Fredisms
Who breaks the law?
Who breaks the law?
illegals
Who makes the law?
Legals came here,
killed the native, buffalo food
chained a people, body and mind
tested bombs, on 2 Asian cities
and they still make the law.
Peak Living
Peak Living
A man was surrounded by peaks,
and woke only after knowing the valley
and all in between.
the Buddha
in between Black & White
In between Black & White
Black says You’re one of us.
White says You’re one of them.
I say At least they agree on one thing,
that the Virginian 1924 Racial Integrity Act
is still intact.
the BlackWhite divide
The BlackWhite divide in America is based in fear
From the beginning;
We need more hands, to prosper.
I been bought to a strange land.
We can’t lose what we got.
Father, daughter, brother, mother, all sold.
We will kill to stay on top.
It’s better to be angry and alive, than dead and gone.
Jesus will save you!
I wanna be saved!
[Years later!]
My Black brothas and sistas,
tell Him out-loud and proud
what He is gonna do for you.
[Chorus (out loud and proud)]
Jesus will save me!
Jesus will save me!
Jesus will save me!
[SILENCE]
Keep them down, any way we have to.
We got to get up from here, and come together.
. . . any way we have to.
Words can’t hurt you.
Words can’t hurt you.
Actions can.
“Hang ’em high!”
You wanna live?
You wanna live?
Make waves.
Big little
fast slow.
don’t matter.
Make waves.
The Nature of Nature
The Nature of Nature.
We plant and grow apples.
Bugs eat the apples.
We spray the fruit and kill the bugs.
The bugs evolve and eat the sprayed fruit.
We use stronger spray to kill the bugs.
We eat the apples.
When I am balanced
When I am balanced in moments and between,
what more or less is there?
Floating downstream is easier
Floating downstream is easier than fighting the current,
yet
resistance to pressure creates a diamond.
Fentanyl & Crack expose the divide
Fentanyl & Crack expose the divide between Black and White folks in America. How?
In the 80’s and 90’s Crack landed in Harlem and Los Angeles.
How many ‘let’s support the people’ programs were implemented?
Recently, Fentanyl has landed in Ohio and Appalachia.
How many ‘lock ’em up and throw away the key’ programs
are headlined?
We like happy faces . . .
We like happy faces on Facebook.
We avoid the face of pain, suffering and death.
Some folks experience all these faces in their day to day lives.
I love you
I love you.
How can you love what you don’t know?
You don’t have to know, to love.
all that to say . . .
all that to say,
Head Land, Heart Land, and Now Land
balanced
is . . . I AM . . . land.
Winging Away
Kaia is winging away, as we all are, day by day.
Note: My grief wets this keyboard, only for her.
My blurred vision, pained heart, and memories of happy us,
have me stifling a tear-filled scream.
Sleeping on a comfy bed,
under the dining-room table,
is my darling, Kaia,
winging away.
To the bathroom mirror I said,
To the bathroom mirror I said, ‘You look pregnant’.
Looking and being pregnant are very different.
One is a story, the other an experience.
Excellence and Mediocrity
Excellence and Mediocrity don’t co-exist,
without one affecting the other.
When one seeks excellence without question,
avoid mediocrity.
I love you sweetie.
I love you sweetie.
I love you so much,
when I think how much,
my heart spills everywhere.
That’s what I said to Kaia this morning.
If I had the choice of owning . . .
If I had the choice of owning a gold mine or a creative mind,
which would I choose? Which would you choose?
This is where question 1 comes into play?
A friend just reminded me, ‘Your creative mind is the gold mine’.
‘Better times ’round da corner’.
‘Better times ’round da corner.’
That’s what they say in church. They say,
‘It’s better upstairs and worse downstairs.
Pray to go up, sin to go down’.
I say, ‘Tell me what to do on this floor now,
not yesterday or tomorrow. I’ll ask for guidance,
when I am in those places’.
I sometimes mix up Indians.
I sometimes mix up Indians.
There are India Indians and American Indians.
India Indians are named after the Indus River.
American Indians are named after an error.
Test 1
Test 1
Some of what equals sum?
or
Sum of what equals some?
Why did we drop an atomic bomb
Why did we drop an atomic bomb
“To save lives”.
twice?
“To confirm consistent results”.
Love a Spade
Love a Spade
Even a spade may be an instrument of salvation.
When that’s all you have to dig up weeds,
and plant new seeds,
Kings and Queens don’t matter.
Life is one big learning lesson.
Life is one big learning lesson,
that can be divided into days, hours, minutes and seconds.
Each of these being separate experiences,
taken together, called life.
Some Thing & No Thing
Some Thing & No Thing
Some Thing lives on the hill.
No Thing lives in the flood plain.
One day Some Thing looks down
and thinks out loud, ‘I want No Thing’.
Question: How many things do I need, to know joy?
One Man’s Take!
