Poets Review, Philadelphia Poets and the anthologies One Drop: To Be The Color Black,
West Memphis Witchhunt, and My Time: The Lunch Break Book and online including
http://www.saintvituspress.com/, http://www.outsiderwriters.org/, http://www.getunderground.com/,
http://www.dyingwriters.com/, DecomP Literary Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee,
Redfez.net, Whirlygig Zine, and Beat The Dust. Michael is now back in Florida from there he hosts the website
here's the first of his three featured followed by two more
A New american Anthem
I wont stand for this modern society,
This modern technology,
That reduces prophets to profits,
To prostitutes
Pimping their own eggshell egos,
To promotional whores,
To networkers,
To favor dealers,
To rockstar images in a their space photo,
To not what but who you know.
A New american Anthem
I wont stand for this modern society,
This modern technology,
That reduces prophets to profits,
To prostitutes
Pimping their own eggshell egos,
To promotional whores,
To networkers,
To favor dealers,
To rockstar images in a their space photo,
To not what but who you know.
Maybe I'm an old dog,
That learned the old way,
Cut my teeth in LA
With the greatest minds of a new beat generation.
I can still learn new tricks
With the pen on the page,
I refuse to give into the reptilian brain.
Cold and insensitive
As a marketing mind.
This is my last stand,
My line drawn in the sand.
My last chance to go out with a roar
Over a pussy cat purr.
This is a transmission,
If you should choose to receive it.
Read it loud from a street corner.
From a dingy working class bar.
Set Poetry free!
This is my last shred of dignity.
All or nothing.
I am writing a new american anthem.
I can't stand for the rockets red glare anymore.
No bombs bursting in air.
This will be a song for Peace.
This will mean freedom, justice, equality, Peace
And any other word this countries supposed to mean.
I want an anthem,
A country we can be proud of again.
Not the pride that was forced upon us.
Not the prostitute war for profit,
Everything for profit that we have become.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Nothing cold, generic, and corporate sponsored.
No reptilian mind tricks.
Written in blood, sweat, feeling, and soul.
I am writing a new american anthem.
If you can see it, hear it, or read it.
If you identify with it in any way.
I urge you to go and write your own.
Write it in your blood and sweat.
Write it with the intention of a bullet in the chamber.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Because voting is just another useless word,
Made to look significant
If you are told who you may vote for.
And the deck is stacked anyway.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Because we can laugh at cartoons we pay to see
Taking pot shots at the president.
While he's laughing all the way to the world bank.
And you tell me who's playing the fool.
Out of necessity.
Out of preservation.
Because these days
Hope and Poems
Are all that keeps me going.
Maybe I'm an old dog,
That learned the old way,
Cut my teeth in LA
With the greatest minds of a new beat generation.
I can still learn new tricks
With the pen on the page,
I refuse to give into the reptilian brain.
Cold and insensitive
As a marketing mind.
This is my last stand,
My line drawn in the sand.
My last chance to go out with a roar
Over a pussy cat purr.
This is a transmission,
If you should choose to receive it.
Read it loud from a street corner.
From a dingy working class bar.
Set Poetry free!
This is my last shred of dignity.
All or nothing.
I am writing a new american anthem.
I can't stand for the rockets red glare anymore.
No bombs bursting in air.
This will be a song for Peace.
This will mean freedom, justice, equality, Peace
And any other word this countries supposed to mean.
I want an anthem,
A country we can be proud of again.
Not the pride that was forced upon us.
Not the prostitute war for profit,
Everything for profit that we have become.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Nothing cold, generic, and corporate sponsored.
No reptilian mind tricks.
Written in blood, sweat, feeling, and soul.
I am writing a new american anthem.
If you can see it, hear it, or read it.
If you identify with it in any way.
I urge you to go and write your own.
Write it in your blood and sweat.
Write it with the intention of a bullet in the chamber.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Because voting is just another useless word,
Made to look significant
If you are told who you may vote for.
And the deck is stacked anyway.
I am writing a new american anthem.
Because we can laugh at cartoons we pay to see
Taking pot shots at the president.
While he's laughing all the way to the world bank.
And you tell me who's playing the fool.
Out of necessity.
Out of preservation.
Because these days
Hope and Poems
Are all that keeps me going.
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