Songs of Eretz Poetry Review is pleased to present “yet now, for now” by Jonathan Dick. Dick is from Toronto, Canada. He has had over thirty poems published in various literary journals. Follow him on Twitter: @jjdickyboy.
yet now, for now
Jonathan Dick
yet now, yet now, yet now
is always the easiest time
to change the course of
history:
work made our greatest shame
free,
yet now they claim hollow
coasts of freedom
will make us work and
see. so beware
and not a ware. do not be
free, do
not think. do all in your power
to suffer, rave, and stink.
devour, and devour, our
numbing hour,
be slaves to thought and not
commands,
detest the gently flaming
hand,
which shuffles you towards the
naughty liberation.
lift up, devour and rave
with shackled arms that beat
your grave. we will not be
free,
because you say it so, we will
not be free, until in
devouring our light
we suffer, rave, and stink.
for now, for now, for now
will always be the easiest
time
to change the course of human
history.
Poet’s Notes: I think humanity as a
whole continues to enslave itself and our society perpetuates a far-reaching
culture of metaphoric slavery. This culture affects both the descendants of the
American freed slaves and the descendants of their masters and everyone in
between.
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