sow the wind reap the whirlwind

Hosea, he saves, was living the crisis of his times
(both collective and personal) marrying Gomar
and her unfaithfulness so he could feel God’s Love
in God’s faithfulness to oh, so unfaithful Israel
oh, Israel of the zionist litany of lies a full century
of total conflation of most 2,000 year old tradition
of expatriate worship at home altars reduced down
to a settler colonial assault on a place left behind
2 millennia ago and here we are in the 4th turning
250 years after that Declaration of Independence
totally in the yoke of military industrial strength
might makes right hallowed out post-industrial
half century austerity forever for all the people &
with forever war for them, the theys, the addicted
scions of oligarchic overreach so over run our system
of bought up legislature and White House access &
of course, completely corrupted supremes of legal
hackdom again reaching in to exert partisan control
and it’s just like when Ford pardoned Nixon or worse
Bush v. Gore or alternatively watching as “Democrats”
pull strings to install Clinton in 2016 or Biden in 2020
even though in both cases Bernie Sanders would have
beat Trump in a heartbeat but none of that matters
ha, ha, ha elections have consequences an 6 corporate
controlled Federalist Society bought and fully paid for
Supremes can sow the wind & we can reap the whirlwind
the hurricane in the gulf, tornado of the plains all high laid
low, all low filled in with over reach blow back over reach &
                              Corporate Caesar
                              Corporate Supremes
                              Corporate Legislature
                                   Uber alles

 

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.