Category: Poetry

Alteration

It happened as I folded your laundry

I glanced out my south eastern window

Where Mount Baker use to shine

A row of oversized houses is out my window now

I see the back end of them

I hear the birds outside my office window

Along with the humming of the washing machine

The computer and camera won’t process my latest painting

The ever-changing pigment is too strong

Sahasrara

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Before I depart

You will have what you need

Irrelevant is hatred and fame

As is judgement and gold

Greatness in the Vastness -

There will be None

This manufactured cesspool

Is churning into stagnation

So, before I arrive

You will have what you need -

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Jackie Blair McSween

 

Nothingness

Pollution seeps into the Void

Powerlessness prevails here

But for who or what -

I’m pulled down

To grey porous concrete

Like a YoYo with a severed string

My duty of making humans comfortable

With T-bone steaks and grad dresses

Do we really care?

Now that the Spiral is in motion

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Jackie Blair McSween

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