Kiaugh1 (kee-owch)

Kiaugh.
Search for a palavra2, a word, previously unknown
Mandates our facilitator of poetry,
Says the lovely and loving learned speaker of French,
The caring polyglot. …
Maybe search for Latin-derived English words?
What about uma palavra em ingles
Similar (in letters used) to “palavra”!?! …
Or maybe to “saudades” (deep blues for something lost)?
To “am-or” (love, love, love)?
To “direitos” (equity?)?
To “SACANAGEN!!!” (We’ve all been screwed by o presidente!)?

Kiaugh!
But minha amiga polyglota strongly suggested we work in our primeira lingua(l).

Goo, goo
Ma, ma
Da, da.

Kiaugh!!
Come on “poet”! Discipline yourself.

Kiaugh!!!
Alas, this should be an easy task to do super-fast???
Despite being a swine-tending campesino from south Texas,
De uma escola pequena,
One who came from the lower class, …
At times an ass.
In spite of being an Aggie … “Boooorn … in the Uoo. S. A.” …
Who fell from the turnip truck!

Kiaugh!!!!
The taskmaster is a-waiting!
The clock is a-ticking!!
Enfranchisement training must first be done
And you’ve a long mile to cycle!!!

Kiaugh!!!!!
Does it really matter?
What IS the reason for existing?
“Is that all there is?”

Yep!
And it will pass.
Rasputin passed.
Joseph Vissarionovich /
Stalin passed.
Putin will pass!

Or maybe not?

Kiaugh?
Yes, we all will pass.
Homo sapiens will pass!
Symbioses will pass.
And “it’ll be aw rite”
Says the hokey hog boy from rural Devine.
As long as we steadfastly fight the good fight (¿la lucha libre?)
For our species
In dynamic homeostatic symbioses.
“It’ll be aw rite!”
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Kiaugh??
Good god!
(Exclaims the agnostic? ignostic? agnostic? pig-kid)

Good God!!
Joni Mitchell has painted such poesia linda!!!
That’s my aspiration.
No! … My goal!
My mission!

Kiaugh!
Ecology across all human entities.
(These entities DO exist! And they DO have meaning!!)
The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Embodied Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity.
An ethos of reciprocity; open borders.
A Green New Deal. Medicare for all. Appropriate agroecology,
Rocking solidarity (Timothy Morton)3.
The Precautionary Principle. Pacifism.
PEACE, Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology
Through kiaugh-riddened Joni Mitchell poetry.

Kiaugh?
Some might call this free verse?
Ou diarréia.
Or as my internist brother
Who educated dois filhos in the intellectual Northeast,
As brother Dr. John has quipped,
“Goobledygoop!”
Ou pura insanidade.

Kiaugh??
Yes Waylon Jennings4
I think “this” is simply crazy
(But meaningful to ME. … And thee??)
It does keep me from going insane.

Kiaugh???
Yes Chris Hedges5
This meaning, this Force, this Joni Mitchell beauty MUST replace War!
Joni Mitchell sensibility, Joni Mitchell meaning
Must replace War … que é contra a justiça,
Contra a humanidade, contra simbioses, contra a terra.

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1 “Trouble, anxiety” http://definition.org/define/kiaugh/

2 The words other than English are mostly Brazilian Portuguese.

3  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/23/humankind-solidarity-with-nonhuman-people-by-timothy-morton-review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VO6bI-xrj8

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/books/wars-are-made-not-born.html https://www.truthdig.com/author/chris_hedges/#author-bio

pbm 3/13/19

[ 7Ss / VV->^^ ]

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