November 26, 2013
Because our great energies are divided
Because there is a room,
and flasks on a dusty shelf
one for your heart, one for your mind, one for your soul, your psyche, and your imagination
Put them
into the flasks
and then
you will see
what everyone sees
and then there will be men out on the sand fighting and killing for banks, drugs, oil, and fire
men who remember their childhoods the lawns the streets the garbage cans the alleys the sirens the dark empty buildings whispering messages in the middle of the night
the cemeteries the graves the markers the schools the factories
men out on the sand fighting and killing for the great Reality that drifts like paper into a roaring furnace
gray faces hovering over burnt sacrifices
a banker on a stage
rubbing his gloves
and pulling money out of his satin mouth
the princes of television
releasing their drone packages
and a third party calls to us across a vine-threaded wall
an unpredicted outsider
who’s known the sacrifice was torture
since the beginning when the river was turned away from the forests and spun into great rotting pools
of gangrenous empire
the outsider is divided and separated in the room of sacrifice
poems, blood filament by growing filament, fill in and connect the spaces
and the sun and moon shine on the blood and make it whole
the poem explodes in the self-separated human who is quite convinced he has nothing to do with a poem, has nothing to do with the soul that is dying inside him
I write poems
people tell me I’m crazy to do it
I’m committing a form of suicide
but I’ll tell you this
it isn’t a sacrifice
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com