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Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
Saturday, June 20, 2009 Manufacturing Poor People (1 comments)
That the majority of the world's people are poor is not an accident. It is a very deliberately designed plan to keep the "First", or Western, World's foot on the neck of the "Third" World in order to take everyone's piece of the cake and serve it up to the very few on the tippy top of the economic pyramid. And it's disgusting.
Friday, June 19, 2009 THE KILLING FLOOR
The financial "elite" in the U.S. are in the process of using the financial "crisis" they created to commit financial genocide. WAKE UP!!
Saturday, June 13, 2009 The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers
Here it is, a perfect cameo of the living standards here in the U.S. of A., the truly classless society. Obama's $600 million dollar man is demanding a pound of eyes and teeth from U.S. autoworkers.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Debt. It's Better Than Chains. (3 comments)
It seems there's no way out of the slave system of capitalism. You will either be chattel, owned outright, wage-slaves who recycle the Masters' money to them, or debt-slaves who will enrich the Masters via compound interest and made-up fees. Money for nothing. Not a lick of work. What's wrong with this picture?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 What Norwegians Would Do (3 comments)
Is there a country on the planet whose citizens can expect economic justice? Yes. And who would those citizens be? Norwegians would.
Sunday, May 31, 2009 Deja Moo, I Think I've Heard This Bull Before (2 comments)
Isn't doing the same thing over and over again Einstein's definiton of insanity? Isn't denial more than a river in Egypt? How mentally-challenged are we to keep biting off the same piece of bull that we have had repeatedly demonstrated to us that we can't chew?
Friday, May 29, 2009 PASHTUNISTAN (or Oh Well, at Least They Won't Get the Nukes) (3 comments)
Let's do it again. Let's tear apart
another sovereign nation by using its army as a US proxy against one of its minorities as a way to extend US hegemony.
Friday, May 22, 2009 In Memoriam: Two for the Troops (2 comments)
As we remember our fallen soldiers this Memorial Day, let's remember how America chooses to treat them. For all they are asked to do, when they pay "the ultimate price," they might as well be M.I.A. as far as our government is concerned.
Friday, May 22, 2009 Intelligence Is a Piano (1 comments)
Intelligence is a piano. And ours is out of tune. It takes practice to use it for the purpose for which it was intended. Our practice has been hijacked by consumerism and our deliberate thought all but cancelled via indoctrination. We need a LOT of piano tuners! Won't you join us?
Saturday, May 16, 2009 Alternative Energy
Here's another way to look at those "view-destroying" wind farms. This on is in Madison County, New York.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 Class War in America, the Ongoing Assault (8 comments)
From the Gilded Age to tea bagger rage, a romp through the recent episodes of the Class War in America.
Saturday, May 9, 2009 The Ladies Who Lunch Alone (2 comments)
A sad saga of mothers who will spend their Mothers Day alone.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 In the Mix, a Recipe for De-MOCK-cracy (1 comments)
Capitalism's recipe for oppression is being cooked in the books on Wall Street.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 The High Cost of Refusing to Die (1 comments)
You may wish to rage against the dying of the light, or perhaps you'd rather stop beating a dead horse and die like a hero going home.
Sunday, May 3, 2009 France Fantasy (2 comments)
Spring washes life back to life after a long winter, creating a personal film set wherever, in your heart, you'd like to be in Spring.
Friday, May 1, 2009 You Are What You Eat (7 comments)
What hath meat-eating wrought?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Cartography
When navigating the Seas of Life, take care not to confuse the tools of navigation with your destination.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Bromide
Global Social Democracy is being promoted by the "left" side of the global elite as the new face of capitalism after neoliberals trashed its reputation.
