Louisiana father
phone call: the Gulf shrimp will be cheap for Fourth of July weekend
Prices are low the
heat in the water algae bloom either gumbo or jumbo
Escaped last harvest
or grow quickly in the hot liquid like kudzu
Fox News in the
background of his voice; Fishers desperate to sell; Take advantage
Generation X
bubbling heat water trying to respond over white-noise television
Audience of
consistent gray-haired turnout fundraising herd
Those four degrees
Anhoni sings in an equilibrium of planet
Prayers and science
putting ice cubes in a boiling tea cup of starfish fingers
Attempting to
explain the crossroads of how to here differences between
Economy and market
of 1929 and 2008, of Gramm-Leach-Biley Act
Clintons and Bushes
911’s terrorism as the excuse to shift public money into private banks
Control poor people
and the new imperialism is delivered with a drone bomb
Like a two way
iPhone camera with PTSD from sights in a video game
Hacked Lockheed
Martin RQ-170 by Iranians to land in Kashmar
Mirrored lens
crystal clear guts stock price and extinction of defined benefit pensions
To 401k’s so that
red blue white Americans feel ownership in a rigged game of drills
Out in the Gulf
pumping Macondo pressurized quarter to quarter projections
Management bonuses
and long term sustainability to nationless global ticker symbols
Saudis, British, Iraqis,
Chinese, Libyans, Canadians, Indians, French, Brazilians
Australians,
Americans, Egyptians, Mexicans, Russians, Japanese, Tunisians and on DNA
Mohamed Bouazizi was
not the first to light himself on fire
He
was the first to get a viral video; uprising Aljazeera
Media
satellite controlled feeds suppress Iranian internet access
In
democratic elections for Kentucky senators and Bashar al-Assad
Zine
El Abidine Ben Ali with ninety percent of the vote
Syrian
refugee daughter planned on university next year;
And
the poet and the painter and far behind his rightful time
And
we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing
Rumble Euphrates
flooding agricultural impetus to the world’s first nations
Currency in epochs
away from hunter gatherer to farmer
To industrialization
machinery to printing press banned by the Ottoman Empire
English isle
conquered the planet into slave trade with words pressed into homogenized products
Less bodies with
guns kept the fear behind shoreline walls
Economic paradigm
standoff between U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.
Misrecognition of
nationalism over uprising of anti-imperialism Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese shrimpers
trawl out of Versailles in New Orleans East
Katrina and Deep
Water Horizon, bankrupt state got first $200 million July first
Plug holes in non-existent
Amazon sales tax, oil prices plummeting for Saudi princes
Knowing there will
not be time to sell it all before Tesla has electric vehicles as a given
One day redirected
sun ray reflection satellites to solar power plants to networks charging
stations
Home batteries and
Duke Energy is trumped cheaper, trickle up to BP in fire water
Toyota and the gel
pulled out from one Gulf to another is forced to answer the question
Why is an activity
worth what the owner can charge as a profit rather than
If humans through
microprocessors have made it cheaper
To feed, house,
clothe, and maintain the health of the average person
Then why is the
wealth divide greater than it is ever been?
Why do so many
humans live on less than a U.S. dollar a day?
No one wakes up
wanting to be poor, no one.
