by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson [Excerpt] You sow it He reaps it You create it He keeps it He belongs to a tiny group That controls world decisions Of what workers produce And who will have provisions He lives at your expense And like any enslaver He controls the workplace But himself performs no labor He fears and hates unions Workers united demanding a say Over job conditions Benefits and [...]
Deliver Us A new lighting contraption The one we have is not working Too many are stuck in dark shadows, Some refuse to believe that light exists The light we have has burned in a house fire She lies by the fire, an unhappy lover Choices We can be Shel or Sylvia So much depends upon how the head is tilted Born and raised in Tarzana, California, Jennifer has a [...]
https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/never-forget-other-poems/ This is Champagne Song, one of the Prairie Land defendants currently in solitary confinement. These are some poems that I wrote after being sentenced to 100 years. This first one is called “Never Forget” Never Forget the Threat of communism/ that was Hitler’s excuse for everything that he did. We must go to war because of communism, he said. We must get rid of the Jews because of communism. No [...]
© by Christian Hanz Lozada Some people say grass lawns mimic owning enough estate to flaunt not needing to grow your own food. Some people name human meat long pig, and I wonder where the similarity lives: in the body or in the tongue. Some people reserve white rice for the wealthy and the colonized, but I say I can lose some things like teeth filed sharp to [...]
ENVY (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson I've seen them Angry misleaders People cheaters The bottom feeders Those who Resent the honest Hate and envy the true Feeling you're taking Acclaim they're due Is this you? What some call Haters Fakers Infiltrators Insecure attention seekers Needy instigators But what the people need Are genuine leaders And teachers Those who truly care Not about their own Selfish urges But the people's welfare [...]
Present and Continuously Tense - A Self-Portrait by Snigdhaa Rai [Excerpt] https://thewire.in/livewire/present-and-continuously-tense-a-self-portrait Once I turn myself into the machine, Against what will I rage? I whirl about in a conviction of confusion This ride of life has a weird constitution, It has dawned on me how dark it gets And into this passivity I watch the sun set A weird reminder of school days as I, Hear constant cries of [...]
El Martillo by Matt Sedillo Yo soy el martillo The hammer The builder of bridges Destroyer of walls And you shall greet me as a brother Or you shall come to know me By the hammer’s fall You have the right to remain silent Miranda vs Arizona 1966 You have the right to an attorney Escobedo vs Illinois 1964 The Thin Blue Line Came from a tv show Launched by William [...]
Fairly Warned: CDCR Rehabilitation By A. Ramírez, California State Prison When the choice to die of hunger – Strike! is better than to live – because there is no Rehabilitation! Where the Valley blows of Virus – Disease! in a prison that men can’t leave – thwart the hope of Rehabilitation! If their livelihood is based upon a prisoner’s return – Complex! on the outside or the inside with [...]
The Sheer Power of Words Speaks Much Truth by Jingles The Chief Executive MAGA Ruler of the White Supremacist House: Deranged Dangerous Oligarch Oppressor Neanderthal Nazi Arrogant Ape Lecherous Lawless Dastardly Devil Tyrant Traitor Robber Baron Ugly Unfeeling Menacing Monster Psychotic Predator The filthy-rich fascist figurehead of the corrupt DOGE - Department of Greed & Evil: Egotistical Loudmouth Overlord Neo-Nazi Megalomaniac User of people Sinister Sociopath Ketamine KKKing [...]
Fall Back © 2025 by Steven Alan Gerber Two days in and evil has been instituted. This is just from viewing highlights, not full news reports. I even issued a plea to friends on “social media”…Don’t post it to me! Can not and will not witness! Today’s escape is Prokofiev for background, while reading John Fante. Can no longer escape by ways of drink, smoke, sniff or whatever, (Been almost 40 [...]
Reflection by Mickey Ellinger Naked, I’m a topo map of getting old: one breast shrunk from carving out an uninvited lump; above the other beneath the collarbone new disc size of a dollar metronome for lazy heart. Scar marks the pins that hold one upper arm to the shoulder, skinny arms draped in folds of skin knuckles swollen creeks of veins. No smoother going down: Drooping gut shadows belly button, balding [...]
Resist, My People, Resist Them by Dareen Tatour Introduction by Vijay Prashad: Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies’ profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and [...]
