| Axis of Logic's Resident Poet has a new book! Three selections from Mankh's new chapbook: “Dear _____, poem-letters to friends and enemies” * Dear General, You’ve probably read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, i haven’t but from what i’ve heard can appreciate the levels of strategy, thinking things through, and becoming mysterious so as to avoid surprise attacks, but other than for life-saving self-defense i fail to see how a business bent on killing people and polluting Mother Earth can be considered an art. Maybe you’ll fail to see how these words are what some call the art of poetry (even some of my colleagues fail to see so i know what it’s like to be alone in a field with the weight of the world breathing down on the neck) but have you ever tried to scribble words & ideas & feelings onto paper, tried to see that when the sun lights up a new day there’s a man over there who-- behind the mask, the uniform-- is really your long-lost brother? * Dear Monsanto, Dow Chemical Company, Syngenta, Archer Daniels Midland, Evogene Ltd., Cargill, et al, When a boy, i watched movies about mad-scientists but never thought they could be real. You really take the cake, and i mean that, you take the ingredients for a cake and genetically modify them, then try to sell me a disgusting lemon of a car (no offense to lemons or mixed metaphors). Who are you to meddle with Nature, to try and out-do Her divine and heartfelt handiwork?! Who are you to run roughshod over the simple joys and necessities of working with the land?! Frankly, you’re a bunch of bad apples (no offense to apples). * Dear Thanks, First of all, just wanted to say, you know, Thanks! Thanks for being there because without you no one would express appreciation for anything, well, there’s gratitude but you’re so easy to say! Yet it’s a wonder you’re not heard of much these days, what with the attitude of entitlement, theofascist (godless-corporate-state) pillaging, and just plain rudeness. You are one of my biggest life-lessons. Once i cleared the slate and realized that no one owed me anything, not a thing, not a single thing-- then i truly learned how to be deeply thankful. So again, just wanted to say, thank you, Thanks! * Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. His recent book is “Drive-thru Theofascism & The Hero's Journey” and the newest is “Dear_______, poem-letters to friends and enemies.” You can contact him via his literary website. READ MORE POETRY AND ESSAYS BY MANKH ON AXIS OF LOGIC You can contact Mankh at the links noted above, but here is some more information: Dear ___________, poem-letters to friends and enemies by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) |