Head drooped past my knees
A low-hanging waning crescent moon
Leaving the cold, unforgiving room
Smelling of the sweaty scent of self-disgust
The buck-shot decision, scattered justifications
On the very decision to enter the Satan’s cavern
Now I’m in emotional triage
Licking my wounds initiated an expensive infection
I spend a moment on each illogical illumination
“I’m bored” and “I’m lonely”
“It’s not the dumbest thing you’ve done this week, let alone ever, so why care?”
“It’ll be fun.”
Only as I leave the bright building
Built on dreams and nightmares alike
Do I finally regard my deceptive delusions
Which believes in the comical contrapositive
That my judgment is sound
In the light of the rising sun over the glittering towers of excess
Seeking fortune in a mining town
Now specializing in soul extraction
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
POEM: Burst
How is it your deep eyes pierce
Thrusting directly into my fractured soul
Soothing, gentle, yet necessarily fierce
Patching the pieces, plugging the hole?
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
But I thank you
Why, with the grace and dexterity of a warm spring breeze
Emitting the aroma of oranges and ginger,
Can you grind and groove through this world with ease?
You’re driving hot burning impulse I’ve yet to finger.
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
But I thank you
What is the reason you touch me so
With a steamy shove from above?
My balloon bursts, after shaking to and fro
I love how you show your love
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
And I thank you
Thrusting directly into my fractured soul
Soothing, gentle, yet necessarily fierce
Patching the pieces, plugging the hole?
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
But I thank you
Why, with the grace and dexterity of a warm spring breeze
Emitting the aroma of oranges and ginger,
Can you grind and groove through this world with ease?
You’re driving hot burning impulse I’ve yet to finger.
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
But I thank you
What is the reason you touch me so
With a steamy shove from above?
My balloon bursts, after shaking to and fro
I love how you show your love
I don’t know how you do
Why you do
What you do to me
And I thank you
Monday, April 11, 2011
POEM: One Step
One step changed my life…
One step shocked my world…
You entered as casually as a lightning bolt in a prairie
Frightened furry creatures frantically fleeing
You wore your electro-static suit with style
The agape apes in the atrium all affronted
Your second-hand clothing spoke of stories one thousand miles long
I knew then I would read them all.
One step stopped my heart…
Strolling past the transfixed masses, all aghast
Dressed like dour druids in stylish gym wear and sorority sweaters
You sarcastically smiled, silently soliciting sneers towards your ripped stockings
Ironically coming from the clones with “fashionably torn” jeans.
All I could countenance were your contoured legs keeping cadence with my pulse
Or was it the other way around?
One step made me laugh…
As I stared, you strutted sure-footed for a spot, as steady as a man in stilettos
Swaying forward and back, left and right, a rickety gait.
Bubbling and percolating like the coffee you carried
My butterflies broke out with a boisterous burst
One step caught my eye…
Your entrancing eyes enveloped mine, eliciting an eternal eclipse
Was I looking upon you or the heavens? And did it matter?
The universe was residing in the library, five feet from me
Casually floating past, harpooning my helpless heart.
One step stole my soul…
Your bespeckled face brought unburdened sincerity
Your Cheshire cat smile rewrote history and altered the future
I knew not your name, nor the wondrous world of your whimsical whisper
With one step, I’d correct those grave injustices…
One step forward towards my world’s revolution…
One step towards the meaning of life…
One step and I will be that much closer to you…
One step shocked my world…
You entered as casually as a lightning bolt in a prairie
Frightened furry creatures frantically fleeing
You wore your electro-static suit with style
The agape apes in the atrium all affronted
Your second-hand clothing spoke of stories one thousand miles long
I knew then I would read them all.
One step stopped my heart…
Strolling past the transfixed masses, all aghast
Dressed like dour druids in stylish gym wear and sorority sweaters
You sarcastically smiled, silently soliciting sneers towards your ripped stockings
Ironically coming from the clones with “fashionably torn” jeans.
All I could countenance were your contoured legs keeping cadence with my pulse
Or was it the other way around?
One step made me laugh…
As I stared, you strutted sure-footed for a spot, as steady as a man in stilettos
Swaying forward and back, left and right, a rickety gait.
