power to the people

Last weekend, we attended D.’s brother’s birthday party.  We got there late cuz I was in New York.  He lives in an area which I’d talked about before .  D.’s brother is a resident at Johns Hopkins, and like many struggling students, he lives in the drug-infested hoods around the hospital.  At any rate, we’d just rung the buzzer of his second story apartment, in a rowhome, when we heard five gunshots.  The shots were a half-block away.  We never saw a shooter or a victim, but it was clear...Read Full Story

I and I and I: IAM IN MY FOREST DREAM Listen don’t lie who is Babylon? Where is she now? Warning: Lying is dangerous Very dangerous Lying may reduce your blood flow May causes impotence this is a pen not a revolver It is a word not a bullet from me non-violence to everyone to you…. Babylon… Babylon… Come… Babylon... I call on you: Come... Come mother of all destruction... I and I is calling on you Come Come While Babylon lives in our collective ego, our souls are in the Mirror. Babylon came...Read Full Story

Every couple of weeks I get a reminder of one of the lowest moments of my life. It comes in the form of an email asking me to rejoin an online dating service. I could just label it as junk mail, but I never do. Allow me to explain. For nearly my entire life up until about two years ago I was single. Not entirely single, certainly there were flings here and there, but still I felt very single. And with being single comes the inevitable struggle with loneliness. When I went away to university...Read Full Story

Radio: [to be repeated as audience enter] In dreaming... in your dream you can have what you want every thing is possible.... [strong drumming and smoke, radio stops] Crowd: [shouting and moving their hands up and down] [All] Hallelujah [All] Hallelujah [1] Hera [2] hora [3] Aura [4] hols [5] mullah [All] Media is around [Chant] here here blah blah blah [Quieting down as clown enters...] [Clown enters the place riding his feet, when the crowd sees him, they keep calm, he moves around the...Read Full Story

Time has come We have seen the beast The devil dressed in a man With a smile on his face He is a handsome man Technically Knows How to speak How many fake messiahs can you count? How many heroes have you watched? Is not it the time for the great work? Stop saying… The system is wrong We are the system all of the time Something is wrong With our ways Corporations and people Masters and slaves We keep dancing to the melodies That makes us laugh That makes us cry That feed us And love us We are...Read Full Story