Saturday, April 25, 2009 Fat Man and Little Boy (4 comments)
The US and Israel are the Fat Man and Little Boy of global destruction. Only Earth itself can stop them.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 The Loyalty Oath (2 comments)
Concessions demanded of the United Auto Workers are essentially the same as the loyalty oath to be demanded of Palestinian Israeli citizens. Both demand submission to the boot of the ruling class on your neck.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 IDF - Israeli Defense Fantasy (5 comments)
The erasure of Israel as a topic from the Durbin Conference on racism enables the Israeli "Defense" Force to carry out Israel's apartheid agenda with impunity.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 Instrument of Power (1 comments)
Rich&Powerful, Inc. have a union, all right, and they want to make sure we don't get one, too. And to that end they'll do anything, literally anything, to undermine the solidarity of America's, and the world's, working people.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 Seeing Aphrodite in April
The inability to let go of youth, of spring, requires not only that we be eternal adolescents, but prematurely old-stick-in-the-muds.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Before the Flowers (at Colgate University)
Pregnant tension, and enthusiastic anticipation is in the air - and the character - of all who wait impatiently for the flowers of Spring.
Monday, April 13, 2009 MUMBO JUMBO
Both religion and patriotism are scams, engineered to the same end as the current banking "crisis" in order to transfer all wealth to the top of the economic heap.
Friday, April 10, 2009 Worship of Eostre (1 comments)
A poem for Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Painters' Palette (Impressionists of Spring) (4 comments)
Spring begins with dots and daubs of "paint" in leaves and flowers to come, presenting us with an Impressionist work of art in Nature.
Saturday, April 4, 2009 Stampede!
April showers bring may flowers, when they aren't the showdown between thunder and lightning that seems like Nature has our names on a Wanted Poster.
Friday, March 27, 2009 Those People
It's cold and shameful out there on the Food Bank Distribution line.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Santa Fraud (2 comments)
Myths like that of Santa Claus, lies told to children, set them up to expect betrayal by "authority", facilitating the transfer of their loyalty and trust to corporations.
Saturday, March 21, 2009 pro invidia
The poor are created, deliberately, by the rich, who are so insecure, so devoid of morality, that they need to have those "less fortunate" envy them and believe it is their divine, Darwinian right to do so.
Friday, March 13, 2009 Recess (2 comments)
Human children, and adults, are made for learning.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Above the Storm (1 comments)
As Spring washes away winter, I grow impatient, but still in awe of the changing of the seasons.
Friday, March 6, 2009 The Brides of March (1 comments)
I am no longer amused by snow. When will it be Spring?
Thursday, March 5, 2009 flammes de l'enfer (4 comments)
The intersection of both the financial and climate crises is not an accident.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Existential Expenses
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
Monday, March 2, 2009 Demise of the Lincoln Highway (or The Vanishing Face of America) (1 comments)
The individual character, not only of the American landscape, but Americans themselves has been dissolving in commericalism, blurring as we move into the future.
Friday, February 27, 2009 Where the Wild Things Are
Rob asked if dog training is analogous to the way in which our culture trains us. These are my thoughts on his question.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 Long Island Lull-a-bye (1 comments)
A poem about the alienating ways of consumerism and suburbia.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Afternoon of a Fawn
Another jazz poem, this one for tenor sax player Glenn Cashman.
Sunday, February 22, 2009 IMPEDIMENTA (or Buried Alive) (1 comments)
The psychological violence we do to our children has created both the sociopaths who run our country and the apathetic consumers who look the other way as they do so.
Saturday, February 21, 2009 Your Bass (for Walter Booker) (1 comments)
Another jazz poem. This one for the late great bassist Walter Booker.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 The Frog and the Scorpion (3 comments)
Most people have a "liitle voice" which tells them when something is "not right." Most Americans, however, refuse to listen to it uhtil it's too late. Is it too late?
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 The Ice Organ
An ode to winter ice.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Get Lost (1 comments)
February in Manhattan, a literally cool and sophisticated juxtaposition of Edward Hopper and jazz...
Saturday, February 7, 2009 Oasis (4 comments)
Inside each of us lies The Garden. It is the purpose of civilization to make sure that we do not remember the way back to it.
Saturday, February 7, 2009 Israeli Etchings (7 comments)
The Israeli barbarity in Gaza, while etched into the consciousness of most of the world, seems lost on the war criminals who ordered and enabled it.
