kudos to TIME

nothing solidifies a movement
like the commercialization &
exploitation of its members---
watch them be plastered,
nameless & stirring in the moment
as if next year will be different---
for this year’s
“TIME magazine’s person of the year” is
“the protestor”---
and the story plays out
with clapping hands from the establishment
here in the bosom of world hegemony
“america the beautiful”
whose talons grip the throats of every uprising
to twist & maim
before the final gouging of its eyes &
the go in for the blood---
how quickly those resisting their tyrants in the
middle east will become new peasants
servile to the dominant hand of
“the land of the free”---
suck their oil!
develop their markets!
until they
walk, talk, look & act like
good little americans.

on the homefront
the occupiers of streets across the nation
now go into hiding when
the cold winter blows
reportedly gearing up their strategies
for a lively spring & summer of our
own---
TIME does its job
putting an anonymous member on the cover
in order to show a passing fad,
as if to say
“we are with you”
(that is, until next year when something else,
new & fresh replaces you)---
with featured articles speaking of
anonymous
as if they too, will go away by next year
so that the whole need
to resist,
to upturn &
to change the status quo here in the
empire,
will be commodified &
sold to kids like the next version of
xbox.

kudos to TIME
for selling their magazine
like good little
do-what-they’re-told
capitalists,
but such an attempt will not suffocate
the voices of those who can no longer rest &
such an attempt will not put out
the fire.