Short Expedience Poems

Expedience is ever close
Before a unseen world pose
To be smiled by a Father
Knowing a seal goes farther
In complete surrender
The example so tender
Unsold and kept hidden
A value worth giving
It is there men find
A voice so kind...

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Release your mind from the 
  drought of expedience

And harvest in the crops
  of your insanity

(Philadelphia, Woodand Ave: September 1972)

Note:  This is the first serious poem that I wrote as
            a struggling graduate student living in the
            bowels of West Philadelphia....

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To never letting voting be enough,

        And not abuse the priv’lege of convenience;

To stop excess and live within yourself,

        Denying all your loved luxuriance;

To not await for change that must become

        In revolution-based expedience;

To hearken for the age that is to come,

        To live in Civil Disobedience....

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