We’ll Build by Tony Burfield I’ll build a fire tonight against the cold and against technology and against the federal reserve. We’ll build a fire tonight, crouching in flannel shirts and Achilles boots, fire in the brick box in the … Continue reading
The 1% by Frederick Pollack I buy him, he buys me with what we made divesting ourselves of the last vulgar matter in our portfolios. Then I buy Charles, who owns the water somewhere. Managers are let go with manly … Continue reading
Stampede by Barbara Lightner Hold back, runaway stallion, headstrong, determined upon your course. We have too long pastured indifference and its easy silence feeding your power, your pounding hoofbeat. We will no longer hold to inertia’s doom; are not so … Continue reading
Apocalypse Night by Barbara Lightner High thoughts must have high language. –Aristophanes They would crack thunder, erupt with the fierceness of volcanoes, become power in a righteousness of apocalypse. What we got was small rain, the piss-conduit of frogs. Listen! … Continue reading
Sonia Sanchez organizes grandmothers to occupy army recruitment center Defiant Trespass by Barbara Lightner Can’t sit down on the rocking chair porch of the is, bad air disturbing your ease, old women, sending you into the center where they hold … Continue reading