ÿþ<html> <head> <title>american apocalypse</title> <link href="layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <meta name="author" content="Jon Bailes"> <meta name="description" content="An online journal of radical ideas"> <meta name="keywords" content="stateofnature, state, nature, journal, magazine, radical, socialist, socialism, left, left-wing, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist, politics, political, culture, philosophy, philosophical, arts, artist, poetry, religion, religious, economics, articles, reviews, interviews, analysis, academic, literature, photography, fiction, essays, reports, marx, marxist, marxism, communist, rousseau, hobbes, locke, enlightenment, american apocalypse, little big pine"> </head> <body> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="outerTable"> <br> <tr align="center"> <td> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="sidePanelEight" align="center" valign="top" width="170" rowspan="11"> <iframe src="sideBarTwel.html" width="156" height="2500" scrolling="no" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" border="0" NORESIZE> </iframe> </td> <td width="650" class="sidePanelEight"> <a name="top"><img src="lowLogoEight.GIF" alt="State of Nature logo"></a><br> <img src="tagline.GIF" alt="an online journal of radical ideas"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr class="buttonsPanel2"> <td width="80" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="115" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="aboutus.html">About Us</a> </td> <td width="130" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="call.html">Submissions</a> </td> <td width="115" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="archives.html">Archives</a> </td> <td width="130" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="contributorsOne.html">Contributors</a> </td> <td width="80" align="center"> <a class="buttons" href="links.html">Links</a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr height=25 class="strikeText"> <td width="650"> </td> </tr> <tr height="75" valign="middle"> <td width="650" class="mainText" background="titleBG8.GIF"> <h2 class="titleMargin3">American Apocalypse</h2> </td> </tr> <tr height=25 class="strikeText"> <td width="650"> <p class="titleMargin3">By <a class="darkLink" href="contributorsOne.html">Little Big Pine</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr class="contentText"> <td width="650"> <img border="0" height="50" src="textTopEight.GIF"> </td> </tr> <tr class="contentText" valign="top"> <td width="650"> <br><br> <p class="titleMargin3">Men in sleek suits & their culture-cloned women<br><br> that go clickety-clack with false tongues and sharp<br><br> teeth and finely shod feet, riding in limos on capital<br><br> streets, in shiny Mercedes, 'squisite Jaguars, cool 'Talian<br><br> cars, copies of Times & Journals on smooth leather<br><br> seats, classical symphonies cooing in 'zecutive<br><br> suites, th' explosion of business 'top heartless con-<br><br> crete, the toppling of government by corporate<br><br> elites, the rollback of Labor into a heap;<br><br> the gavel of justice veering toward ruin, gav'ling<br><br> for aggression, repression, the rich, the unjust,<br><br> schools of prestige for the offspring of privilege,<br><br> for the poor and non-people warehouses called prisons,<br><br> boomburbs and mall glut disappearing the land,<br><br> profit-mad stockholders with unreal demands,<br><br> every Congress a stable of castrated sheep,<br><br> always the rubber of wheels slapping the street,<br><br> the lies of fake leaders unfathomably deep,<br><br> power-drunk palms slapping paid cheeks, mega church<br><br> preachers rolling in gold selling God as a creep,<br><br> mega fauna worldwide nowhere to hide from the greed<br><br> and the heat, colossal crimes of wars and invasions,<br><br> the legions keep cheering for Super Bowl Nation...</p> <br> <p class="titleMargin3">little big pine<br> march 2008<br> duo asini, the two asses,<br> cancri, binging at the manger</p> <br><br><hr><br><br><br> <p class="titleMargin3"><span class="setSize1">Little Big Pine: citizen, patriot, poet; may be reached at littlebigpine@gmail.com.</span></p> <br><br><hr><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <iframe src="copyright.html" width="650" height="225" scrolling="no" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" border="0" NORESIZE> </iframe> </td> </tr> </table> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>