It got me thinking about how "free" we really are. In the America we are supposed to be in the freest Country and yet look around us. So many tied down without options just scrambling by, hanging on. As a Christian, or Jesus follower we are supposed to be free, but, the church just wants to put more and more rules on to us.
I have had major writers block for a long time, but, with all this whizzing through my brain something finally clicked. This is supposed by read with a desperation with a the thought of a constant drum beat behind constantly driving. It is not the final version, but, I wanted to write it down as is:
Land of the Free
Free verse
No meter
No rules
No stanza
No grammer
No punctuation
No from
Free
The rhythm of Glass
The verse of Ginsberg
The art of Dali
I remember the day
Freddy died
And understood
Loneliness
Love
Series over time
Until a mental block
A writers block
Free will
Free choice
Peace
Lennon and McCartney
Free as a bird
Life
In the Land of the Free
Liberty
In the Land of the Free
Happiness
In the Land of the Free
Tata tata tata
Drumming of Reich
Of Ak47
Destroying
Freedom
No big government
Unless
<Silence>
You can't control
Woman
Refugees
Gays and Lesbians
Poor
Sick
And on and on
But shit
Guns are FREE
Free verse
Yeah right
In the Gulag we stay
Ask Alexander
About baggage
Free (fortissimo)
Rules (diminuendo)
Free (forte)
On our terms (diminuendo)
Free (piano)
Old white men (pianissimo)
TRUMP
War
Murder
Violence
Guns
Trapped
TRUMP
John Cage four minutes
<Silence>
Jesus teaching
<Silence>
Hate
<Silence>
Justice
<Whisper>
Equality
<Whisper Louder>
Peace
<Louder Still>
LOVE
<Shout>
<Shout>
Remove the chains
FREE
<Scream it>
FREE
Verse
Expression
In America
Land of the Free
Is it?
Wham sings!
-Richard
