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Poetry || Submissions'BOOOP'/socio/politico/ecosystemic poemsBy Elazar FANTASTICA the small effects of small people are large the large effects of large people are small 600 million people watch CNN but that's only really 20% of the world's population. So what can the matter be further to sell coca-cola to the coolies they're all the same East of Eden waiting for the fiber-optic connection for instantaneous E of overall informational networkingsensibility for upgrading tri-annually additional bucks for all and a world that goes to sleep with one eye open. CHRIST can you bear to open a letter anymore? it can only be ominous belongs to the realm of astrology and other games of the devil cards slip through the cracks in your door visitors from another planet telephone bills greeting overdrafts carried on the tiny backs of bugging devices with legs that reach across the ocean SYSTEMS have a way of becoming systems and stay that way until one fine day 10 cents on the dollar needs 12 cents to fly, so something's wrong with the system if you need 50percent white and 50percent black something's wrong with the system if you get 10 cents on the dollar at retirement something's wrong with the system if you end up with nothing after all something's wrong with the system and it must be destroyed, but it never gets destroyed because too many people work the cement and hard tools and who wants so many people to get hurt when you and I know that if we were in the same place we would probably do the same WHO'S there to do the dirty work? che guevara is dead 22 black panthers are dead what ever happened to regis debray what ever happened to huey newton what happened to allende where is stokely carmichael muammar quadafi is mum patty hearst is a myth with nothing in it malcolm x is dead martin luther king is dead irving rodale dropped dead on television from too much organic gardening the greening of america has turned red popular poetry has turned sour people are still disappearing in argentina popular art has turned conceptual John Dillinger pisses on the grave of postmodernism who put the dilly in dally who started out rolling old drunks in the alley who gives a fuck for old tunes who gives a damn for old ruins let the people work in the markets the tomatoes and potatoes and onions and avocados let them steal pennies from children and dimes from dreamers let food be for baking and frying let the chickens when killed, stop crying Poems by Elazar aka Larry Freifeld, who is a poet and owner of the White Raven Bookstore on Yonah Navi Street, just off Allenby in Tel Aviv. His shop includes classics, used books, collectors items, and various bits and pieces of memorabilia from by-gone ages. His poems are imbued in the prophetic tradition. Today's Situation
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