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I Am Dismas

A ditch dark and angry form
Sun parched and dirty
A penny less Malefactor
Malcontent
Wandering unpaved paths
Without a given direction
Seemingly with a purpose
Finding myself unwillingly at the great Intersect.
Here, is where one ends up!
I am given provision and choice.
Hardship and death or sanctuary in the union.

The final rehabilitation:

I must claim the hopeful climb to Citizen hood.
My righteous right by God and Country.
I am born to the new world
United I stand
Proud and true!
God
I will plead my allegiance
to the flag of the Empire
of
United
States
in America
For whatever it stands
As a Nation
as God
indivisibly
with liberty and justice
for all that apply
In this Country
No longer will I be the black sheep!
My pledge is true and now I will change color!
Pure as the Black Stone of Mecca!





The world is on fire!
Humans are eating humans!
They, we, I, consuming everything in our path!
The way of the past
present and the way it should be
Life is determined
Destroyed
Rationalized
A hunger that seemingly unites us all
An elusive problem that forever goes unsolved
We separate ourselves with vanity and tradition
A reflective, protective wall with deeply rooted foundations
Persistently building
Reaching inward toward the stars
Upward we go!
The higher we build the more we can see!
The better we understand ourselves...








Progressives (best read while listening to the Beatles "Revolution")


Screams, yelps, fire, smoke, arrows fly, blood spurts, splash!

I see Glen Beck as a captain atop a stone, rock castle tower telling his fellow officers and subordinates that the castle is under siege.
As they are confident in the strength of the walls.
Which have WORKED for hundreds of years to secure their existence.

On the other side, the screamers!
Together, with hope handed to them on a hand-woven, American made, hemp plate RISE UP!
Finally, out of the RED, WHITE and blue closet, their dreams of PEACE can be taken with FORCE!
Now, the KLAN may show its face with PRIDE!
The two forces battle for scraps.

Israel is horrified and goes on alert!
Closing it's closet doors.
Cats and dogs chase their tails in amusement.

Meanwhile, chants of change no longer slim.
The MOBs fight with lies and insults competing for dominion of truth.
This fight is sacred.
This fight is new.
This fight must evolve in ORDER for the peace.
TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING AND LEAVE THEM NOTHING!
The winds have calmed and the flag no longer waves.
Still, the battle continues!
Democracy, Socialism, Communism, CHANGE.
The spirits of the ancient Greeks strengthen the stone resolve.
To the trumpets of ye old Roman guard!
The deep, hallow, song of the "people united under God" justifies and endures.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
The fight for LIBERTY takes its toll on both sides of the great rock.
The people, the people, the peoples stand
for
fight
for
peace, freedom and equality.
A constitution!
A progressive evolution!
There's gonna be a revolution and it's gonna be
all-right!

~ Déjà vu

Eric Wong 2010