Penned Resistance is poetic ink urging us to thInk about what is happening to us, to the U.S., to the world, and all that whirls around and inside us. To thInk as our true selves is to resist the forces that seek to occupy or control our thoughts . . . as an individual, a citizen, a man, a woman, a human, a Yeti.
Penned ink to thInk is a link to our primordial freedom ... our freedom to be who we truly are. Let it ring.
Who ordered that
oh the centuries 18 19 20 21st century
the standard model
has been visions divisions and invasions
racism militarism and authoritarianism
it’s always been very scary for natives women blacks and browns
from Redcoats in your room to Ottoman’s removed
World War I World War II
who ordered that
dis…ease
Smallpox
and the spread of disease was it policy was it just us or u.s.
wrapping blankets with intent
covering up for a more sinister creed
white male supremacy for a Manifest Destiny
a beginning imperial lust for land gold and the dust where the buffalo roamed
we spread the disease we just seceded from and seeded a pox to succeed
ridding the colonizing crown of Britain and then the riddle of we colonizing
riddling the tribal continent with immigration migration and disease
According … ing to Biden we’re in another
war
Fauci’s x-rays on display breathe deep beware be scared the fourth wave
awaits
another arms race and it’s yours
and as in all our invasive
wars
the corporate revolving door
swings wide
in his Cabinet is a treasure trove
of vaccine inner interests ingredients
the business of America is Big Business
just add a little ASG and in a Blinken a little Rice
there’s a Lander and it’s Dunn
From the first breath from your first look up
from your first steps every turn those twists
the churning tears the rising switchbacks the stirring mountain highs
the valleys lived the streams of consciousness
the shoring up the rivers down the riding waves of rapids dreams
the timbre of the voices heard and the echoes reassure
the howl
of canyon creeks thoughts received ford relief
in the always there the inner metaphysics
the arc in the texture of the crossing beams
the other day the other way the other side
Litmus tests
began in an us land grab of native lands
Europeans descending on Native Americans claiming a racism
for their ascension as superior arriving after leaving fleeing
the absolute rule of monarchies
Lit…must was a beginning u.s.
of white male landowners no blacks or women white or black
were in that class
all Geronimos were attacked and all the tribes that had thrived
for thousands of years
were in a genocide
Women as shamans and the Empire of hims
to control her and men
herbs and plants to outlast their distaste of the last supper
lasting
mysteries of ecstatic vision see the male-in-elite
hiding in the open empty religions
of
State exploitation and production of material
reality