That's Disturbing Ozzy

I've been working a little on some poetry. It could be far from finished... but if you're reading this, I'd like some feedback.

11/12/08

My alter ego has better
nail beds and won't settle
for hazelnut coffee
complete with seven layer
salad chasing buffalo
in central Nebraska
Bassett bison a man
says don't worry I do
this all the time holding
down the fence for the
driverless stick shift
people come here all the
time to watch the prairie
chickens boom boom boom
boom prairie chicken porn
enthusiasts it's truly spectacular
and she doesn't approve
of bestiality or fowl
or the way the windmills
own so much land full
of highland cattle and
artisan wells so far from
anything structural but
too many fences and
gates she doesn't appreciate
gates God she's shallow.

11/18/08

My message ingrains my pen
for years without forming
a word but there's something
prolific in your eyes today
monsterous ballet slippers
punctuation styrofoam
plates hesitating making
my ink tremble before you.
I'm going to write snow
storms. Are you concerned
with changing the channel
or channeling the change?
A crew of destruction workers
report to me, without them
no creation. You liked me
much more when my self-
esteem was dead I was quieter
then. My pen didn't scar. You
worry too much about finding
meaning. I'm telling you, this
is skin deep and it could
use some aloe painfully
dry like your sense of humor
not even I can make it
translate in text. Rare.
Poetry makes me try harder.

One Last Thing on the Election...

Why I'm Catholic and voting Barack Obama.

Abortion. That's the big, big problem isn't it? To be honest, it has been the single issue in this election that has continuously nagged at me when making my final decision. I assure you, it hasn't been easy. It has not been a decision that I have made lightly. But if that is the only reason holding me back from voting for Barack Obama, I don't know if I can justify it. There's just so much more to care about and so much more that matters equally. I am pro-life through and through.

I'm pro-life, and it eats away at me that millions of Americans have inadequate health care because they can not afford it. People can not afford to stay alive.

I'm pro-life, and the number of people, both American and not, dying daily oversees because of ignorance and misappropriated blame isn't justified. It's not.

I'm pro-life, and at the rate we're going, we won't have much to live for as we destroy the only resources we have left.

I'm pro-life, and the disenfranchisement of the nation's youth through the education system is depleting the output of intelligence that will one day lead the lives of our children.

I'm pro-life, and can't understand how a person's quality of life or equality of life depends on his or her race, gender or sexual orientation.

And I'm pro-life.

And right now it feels like I have to choose the lesser of two evils. But it doesn't feel like the wrong choice. And nothing has scared me more than idea of the other choice in the Whitehouse in a long time. And whether you agree or not, it doesn't matter now does it? Just go voice your opinion. Let yourself be heard. And we'll talk more on Wednesday...

And...