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Getting To The Thick of It


I summon the spirits of the Chicago Seven, Abbe Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, among others Into this room. I bring them back and as much as I try it's impossible It's the spirit, not the person that needs to be released into the world. Where is fresh and creative dissent? Our protests are partisan and boring, they don't capture the underbelly of America, the issues that effect a whole nation. The system today is not representative of the everyday laborer Who finds themselves working more than what they are paid. Some who are lucky to have a weeks vacation paid by their employer Merit based vacation hours keeps some gasping for the next getaway. Whenever that may be. The words of free Enterprise and freedom are almost used interchangeablely and the business owner is everyone's sacred relic hanging from their mouths. The religious fervor that the constitution excites makes it an idol sitting on the back of humanity humanity being the crucial piece to any legislation. The sufferings of capitalist labor Are put aside in a cloud of their fleeting desires offered by the system which crushes them and does little to make good and in act in conscience
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Ian Mccleary

Poetry is important to my life because it gives me a way of saying things I never imagined were in me. My poems deal with all kinds of subjects, my attitude on today's culture, art, corporations, nature, etc. But these aren't the only things that I write about in my poetry. I don't have a favorite poet, but probably Michael McClure is the poet I have learned the most from, from his readings on YouTube.

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