Poetry
• The Call of the Future - Hillary
Kaye
• Because you don't know where
you are - C.V. Beck
• Giving - Paul
Hershfield
The Call of the Future
By
Hillary Kaye
The vultures and their faces lead you
through the mystery of horror and beauty
the
remnants of displaced honor are sprawled upon the
streets
to be walked on by the guards of the
devil’s own.
There is not a cloud that
can not be purchased by the highest bidder
You could watch your head spin off and be
taken,
the little bits of you that might
remain, that might be whole,
these too can be
bought and sold
and if you think i’m wrong ask
yourself can you imagine the hope of moving up the
ladder
covered with whatever it might
be.
The call of the
future.
the call of the darkest places that
could ever be known
this is what they answer
to.
Whatever it takes, whatever it has to
do, it will
and you must get out of its
way.....or else.
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BECAUSE
YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU
ARE
C.V.
Beck
Because you don’t
know
where you are
--
you don’t know
that
it’s “Venice”,
not
“Venice Beach”
--
unless, of course,
you
want to make it over
--
like Miami
Beach
But -- we don’t want
that
here --but you don’t
know
that --
yet--
Because you don’t where you are
--
you thought the public streets
were
naturally private and acted accordingly
--
Because you don’t know where you are
--
you think you know the laws but you
don’t --
Because you don’t know
where you are --
You think the whole world
revolves around you and your money
But some
people aren’t dollar-driven and don’t like you or your blood
money--
made off the backs of widows and
orphans, people who don’t understand your
contracts
with the really bad
guy
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Giving
By
Paul Hershfield,
Turkey
dinners
for Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Donor
names
on the wings of hospitals
and the faces of university
halls.
Volunteer
doctors
at inner-city clinics
and in third-world
countries.
Cycling to benefit AIDS
patients,
and running for cancer
research.
Sending at-risk youth (aren’t
they all?)
to summer
camp.
Checks to shelter
women.
Food drives for the
needy.
Helping the
homeless.
Giving to
Goodwill.
Toys-for-Tots.
Noble
causes and good works.
Tax-deductions for the
ruling class.
Charity will never be a
substitute
for justice.
Posted: Tue - November 1, 2005 at 01:41 PM