Of course it is black and white / Let me be clear This is old / It happened before I was born

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But what if we did have mice?
And what if the door blew off its hinges?
And what if what if became what is?
And the mice returned triumphant?


The mice return triumphant? What does that mean?
If the door blows off its hinges?
But let's back up
This is not that


But this is different Let it spin
Black and white?
Of course it is black and white
Let me be clear This is old


It happened before I was born
But my point is I was never born-born
So you must be talking about yourself
Always dearest friend


But whenever I talk about myself
You are there taking the shot Well
Somebody is holding the camera
Isn't that you? Or maybe just watching


Don't forget remembering
Yes, remembering
Let's try this again
Can we try this again?


Your reason? My brain was colonized
My soul didn't have a chance
My parents, their parents and their parents etc
None of them stood a chance


The booms for cleaning up the ocean
Were themselves made of plastic
The empire made sure my soul would be contained
I am begging you


Your case is being considered
In the meantime would you like a cup of tea?
Your petition has been approved
What color would you like your eyes?

(Article changed on Jan 12, 2022 at 8:03 AM EST)

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.