Extraction

Extraction

Once when I had my wisdom teeth removed

Doctors put an IV in my vein

And while they did their bloody work within

My mouth I felt no pain

Tonight the rain sweeps over my city

Lightning alerts the sky and as I watch

I know that like the rain

I too am mostly liquid limited by time

How many centuries have religion have law

Ruled whom we love and how we touch

One another how we die how dispose of ourselves

Ruled when we can stand naked in the rain

My wisdom teeth removed the wisdom comes

That love in all its forms should be our joy

And death final jettison joyous release

Doctors on call to give us peace

Jack Miller 4/24/10

Flash

NASA Photo of the Sun's surface

Flash

Our thrasher flaps in the birdbath

The yellow puff of a flower soaks up

My eye squints through the lens of my glasses

As it comes to me from the car window

Angled blinding me unbelieving it to be the

Infinitesimal glint from the surface of

Our Sun

How could it be these red seeds

Surface deeper than any unconscious primal 

Understanding of the blaze nourishing the buzzing

Insect in our garden seeds millions of degrees

Hot

Keep this bee in nectar

Keep us 

Guarding our eyes from the quick flash

Of seeds  that will turn our planet speck to ash

-Jack 4/21/10

Teacher

Teacher

My life is devoted to enlightening

Offspring of the business class

Meet Karl Marx Oscar Wilde

Simone De Beauvoir

Here is

My ism because the only ism

You know is consumer jizz

Corrupter of youth I am

A Trickle Down Darling

Old jester of the tyrants of capital

Giving a patty-cake education

To you kids who lay bare

Sins of your fathers indiscretions 

Of your mothers

Off to college my dears

Professors will prove your parents' fears