Bubbling and percolating like the coffee you carried
My butterflies broke out with a boisterous burst
One step caught my eye…
Your entrancing eyes enveloped mine, eliciting an eternal eclipse
Was I looking upon you or the heavens? And did it matter?
The universe was residing in the library, five feet from me
Casually floating past, harpooning my helpless heart.
One step stole my soul…
Your bespeckled face brought unburdened sincerity
Your Cheshire cat smile rewrote history and altered the future
I knew not your name, nor the wondrous world of your whimsical whisper
With one step, I’d correct those grave injustices…
One step forward towards my world’s revolution…
One step towards the meaning of life…
One step and I will be that much closer to you…
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
POEM: Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
By Brett Johansson
You are an artist, a performer
Call it what you will
You ply your trade
The money goes to your coffer from their till
They implicitly agree with your message
I have nothing against that, mind you
But I must question if you are fair.
You call yourself an analyst or pundit
Who patrols the political ground
Who gets paid by a corporation
In Obama’s pocket. Or is that the other way around?
I’m not suggesting an evil cabal
Why should GE air anything but their stance?
There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy
Why upset the guys who pay you to dance?
I’m not saying you are corrupt
But the system is
You can have whichever belief you like
Thankfully America is still free
We all have a patron
We are all a court painter
Why question when you benefit?
Why see the danger?
By Brett Johansson
You are an artist, a performer
Call it what you will
You ply your trade
The money goes to your coffer from their till
They implicitly agree with your message
I have nothing against that, mind you
But I must question if you are fair.
You call yourself an analyst or pundit
Who patrols the political ground
Who gets paid by a corporation
In Obama’s pocket. Or is that the other way around?
I’m not suggesting an evil cabal
Why should GE air anything but their stance?
There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy
Why upset the guys who pay you to dance?
I’m not saying you are corrupt
But the system is
You can have whichever belief you like
Thankfully America is still free
We all have a patron
We are all a court painter
Why question when you benefit?
Why see the danger?
Monday, April 4, 2011
POEM: Parrot in Massachusetts
One wonders what it is like to be free?
One wonders whether the others think what it’s like to be me?
The glass menagerie I inhabit is nothing but a cage
Containing my irrepressible, inconsolable rage
I could soar and glide for a thousand years
Instead my wings wipe away my tears
But with my burning desire for my wings to spread
Comes a frightening, innate sense of dread
From my box, I see a fellow bird drink, and then she flees
Those dastardly hunters love the black-capped chickadees
The predators exist outside my gilded life
My rococo feathers save me from strife
My wings could help me escape their clutches, I bet
Instead, my good looks instead keep me as man’s pet
How I wish I could sip precious water from outside my box!
But one wonders what it would be like to be eaten by a fox?
One wonders whether the others think what it’s like to be me?
The glass menagerie I inhabit is nothing but a cage
Containing my irrepressible, inconsolable rage
I could soar and glide for a thousand years
Instead my wings wipe away my tears
But with my burning desire for my wings to spread
Comes a frightening, innate sense of dread
From my box, I see a fellow bird drink, and then she flees
Those dastardly hunters love the black-capped chickadees
The predators exist outside my gilded life
My rococo feathers save me from strife
My wings could help me escape their clutches, I bet
Instead, my good looks instead keep me as man’s pet
How I wish I could sip precious water from outside my box!
But one wonders what it would be like to be eaten by a fox?
Who will replace the President? Is there anybody worthwhile? Eh...
The President has officially begun his re-election campaign, surprising almost nobody by posting it online. Personally, I wouldn’t have been surprised if had went aboard the USS Ronald Reagan and unfurled a banner stating, “No really, I promise we still can!”
Will the President win in 2012? Honestly, I think so. As with 2008, his biggest competition will not come from his Republican challenger, but from within the party, namely Secretary of State (for now) Hillary Clinton. While it is certainly probable Secretary Clinton can and will beat him, and while it is also possible a rightist candidate like Sarah Palin or Donald Trump can mount a strong challenge, if I were to place a bet, I’d still put my money on Obama.
