The city that never slept is snoring./ I wake, bolt upright and think / My god I'm still here!

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Bad energy looms over food deserts.

The city that never slept is snoring.

I wake, bolt upright and think

My god I'm still here!

The karmic curtain parts to reveal

Another curtain of water composed of two waves

Eternally meeting and withdrawing

To left and right with near-perfect symmetry.

(I too was once blind

So all of this had to be described to me.)

My nurse was a horse . . .

Well, not exactly.

But close enough.

We habitually miss the point of

Why we are born with imaginations

When everything seems already finished

Or even in decline. It is my job

To dramatize what is actually quite subtle

And (for our own good) quite insidious

Depending on the depth of one's hypnosis.

But, here it is:

(I have something to say

Before the gavel comes down.)

Take the medicine if you must

(Refuse the injection, take the pill.

It's just sugar anyway.)

But I urge you to remember

That there are lots of other possible futures.

It all begins with you

In this food desert / in this snoring city.

(Article changed on Jun 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM EDT)

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.