Vilano Moonrise On The Rocks Impressions

            A Generation on Eve of Election 09/08/08 (James Watkins) 

This generation is stuck on the bulwark, 
Frozen in headlights gathering stones- 
Indiscriminate sons of the morning, 
Atrophied assets with merits unknown. 
 
Set in the light of internal combustion, 
Self-deprivation, contiguous bones- 
Crushed in the conflict 
Of rising occasion, 
Lost in the moment 
Our monument grows. 
 
Dancing with midnight, 
Moonbeams and starlight, 
Ridiculed remnants that rattle and roll- 
Quixotically quoted in 
Careless contrivance, 
National parlance 
Of future payrolls. 
 
Pay for the privilege, 
Pose for the prattle, 
Pause for refreshment, 
That causes the cure. 
Simple deliverance in 
Smokescreen obedience, 
Rationale railways that run on the ruins. 
 
Come to the purpose in patriot persuasion, 
Stand in the gap with righteous reward, 
Fly in the face of cupcake convention, 
Pulses of power that pull 
At the thorns. 
 
Hold fast in fear; don’t fall at the junction, 
Waste away weather maps 
Conjugal forms- 
Failing with formatted frogs in the foyer, 
Padded with passive, political porn. 
 
Packed into parlors with pigs of persuasion, 
Multiplied monsters fixed to the floor- 
Pass on to poundings of crux congregations, 
Critical mass for the petrified poor. 
 
Crept in concealment configured in catacombs, 
Built on the fragments of families forlorn- 
Terrified teamsters with tales of their talisman, 
Tickled and tortured, then swamped by the storm. 
 
Fancy faced forecasts, fabricate filters, 
Lies at the bottom where captives are shorn- 
Files of the caveat castaway cheviots, 
Horns of the altar now cut to the stone. 
 
Sanctified delegates step to floor- 
Out on the borders, go right for the snore. 
Sniping at mystical magical merchandise, 
Mopping up munchkins with heroes galore. 
 
Gift of gab purposeful prophets in paradise,  
Parabolic poetry prose- 
Deft and defiant in damaged delusion,  
Filled up with ideas but stuck in the door. 
 
Pamplified pollsters perched on the pedestal,  
Pale prognosticates barren and bored- 
Doubters and doers and leaders and lovers,  
Catch me the top of the hour has flown. 
 
Dudley dead do-rights don’t come down a crashin’ 
Cackling crackers conducive to scorn, 
Capped out and crapped out 
In Wall Street enduros, 
Boiled down to futures and factual whores. 
 
Just enough knowledge to keep them from fading,
Just enough money to keep them controlled,
Just enough polish to keep each one sparkling,  
Just enough power to keep them enthroned.

James Watkins 2008


   

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