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Welcome to Flot-Con Text: a blog where I release my newest poetry since and as of twentyten. Enjoy! Peace!
Sam Flot

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Pockets of Air


Pockets of Air
By sam flot


Pockets of air
Filling up with change
Un-popped bubbles
Intermittent clouds flying in
Holding new challenges or
Bestowing the winds with a purpose

Pockets of air
Filling up with change
Balancing the books
Giving more power
To the pawns and the rooks

Reaching for a different style rhythm or meter
Beating on a drum
To send a message
From village to village to village

Pockets of air
Filling up with change
Holding pen to paper
Writing this decree


The boom’s gone flat
Our leaders are lost
The old way is the wrong way
The old way is being pushed aside

Pockets of air
Filling up with change
The boom’s gone bust
Now it’s our turn
To do it our way

The old way is the wrong way
It’s time for the old way we do things
To step aside and watch and
 Let us take a swing

The clock struck you out looking
Bat on your shoulder
The old way acts bewildered
While we get bolder and bolder

Pockets of air
Filling up with change

We’ve been shoved for too long
Step aside or be pushed aside
The old away is gone
While the new way gets a try

Pockets of air
Filling up with change
Now its been popped and
Everything’s fair game



11.8.11

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Parallelogram For You




Parallelogram for You

By Sam Flot

Jagging
Zig-zagging
Switching back with forth

Slanted
Top right to bottom left
Coming down from the sky

Radiating
Light sent to an earth
Somewhere
Instigating inspiration
If only

To believe in what your doing does

And to do what you believe
Truly brings joy
To your inner being

Whatever connects you to center

Breathing and understanding

What you will
Into being
Becomes art


What you will
If you will
And I know you will

If you have the will
Into being
Becomes art

Believe in what you’re doing
And do what you believe
Deep up inside your soul’s mind


Where you keep the outcome
Of your years of

Experience
Efforts
Eliminations
Elucidations
And useless extrapolations
And by extrapolations
I mean…………..
Over-explaining something
To a group of people
Gathered to share
Will become art





Tuesday, November 1, 2011

99 Percent Strong


99 Percent Strong
by Sam Flot  2011



for the American Autumn

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Abe Lincoln looked at me
From the side of a penny and said “1993
In God We Trust ~ Liberty
Another day you worked all you get is one of me

“What happens to the other 99 cents?”  I asked old Abe
“A dollar a day is minimum wage
If I only get a penny how can I save?
How can I buy food?  Should I live in a cave?”

Abe answered me after a real long stare
“Get outta my mind, get outta my hair 
I don’t think it’s legit and fair, it’s not my deal, not that I don’t care
Get your own soapbox,  go down to your own town square

I freed the slaves and for that you see
This pretty profile of mine can grace a penny
A sarcastic honor, it  just might be
99% getting just one Lincoln  penny

We live here right now no money no jobs
We can’t trust the government, they call us a mob
We can only go to the streets and scream and sob
The health code enforced by the tear gas they lob
Hey there Abe, you’re a damn good penny
But we need more than that from this land of plenty
We follow the orders of the one percent for a fee
They let us subsist scraping by just barely

One percent you’ve used of us all for too long
One percent takes from the 99 percent strong
Every bully has it’s day and it won’t be long
Until 99 percent stands up 99 percent strong

11.1.11