POETRY: 'It's Showtime, Kids' (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Feb. 7, 2011

Somewhere between the factory farms

or perhaps just below the land mines...
I can sense it

Right there, despite the rapist's leer
Above the WHOOSH of the cruise missile's launch
You can hear it (can't ya?)

The prison gates lock, the sweatshops whir
But nothing can slow it down...
anymore
Not even the yellow ribbons or the veal crates
Not the smell of napalm or
the clinking coins in a homeless man's cup

It's bigger than the strip malls
Deeper than the strip mining
It's not genetically modified
Can't be patented or commodified

You won't find it in your inbox
Can't learn it from a text or tweet
Not visible with your gaze so diverted
But it's there

It's always been there, in fact
The difference, friends:
Now there's nothing left to hide it

All you gotta do is open your eyes
...and see

Until the laws are changed or the power runs out, Mickey Z. can be found on
this crazy new website called Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000612588462> .