What makes an ear?Skin,cartilage,tiny hairs?Or is it more?Is a brain an ear?What do you listen with?What do you listen to?Can you truly hear?Do you hear the dogs?Do you hear....HOLTZCLAW? Listen.Listening.It's one of the first things we hear,isn't it?The listening.For did your parents not say,as you splashed out of an angry womb,"Listen!Isn't that a baby?"And as you sucked at your mother's smooth ,firm breast,could you not hear it then?Over the gurgle of milk being drawn into your gullet,you heard them right?The dogs.The howls,the growls,the distant yelps.Can you hear them now?Awooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!Do you hear it?Do you dig it?Do you ..Understand?And am I mistaken,or are they drawing nearer?Listen.You listened in their prisons/schools as captor/teachers with initials for names spat and preened like pretty peacocks.That's where you first heard it,isn't it?Fuck Everything.That's what we were taught right?Napalm rains on Cambodia?Fuck everything.CIA guns down two Kennedys?Fuck eveything.Nixon's out,Moa's in?Fuck everything.Recession,hostages,Iraqi school children charred and dying burried beneath tons of American-made rubble that used to be their place of worship?Fuck everything.Lewinski,Waco,the cover up of the truly ecosafe sugar-water-burning motor vehicle?Fuck everything.9/11,The Jackson trial,Dave Chappelle goes cocoa for koo koo puffs?Fuck everything.Our Schoolbooks have said it for the last hundred years,our bibles scream it,our televisions inject it into our asses.FUCK EVERYTHING!But wait.For if you stuck your head out your open window,and noticed a "scary" hippie kid groovin onto his transistor,and heard that tiny,tinny,wondrous voice floating on the breeze..That was Holtzclaw.And that breeze was America.And you just can't Fuck Everything after Holtzclaw,man,you just can't do it!For if poetry serves any purpose(and if Holtzclaw are anything,man,they are just that:Poets!),it is to say Hold Everything! when the Military Industrial Entertainment Men are saying Fuck Everything.it is to say Love Everything! when the Man says Bomb Everything!And Holtzclaw says all that and more.Dig?Shoo!