by Peter Hardie
In hard times,
you keep hard things
like hope
and lethal weapons
like love
madness spreads like the flu
in this world of billionaires and millionaires
trying to recruit you
as junior members
patriots
believers.
Hard times are inhuman times
fearful times
stressful times
hateful times
killing times.
neither good, nor necessary
except for those who manufacture
bullets
barbed wire
bars for cells
bombs.
hard times are manufactured
by those/them.
you can buy what they are selling...
but don't.
be true.
buy love daily
that resistant
hard core
love
at a discount.
Buy love.
Invest in love.
Sell everything else.
Two Haiku
1.
We be stranger ones,
unseen worlds are the strongest
rhythms in our heads
2.
love, rage, tears rolling
around in the clay bowls of
the next world order
Peter Hardie is a veteran member of Liberation Road, the trade union movement, the Black liberation movement, and other social movements of the 70s and 80s in the US. He is a poet, father, sailor, Buddhist, and abolitionist.