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Poetry and vision slipping away

like a bad dream

and an endless night that reached

a Phoenix 3 hours too soon

            thru prematurity

and dissident blood of saints

                     and martyrs

all of whom were shot in the head

by the firing squad for smoking

marijuana in a duplicate setting

        of Tiananmen Square

who fought for freedom and love

                     and passion

and sought to feed and clothe the masses

       Educate the fool

Death to them who dream

and don’t align it

       with the Big Picture

Them that don’t agree must be

             burned at the stake

             sodomy against the state

trying to mindfuck the people

        by giving them another

        kind of freedom

Thrown in jail for dancing stop

                 stop the Berlin Wall

                 with a diet coke instead

                 of a pepsi

wishing for pathmark brand

to piss them off even more

Freedom to live in a smoke free

Drunk free sex free society

They dream on in their public

                lungs

unconcerned about that outdated

             document called

             the U.S. Constitution

Publicity and bankruptcy

           are taking over

           as the Pillsbury Doughboy

           buys out Australia

           and sells Crocodile Dundee

            to Manhattan

            for a 20 picture sentence

In our haste have we lost

                our minds; the peaceful

                tranquility and serenity

                of strength thru justice

                and power thru peace

Civil disobedience becoming

grounds for capitol punishment

kill them all the commie bastards

It’s a trick in East Europe

and the pinkos are swarming

all over the old U.S. of A.

          but   

Poetry and vision is seem

oozing out of the strangest places

like Old Croydon and Darkest

          Africa

          And even behind the Iron Curtain

So I’m supping that poetry

            and vision will ultimately

            outlast the New Censorship

            regardless of what they do

            to try to stamp out

            the Human Spirit

January 8, 1990