| I’m tired of all the political stump every day’s a bad hair day with Donald Trump, it’s a smoke and mirrors surreality tv show (no offense to prayer smoke and true mirrors) appealing to a psychology of victor and foe. Colonel Sanders feeding off the hometown crowd but his foreign policy to the military-industrial is bowed. And the real enemies pollute land, air, and water, treat minorities and aboriginals as if they loiter. Ten years after Katrina and the impoverished scraping by, uranium radiation on the Great Plains makes me cry, oil-tainted water offered to the Navajo aka Diné who – after EPA/Gold King Mine spill – can’t water crops because it’s pay-to-play. The Arctic is essential for Indigenous Peoples to feed, salmon swimming upstream transcends religious creed but Shell-Obama on a liquid diet of oil, one bad move and the pristine waters they will spoil. Looks aren’t everything but Hillary ain’t pretty, it’s sure looking ugly so we gotta stay gritty. PS Links to various issues referenced: “Gulf South Rising” “'Gulf South Rising': Ten Years After Katrina, Demands for Deep Justice March On” “What's at Stake: The Survival of the Great Plains - Fighting Uranium Mines” “Defenders of the Black Hills - Hesapa O'nakijin” ”Clean Up the Mines!” "Navajo Farmers: EPA Sent Us More Contaminated Water" “Navajos at Shiprock heart-wrenching vote not to irrigate with contaminated river water” “Alaska's Big Village: ShellNo Alaska Obama demo” “Alaska's Big Village Network” and here 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 © Copyright 2015 by AxisofLogic.com This material is available for republication as long as reprints include verbatim copy of the article in its entirety, respecting its integrity. Reprints must cite the author and Axis of Logic as the original source including a "live link" to the article. Thank you! |