Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Sometimes I wish I'd grown up in California. I enjoyed San Francisco-- center of that '60s " portal ." I like Hunter S. Thompson's thoughts on a "wave that almost took us to a better place," before it crested and rolled back into crass indifference in the '70s. I liked San Fran, but those gnarly Jos...

Thanks, Steve. The focus here is mainly on the last 50-60 years, with an Old Testament echo or two for accent. The first 2 stanzas are straight out of events of the last decade or three. The third, and to some extent, the sixth, hint at Jerusalem and fundamentalist Christian End Times beliefs. The f...

Yeah, it was finally time. I think this poem makes a pretty good point, actually. Various world powers have been fucking with the Middle East (primarily a Muslim part of the world) for a long time now; often by proxy (i.e. the Shah of Iran, and Saddam), but also through bombing, invasion and occupat...

Hi Steve... It's just me, the former "mnaz." That name weighed a little heavy after ten and a half years, so I decided to go a different direction. Name-wise, at least. This poem kind of "wears its sentiments on a sleeve ;" there is (arguably, at least) little art here, no met-a-phor or what for, wh...

Straight from the roots! Yes! What a great listen. Thanks . . .

The kids play with plastic again, tweak detonators and go off to church. God will battle God in this scene. Gun runners still make a killing. Munitions from Moscow. Rockets from the Free World. Training camps in Bahrain. Laundered funds from Riyadh . We must own the holy land. God won't save us if w...