easy
to bring plant from sun
& moist soil
not so simple

going on knowing
nothing but the old way
now we create
a new way to go by

Put the path where we pave
Share the reward and the blame

Harvest is soon
we worked to make food
bitter or sweet
it's our fruit to eat