Nov 14, 2009
For the Grandmothers
Yesterday my neighbor became a grandmother.
Today i awoke feeling sad for the things that have disappeared within my 35 years of life...
things i cherish only in memory, fantasy and optimistic action.
Since the Bicentennial of the U.S.A. alot has changed.
We moved the Wars for Profit from Guatemala and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.
All of our communications are being recorded.
Our voting system is being controlled by warmongers.
Our food is chemically sustained and genetically modified.
We are told (and tear-gassed, and clubbed, and arrested) that we must agree on fighting a military war against indigenous people in the name of Security
and we must live our lives as though it is not happening
and it will never end.
We are being forced to choose which President is at fault for eroding the pride and momentum of our nation.
Democrats have become corporate employees and Republicans have become delusional fanatics.
Corporations are creating huge new stadiums and casinos across the nation while libraries, parks and public pools are shutting down for lack of funds and overburdened resources.
This newborn babe is blissfully ignorant of all that bullshit.
I join his mother and grandmothers in hope that the cycles of war and exploitation dominating our world
will diminish from the realm of action to only that of thought
by the time this child of children has their own.
Today i awoke feeling sad for the things that have disappeared within my 35 years of life...
things i cherish only in memory, fantasy and optimistic action.
Since the Bicentennial of the U.S.A. alot has changed.
We moved the Wars for Profit from Guatemala and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.
All of our communications are being recorded.
Our voting system is being controlled by warmongers.
Our food is chemically sustained and genetically modified.
We are told (and tear-gassed, and clubbed, and arrested) that we must agree on fighting a military war against indigenous people in the name of Security
and we must live our lives as though it is not happening
and it will never end.
We are being forced to choose which President is at fault for eroding the pride and momentum of our nation.
Democrats have become corporate employees and Republicans have become delusional fanatics.
Corporations are creating huge new stadiums and casinos across the nation while libraries, parks and public pools are shutting down for lack of funds and overburdened resources.
This newborn babe is blissfully ignorant of all that bullshit.
I join his mother and grandmothers in hope that the cycles of war and exploitation dominating our world
will diminish from the realm of action to only that of thought
by the time this child of children has their own.
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