Friday, February 6, 2009 The Tao of Conscience (1 comments)
The gift of personal power, or free will, is tempered by a "little voice" called conscience. We all have it, but many, if not most of us, refuse the gift
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Because (2 comments)
A poem explaining why one would choose to write politcal poetry.
Sunday, February 1, 2009 A Western Tale (1 comments)
The Israeli/Palestinian "conflict" for dummies.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 Cat's Eyes
Another cat poem, this one tracing them back to Ancient Egypt through their eyes.
Saturday, January 24, 2009 GOTTERDAMMERUNG (1 comments)
As we descend further into greed and gluttony, ignoring what is done in our name, will we wake up to the fact that the same is being planned for us before it is too late?
Monday, January 19, 2009 Piano Rain (1 comments)
Another jazz poem... This time for piano.
Friday, January 16, 2009 The Necromancer (2 comments)
Space is the place to get lost in a Jazz Poetry illusion.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 The Businessman's Dilemma (2 comments)
The problems for most businesses, like most governments, is how to get MORE - for themselves
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 The Crystal Ball(s) (3 comments)
This is the correct response to someone says "Trust me, I'm a politician."
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Globalization
The blowback of globalization is now hitting the United States in the form of the artificially-engineered financial "crisis."
Monday, January 5, 2009 The Peculiar Insitution
The financial crisis is engineered to move wealth from the bottom to the top in a peculiar and callously cruel manner.
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Dust Thou Art... (1 comments)
As the world looks from the side at the mass murder going on in Gaza, it might be a good time to reflect on that other mass murder, the one used to justify this atrocity.
Thursday, January 1, 2009 The ABCs of Atrocity
The indocrination of children into the culture of corporate capitalism begins even before they enter school, when their own parents, in effect, bind the feet of their morality by having them join in the guilty and tasty pleasures of murder.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Empire Rag, A Military March in Goose Step (1 comments)
The United States' triumph of the "free" market was actually achieved by protective tariffs, which are now denied to the victims of our "free" trade agreements.
Friday, December 19, 2008 The Emperor's News Clothes (or Bil Kundara* America) (4 comments)
Please sign a petition for the release of a courageous young man who did something to George W. Bush we'd all LOVE to do.
Sunday, December 14, 2008 Tyranny (1 comments)
Got cats? If so, you may recognize yourself in this poem.
Thursday, December 11, 2008 Sweet Sultan
An African desert fantasy poem.
Thursday, December 11, 2008 BICENTENNIAL SONG
A poetry blast from 32 years in the past that just goes to show that no matter how much things change, they always remain the same.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 Gentlemen's Honor (or How to Avoid Responsibility)
A poem for the separation of the owners of an enterprise from the actions of that enterprise, e.g., the freedom to rape without responsibility.
Saturday, December 6, 2008 Waltz for an Arrogant Holocaust
The renovation of the Fountainbleau Hotel costs $1,000,000,000 (1 billion dollars). Any connection to genocide and colonization, corporate rape and "free" trade is purely symbolic and coincidental.
Monday, December 1, 2008 Sakana
A poetic fantasy for fish and Egyptian water gardens.
Thursday, October 2, 2008 DADDY'S GIRLS
A look into the world of the children of alcoholics.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Original Sin (2 comments)
Spewers of hate are "canonized" in the United States, while those concerned with the fate of their fellow man are asassinated.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 IGNOMINIUM (2 comments)
Masculinity itself has been hijacked in service to Empire.
Friday, August 29, 2008 The Doors, Part One (3 comments)
Who's really running America, how did they seize control, and is there anything we can do about it?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Equivocation
Within freedom of choice lies hidden danger.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 PLEONEXIA (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
Auto-genocide is in "full bloom." We're killing ourselves at the behest of the OverClass - and paying them for the privilege of doing it.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 ignus fatuus (The Corpse Candle)
The United States is digging its own grave, and over that grave floats the phosphorescent gases of the decomposing corpse of the American Dream.
Thursday, May 22, 2008 Evolution (3 comments)
Intelligent Design cannot hide from the facts.
