1.
i'd be happy
to let go
my straw men
self-described
all high minded
pillars of the community
when & if something new
shows
the perpetual road
isn't just a continuation
of old cliches
empty atm machines
living under a bridge
world war 3 survivalists
likely only cockroaches
force fed progress
grand finale fireworks
raised to spectacle
2.
even a short time before my father died
it was apparent that he would never accept
a world of broken dreams
never
a be all end all
for a revolutionary
envisioning the possibilities
regardless of the immediate conditions
and i knew all this from the last twinkles
in his last good eye
me trying to sing goody goody
in the same spirit as he sang it
in the pain of his immediacy
his soul
still on the battlefields
of the spanish people
1937 and 38
3.
there's not much point
in drawing conclusions
facing what is here
is enough
if there's an inner candle
sing with it
while it's still hot
--- e b bortz
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