Daily Kos has been prodding me for another diary. I had a great idea. During the Shrub years, I wrote a series of political/cultural short poems and dated each one as I wrote it. I own the copyright, so I own it, and I can share as I choose.
One of them got read on the radio when Jay Marvin was the morning talk show host on the one, now sadly gone, progressive radio station in Denver at the time, AM-760. I shared all of them with my friends in the Denver Poetry Community, as I wrote them.
I'm going to send one out at a time.
Enjoy
Living in Occupied Corporate America
My blood pressure pounds
threatening damage to
various parts of my health
my lungs rasp
with urban asthma
as I struggle breathing
poisons floating in the air
like many others
medication is out of reach
and no help is in sight
living in occupied Corporate America
About to lose my home
no money for the mortgage
jobs are hard to come by
and I hate the word overqualified
but I am not alone
many of my friends
useful skills and talents idle
living in occupied Corporate America
Have to watch what I say
someone may be listening
violate the Patriot Act
arrest me for dissenting
have to back the right candidate
wave the flag and sing
Oh Say Can You See…
living in occupied Corporate America
Changing channels on the TV
constant sales pitch avoid
can’t listen to the radio
even PBS has commercials
branding everything in sight
no safe haven anymore
no way to turn it off
living in occupied Corporate America
August 12, 2004