SECTION SEVEN
POETRY PAGE ONE

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COLUMN EIGHTY-FOUR, FEBRUARY 1, 2003
(Copyright © 2003 The Blacklisted Journalist)


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I WILL NOT BOW DOWN

I Will Not Bow Down America  

I will not Bow Down
       to your Government
      to your Religion

  I will not Bow Down America
       to your Materialism
       to your International Corporations
       to your Religious Shrines
              your Stock Markets
              your Shopping Malls  

I will not Bow Down America
       to your Coal Mines
       to your Power Plants

  I will not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight  

I will not Bow Down America
       to your invasion of privacy
       to your moral absolutes
              your religious political might
I will not Bow Down America
       to your Assassins
              the CIA the FBI the Corporate Police State
              your Killing Murdering Machines  

I will not Bow Down America
       to your Bureaucracies
       to your schools
       to your attempt to make me the model citizen
              of Your State of Your Church
 
I will not Bow Down America
       to your Hisstory
              of Lies
       to your Secrets
              in the Best interest of
                                   to protect
                                   the People

  America
        I pledge allegiance
              to those who were here before you
              to those who will be here after you are gone
America
       I pledge allegiance
              to the woman I love
              and to our children
       I pledge allegiance
              to my friends and allies
              my guides and angels
              both seen and unseen
America
       I pledge allegiance
              to poetry to music to art
              to the literary renaissance
              to the global literary community
       I pledge allegiance to the Beat to the Outsider
       I pledge allegiance to meditation to stillness
              to magic to beautiful mysticism to ecstasy
              to AH and AHA
              to the Big Bang Epiphany
              to altered states of consciousness
       I pledge allegiance
              to seeing
                     into the occult the unknown
              to seeing
                     into everyday into the ordinary
                            and being amazed
       I pledge allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane
              to gnostical turpitude
       I pledge allegiance to my physical body
              and to the knowledge that I am more than
                     my physical body
       I pledge allegiance to seeing more than
              the physical world and to those
              of higher frequency vibration
                            and consciousness
       I pledge allegiance to passing through
                                          the Sacred Fire
              to entering the upper chamber of the
                                                 golden pyramid
              to levitating over the open sarcophagus
              to out of body experience
       I pledge allegiance to the hottest sex
              and to gentle affection
       I pledge allegiance to fractal geometry
                     the geometry of clouds and coastlines
              to 2x2 equaling 5
       I pledge allegiance to Failure
              to failing as no other dare fail
       I pledge allegiance to taking risks
              to holy daring
              to nam myoho renge kyo
              to accepting responsibility for my own actions
       I pledge allegiance to not achieving
              the American Dream of Success
America
       I pledge allegiance to trees to green grass
              to brown earth to wildflowers of every color
              to wilderness to turquoise Native American skies
                     to rivers lakes and seas
                     to healing the earth
       I pledge allegiance to the Holy Spirit
                     to the Word and to Silence
       I pledge allegiance to Dreams
       I pledge allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death
       I pledge allegiance
              to Candor to Sincerity to Laughter and to Irony
       I pledge allegiance to Passion to Compassion
              to Empathy and to helping those in need |
       I pledge allegiance to Resurrection of the Heart  

NO
America
       I Will Not Bow Down  

copyright©2003 Ron Whitehead

Ron Whitehead, 932 Franklin Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40206 usa,
phone 502 540 5739, email Tappingmyphone@aol.com,
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