‘If only’s never get you anywhere
but…
no, I won’t dwell
stinky excuses
soccer is frustrating
because I don’t practice
because my Achilles is not healthy
because I haven’t taken 3 months off to cross train
because I don’t have access to cross-training facilities
one more game
wow, how stinky these excuses are
after all, what equipment do I need to do yoga?
short-timers disease
the beginning of
the new
failure to make due
looking farther than
my horizons
2 months to a swimming pool
Cleanup project this weekend a great success!
70 kids, teachers, and politicians
2 tons of trash
350kg of glass bottles
6 anti-littering signs
but most importantly
I did much less work than last time
which means
the kids are getting it
how to organize
delegate and support each other
empowerment through youth led development
small project design and management
next up
getting the movie theatre up and running
through some sort of club
keep going
I’m good at pushing through
but it’s going to be a shock
when one day
baby roots ripped up
put back in the 2003 hole
grow now?
too many leaves
pages of experiences
torn tubers
can I make the project design and management club
self-sustaining?
if not, what was the point?
people still litter
cut down trees
forget how HIV transmits
or neglect to inform their teenagers how to use a condom
Ha!
that old dream
immortality
as if one person could change the world
but oh they can
but not without proper commitment and preparation
both of which I will
in the end
fail to demonstrate here
back to school I go
for preparation
and commitment
will make a home
without the escape backdoor
back to where?
“wont you go back”
they’ll ask
back to my white skinned American male advantaged
rung on the opportunity ladder
No man
“I wont go”
because I don’t want to
I can’t
I’ve witnessed too much
and I refuse to take my wrongful place
in the unjust system
on a rotten ladder
to that false red “developed” fruit
progress and better quality of life
Open your eyes
I try
so many truths competing
left center right
economics a force for good?
the power of greed harnessed?
at least the system acknowledges selfishness
but why are environmentalists so single minded?
I hate the leftist exaggerations
that corporations are evil, as if they are giant monsters
and not merely the combined greed of thousands
no, combined good intention, to work and provide for her family
normal and natural on an individual basis
but when combined, capable of truly externalizing the social costs of exploitation
the investment in guns, oil, gold and metals
so distant from the people who have a stock
willing or not
Can’t you see that the richest countries are also the cleanest?
It is only when people have basic comforts
then they worry about picking up trash
what do you care
at your computer
Minimizing pollution
being less bad
than that guy in the hummer
what have you done today to eliminate poverty?
get on the phone already
with your senator congressmen state politician folks
but better yet
I don’t know
take a sign and stand by the road on your lunch break?
organize a flash mob outside REI?
too much intention
not enough action
Your country is doing things
do you know what they are?
what are my brothers doing in
why can’t they be planting trees, building schools and teaching kids English slang?
why are they crawling through caves and hunting men?
