When Giza Speaks

When Giza Speaks


by Sam Flot 2011

You can’t videotape the apocalypse or

Attempt to skate the acropolis

In any sense of verdant truancy or

Declining sensitivity

For the flowing electricity

Inside the arms holding

The camera’s obscured lens

Up to the trending topics

Of the topical moment

On top of us and

When Giza speaks

Greenwich Mean time listens

Revo?

She’ll be comin’ around the pyramid

When she comes wearing

Clothes of the people and

Why wonder if the looming urgency

Is worth the currency you convert it into? 

The whole thing fits inside your front pocket or

If strobe lights make it hard to fake a comparable offshoot

You can videotape a mirror ball

Reflecting humanity in a few sentences of giberrish

Counting cultural references and certain pertainings

To downtown drains and surroundings

All worked up into blatherous lathers and

Too connected to

Step away from the device, please,

Step away from the device

Your network has been shut down

Step away from the device

2.23.11

SAM FLOT!

A Question For Authority

A Question For Authority

by fLOT 2003

(Dedicated to GWB) 

Back in the day

All hung up

On a wall

In the Museum of Futility

Compassion was the catch phrase

Under trees of shade or sunsets

Always playing the game

Close to the vest

Taking and using every advantage

Hyper-hypocritical

In staking off the high ground

Only games of strategy

Are played n a flat board

On an even playing field

Nothing like

Helping out

By reporting “suspicious activities” and

“unsafe conditions”

Either in public oratories or

In one’s own home

I have a question for authority

Where’d ya get that hat?

Looks great on you

Matches your outfit

Really works on you!

But don’t you feel like hell?

It’s been like the old days lately

You been on quite a bender

Havin’ a good time

Lyin’

Cheatin’

Lootin’

Stealin’

Gutting the constitution

Gutting the rules which enforce

Checks and balances

Gutting the environment down to a stump

You’ll be all apologies

When the bender’s over

And

It must be

Very tiring

Very exhausting

Still I gotta ask one question

Where’d ya get that hat?