This Gang of the Rich

October 07, 2013

By Larry Goodell

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Our country is frozen in the filthy rich pit of a cultish Republicanism, a bunch of sick coyotes yakking the same chorus, “Kill to Win,” “Pray God for Stagnation.” “We’ll drown you in our own filth of hatred for the poor, the down trodden, the impotent, the sick, the helpless children and stressed families, the out of work, the over-burdened, the unserved, the abandoned class of the dwindling mainstream, screw you!”

The middle of America is despised by its upper end, the rapacious upper class gobbling up more wealth every minute from the sea of sinking service workers and international conspiracy to gain more and more from corporations of power-lust and military manipulation, feeding off catastrophes to make more money poisoning the atmosphere and privatizing every aspect of Mother Nature while crippling government except when it can be a pimp for whoring against the poor – strangling the commons, the very center of American communities built up on cooperation and respect for independent innovation. Killing it all is this Gang of the Rich, the pasty-faced pawns of their own corporate craziness spewing the lies of their own talking points to hide their background take-overs of what’s left of the world’s wealth.

Give us sanity, give us We the People. Let us take ourselves back, cooperate in the rise of health and education, re-knitting the fabric of democracy with neighborly representatives forming our new government again, independent and compassionate at the same time, and willing to work at constant improvement by constantly improving work from the ground up, from the base of fairness and creative motivation, turning the pyramid around with its baseline at the bottom, as we build again from strength of many and to hell with the fucked up few who thought they controlled everything. Welcome to reality. The power of every vote welcomes the new day: democracy “of the people, by the people, for the people.”

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Larry Goodell

Larry was born in Roswell, NM in 1935 and has lived in Placitas, NM since '63. He studied poetry at USC and with Robert Creeley in NM, went to the Vancouver Poetry Conference of '63 to study with Olson, Ginsberg, Duncan, Whalen, went to the Berkeley Poetry Conference in '65, and married photographer/artist Lenore Goodell in '68. He founded Duende Press in '64 followed by Fervent Valley. He fabricated then staged his first event poems at the Thunderbird Bar in Placitas and at UNM. In 1972 he toured the country doing poetry performances with Stephen Rodefer. He's organized readings for Downtown Saturday Night, the Rio Grande Writers Association, the Central Torta Series, Albuquerque United Artists, and for many years the Living Batch Bookstore. More recently Silva's Saloon and the ongoing Duende Poetry Series. His Here On Earth is available from La Alameda Press. He is one of two recipients of the 2013 Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts. For more information about his online work see http://about.me/larrygoodell

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