One man kneels and says
This ain’t right!
More men kneel and say
This ain’t right!
Men with rights say
It was right, is right and will be right,
so get your asses up, and go back to work!
a Short Story
Heaven spent a week in town.
Folks hugged trees and each other.
Day and night welcomed night and day.
Is was all and all was one.
Now weeks later, is and was complete a sentence.
You wanna’ stand up?
You wanna’ stand up? Just do it!
You wanna’ stand out? Stand up!
Tomorrow is Deceptive
Tomorrow is Deceptive.
When you come tomorrow,
you never arrive.
Presence Seeds Presents
PRESENCE
SEEDS
PRESENTS
I was getting out of the shower,
I was getting out of the shower,
looked down and heard,
“It’s just a vehicle”.
the Voices, Thoughts . . .
the Voices, Thoughts, call them what you will,
some times twist and turn on each other.
Some times it’s one for all and all I AM.
Nature Calls
Nature calls.
I don’t mean ‘take a shit’.
I do mean ‘Nature calls’.
Nature loving Nature calls.
the Heart of Love
the Heart of Love
beats beats beats a cadence
beyond the cosmos.
Let’s talk about Mind Control
Let’s talk about Mind Control.
On average, there is a murder a minute.
How many minutes have we been glued to the 12 boys in the Thailand cave?
We consume what we are given, until another story comes along.
Mother’s work is WOW!
Mother’s work is WOW!
To observe it, one thing.
To experience it,
I’ll never know.
Man
A weapon is a device . . .
A weapon is a device designed to harm others.
We Americans design and distribute more
weapons than anyone else on the planet.
I don’t hear any complaints from anyone.
Let me ask you,
What’s all the brouhaha about ‘a right to life’?
the Original Weapon . . .
The Original Weapon of mass destruction,
is the one between our ears.
Guys made in the USA
Guys made in the USA,
driving pickups made in Japan,
flying American flags made in China.
Diversity
This is what I know.
This is what I know.
Change is closer than you think.
See/know what I mean?
You don’t?
Try holding onto a thought
a Fair Discussion on Race
a Fair Discussion on Race!
We’re talking about what?
Race don’t bother me none.
Talk is cheap.
That’s what my dad used to say.
Can we just get past race?
I’m about talked out.
The pizza guy is here.
Sun strokes the horizon.
Sun strokes the horizon.
A rooster crows.
Rise and shine.
Set your clock . . .
Set your clock to Spirit Time.
Be present through trough and crest.
Now just relax,
and let your breath do the rest.
Buddha Babies
Buddha Babies
Buddha babies are every where.
Be the leaf that drops.
Be the feeling that rises.
Be the heart that loves
White Flight
White Flight.
We bring Black folks here,
then run from them
I’m driving.
I’m driving.
Kaia is on the passenger seat.
My arm is resting across her back.
“I love you so much!”
I don’t just say it, I feel it.
Do you feel what I am saying?
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This afternoon was the first time
Kaia could not raise her hind part without my help.
After a nearly 13 year partnership, change continues.
Hang a man woman child
Hang a man woman child
is not in fashion these days.
These days lock them up,
make them work to eat,
and pocket the profits.
We do such horrible things . . .
We do such horrible things
for a dollar.
We tell children they are ugly,
then sell the adults, ‘products
to remove blemishes’.
It’s all relative.
It’s all relative.
The blotch became a raccoon,
squished across the double line.
We watch our close relatives
being killed all day,
so one as distant as a raccoon,
is a passing thought.
I read, ‘A woman was consumed . . .’
I read
A woman was consumed whole, clothing and all,
by a 30 foot boa constrictor, in India.
Before, I’d think
WOW!
Now I think
WOW! Is this fake news?
the Illusion of Freedom.
the Illusion of Freedom.
We stand before a starry fabric
with palms over hearts
knowing and not wanting to know
some of us arrived encaged
and are still enraged.
Think on this . . .
Think on this.
Before MIND there is no past or future.
Our American language . . .
Our American language affects cultures every where.
We give the word nigger negative connotations,
then export it to places with lots of sand.
Suffering occurs
Suffering occurs
because of you
in ‘I love you’.
How I harbor
How I harbor what was,
determines how I live what is.
Death creeps up on us.
Death creeps up on us.
We open the door and there it is,
smiling.
No time left. Now what?
NO TIME LEFT!
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When you see a beautiful person
When you see a beautiful person
and think WOW!
please remember
that yummy picture may not deliver
the sweetest fruit.
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After the early morning
After the early morning, hot yoga class,
a woman said there was a label stuck
to my foot. I pulled it off.
Thank God it read ‘organic’ and not
‘Walmart’.
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Tink and See
Tink and See
When it’s not said your way, the right way,
do you get flustered?
When you see ugly me, is there a mirror
between us?
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Want to serve the people?
Want to serve the people?
