Because before a lot of people started reading this blog, and we got those weird Scientology ads, the idea was just to have a place where we could share stuff with each other - without having to actually make paragraphs.

Below is Buddy Wakefield



Anis Mojgani below. His third poem "Shake The Dust" is what's really good.



And all of this spoken word has made me want to write a poem on the page. Yep I still do that :)

September

Steve’s gone to Panama, looking for canals

digging for his birthright, losing himself

in the jungle, only to emerge dressed in white.

Cart’s gone to Mexico De Efe, to fall

in love and translate the law –

so Texas will be even sweeter:

cracked in two, seeping cactus juice.

Waites’ gone to Spain, Park to China,

Matt’s in Hollywood, because what binds us

together is greater than our distance apart.

And even you, my dear Giaco,

are in Argentina – speaking Lunfardo;

eating frutilla and Choripan.

In case you didn't know Will Smith might be a Scientologist.

Will Smith says that he isn't a Scientologist

But the press is claiming that he is

Will Smith denies it again

The L.A. Times doesn't know what to make of it.

Then there is that pesky private school that is funded by Will Smith and just might teach Scientology....

But once again Will Smith denies it

I don't know. Is Will Smith a Scientologist? Is he just tight with the Scientologist crowd (aka Tom Cruise and lots of hollywood)? Like a straight guy who has gay friends and dresses well?

Is this a Fox News Conspiracy since Will Smith is now THE BIGGEST STAR IN HOLLYWOOD and he is B-L-A-C-K?

I just don't know.

All I know is that I do not understand scientology.

The whole religion seems outlandish, and silly, and like something you would read out of a science fiction book...whoops.

I also don't approve of the group Anonymous who attacks Scientology (and minorities). They remind me a lot of the Ku Klux Klan.

(I actually have two pretty funny Klan stories, here is one of them: One time I was driving a van of black people through the South (Alabama) to get to a conference. It was around 11:30 p.m. and we were on Empty and I had just taken a wrong turn. Getting stuck in the middle of nowhere Alabama at night with a car full of young black men was not my idea of a good time. So I turned the car around and as I was backing up someone noticed a historical marker. We stopped the car to see whose marker we had found...and it was a marker to the founder of the Klan. On top of the marker there flew a beautiful Confederate flag. And then a voice shouted "Hey Nigger!" and a group of hooded white men with guns swarmed from the hills... jk. Actually we just got scared as hell, got the fuck out of there, and wouldn't stop for gas for 50 miles.)

If you are a Scientologist, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, part of Anonymous, or have an opinion on this issue please leave a comment.

I am really confused about all of this.