[Newspoetry] More From the Streets of LA

[Mike Lehman]

2 poems 
                    by Japhy Ryder 2:36am Thu Aug 17 '00 

                               Two poems from the
                               heart about our
                               movements growing
                               numbers. 


                     Rising 

                     You barely see them on T.V. 
                     but from above you can see 
                     a brave regrouping clan of wariors 
                     emerging out of struggle 
                     and have made it through 
                     without blindly assimilating 
                     into the status quo. 
                     Their calloused hands 
                     are sowing the seeds of change 
                     instilling consideration 
                     in a free people. 
                     Listen closely and you can hear them tinkering, 
                     sabotaging the gears of the elite machine 
                     slowing down "progress" 
                     to buy the planet some time 
                     until focus shifts from profits 
                     to the state of our future. 
                     When the boycott and revoltion 
                     become a mainstream reality 
                     the wariors will go back to land 
                     and dance around burning piles of money 
                     then carefully begin anew. 




                     Boycott 

                     Those sneaks in office 
                     need to be squirming in their seats. 
                     we need to reprogram 
                     and stay at home 
                     American Express and Discover cards cut up 
                     and sit tight for a coupla weeks 
                     watching the DOW suffer a fatal blow 
                     so when all is said and done 
                     the time has come to give all 
                     creatures their invidual freedom to exist 
                     in a world that will provide everything 
                     they will ever need.