The myth of white supremacy,
Essence Fest Ashe’ Powerhouse New Orleans
Sonia Sanchez poet
laureate scat about middle passage, the Maafa
The coming, the packing,
the crossing, the raping, the silence, the noise
The landing, the standing
on auction blocks
The price of a commodity
in a derivative the bet on a bet in a tower of bonds
Fees for
transactions not looking at what is being traded
Robo-signing
escalation of a commitment to the idea that the structural premise
Is not a factually
bankrupt global tide of mortgaged humans rising
Leaving the ninety
nine percent screaming on rooftops to busted governments
Bilked in Neoliberal
Norquist pledges extinction of estate taxes
Where a global
capital tax is the optimum answer on a planet where Exxon is bigger than Norway
In a white linen
beast of no nation dripping on Darfur from Dick Fuld to Agu
Where the breaking
point was subprime to CDO’s in 2008 and in this whale’s breath of 2016
The bottleneck is
water; the limitation of laissez faire capitalism is sixty percent of our
bodies
Commodity is
under priced drilled in California aquifers draining tomorrow for today
Saudi Arabia going
prematurely dry and Israeli dates sold to Muslims for Ramadan fast breakings
Nutrition labels and
country of origin mislabeled stamp on the dirt
Mos Def and that new
world water, fuck a bank I need a twenty-year water tank
Don’t, don’t, don’t
believe the hype, the long term investment is water rights
Planet is an equilibrium
polar caps nothing left to melt four degrees and the Damocles is dealt
Where is the market;
betting on the minute oblivious to anything but the carrot
In front the mule,
keeping the people fooled hour to hour instead of decade into century
How many left do you
think humanity has to bleed before the veins dry
A hot and dusty road
that a million feet have trod
Share cropper and a
white farmer pitted against, at least I got more than him on this ship
Gumbo and the jumbo
boiling in the Gulf asking what year, what day does love come to grip
Free hand capitalism
has failed, a beautiful reason repressed
If we do not
recognize it there will be nothing left
The cheaper, the
better, the easier to technologically produce
There is a threshold
of work each human owes to the collective
To pay for the space
one takes, but when the profit of toil sleeps those dollars in computer banks
Amassing mountains of nothing but industries of finance the market devours the economy
Line of desperation
is pressed against neurotic humanity asking why is this all we have
left?
Trillions on one
sided seesaw starving balanced by currency for control so that there is not
revolution
Of understanding the
evolution required in democratic socialist principles of voting and sharing
Of energy,
healthcare, media, education, agriculture because computers are manifesting
communal assets
The secret is the
robo-sourcing does not have to be a threat to the answer of where are the jobs
left
The self-driving
eighteen wheelers, the algorithm first year attorneys and jobless law school
graduates
The untouched minimum
wage lie and don’t look behind the curtain profits of time
Stowed away and why Walmart
rationalizes food to dumpsters before donation
Asking suppliers to
sell to them under cost just to be on their shelves
Mafia tactics
sanitized legal and lobbyist pre-writing rubber stamp Congressional laws
Laughing so that
Kentucky Senator can pay for his television to angle my father
To perceive systemic
issues a certain way to vote for a Trump man because he is not this other
No matter what the
toupee has to say this is his raised in 1953 way
To the shrimp while
they are cheap pre-boiled out in the heat
Sweltering in my
eighth house move since Katrina, fired after Enron 2001 Sarbanes Oxley
Controls and
auditing local water districts in Tangipahoa Louisiana utility bonds pensions
Low returns Federal
Reserve cut interest rates to hide the vulnerability on the Federal debt
Subsidizing the
bankers scooping profit up in the internet digital school of fish
Sharks eating us
alive and we are cool with it
Because I don’t want
to lose my little bit
My pile collected,
maybe a paid mortgage, I might make it Boomer to the end
The rest, the
planet, the system, a few stocks, what did I have to do with that?
The world is coming
to that breaking point of water
If we do not tax
capital on a global level, prevent dodges like Panama Papers
Make carbon
emissions a priority to shift towards what companies like Tesla are doing
And see intertwined
fates market and economy, ownership and labor; we will not be too big to fail
The jumbo and the
tiny shrimp, the water will be too hot to grow
The radiation will
not escape in a feedback loop of we asked for this because we could not share
We could not see the
people living on a dollar a day were tied to Jeff Immelt’s pay package
The system of who
are the they, what do the stockholders demand
To take a minute to
breath stabilized temperature oxygenated air
Mediate, green grass
between toes, crystal water to lips
Drink
Let the water swish
around in our spit
To know that in
those bubbles is the deoxyribonucleic acid
Of a myriad of
generations of parents and parents of parents
Extending into the
left to right movement of provided genetic material
To say that every
person transcends nationality, race, and gender
The offerings in
that wet blood
Means that none of us are
probably who we think we are
Anatomically the
truth is in the water
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