i vote
want change
so vote against my conscience
just to have my country rule closer to my thought
i vote
in vaini write
need change
use standard international dictionaries
just to choose the exact word to emit a soul-level caring
to w/ ri-te/ght
my pain
i draw
haunting images
using pantone-selected colours matching
stay/in-ing visions
drawn in
my brain
i wail
scream schreeches
non-word sounds, speaking in tongues of sufferers
my des/dess-erted parched throat
growls
a grain
-y gain
i sc/s-ent
floral bouquet sprays
to areas stricken with the stink of garbage include stench
odours of
diseased, maggot-filled dying bodies — skunk air sharp-
ly re-
vile-in
i d-anc/ens -e
make steps
advocate for stricken poor, old, dependent, and infirm
my twisted actions stretch out liga-
ments in
my groin
i pub
lish/dish my thoughts
other's thoughts for peace, women's rights, health
and wellness of the earth and man with no one to listen
to my
"hear-in"
government
powerfully
flies its religious right/tes
in the face of people who did/did not vote to travel in its
pole-
it-i-
-cal pla-in/ne
i crawl
to the voting booth
marking my spot for candidates who do not re-fl/sp-ect
the thoughts ov' a po' whyte gurl
wi' no
sayin'
i grow
tired, retire from life,
issue "i'm tired" sighs until i remember what it is that i'm
living for—shaping the world worthy
of liv'-
in' in.
i look
garner strength
from live/dead mentors—all age/s—past, present—all countries,
all faiths
exhibiting kindness, compassion, tolerance …making a world
humanitar-
i-an
i immerse
in creations
of/for Gandhi; and he gives hope, strength, will, spiritual
energy
to continue shaping a world worthy
to re-
main in
i create
to invoke change
in all countries that affect my world, in hope to encourage
global
rules closer to humanitarian thought
i sent/ascent
my pa/ve-in |
