My Coffees With Andre | Poetry of Mankh |Axisoflogic.com

I sometimes fall from exhaustion, or injury.
But I never regret embarking on this path.

- Andre Vltchek

        I cried when I wrote this song
        Sue me if I play too long
        This brother is free
        I'll be what I want to be

- Steely Dan from “Deacon Blues”

coffee after coffee for years
reading Andre Vltchek’s articles . . .
as an armchair activist i traveled the world
with his amazing reports
often long and rambling coherently
gushing with emotion and empathy
stories of the peoples and places abandoned
and being eaten up
by the hungry-ghost trans-national theofascists

Andre wrote for the salt of the Earth
and for the minerals extracted,
plants destroyed at the expense of peoples impoverished,
foreign faux cultures shoved down their chimneys and throats,
he was a voice of the voiceless in places no major media--
with their flashy graphics-- dare go

he traveled the Earth humbly
like Jesus riding a donkey,
Buddha riding his horse Kanthaka,
Lao-Tzu riding the water-buffalo
escaping the empire

intrepid journalist and filmmaker
Andre interviewed the common people,
trekked the Earth with the big picture
in his camera and heart and pen--
huge shoes to fill,
lost stories of deserted islands,
blank screens—
how many Spartacus investigative journalists
can keep spreading the truths?

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic, as well as a correspondent-poet for the WUSB 90.1FM radio segment “Radical Words”. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. His website.

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