That being said, I am the biggest Obama basher in the world, and would love nothing better than to recycle him in the same bin as his ‘green’ light bulbs. Here are my top ten contenders, in reverse order, to knock off Mr. President:
Only if everyone else inexplicably reveals they too were born in Kenya
10. Newt Gingrich
Current occupation: Republican Hack
Victory Chance in Primaries: Less than 1%
Poor Newt believes in his heart of hearts that his corrupt Republican regime is coming back full-swing, with the emergence of the Tea Party on the right wing. What the former Speaker doesn’t realize is that the Tea Party movement will either wilt like a flower dying in the cloudy desert of Washington or will split off and create a real-life conservative political party. Either way, the American public is never going to vote for a retread.
9. Ron Paul
Current occupation: Republican Congressman from Texas
Victory Chance: 1%
Mr. Paul is the true voice of conservative libertarianism, and is a big hit with many young college students. Believing idealism is the most important aspect of politics, Mr. Paul has outraised all other Republicans in campaign contributions, though that won’t matter to the average American, or even Republican, voter. To most Americans, he is the small, elvish-looking man whose hippy, pot-smoking followers are a mere sideshow. Mr. Paul would be better off throwing his support behind a younger, more idealistic, yet more palatable presidential choice.
8. Michele Bachman,
Current occupation: Republican Congressman from Minnesota
Victory Chance: 4%
The only way this Tea Party favorite will win her nomination is if Sarah Palin decides not to run. The sleepy American electorate will be shocked and awoken my her fiery anti-Obama rhetoric and her strong (well, stronger than the current President’s pre-President) credentials. She represents perfectly the soccer mom, middle-American mentality the same way Obama represented the under-represented minority. And if you don’t think the symbolic gesture of political image doesn’t matter, you clearly weren’t paying attention in 2008.
Only if We the People don’t pay attention to their track records and history…you know, just like last time
7. Insert Republican Governor Here
Current occupation: Governors of varied states in the Union
Victory Chance: 8%
There’s been talk of Marco Rubio (Florida), Chris Christie (New Jersey), Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota), and Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) running for President in 2012. Good luck to all of you. If you could all take your titles and beings, combine them like Voltron into one massive governor with Christie’s ideas, Jindal’s assertive strength, Pawlenty’s blue-dog appeal, and Rubio’s look and heritage and create one super candidate, they would win hands-down. Otherwise, by splitting the vote so many ways, it will create an unwinnable scenario for each in the primary season.
6. Dark horse ex-military guy Republican or Democrat here
Current occupation: Appearing on a cable news channel as an analyst, bemoaning the President’s poor military decisions at bars
Victory Chance: 10%
America wants strong, confident candidates for President, which was why we voted for Obama in the first place. We believed in him as that strong leader, much to our chagrin. If a competent former general (Wesley Clark, feel free to not show up) were to throw their hat in the ring, Colin Powell or Stanley McCrystal come to mind, they could stand up as a balance to the ineffectual President. Chances are it won’t happen, but I’d still like to see it.
The Contenders
5. Mitt Romney
Current Occupation: Male Supermodel
Victory Chance: 17%
Let’s face it, the man looks the part. In my lifetime, we went from the wizened old Grandfather (Reagan) who looked as if he and his wife would offer you fresh-baked goods when you entered the White House, next to the cantankerous old Grandfather (Bush) who would not-so-politely ask you not to touch the knickknacks and to stay off the carpet, then to the party-boy cousin (Clinton) who’s White House you were frightened to touch anything in, to his frat-boy younger brother (W) turned Christian reformer who shouldn’t have been trusted with the keys to the car, let alone the nation, to the bungling next door neighbor (Obama) who could sell you a car you already owned. We the People need someone who seems like they know what they are doing, not someone who actually knows what they are doing. Romney is every bit the charlatan Obama is, pretends he is as pious as W did, probably parties as hard, if not harder, than Clinton, but also looks responsible like the aloof Bush and the vacant Reagan. What’s not to like about his candidacy?
