09112001ethnocentrism.doc

torn asunder
in cinders
raped
mouth agape and glinting red-hot/burnt sienna
visions of a visionary
scheming
dreaming
CNN HEADLINE NEWS CONSTANT VIDEO STREAMING
globalizing-
economizing-
a mother screaming-
dead babies in the street
we are killing people we will never meet
dying people filling foreign streets. . .
while we kick back with our hormone filled red meat and prozac sweets
sedated into catatonic stupors and drunken dreams
killing the feelings with a shot of jim beam

infrastructural methods and madness/ thinking you can see/ are seeing/
have
seen. . .
living on FALSIFIED FOUNDATIONS and making stages to cover the sages
visions
making way for the corporate dance
-Ws economical romance-

and here i am, humping the grindstone,
chasing another monetary milestone
fingers and hands a knot of veins and bone
accumulating gall stones sucking the ash from the last of the hash and
gasping, grasping for a minute a moment that i can be numb DUMB to the
reality of my insignificance in a world of WAL-MARTS AND GOLF CARTS/
EVERY
CORNER LITTERED WITH MINI-MARTS and watching the american dream stream
into
the main veins of the GLOBAL ECONOMY
watching and crying while the third-world babies just keep on dying-

I PLEDGE MY ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-
AND TO THE PUBLIC ON WHICH IT TROMPS INTO ONE NATION
UNDER FEAR
INDIFFERENT
WITH A STARBUCKS
TARGET
AND A
WALMART FOR ALL.

jodi scofield