you can wear your cap twisted sideways
sag your pants down to your knees
ride a pachyderm or a mule that brays
be whatever kind of fool you please

sing love songs in the rose garden
or complain how the dollar done fell
knowing qadafi, hussein, and bin laden
have all been dispatched to hell

you can rant and rave about raw deals
you can raise your snout and sashay about
or he-haw and buck, kick up your heels
or vote for more hope or to kick da *** out

you can lean to the left or to the right
weighing the pros and cons and hype
but you can't stay out of this fight
and claim you're just not the type

to freely elect their governments and laws
evers, walesa, mandela, and susan b
lived and died for just such a cause
to see the people's voices set free

but if you just call it mumbo jumbo
and aloofly let this moment pass
we all may be led by Dumbo
or maybe that other *******

what percentage do you claim?
forty-seven, one, or ninety-nine?
tea party? occupier? some other name?
are you just spouting a party line?

all our blood runs red
'bove us all the sky is blue
and no matter what is said
there's one thing we all should do

hadn't you better cast a vote?
against the ones who vote aginst you?
i think you'd really better vote ...
it's the least but the best thing you can do.

doug curry
10/24/2012

Starlight …
Icy crystalline sparkles
beaming brilliance
‘gainst the moonlit  winter sky

Stars bright.
Luminescent wonders.
Scintilla laid bare in the heavens
by the pale white light of the moon

Full moon
bathing dingy cityscapes,
their dim lit ****** tales told
‘neath streetlamps’ jaundiced glow.

We walk,
slip on ice, crunch through snow,
watching  for sliding cars
and dangers lurking in shadows.

Moonlit
whitewashed winter  wind
winds through desolate streets
on a pale cold night in the city.

Walk on.
Whistling winds, barking dogs,
chill us, spur our pace, on
through the moonlight and cold.

Our  wish
upon this night’s heavenly stars
is to  be safely home, watching
from icy windows … winter  walkers.


Doug Curry
1/6/10

an average American
in a slept-in crumpled suit
stuffs today’s unread news
into holes in his shoes,
burps the taste of greasy chicken soup
sliding stale mission bread
down his gullet
regards two smelly
rag-tag ****** hobos
lapping the same charity meal
and realizes sadly,
the Bolsheviks may be right.

doug curry
may 4, 2012

one … is
a whole number
unto itself
divisible
only by itself
to remain whole,
complete
within itself,
there is only
one