Mayday

(May 1, 2021)

May Day Protesters in Tokyo, Japan shout “Let Us Live!” Photo by Hiroe Saruya (May 1, 2009), Creative Commons.
Calling earth people…
calling all earthlings
calling all zombified breathtaking
war making Godfearing raping gas guzzling land stealing
genocidal dream fixated creative destructionist
consumer-citizen polluters
anti-misogynists anti-white supremacists anti-fascists
greedy hedonist skyscraping robber barons
monetizing sensation craving baby making pink washing
neoliberal neo-con communist zealots
love starved creatures
of this bloody ashen world

we can live
without police
without racial
lines or borders
sprawling into a gazillion reasons
            that blot out life
and make it alright
to commit
honor killings
in the name
of vulgar counterfeit
economies stealing their way
to prison cells
in other countries
to shed
desolation
and digital glut

we can have a world
without heroes
and the fanatic
glandular courage
to hail
irrational disparity
or atrocities to protect
Zen masters
of terror

but we need dandelions
            insidious permutations
            of rage and loss
to grow wild
over abandoned chalk-body
memorials collecting
like scattered sunlight
on concrete tombstones
and their spindle seedy
crowns to multiply
in the wind
leaving behind
a potential revolution
in every killing field

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