The only hope left is that the level of imperial overreach
is so great that the backlash blowback will overwhelm it
even though forces of colonial corporate organized crime
are currently in the Current Age not one bit less entrenched

In all three branches of government & certainly actually
the electoral system of two party co-dependent duopoly
where one hand always washes the other & one of those
guys always did it first and the back and forth of fingers

Pointing never ends but Republic zombie stiff death gait
keeps right on advancing into the hyper-poly crisis mode
of empire so over incapable of ever addressing real danger
so environmental so much about energy intensive infra-

Structure of destruction and the rip-off ultimate enclosure
of space itself this grand universe stretching away so far
out past outer space and whispering drift of ancient time
saying we can see and touch and feel it still just going on.

 

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.