Lockdown USA

[paradoxical]

white lines
over downtown
spreading into
chemical haze

white lines
on a mirror
rising up
in euphoria

smoking meth
off tin foil
in Kentucky,
in Oklahoma

as the Twin Towers fall over and over again,
as Fox News rewinds the tape

the needle hits a vein,
a slow parade of media lies

another sacrifice
for the Drug War,
a two party system
of incarceration

always room for one more
on the inside

the CIA
pushing
in the crack,
the meth, HIV

into the horizon,
into the heart

of human consciousness

as Mexico burns,
as Colombia burns

as the rainforest dies,
and the animals scream
even God looks down
and says, "It's time."

the natural world watches,
waiting it's turn

[MorpheusSandman]

paradoxical, I will try to comment on the poem later, but just know that it's stated in the rules that if you want to post more than one poem per day you should post them both in the same thread so as to give other poets/poems a greater chance of being read.

[paradoxical]

paradoxical, I will try to comment on the poem later, but just know that it's stated in the rules that if you want to post more than one poem per day you should post them both in the same thread so as to give other poets/poems a greater chance of being read.

Sorry about that. Guess I got carried away.

[Silas Thorne]

This is powerful stuff. I really like the way the way you insert things into the system, the body,in conjunction with the image of drug-use here. I guess this is inspired by the news of CIA drug dealings and government hypocrisy, as well as a media-inspired climate of fear creating more and more problems.

Thanks and welcome, traveller
Silas

[Delta40]

Your poem reminds me of the Rodriquez song Establishment Blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7u06P3ebU

only rewritten a whole two generations later.

[paradoxical]

This is powerful stuff. I really like the way the way you insert things into the system, the body,in conjunction with the image of drug-use here. I guess this is inspired by the news of CIA drug dealings and government hypocrisy, as well as a media-inspired climate of fear creating more and more problems.

Thanks and welcome, traveller
Silas

Thank you, I appreciate that. I was in a rage when I wrote this, after reading an article about the incarceration system in America and how it is run for profit.


Your poem reminds me of the Rodriquez song Establishment Blues. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7u06P3ebU

only rewritten a whole two generations later.

Thank you, Delta. I had never heard this song this song before. It's righteous stuff.

[Bar22do]

Welcome paradoxical, it's a powerful, "engaged" poem. Enjoyed.