4. Sarah Palin
Current occupation: Female Supermodel
Victory Chance: 19%
Copy and paste Romney’s credentials over hers and the only thing you’d have to add are nicer legs, women’s innate jealousy which they can’t quite comprehend, and an actual tenacity and desire to fix America. If women weren’t so intimidated by her, she would have carried the decrepit McCain to victory. Oh yeah, also…she doesn’t seem quite all there in the head.
3. Donald Trump
Current occupation: Hair Model, television personality, billionaire real estate mogul
Victory Chance: 20%
Simply with his massive money and his built-in platform in our minds by being one of the most famous men in the entire world. With the government’s finances in the tank, America is desperate for a financial wizard. But hasn’t Mr. Trump gone bankrupt? I guess that makes him a great candidate, considering our nation is spending 8 times the revenue it takes in.
2. Hillary Clinton
Current occupation: Secretary of State
Victory Chance in the Democratic Primary: 49%
She was the sensible Democratic pick in 2008, and should she run, her base would be reinvigorated and possibly grow exponentially. She would be a force against the weakened President (a la Reagan against Ford in 1976). I don’t think she’d win, and honestly I don’t think she would be much better than Obama if she did win, but I certainly hope she will try. As devious and Machiavellian as she is, I’d take her over the Communist any day.
1. Rand Paul
Current Occupation: Republican Senator from Kentucky
Victory Chance in the Republican Primary : 21%
I know, I know, he hasn’t officially run for President. I also know he probably wouldn’t run if his father was also running for President, which is why I hope Ron Paul steps aside, shifting all of his supporters to his father. Rand Paul has already faced a contentious election in a swing state against a moderate Democrat. He’s the Republican Obama, has been quite critical of the federal spending, and he doesn’t desire compromise with those destroying this nation. He wants to trim the government like a bonsai tree and is even a bud smoker (see Buddha, Aqua). He is against our foreign interventionist policy, which is reason enough to garner my vote, should he run.
Will the President win in 2012? Honestly, I think so. As with 2008, his biggest competition will not come from his Republican challenger, but from within the party, namely Secretary of State (for now) Hillary Clinton. While it is certainly probable Secretary Clinton can and will beat him, and while it is also possible a rightist candidate like Sarah Palin or Donald Trump can mount a strong challenge, if I were to place a bet, I’d still put my money on Obama.
That being said, I am the biggest Obama basher in the world, and would love nothing better than to recycle him in the same bin as his ‘green’ light bulbs. Here are my top ten contenders, in reverse order, to knock off Mr. President:
Only if everyone else inexplicably reveals they too were born in Kenya
10. Newt Gingrich
Current occupation: Republican Hack
Victory Chance in Primaries: Less than 1%
Poor Newt believes in his heart of hearts that his corrupt Republican regime is coming back full-swing, with the emergence of the Tea Party on the right wing. What the former Speaker doesn’t realize is that the Tea Party movement will either wilt like a flower dying in the cloudy desert of Washington or will split off and create a real-life conservative political party. Either way, the American public is never going to vote for a retread.
9. Ron Paul
Current occupation: Republican Congressman from Texas
Victory Chance: 1%
Mr. Paul is the true voice of conservative libertarianism, and is a big hit with many young college students. Believing idealism is the most important aspect of politics, Mr. Paul has outraised all other Republicans in campaign contributions, though that won’t matter to the average American, or even Republican, voter. To most Americans, he is the small, elvish-looking man whose hippy, pot-smoking followers are a mere sideshow. Mr. Paul would be better off throwing his support behind a younger, more idealistic, yet more palatable presidential choice.
8. Michele Bachman,
Current occupation: Republican Congressman from Minnesota
Victory Chance: 4%
The only way this Tea Party favorite will win her nomination is if Sarah Palin decides not to run. The sleepy American electorate will be shocked and awoken my her fiery anti-Obama rhetoric and her strong (well, stronger than the current President’s pre-President) credentials. She represents perfectly the soccer mom, middle-American mentality the same way Obama represented the under-represented minority. And if you don’t think the symbolic gesture of political image doesn’t matter, you clearly weren’t paying attention in 2008.
