Artwork © Richard Spisak

 

“Improper ideology”

“Improper ideology”
Say once again for me.
Revising history for the moneyed class
Why it’s as if certain realities
Never came to pass- is a finer ideology.

Sure woman always had the vote, scratch that guy, he might be
          troubled, please take note.
And women could always buy a home, hey wait a sec, why was
          she alone
She left her man, to borrow his charger card.
Why that so revisionist, I heard some important man say.

No women were executives, what are you thinking, and none were
          ever pilots, up in the clouds so stinking.

Slavery was just full employment a gubmint plan, Even the smallest
          toddler could enjoy it as long as he could stand.
And when they sold yer maw and paw,
You might find yourself left waiting in some saloon or bar, till
          some gen’rous man picked up your tab, They’re such a musical
          people with a gift of gab.

Science always was advanced by men, who never took advantage of
          the females in the lab, their friends.
They would never claim unearned scientific achievement, why
          they’d sooner suffer their own Embarrassing bereavement!

And schools for blacks were never poorly funded, anyone saying
          that has politically blundered.
To even suggest that polluted places, seemed to be located near
          the darker races, this is simply to malign the ruling class. And
          frankly if by now
You don’t know it?
You can kiss my pass card. EnGuarde!

And protecting water shed, that not word for native peoples,
          and its never been true, we locked their children in steeples.

To even think we’ve been imperfect seems a filthy lie. Let me
          cheer you with a soulful glance, look right in my glass eye.

 

Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.

Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the recently released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces “POETS of the East,” a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.