Two More By David Pointer

Now that I have entered all my grades for the spring semester, I will be posting more frequently.  Tonight I am featuring two more poems by David Pointer.  These are part of the Mourning and Memory contest.

Smokeless Windjammers

Invisible as a war profiteer, refurbishing
old czar’s extra apartment with wallpaper
                                                      black as
espionage networks forever digging tunnels
retrofuturistically though airmail,       email,

overimbibing on bureaucracy, destabilization
clogging global lens with hallucinatory film

Agelast Syndrome Overtime

Those way over purchased extra-large

                                            foster home

                                                condoms

eventually chasing all the kids into

oncoming dash cam collegiality, then

come flexicuffs for the ever rigid

                                             system

                                             ahead

For music, let's listen to parts of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YeKuG1ksc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Dj7HQEasQ

I'll finish with Nina Simone's "Four Women" and "Ain't Got No/I Got Life."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Bj1CXPH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBud2t67rTc