SONGS FOR DEAD COWBOYS
POEMS By:
MOSES ‘SHADOW’ MEANS
AMERICA GREAT
See the president,
Vomit in my mouth,
Said says it's obscene,
I say vulgar.
People laughing at this,
were laughing,
will laugh,
We're laughing.
Makes me sick,
Lose sleep/weep,
Seeing only red,
Move on over or,
we will move over you.
ANGELINA JOLIE'S PLANE
My whole family is adopted, you are my HERO.
Saw HACKERS and became one.
LA FIN DU MONDE, I know you speak French, Wolof?
Heard Shiloh is an EXCELLENT pilot, they can give me instruction.
Wanted you to know, it is the season of the ASSASSIN.
What's your FAVORITE color?
Feel like I have been living my life top SECRET to get you to notice me, Mrs. Smith.
BILLIONS
You think you're an AUTIST because you cannot relate to others,
Did YOU ever?
In case NO one told you recently,
FUCK YOU.
You are not doing anything to help.
Agree with Lorde, we need a leader of a new regime. The women are at least making medical schools I want to attend free.
FUCK YOU.
Your dick is not big enough to fuck or suck,
And I never wanted it anyway.
FUCK YOU.
HUMAN GARBAGE.
BLACK PANTHERS
Everything old is new again,
Want to make Angela proud,
The age of Aquarius,
Capricorns know how.
She says I am the Archangel Michael walking the earth,
BISMILLAH!
Doesn't know there are many Michaels, all sorts.
Irony being the Saint of Cops,
Thought I was the Saint of Killers.
We can do it right this time.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Was in prison when the movement went NATIONAL,
Still don't have a RECORD.
Sobbing, what's wrong?
Smiling, 'FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET'.
Strange to see wild dreams come TRUE,
Hope brings FRUITION.
Say, d'ya KNOW who started BLM?
A PISSED off white lady, I was maybe second,
EDUCATION COMMITTEE, Massive Salute!
WANT to inform you, your black life doesn't matter.
Will keep THAT stored away,
For a rainy DAY.
REMEMBER worrying at the sit-in,
NOW I would insist on it!
BRING Raven and Purple Hayes down to arrest me!
He is already HERE!
He works too MUCH!
Fucking hilarious,
Friends REMEMBERING they are friends,
ALWAYS are,
FEEL that the world will explode,
Rain down FIRE and cleanse this earth.
WE already won,
You do not KNOW it yet,
PEACE thru War.
THEY are ugly, dying, sick,
I WILL not save them,
I will keep telling others NOT to,
They like my ideas.
BUDDHA forgives, I do not!
We have the wisdom OF the ancestors,
Hundreds of years of BATTLEPLANS,
THINKING about owning the world,
They have less than NOTHING.
What happens if we STOPPED?
STOPPED feeding them,
STOPPED clothing them,
STOPPED housing them,
STOPPED healing them,
STOPPED pleasing them,
STOPPED protecting them,
STOPPED worshipping them.
The END of their world.
APOCALYPSE NOW.
CIRCLES (2005)
Define the meaning of things,
Tying lines together,
An easily identifiable shape.
Shapes help people,
I know where I would be without circles,
A Swedish-Canadian prison,
Trading rectangular bottles of Coke and square Pringles
For square cigarettes and square respect.
I know where I'd be without circles,
Falling over in my square-wheeled roller skates,
In Spain, fighting bulls with squared rings in square nostrils.
The square is more deadly--gored.
Circles bring unity,
Squares bring confinement.
Without circles, we lose our balance,
Our sense of direction.
In a world of squares,
We trade freedom for rigidity,
Fluidity for structure.
But circles remind us,
Of the endless possibilities,
The continuity of life.
EARL (2003)
His casket is open.
I see my grandfather’s lifeless body, eyes closed, half smile,
Full of chemicals and death.
He is decorated with a suit, a broken swatch, and a toy John Deere tractor.
I feel emotionless.
It is a Catholic funeral.
They talk over and over about Jesus and my grandfather’s presence in heaven.
My grandfather killed Nazis.
My grandfather skied down the snow-flooded streets of Switzerland.
My grandfather adopted three children.
My grandfather funded the creation of a library in the town he lived.
The town’s first.
None of this is mentioned.
The mass is over.
I am a Pall Bearer.
I carry his body with five others.
We move the casket out of the church to the hearse.
We take a short drive to the cemetery.
And I, along with five others, carry my grandfather to a hole where he will reside until he decomposes.
Everyone surrounds the casket, raised on a podium discreetly covered with Astroturf.
A priest talks about something.
People cry.
The priest finishes.
Seven veterans of foreign wars stand up.
They do a six-gun salute.
Two of the veterans fold the flag draped over my grandfather's corpse.
The most decrepit and the most decorated of them hands the folded flag to my grandmother.
His beautifully weathered hand shakingly moving the folded flag into hers.
Tears stream down their faces.
The flag is delivered.
They embrace.
The veterans return to their seats.
I began sobbing.
The priest is talking.
The sound of my sobs fills my ears; the priest's words run together.
My seventeen-year-old brain-damaged cousin standing next to me keeps asking me what is wrong.
I can’t believe she can’t see how sad this is.
FIRE
Watching YOUR things burn,
PURCHASES; an imaginary IDENTITY,
A COLLAPSE looks like.
Saw YOU stalking me,
No PANIC attack,
I know you are a NARCISSIST.
Sex was BORING,
I am surprised your ex wanted it so BAD,
Just trying to tell me how SPECIAL you are.
Having surgery soon to REPAIR my hernia.
HUNTER (2005)
Disturbed murder,
Occasionally stuffed mounted heads,
Kill rare, beautiful,
Make a book titled;
'Existence of fucked-up people'.
MOM'S SPAGHETTI
Reputation Protecting Antisocial Personality Disorder,
Narcissistic Personality Disorder,
Factitious Disorder on Another,
Factitious Disorder,
Histrionic Personality Disorder,
Oppositional Defiant Disorder,
Substance Use Disorder.
Got my post-op nurse fired for negligence the other day,
she reminded me of you.
She probably doesn't feed her kids either.
PEACE THRU WAR
God is angry,
used to hate them for not being as angry as I am,
some point realized not a contest,
helped a bit, not all the way,
enough to get me underway,
learned to be a Buddhist, Muslim, Mexican bum wizard.
not sure what it's for.
Asking a question without an answer,
think it's to keep us from getting bored.
mostly been upset.
am I speaking with God?
am I God? I am.
difficult to walk the earth,
feel like I am the one holding it in space.
Why haven't I done enough?
why haven't you?
been powerful nine years now,
people tell me to start a cult,
don't want to control anyone,
want you to control you.
cannot even go to the store,
go to the old places--safe,
strolling thru the cannibal holocaust.
SLAVOJ
Most dangerous philosopher WATCHING TV all day,
Fucking help me, ZIZEK, lazy piece of shit.
Walks up to me, -I NEED- diet coke.
We only have pepsi.
This is IDEOLOGY.
EVERYTHING IS IDEOLOGY,
I am ADDICTED to diet coke,
FUCK. pepsi.
VIETNAM
SOLDIERS in a guerrilla war,
Eleven-year-olds with twenty-twos in their SHOES,
Sad I am not the last.
Dayton in the 90's, stay TIMBALAND Weather,
Friend smoked fry,
HAD a heart attack and died,
Gave him the kiss of LIFE.
ALABAMA MAN, I should have watched you die,
Times PASSED, wonder how many you hurt,
Sometimes I drink piss-water INSTEAD of Ace of Spades.
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