‘Round Midnight in Ameriker by Dan Ryan

grinning blood moon

     bloated

          blond haired buffoon

                    gloating     Hitler-like

               white messiah

     another midnight

          for the moral world

here in ameriker

    

tendency of the powerful

          to view human beings as pins    

               on a map     presumed

     entitlement to control

               with insult and abuse

          motives of greed     and spite

     rule society, politics & politicians

               ultimate corruption

          of men          & women

here in ameriker

winds & whims     of

     political storms shift     quickly

               kids going off to war

          and death     again

     that tired old song     playin

          on the national radio

here in ameriker

i’d like to ask God what it’s all for

          but     there’s nobody home

               no answers there

     it’s just not fair          yet

          I sense no revolution    

               in the air

     no revolution     anywhere

here in ameriker

               January 2016


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Dan Ryan is still a dedicated Zen slacker drifting between Olympia, WA and Minneapolis, MN.  And also still groov'n on Kerouac, Ginsberg and Snyder.