flying through the invisible tunnel

Alex Arnell

“I am aware of the state of our world. How could I not become radicalized against it?”

-aeon ginsberg

at day’s end we are blessed
with darkness and at night’s end
we are blessed with light 

all throughout this life we are blessed
with the truth of change
bless’d change

-james lee jobe

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is ignorance. 

-Zhuangzi

there's that song from the wizard of of oz 

somewhere over the rainbow 

that could be a clue 

this old soul came here from over a rainbow 

flying through the invisible tunnel 

from the universe to my mother's womb 

there was an orgasmic explosion of life 

empowering my father's sperm 

and there i was leaping out 

with poems for the heart 

and a head for nonsense 

oh life 

thank you for the ride 

-james lee jobe

It is what it is, but we don’t know what it is. 

-Dona Snow

in the sacramento valley 

it usually only rains in the winter 

dry summers 

rainy winters 

and this winter 

not nearly enough rain 2021

we’re looking at drought this summer 

farmers without water for crops 

fallow fields 

higher produce prices in the stores 

but that’s summer 

now it is early spring 

bird song 

buds 

flowers 

new leaves 

blue sky 

endless 

everything feels fresh 

clean 

what do I know 

nothing

-james lee jobe 

link: To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he's a "gang banger" a poem by LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ (on the Poetry Foundation site)

Rene Margritte

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