Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Welcoming Womb

Hello!
Hello in there?
Can you feel me yet?...

Welcome to the United States of America!

The U-nited States began as an incubation site
for humane freedom and justice,
although our elders were a bit ahead of
non-violent communication therapy,
mind/body communion therapy,
so we have run into some long-term monoculturing problems
with linking up our justice walk 
with our multicultural peace talk.

You have chosen to seed in what was our global hope
for incubating ecological economics.
I so hope you develop neither surprised nor disappointed
in the U.S. rebranding project,
now providing global laundry and enculturation services
for other would-be sub-optimizers
perpetually fascinated,
and distractedly entertained, 
with anthro-centric adolescence,
devoid of sufficient ecological heart
to assure healthy root systems 
for EarthTribe's potential grandchildren.

This U-benighted States of perpetual anthroprivileged greed
and monolithic egohubris,
now aspires to become Earth's monopolistic
Monocultural Laundry Service,
divesting of polycultural natural enrichment
to thoroughly trash the exciting high risk market
in anthro-centric extract-and-burn entitlements.

If you thought you had landed 
within smooth warm womb 
of old school not Zero-Sum 
Win-Win Golden Rule Skin
in a Permacultural Game Theory
of regenerative life outcomes...
well,
good luck being born a polypathic alien
in this Oppositional Disordered political and racing-apart economic monoculture,
this DisUniting whitewashed policing State
of fear we could never have or become enough,
out to save the globe with arms of might
now that we have proven
how great we are with shooting down each other,
in our homes and on our streets.

Welcome, baby,
it's a not-so-brave old world
in our UBeNighted State.

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Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck June 5, 2015 at 10:48 AM I think I lost some "friends" with this one, and that's OK. I share an offended feeling about this way of seeing the U.S. At the same time, sometimes I do feel this way about a too-dominant economic and political culture, with overly-competitive assumptions, too quick to "draw ballistics". Do I think this is the whole truth of who we are and can be? No. "Uniting States of Wisdom" speaks with a more balanced voice about this concern. Feedback welcome.