Power Is a Needle

Power Is a Needle 

(2025)

Power is a needle in the vein.

Hear the junkies sigh

in their exultant high

as the hot flames rush

through blood, lung, and tongue.

Power needs growing greed 

for new injections

growing ever more infectious

as the needle frees

the hidden hates. 

And how the disciples

spasm and dance

spasm and dance

in their adulation trance.

Power is distemper

foaming at the mouth

on podcast and network,

in tweets and x’s

for empty genuflections.

Power is drug hallucination

coughing like covid

or dropping from the sky

like bird flu or wildfire,

spreading wide the infection.

Oh how the disciples

spasm and dance

spasm and dance

in their adulation trance. 

Power is a needle blurring perception,

blind to hurricane and epidemic,

to poverty and difference,

to damage that cannot

reach to homes of richest.

Power is a drunken tantrum

with glazed over eyes

that makes up lies upon lies,

and laughs at the damage

that feeds it’s addiction.

Oh how the disciples

spasm and dance

spasm and dance

in their adulation trance.

Power picks out enemies

to keep the addiction fed,

to feed the deep pleasure,

the orgazmic tremor of

destruction and deception.

Power is a needle

spinning derisions

and spitting out visions

of criminals hiding

in farmer’s field,

in packing factory,

in distribution center,

in rooftop hammering,

in college classroom,

in delivery truck,

in restaurant kitchen,

at dementia bedside,

in inoculation centers,

in soup kitchen lines,

or hotel housekeeping,

or golf course manicuring,

or affluent nannying.

Oh how the disciples

spasm and dance

spasm and dance

in their adulation trance.

Power is a needle 

in the junkie’s brain.

Watch them push it in 

and feel its pleasure

as their tongues flap,

mouths blare, 

and hands grasp treasure,

stealing anything to feed it,

mocking anyone that sees it. 

Power is a needle in the vein.

Hear the junkies sigh

in their exultant high

as the hot flames rush

through blood, lung, and tongue.

And how the disciples

spasm and dance

spasm and dance

in their adulation trance.