The corporations (clearly) have taken over the government
policy run amuck in tsunami of military Keynesianism as both
parties of the two ruling class parties so called you know like
leadership braying forth their praise for about 100 billion bucks
for more forever war in Ukraine, in Israel/Palestine and China
yes, China but the liberals just know it can’t be fascism because
none of their definitions are definitive enough, and, of course,
Old Genocide Joe and liberals why, they could never be fascists
never all the way back to to good old Woody Wilson which was
when they passed the Espionage Act and launched the Palmer
Raids to round up the “REDS” and the International Workers of
the World, the original Wobblies put into jail without so much
as a trial like Eugene Debs Socialist Party Candidate while now
police goon squads herd the Green Party presidential candidate
Jill Stein with a wall of bicycles while one grabs grabs her ankle
and one grabs her wrist and the one on her ankle pulls her ankle
out throwing her back so her other foot comes up and the officer
says “that’s assaulting a police officer” which is exactly what they
charge her with while meanwhile Trump is on trial in court every
day gesturing at the witness and using social media to threaten
the court and its families for the tenth time the man has been held
in contempt and fined and the judge tells him he doesn’t want to
but will jail him so all the pundits then say that the secret service
will have to be locked up with him to protect the cad while he’s
incarcerated ouch! oh, such care for the man who liberal conflates
Judaism and Zionism Israel and the Jewish global population while
having said of the tiki-torch carrying mob in Charlottesville chanting
“Jews Will Not Replace Us” that there were good folk on both sides.

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.