LEARNING...

 A collaboration between Thom Woodruff, the World Poet, and the Griot Poet

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE ZOOM @A TIME

But, with more phones/computers this is no longer true (Black Swan Theory)

And with time zones, it is possible to perform in many virtual arenas

We are parts of a jigsaw puzzle-we need all the pieces to get the full picture

Everybody holds an image in their mind-but we are in a movie

Your family a multiplex. Ancestors nostalgic formats. Friends multi-media.

Your great -grandfather scratched steel pins upon black shellac

Your grandfather a record player playing singles, EPs and LPs made of vinyl

Your relatives' cassettes  and 8 tracks (with Dolby sound)

You are up on the download, hip to the format. Time is a mixtape.

The music you hear no longer belongs to you - like Leonard Cohen at the RNC

Kenosha.Kansas. Media bulges with separation clauses. Equality. Human Rights. Respect.

The sounds you are hearing are no longer military marches-they are Freedom Songs

Streets are alive with the possibility of Progress. Put down yr weapons and embrace.

SATURDAY AUGUST 29 -ZOOM

POETRY ALOUD 11am-1pm Meeting ID 

Zoom has reduced commutes to mere minutes,

Between bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and webcam,

We are atomized by technology and pandemic,

Giving rise to sociopaths with Twitter handles,

George Moore enabled shrink of MOSFET logic,

Transistorizing electronics, propaganda and

The demagogic,

This emperor has no clothes,

His fearful attacks at the USPS,

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7 of the First Amendment,

Sending his own "jackbooted thugs" into the streets,

Because the toilet paper he uses between tweets,

The Constitution,

He didn't bother reading or its First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,

Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,

Or abridging the freedom of speech,

Or of the press;

Or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

No one authorized the smashed windows,

From Boogaloo Bois, or Russian agents fluent in English,

Wearing hoodies and

Carrying black umbrellas,

Nor did We The People authorize,

The smash-and-grab theft of our democracy,

ANTIFA literally means "ANTI-fascists,"

The fact that the "gang of Putin" object to their (mostly online) existence as their grievance,

Means they are self-explanatory of their true intentions,

What's a Constitution when you have like most weak/strongmen toppled truth:

Emoluments Clauses,

Hatch Acts,

At Pennsylvania Avenue, your hotels and Jerusalem?

Fireworks worthy of George Orwell's "1984" or Zymyatin's "We,"

From Jeb Bush's prophecy,

"Chaos (Manchurian) candidate" to chaos president,

The mythically-invoked Winthrop "shining city on a hill"

Is a pile of smoldering feces, and

Far from a city of justice

Or, a city of peace.