1. 3 dreams, in a series in one night. In dream #2 I could remember dream #1 and I retold the happenings of dream one so the characters in dream #2, #3 could help me interpret them. Oceans. Oceans. Oceans. Tall, hunchback, climbing walls, scarves. Storm radar. very tired when i awoke.
2. I am upset with Wal-Mart. Nothing new. Just a lot of commercials. Telling me and the rest of America that we deserve to "live better" with lots of lots of lots of THINGS. The fine print: you may lose your soul in the clutter of napkin rings, kids toys, and shoes. The fine print: you live in the opulent lap of kingly wal-mart throne at the expense of the men and women in factories, the men and women getting paid minimum wage, at the expense of the planet getting polluted with the trains, plains, and trucks criss-crossing the globe to bring you your tea, apples, placements, dress. We are going to hell in a handbasket, is a popular phrase. I think wal-mart is decorating our handbaskets.
3. The Southlands
If I did not have magnets
sewn into my seams, & my
shoulder blades. Would I press
into you? Would you
drive north across the trampled
grasslands, the pink sun pulling
the flat horizon—the shadows
stretching like spider webs.
Would I hold out
my hand to you, your mouth
an edge. ‘Hello’ lifting
the bindings of self
& apathy. Your mouth asking
me to scissor them away.
I with my magnets, my mouth,
observe you sitting in your chair
& I wonder if I will choose
to love you.
3 comments:
Working at Wal*Mart offices for the past 2 months has been interesting. I share your sentiments on one hand; on the other I've added the following to my view:
1. Walmart *LOVES* their customers and that drives all their business and initiatives.
2. Walmart provides jobs to over 100,000 Americans. While some are at the lowest rungs of the wage scale many are not.
3. Walmart is greening up its act. Which is good for America and good for the world.
Also:
The downside to loving their customers and doing everything within their considerable power to lower prices of everything all he time for the customers, is that low prices come at the expense of vendors and vendor's employees and worst of all quality standards.
On the upside: Look for wal*mart to make a move against plastic bags in 2010 after the 2009 holiday season.
"very tired when i awoke"
=) hello sweet friend.
I miss your poems. and you too!
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