Towards a New Kind of Diva: Goldie Blox

You rock, girl:

Looking for America . . . .

It's painful to me,

how long I go without writing here.

I didn't even get in a post-election entry.

But every day my mind and spirit aches for the time

to sit and write,

even the simplest line,

a bad attempt at poetry.

Of course, I'm happy of the outcome,

but like some aging troubadours,

I wonder if we can still do it,

still fulfill the dream. . . 

. . . and so we dream. . . 

dream on . . . 

Vote

It appears that FOX News

has decided to do political analysis of muppets.

It appears they've decided

to pick on someone their own size:

Unfortunately, the effect of this piece of brilliant analysis

may actually just prove them to be precisely what they

are setting out to discredit:

puppets

So now

I send my feeble electronic voice out

across these great United States

and ask you to vote your conscience,

vote with honesty

and the same idealism that so many people used four years ago.

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

BY VACHEL LINDSAY

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.

My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.

I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute—he pets his fancies—

Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.

So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,

Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,

Crying to God in all the polling places

To heal our everlasting sinfulness

And make us sages with transfigured faces.

. . . after a brief silence: winter, again

Winter again, this year will it be

rugged, demandingly, indeed

it approaches, insisting

attention, and yet we don't heed

the oncoming force that

belittles elections, not to mention T.V.

                                                   Be

ready to be awed in the true sense of the word. Vocabulary

can't encompass

the winter we're about to see.

(I do hope all my blogging friends

are fine.  I've had a terribly busy

semester ~ ~ nice to just

be moving my fingers across the keys!)