Long Campuses Poems

I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and powerful
than competing WinLose psychic separations
of ecosystemic feelings-Right Sacred (0)Soul
and egocentric...

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in insane asylums and faculty lounges across America.               

TRANSMISSION: Pathogen mostly attacks highly sensitive unhinged...

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Just add beer and abracadabra . . . 
Flavor galore! 
Just don’t add too much . . . 
Alcoholism is a disease. 
It should cook out though. Anyway, I hope it’s not too cheesy. 
Some...

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So many people always scream
that word ‘diversity,’
as if it’s the only idea
that we should ever see.
Yet more and more the shouting
comes off as childish,
more and more I think they
have a harmful fetish.

To start with they...

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My name is Bedford Schiller-Smith,
and you’ve probably seen it before
on the book racks in airport shops,
usually just inside the doors.

I’ve made a career of writing,
tech and spy thrillers are my bag,
but if you don’t’ recognize...

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Many members of the two youngest generations used to describe themselves
as being "Nones," believing in no religion at all.  But in the process they have
decreed themselves to being their own gods by deifying themselves...

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When the apostles of Jesus Christ, after his ascension into heaven, spread the doctrine
of Christianity throughout the ancient Roman empire.  Those who made their profits in
making pagan idols for worship accused the Apostle Paul...

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In part one we addressed the facts that any amount of money raised by the BDS regardless of nation gets funneled into Iran. Portions of their ill gotten money ends up in the hands of...

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...My last day at work I got him alone,
and I let loose in a brutal tirade,
said that he’d betrayed ‘serious writing,’
which has trouble enough in our day and age.

I told him his gifts were not...

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It might be difficult for those growing up in the 50s and 60s                      ...

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When I was 19 I saw a dream of Jesus healing two women with Leprosy and since then I’ve seen impossible things made possible,
I’ve seen blind men climbing mount Everest,
I’ve seen men who had been...

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Ideals

Ideals 

High ideals?  
We all had them 
In the forties, in college, 
those long, all-night
heated arguments,  
sitting cross-legged 
on the floor,
debating how
to change the world.
Words – ideas,
what we could do
some day.

Twenty years 
before...

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Me and Alex were walkin' on State Street one early Saturday morning
 in the bright sun reflecting off deep snow. I saw long-haired ghosts of '67
drift by on the nearly deserted sidewalk....Alex didn't see them,...

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For them:
	TGIF! It’s weekend;
	The ATM vomits its cods,
	Unwinding at the bars,
	The cinema’s got a blockbuster!
	Yes,…pizza… barbeque… red wine…chicken…
	…come on, keep the change girl, it’s weekend!

	Campuses empty for “World-Trade-Centers”;
	Hey, Two nights, Sunday’s off…your bill
	…turn on the...

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you don't hear much about sleeper cells anymore
no whispers of 
elevating or lowering 
the terror alert...
we've lost the rippled art of vigilance i suspect
but you can bet the ghosts of the pentagon, 
twin towers and...

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Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's the 60's, man
Free love don't like none of that 
paid...

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What I have noticed here
and there
on campuses
in medical service centers
within hospitality sanctuaries
in sane asylums

Most of the language
in exterior marketing
and interior messaging cultures

Has gently moved from internment
and imprisonment
and confinement
and isolation
and punishment,

Whether voluntarily elected
selected
invited
or imposed
sentenced
medicinal
sterile
purgative,

Whether mental
or physical,
spiritual
or...

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Johnny got his gun that May day
sent by Nixon's cronies to betray unarmed souls
to Kent State with rifles, bayonets,
and thirteen students were gunned down on the grass knoll.

With cries against Dick's bloody war
young civilians burned...

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Life sucks
And guess what
It only gets worse
Years of hard work
And bosses you hate
No pension plan

Now Social security check is always late
No medicare 
Or decent housing
Nursing homes when you’re too much to handle
Children doctors straight from...

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New semester.
Did my courses run?
Oh yeah, but too many. 
Work on my syllabi.
I promise I won’t cry.

The night before class.
I pace the kitchen.
Sending prayers up.
Are you listening;
Please make my students be nice.
Calling my friends for...

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Get Your Voice Heard

A long time ago
Fifty plus years to be exact
We knew how to protest
It wasn’t on Facebook or Twitter
It wasn’t by just writing letters
We took our place in the world
With a voice that...

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Centuries be philosophy and many people say that life is merely 
What one makes of it ? Averting chance as circumstance; songbirds
Their most chirping this piping atop golden branches a myoptic melody
Until truth's rain forest...

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The powerful have bombs
the students have voices
enough is enough they say
University campuses unite

A map in the year of 1947
tells a story no one in the west
really wants to hear
thieves on stolen lands

America, professional bombers
Iraq, Libya,...

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Their poison pills of repression*
dissolves in this Commonwealth's veins
Here's the price to pay for their behaving like
Netanyahu's Praetorian guards on US campuses, 
stamping out student revolt against his boundless war crimes
History's screen, the proper inflection...

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If a year ago someone told me
that the American youth will burst on history's stage
with unbounded courage, and lift their heart
to a new great awakening,
I'd say "sweet dreams."
But, oh my god, how sweet it is,...

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