Friday, April 29, 2016

Presidential Politics

Campaign MMVIII/MMXVI

Voices begin with;
vituperative
and vulgar slogans
that are
virulent and
vindictive.
Vacillating
towards
violence
and
venomous viewpoints...
Were they virtually invalid?
Vexing?
WE - The people know
vacuous
and voracious
stares glinting at
vomitous
vile
villainy
will never become the
norm
nor
standard of the
victorious
vehement
human-spirit
Vitreous are their ways;
Villainous,
Rovian,
vulpinisms,
are their politics...
No...
Voices heard through a pen
may be drowned in a rally
a
vasectomy
that violates the
virtue
of vigorous ancient
virtuosos...
But I decree
"vi veri veniversum vivus vici"
Ohh,
voluminous
voluptuous
veraciousness
of Voting
Voluntarism
I lay my faith at your alter...

Monday, September 7, 2015

One Year

It's been a year Oldman
A year to the day
so to commemorate
I went to the mountains
I watched an eagle soar
above a vast valley
and I could swear 
I was with you.
With me as always...

Your son,
Rodolfo V

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Broken Pick

Broken Pick

Frustrated;
My retarded fingers
and flat voice
commingle
with
my
rusty dull strings

Off the beat and rhythm
there's a decision
and the cacophony
that ensues
is this moment
To make
or take
into the aether

Does this mean anything?
Resonating wrongly
A Minor or Major here and there?
Floating in the void
and neither making
a
coherent sound

For the pitch is twisted
uneloquently
relayed thoughts
of musicianship


Like a stampede of
mustangs
This moment is dispersing
I'm losing my muse
appearing moment to
moment



The Notes that should be flowing
seem distant
and shriveled
quibbling for the oxygen
breathed through
the body

Gorilla fingering
her neck
stumbling onto
each fret and beating
the voice that is
her rosette

The top is stark contrast to
the tenderness
I've seen others play
Were the binding is clean
and
seamless
with
Ornate inlays on the strap and button


But she is my bride and I her groom
From her stubborn headstock
to her machine head which looms

and the tuning keys
are mine to mend
and her strings to bend

back and forth according to
Pythagorean Theorem

Medicine to a weary soul




Monday, June 6, 2011

So simple is the simple life
Amongst the blowing trees
But at the foot of the mountain lies
the dance of a million years

Friday, February 4, 2011

Internal Pressure

Can you imagine a spring in the dead of winter
From Organizations that are non-linear
shouting in the streets in protest
as people rally for their freedom

Do you see the promise of a better day
When the fall of walls wasn't figurative?
Where Democracy spreading digitally is no longer a myth
like a virus of thought; a contagion, distributed

Anarchy is complete freedom and the fearful are fearless
A light shinning bright in the darkness of the last century
For The Old World Order is dying
Trying to grasps at its useless reigns

Where governments used to keep order behind closed doors
Now they have to compete in the public space
with a voice that is both nameless and pervasive
The will of the people Laid bare.

The youth is coming.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tip of the Tongue

Tip of the tongue

From their swallered peak
A voice lets out a shriek;

Follow me and my ways
Follow my lead”

Grab your pitch-forks
and torches

And they do.

Tacit permission from a trusted voice
a Trust soon to be broken in reason and form

For we all believe things that are said and done

By hypocrites and prophets

We all do at some point; I suppose?

Were you the cause of all these evils?”

I ask,

No”, is the reply

conveniently you can hide behind your words
and say they were taken out of context.
That the violence that ensued
had nothing to do with you
or your sacred pulpit
or your will that you imbued
into your surrogate killers
commuting onto them
torture and murder

Evil bastard

though you may not have pulled the trigger
You gave them the idea
While hiding behind plausible deniability
taking no responsibility for your gifts
or the dark fruits that they yield

Incite a lynch-mob and you become
a hero to some
and a proxy-assassin to others

Vilify your detractors and they become
caricatures worthy of no quarter

Demonize your opponents and soon you'll see
Wasted lives amid a sea of tumultuous circumstances
victims of happenstance

For the surrogates Master is a coward
Knowing full well that your Words have consequences

Written in blood and the dreadful heart

Tearing families apart
for political gain.

You're the Devils foot-soldier.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

I long to return to that place,
where time and meaning have no sway.
Where love and life and dreams mingle into one.
my twisted tongue
and anguish
remain no more.
I am free.