Warm-Blooded Warrior Poetry *
I start out with the idea that I'm transformd into a
warm-blooded warrior of words in the global struggle
against all forms of exploitation, all cold-blooded
treatment ov anybody in anyway anywhere
ov the poor by cruel greedy landlords, slumlords,
plantation owners, shanteytown planners & planters,
industrial poison garbage dumpers,..
Reminded of a cockroach bedbug rat-infested fire-prone cold-water
tenement flat in Manhattan New York City, intha mid '60s...
But that wasnt so bad,
When you now think on 3rdworld cities' chanceless street-childrens'
misery like in Manila w/ its infamous "Smokey Mountain" disease
heap & world's hyhest trash pile, where people fyht to survive by
tryin to sell what they can salvage; and after dancing samba all
day&nyht long at Carneval in Rio de Janeiro glue-sniffin kids
shot by rat cops for stealin bread, and 1000s more Pixotes in
- Sao Paolo - all without a home, family love & care, or much
hope for a happy future life
Now think much on the slave labor conditions today in
factories ov voracious monster Transnational Corporations,
those TNCs in third world lands...
And on crass foreyn factory owners in Europe who abuse
vitalities ov low-wage too-long toiling illegal alien
workers in their body wearout garment sweatshops
I lookd once into a rat-hole of a canalside house by the Amstel
where bunks of Turkish & Moroccan contract workers
wer crammd like sardines into cigarbox rooms 10 per floor,
only soon to be fire-trappd burnd up in their cots --
under paid under valued unlived out lives underground.
And from any other worker exporting country... From Pakistan,
their jobless packd in hot crowded cities or miserable countryside...
Or from the Philippines, poor peasants driven out of their villages,
like those in Vietnam, by US-backd armies of fascist regimes,
which are enforcing the much too harsh conditions imposed
by the tyht-fisted muckers up of motherlands, the bungling
International Monetary Fund...
And it's icy-eyed cousin tha World Banker, notorious for
hyh-rate loans that trytu break the backs of any good young
economist tryna help lift his people outov their misery.
And TNCs wreaking such nasty Transnational Corruptions --
are mean dealers of early death
and family graves.
These richmen at worst calld the Yankee Elite or greedy
gringos, engage third world sellouts, bloodsuckers,
compromised misers, calld Compradors since Portuguese
colonial times... still selling out their countries'
birthright, mineral wealth... Them underminers ov men,
& takers of men's lifetimes, the Mine Company Managers
that want them to cough up each mother lode ov their own
poor countries' mineral treasure, drain the veins ov
sacred Mother Earth & caus nativ miners to cough up blood
& dig theirown graves & lay in coffins too soon.
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I learnd thru life in the USA in the affluent fifties
how industry politix & mafia work out their crooked plans,
tactics & strategy not thinking twice about milking people
outov their last dime...
Saw how a handsome bronze-skinnd Indian from Oklahoma
landed in Washington Square downtown Manhattan begging
for a nickel for a drink...
Saw in '65 before I left there how a reactionary manager
in a London-NewYork based publishers office invited staff
members to tryan killoff (on his dartboard target) a liberal
President & his brothers...
Now I ask Pres. Bill Clinton why doesnt he ask his
whiz-kid advisers why masses of irate people are voting
with their feet in marches all over the Philippines
and elsewhere including Here & Now (2ndov Dec.1994)
in the Hague before the US Embassy,..
Why in TNC penetrated countries of the South & East
do we hav to protest impossibl living conditions imposed
by a coming World Trade Organised GATT's General Agreement in
123, mostly captive neocolonized countries as WTO's attempts
to install & rule its so anti-people New World Order for
the profit-mongering Power Elites at home & overseas...
Why all the misery from long&lone-ranging Superpower USA
I ask you Mr President of a USA, centerd on Itself with its
so sell-fishyness...I tell you,
the Whole Wakend World tells you,
"It stinks!!!"...
And why you, Mr Prim PM Major, who'd sack all UK coal-
miners, risk major nuclear meltdowns... You myht try
risking your no-smokers lungs to silicosis working one damnd
day down in a dusty Bolivian tin mine...
And, Herr Gross Deutschland-Uber-Alles Kohl, oughtta
down-size his hegemonic head to fit in tha back-seat
ov a beetle model Volkswagen, under its hard tin roof
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It Now seems to be prime crime time in the late end ov
an imperialist millennium, when those power elitist planners
with their funny money biznesses want to put the Poorer Classes
further down in Hell-on-Earth with a stone-cold demonic Strategy
to control, re-colonize & enslave the Whole World...
Tho now its proud parade of peace-seeking, self-
determind peoples are rapidly mobilizing for an
all-out Campaign to
STOP the GATT's plundering
Big Gain Machine
in its Tracks!
We can do this by cutting the strings being pulld by
the Big Seven's puppet rulers and merchant monkeys,
who hold out their begging cups to pump prime with
Big Oil Rigging their World Trade Organ Grinders the
Richman Bros.' World Piggy Bank and Insiders Money Fund
Who, reading Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune
and the Financial Times, index the map while wielding
the key to the City of London, while the Transnational
Trustees & CEOs of Monsanto & Mitsubishi fiddle with
stocks & chopsticks on their laptop wax-model Escort
serving CD-3D hologram virtual reality Comfort Women
Sexperience Sequence and compete cutthroatedly like
Long Dong Silver & the Old Goldfinger to be first to
biotechnically produce & release
a genetically patented breed of fat rats that wud fill
& run thru allthe sewers ov now into a future wasteland
scattering/spreading disease & disaster all over this
smokey Blue Planet...
* * *
So this is the Great Task Before Us now.
What the Self-Organized with good comrades' coordinated
awareness, with the concerns in mind ov life quality for
the People everywhere must turn into work that stops the
murderous Juggernaut projects of the frozen hearts of the
men-in-power
So this must be an urgent merging in a Long March Ahead
to carry on a protracted struggle moving to find & carry out
creative & resourceful new ways effectively to roll back
the Forces of Colossal Stupidity that can only bring on a
Great Global Plague of Plagues
To not see such a Vast Disastrous Result happen that
we'd get with the GATT - We thru A SEED & NDFs set up wherever
needed these New Democratic Fronts to wage wherever needed
concerted actions to send those rats running back into their
holes on the sinking ship of Monopoly Capitalism...
Since "A" is for Action & SEED for Solidarity
"E" for Environment
the 2nd "E" for Equality
and last "D" for Direct Development
And then send off to a desert island all dirty money
Bank Laundromat operators to work on honestly balanced
bottom lines for the cheated People.
The people who while their kids grow up wholesomely
will again see clean beaches on every shore before the
start of a new ideally well oriented Millennium 2000
when our Lord Love & Queen Mother Nature
will reign Supreme
into the Fullness of Father Time
with His endlessly expanding
and permutating potentials
for the socially precious Presence
in the Grand Event ov Life on Earth!
Robin Redbreast
* For BAYAN (Filipino Peoples Mass Organization) Int'l
recorded from thought & memory on: 2 Dec 94;
revised for performance & publn: 28 Jan 95...