it is too easy to condemn
to point the finger and linger
over other people's messing up
 not ‘fessing up
deceiving -
and believing Big Money, Big Pharma
their karma will catch up to them
but not soon enough
or rough enough for my liking

Big Corporations in bed with dead weight
hated governments
of gravity and greed
satisfying a need
in us to make sure
it's
 not
 our
fault

Not Our Responsibility

all too
Big
for unwilling brains to think about

little brains in overwhelm
little actions in underwhelm
nobody’s at the helm
unless you believe in the Big Conspiracy,
like WMD
and George’s Axis of Evil …

I’ve got a solution!
barbed wire, fence my yard
guns for hire, windows barred
  and I have a perverse desire
to disinfect the perimeter

and
wall
this
 world
out!

but that swimming sleaze crawls, leaking
cracking through my dyke
prising it apart, barb by barb
until I can harbor
nothing

homeless hopeless faces
displace the spaces
in my wall
often not even asking for any help at all
rat-red eyes blank, dead-dank
bled
to the end of their hope
sub-human
 they masturbate
intubate
shooting up
into incisor'd rage and frenzy
instant quick-fix climactic satisfaction
the only possible escape from
the
world
of
numb

and though the consequence may be death
the now splattering gratification is
better
than
the
Void

tough times ahead, my friends
as our world of comfortable discomfort ends
and vermin, rich and poor
raise the howl for blood, and herd together
heading for the cliff
no fiercesome viper, no Pied Piper needed

best get out of the way
or be trampled to extinction

but if you’re conscious enough
to make your escape
and re-create,
know that the next time around ...

build your wall, yes,
but
plant
a
garden

pull up
a
 Blue
 Chair
and ask someone in
just one, to nurture
till he has the strength to take responsibility
for building a garden of his own -

build that wall of flowers
and invite butterflies and bees
quiet movers and shakers
pollinators
initiators
of good things for this earth's
daily revolution
spreading heirloom subtle seeds
of right and responsibility,
rooting to real power
and inspiring perfumed blooms of flame
instead of listless wiry barbs
of mortal blame …

and more
of
the
same