Only if We the People don’t pay attention to their track records and history…you know, just like last time
7. Insert Republican Governor Here
Current occupation: Governors of varied states in the Union
Victory Chance: 8%
There’s been talk of Marco Rubio (Florida), Chris Christie (New Jersey), Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota), and Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) running for President in 2012. Good luck to all of you. If you could all take your titles and beings, combine them like Voltron into one massive governor with Christie’s ideas, Jindal’s assertive strength, Pawlenty’s blue-dog appeal, and Rubio’s look and heritage and create one super candidate, they would win hands-down. Otherwise, by splitting the vote so many ways, it will create an unwinnable scenario for each in the primary season.
6. Dark horse ex-military guy Republican or Democrat here
Current occupation: Appearing on a cable news channel as an analyst, bemoaning the President’s poor military decisions at bars
Victory Chance: 10%
America wants strong, confident candidates for President, which was why we voted for Obama in the first place. We believed in him as that strong leader, much to our chagrin. If a competent former general (Wesley Clark, feel free to not show up) were to throw their hat in the ring, Colin Powell or Stanley McCrystal come to mind, they could stand up as a balance to the ineffectual President. Chances are it won’t happen, but I’d still like to see it.
The Contenders
5. Mitt Romney
Current Occupation: Male Supermodel
Victory Chance: 17%
Let’s face it, the man looks the part. In my lifetime, we went from the wizened old Grandfather (Reagan) who looked as if he and his wife would offer you fresh-baked goods when you entered the White House, next to the cantankerous old Grandfather (Bush) who would not-so-politely ask you not to touch the knickknacks and to stay off the carpet, then to the party-boy cousin (Clinton) who’s White House you were frightened to touch anything in, to his frat-boy younger brother (W) turned Christian reformer who shouldn’t have been trusted with the keys to the car, let alone the nation, to the bungling next door neighbor (Obama) who could sell you a car you already owned. We the People need someone who seems like they know what they are doing, not someone who actually knows what they are doing. Romney is every bit the charlatan Obama is, pretends he is as pious as W did, probably parties as hard, if not harder, than Clinton, but also looks responsible like the aloof Bush and the vacant Reagan. What’s not to like about his candidacy?
4. Sarah Palin
Current occupation: Female Supermodel
Victory Chance: 19%
Copy and paste Romney’s credentials over hers and the only thing you’d have to add are nicer legs, women’s innate jealousy which they can’t quite comprehend, and an actual tenacity and desire to fix America. If women weren’t so intimidated by her, she would have carried the decrepit McCain to victory. Oh yeah, also…she doesn’t seem quite all there in the head.
3. Donald Trump
Current occupation: Hair Model, television personality, billionaire real estate mogul
Victory Chance: 20%
Simply with his massive money and his built-in platform in our minds by being one of the most famous men in the entire world. With the government’s finances in the tank, America is desperate for a financial wizard. But hasn’t Mr. Trump gone bankrupt? I guess that makes him a great candidate, considering our nation is spending 8 times the revenue it takes in.
2. Hillary Clinton
Current occupation: Secretary of State
Victory Chance in the Democratic Primary: 49%
She was the sensible Democratic pick in 2008, and should she run, her base would be reinvigorated and possibly grow exponentially. She would be a force against the weakened President (a la Reagan against Ford in 1976). I don’t think she’d win, and honestly I don’t think she would be much better than Obama if she did win, but I certainly hope she will try. As devious and Machiavellian as she is, I’d take her over the Communist any day.
1. Rand Paul
Current Occupation: Republican Senator from Kentucky
Victory Chance in the Republican Primary : 21%
I know, I know, he hasn’t officially run for President. I also know he probably wouldn’t run if his father was also running for President, which is why I hope Ron Paul steps aside, shifting all of his supporters to his father. Rand Paul has already faced a contentious election in a swing state against a moderate Democrat. He’s the Republican Obama, has been quite critical of the federal spending, and he doesn’t desire compromise with those destroying this nation. He wants to trim the government like a bonsai tree and is even a bud smoker (see Buddha, Aqua). He is against our foreign interventionist policy, which is reason enough to garner my vote, should he run.
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