Dogs in Trees

More dogs.

a quirkier irk we've never worked
in fact the clerk even had a smirk!
a perk is that we went berserk
and stuck a dirk all in that jerk
who tried to pass as a Mechanical Turk

Sour
serene serious faces like navy beans
dour sour towers crowding about the crib
will they tell baby bear what it means or what they did?
betrayed ancestors and drowned smart kids?
when this blisstopia is the brightest shine they ever did?
we bet they keep it all hid

Tweeze
going to bed in parts in trees
Trinity on a branch send in the bees
sting the eyes swell lids to close
blind and deaf like bud-trapped rose
dreaming desolate lonesome roads
never shave a face but tweeze

Windows rattle

two foot thick earthen walls shake
while ripples to the east.
earthquake in California or blue sky thundercrack no no
the M's an energetic materials testing zone
the boom was likely Raytheon
Aerojet like a dog with one bone
anyway, we're just at home

Live your life as open book
hide no crimes, you guileful crook
unless you want a second look
just make sure to write in tongues
a language from your own two lungs
cipher from Ur-mind long ago
so nobody can zero

White Eyes
o systems in place that reinforce white supremacy
we've been despairing for what seems like an eternity
we've had it up to here with this genocidal bigotry continuing into this century
makes us wonder if humans will ever all be free
or maybe there's just too many white I's in this We