Random Rant of the Day #1

I don't know if you've noticed, but there has recently been a surge of young women hoping to break into the modeling industry. Nothing really wrong with that, right? But when your "professional" portfolio is completely comprised of scantily-clad booty shots, you may be sending the wrong message. I can tell you "professional" is definitely not one of them.

Keep it classy, ladies. The androcentric hypersexualization of women (and ethnic women especially) loses its luster after a while...as shall you. 

Poetetics Fun with The Fro Choice Movement: Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children

I open my eyes and see suffering.

Eyes pleading

Mouths grotesquely contorted

Faces wet and shining

I see suffering

Suffering for salvation of a select few

O Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Try and change the station, but to no avail

For you, no bailout will be posted.

Your soul composted, to fertilize the seeds of new dollar trees

Tears irrigate, sustaining pantomimed debate

Inflation rate rising

Body count rising

Politicians disguising

The veil we live behind and within

As we’ve yet to transcend our aspirations for material greatness

Forsaking the divine, caught in the pantomime of dollars and cents

Forgetting our senses

Unable to sense the scent of bullshit

As our nostrils fill with the intoxicating aroma of lily white lies

Inhale, exhale

Intoxicating

Intoxicating

It’s toxic, hating.

Yet we are angry

We are the bitterly broken beasts of burden

Beholden to bear the brunt of yesterdays’ misfortunes

Gazing anxiously skyward

Unable to see the stars so we wish on the clouds

Praying new rain brings forth a new beginning

Gently washing the dust from our wings

That we may rise like sparrows lost in a song of our own creation.

Emerging transposed

Transformed

Reborn

Emerging whole.

Emerging into ourselves

Blurring the division between metaphysics and “reality”

Allowing our consciousness to become our conscience

Bound no more.