Black Fridays

Black Fridays

Sticks.

Wood frame.

Icon.

Oil burning anointing lamp

Recession cave upheavals.

1869, 1929, 1989,

Yellow sticky note on a calendar

Inserts

Momentary illumination between

Two black Fridays

A red day, a blood day, a sticky day,

A day for cutting ribbons

And umbilicals

A baby born Athena-wise

A spurt of blood from the president's skull

The market is avalanching.

Someone was stabbed over a parking space.

We probably spend it all ’cause the pain ain’t cheap.

How deep is your greed?

Target

God is dead...we have killed him...

-Ed ads data mining roaring 20s

A big push.

Best Buy smartphone subprime mortgage lending.

Amniotic bubble bursts

Toys R Us bailouts for big wigs

Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Peasantry. a cry of protest.

For shame, Jerusalem,

No human family.

Someone was stabbed over a parking space.

The prodigal swipes credit card messiah

Freedom ain't cheap

Crossed staves on a skull.

Three stabs in a grassy knoll.

Shadows on a baby's soft wet cranium.

Seven Bolsheviks burst through the door...

The loss of a kingdom.

Shepherd-song.

The loss of the innocents.

...bullets slam pillows and diamonds

Elder brother poison priest

Hunts down the prodigal God

Only one is good.

The princeling groans.

The blood on the hay.

Divine right of rule.

Ask not what your country can do for you...

How deep is your greed?

Every boom must bust

Every bone be dust.

Two parallel railroad ties outside Yekaterinberg.

But oh the ride.

When things were new.

When the president was a sweet little boy

And I held him in my arms,

And he was mine at my breast

But now he belongs to the mob roar

The media throngs and the political trends

What is truth?
They are money laundering the rough edges off the

Universe's seams

Bankrupt in bullshit righteousness,

Reductionism.  What's a King to a mob?

On giving Tuesday I attempt to bribe the judge.

The star-reds marker X ma(rk)s

The spot on Dealey Plaza.

50% off, casting roulette

(whiteblackwhiteblackyingyangbrotherbrotherclatterclack)

On a white robe.