Choker of the Apes [Today's News Poem, February 17, 2012]

Choker of the Apes [Today's News Poem, February 17, 2012]

Property is theft; likewise is the self.

Selfness is the lapse, folly and betrays.

Ownership is flaw, ego and the self's

Selfish, and a slave; prayer of the false teeth.

Self is a desire—nothing like our maw.

Atoms and your tears give you to ourselves.

Polymers of life, lifelines on a string,

Billions on our neck: choker of the apes.

“DURING Mr. Soleri’s long tenure, Arcosanti evolved into a surprising anachronism: a company town. The product line? Handmade bells and heady theories about imaginary cities, or “arcologies.” Ordinary capitalism — independent businesses and privately held homes — was anathema.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/garden/an-early-eco-city-faces-the-future.html

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The Masters of Pilgrims [Today's News Poem, July 13 2010]

The Masters of Pilgrims [Today's News Poem, July 13 2010]

The mind is the way to a man's legs.
The tendons are triggered by his nerves.
And nervous, he walks in the hot sand,
With leaves in the way of the sunlight.
Submission to promises that last
To graves if not longer, he must hope.

Believers in nerves in the sky beg
Salvation from clouds and their faith serves
A master of shadows. The palm brands
Abduction with cover for one sleight
Of many that God must have let past:
He prays he is blind to the plan's scope.

“The scientist, Shahram Amiri, 32, vanished during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in June 2009, and Iran accused the United States of abducting and torturing him. He had worked at Iran’s Malek Ashtar University, which is linked to the powerful Revolutionary Guards.”
– Salman Masood and Alan Cowell, The New York Times, July 13, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/world/middleeast/14iran.html?_r=1&hp


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