Suspended in the New Fade, Part 3

suspension is a terrible thing

suspension is limbo
and no way to know
what will happen next
and so you feel vexed

suspension is a place to be
like climbing a tree
only if you know how to get down
assuming that you are not a clown

suspension is rarely up to you
but when it is pray to have a clue
because if you don't you'll wonder
if you're back there in one more blunder

suspension is something you've earned
and perhaps something you've already learned
but it's also something you don't need
not that you get to plead

suspension is something you want to fight
knowing that it's a terrible plight
but you won't and you can't
like someone's gift plant

suspension is a terrible thing

Suspended in the New Fade, Part 2

poems can rhyme
but they don't have to
and it's only the desperate
who think they must

that's what it's like
to be suspended in the New Fade
not knowing much
but assuming you do

Suspended in the New Fade, Part 1

we're all trapped here in the New Fade
thinking that we'll all get paid
with all our best plans laid
and that the color jade
is what we made
and that we will not fade
and that we must wade
or perhaps raid
and give each other aide
but really believing ourselves forbade

Sick Days of the New Fade

i honestly don't know how it worked before
but i'm glad that there are sick days in the New Fade

War in the New Fade

all war is motivated by greed

if you do not believe this statement
then perhaps you understand
what war means in the New Fade

it's more complicated now
than ever before

the last time nations went to war
in the traditional sense
it was the second war to end all wars

we've all been waiting for the third
and maybe it's naive to say
that the New Fade represents
war becoming a quagmire
worse than anything
we ever knew before
a struggle for minds
more than on battlefields

i guess we'll see

PoetiX in the New Fade

poets stopped trying to be vibrant
when they started believing their own hype

they gave the ground to the bards
and lost their voice

Education in the New Fade

what is enough to be learned,
facts or practical applications
of those facts?

what is more important,
the grade in a classroom
or the ability to retain
that which was supposed
to be learned?

education in the New Fade
values superficial knowledge
and exults in the status quo

"no child left behind"
is a terrible things for teachers
just looking to get through the day
and blaming their inadequacies
on budget issues that have
nothing to do with the quality
of the mind, which is
what it's all about