Fill our bellies with food,
our minds with presence,
our hearts with love.
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Mind is a box
Mind is a box . . . closed.
You want a new expanded mind??
Know death is all ways present and keep the lid wide open.
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Terrorists
Terror by Non-Terrorists
We sell weapons to A, B and C,
then watch them kill US on TV.
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I have never fully . . .
I have never fully
loved, cried, lived
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a Point of View, Terrorism
You are squatting in the thatched hut with other young children.
The old woman is trying to quiet you all.
***
You are a pilot, approaching the designated hamlet.
At the given command, you release the napalm.
God Dog
Dog God
He said. She said.
He said. She said.
He said do it with hard pounding.
She said go slow and lick the petals.
Tender izing
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Barack Obama sounds African
Barack Obama sounds African to me.
Africans kill each other with machetes and eat their babies.
Obama has probably eaten babies. He could be a baby eating killer.
I can’t vote for him.
Besides, he doesn’t look like an American President.
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You say, thinking is . . .
You say, “Thinking is essential”.
I say, “Thinking is the story and being is the librarian”.
We say, I love you,
We say, “I love you me him her them peace, this that the other, ice cream and Jello.”
I say, “Feeling, not saying, is love. If you don’t feel it, forget it.”
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the Masseuse
Her fingers touch my skin
lifting here and there
chills, whimpers, sighs,
feelings coming
alive
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Fredisms began as scribbled . . .
Fredisms began as scribbled notes on a yellow legal pad, while driving at between 10 and 70 mph. I have learned to drive while scripting the fast flowing thoughts with my right hand.
Someone asked if I had a death wish. No, I don’t. This is how I access what you read here. Lately, more of these works are coming while I’m out walking the local trails with Kaia.
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She said the 9 year old . . .
She said the 9 year old Sioux kid had attempted suicide 3 times, the last time just 5 days ago.
I had the opportunity to play and speak with this child.
Afterwards my heart bled sorrow.
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Why is war . . .
Why is war called a bitch? Its man that orchestrates it.
Now life is something else. We never know what it’s going to offer one moment to the next.
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The family
Who gave man all the credit?
I thought it took 2 to start a family.
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We’re so proud . . .
We are so proud of our ‘We the People’ document.
LIVE! LOVE! (Doesn’t that say it all?)
We may need a wake-up call to accept that simple mantra.
HEADLINE NEWS: Rogue Planet Heading This Way!
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What do we know?
What do we know?
We don’t know what we know.
If we knew what we know, we’d know what we think we know
leaves space on a pinheads.
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Man squeezes through
Man squeezes through the womb, looks around,
throws up his arms and shouts,
“It’s all mine”.
So quickly we forget.
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Tonto and Pocahontas . . .
Tonto and Pocahontas served their white masters.
Now they serve their master’s master.
Bearing the cross.
When I die, . . .
When I die, you die with me.
My ‘you’ is the only one in existence.
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Some say, ‘nuts . . .
Some say, ‘nuts kill themselves’.
Others say, ‘nuts seed the earth’.
What’s your take?
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My friend said,
My friend said, ‘When someone cuts me off in traffic,
I say out loud’, “If I knew you, I’d love you”.
Later in the day I thought ‘love is not conditional’.
I’d prefer to say, “I know you and I love you”.
Say them both and feel the difference.
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Gravestones
Gravestones are above ground.
Life teems beneath.
Isn’t that odd?
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May all beings,
May all beings, known and unknown, knowing and not, love.
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Head or Heart?
One is not better than the other.
Head builds the road.
Heart travels without rage.
in Poor Town
A child today may be an adult killed by a killer tomorrow.
Will your child be killer killed or a killed killer?
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A love of life
A love of life is a life of love.
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We say, ‘My way . . .
We say, ‘My way or the highway’.
I support the high way.
They say, “God is love”.
Love is more expansive than any God in here, out there, anywhere.
Be love to know God.
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You want pork?
You want pork, kill a pig.
You want peace, love your selves.
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Death has a place
in the infinity of life.
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Which do you prefer?
This that and the other
or
This that and the other create another.
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I LOVE JESUS
is 3 + 5 words.
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Think on this.
Spirit encompasses thought. Not the other way around.
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Breathe Love
Breathe Love
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We do tend to masculinize things.
Do you think maybe She became sHE?
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The instructor hadn’t appeared.
Someone said, ‘When the student is ready, the teacher will appear’.
I said, ‘Does that mean when I’m preening in the mirror I can say
‘Thank you for appearing’?
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She said, ‘Being born . . .
She said,
“Being born into this world sucks.”
That’s one way of looking at it.
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Don’t be a stranger
in a strange land.
FEEL PEACE FULL HERE NOW
Cock ring
smaller than bull ring
larger than wedding ring
she hopes he smiles
at the alter.
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The child equates
The child equates trust with deception and suffering.
Now let us look at that adult.
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