by Art Goodtimes
Something about
bitter & weary
that gravitates to honey.
Barracuda swims alone.
Strikes & smiles
‘neath stars of blood, eyes of blue.
Palin’s packing.
McCain’s double-dealing.
Obama’s biding his time.
As we slog on down
the October trail
bet the house on hope not hate.
Poetry editor for Earth First! Journal (1981-91), Art Goodtimes makes his living as a freelance writer and third term Green Party county commissioner in Telluride, Colorado, and runs Talking Gourds, an annual earth festival dedicated to the word in performance. He will soon appear in a new Ron Mann film about the Telluride Mushroom Festival (where's he's been poet-in-residence for 28 years) called "Know Your Mushrooms."
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