Are We Sheep?

by

Joris John Heise

"I am no sheep! Me? I’m an American!
I defy sheepishness and rustic folderol
And crap that cries out-dated idiocies.
"I’m brave! I'm bold! Throw out the old!
Let’s make a pill or mold steel machines
Or lawyer a case for sixteen years to trial.
"We are shrewd. We are crude. We cut the mustard.
We make new roads, invent raw bits of chips
And smear green landscapes with SUVs!"

A man, though, captained careless in Valdez, Alaska;
And where he went vast oil eddies followed—
We think we're not sheep, but aim darkened ships
Swollen portent-full through narrow channels,
Enact a life, threading channels among so many deaths
To bring our blind and crude, not-yet-done lives
Toward green grass and open seas and some success.
We men-sheep allow following too quietly some pilots
Of bell-ringing, buoyant popular boats,
Following, following and not knowing we follow—
Failing to pursue known truths toward goals
Beyond horizons of the possible.

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Why don't you look at I’ll be all right
by: Lindsay Trenton
from: Lihue, HI, US

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