4.18.2026

HERstory: 18.April.2026

Words in Progress or not 

 

music to accompany my words:


                                              Bittersweet Symphony vs Bittersweet Cacophony

 

                                                                                                                                            sounds of spring

the biting staccato of workmen’s tools drifting across my lanai

peace-FULL-ness broken

reminding all in the barrio summer soon come

 

morning not yet ready to listen to this unnatural cacophony

yet forced upon us denizens this cacophony is

us early-risers that enjoy spying in on a spring morning’s wake-FULL-ness

no competition from the breeze, the birds, the street cats; all retreated

I alone seem to dissent this intrusion

These steel behemoths shattering human-ness into illusion-NESS

 

necessary evils, so say developers- urban magicians turning rotting earth to persistent concrete

for what, again?

Ah, summer; I forgot

Soon come, summer

harbinger of sonorous sounds resonating thru the barrio

thumping bass tracks to attract tourists near and afar?

to this unique-NESS that is the mid-Atlas Mountains

 tourists who sit poolside, awaiting a text, awaiting the next viral video, awaiting awaiting

 

                                                                                                          is IT, though, attraction or repulsion    

there’s a new shiny kid in town

not shy, this steel warpig of a child brought forth 

birthed from resistant Industrial Revolution cobwebs

insisting on lingering

insisting on a saprolite relationship with human-NESS

no trepidation to intrude upon quietude of human thought-FULL-ness

 

I revolt

retreating into the forest I shall go

seeking solace of whispering pines, weeping Atlas cedars

Iwziwn ‘song of the mountains’

I’m listening, I’m coming, I’m healing

 

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