Current policing needs:

1. More sherrifs and deputies are needed in outlying, rural and County areas for policing organized crime (ie., cartels like in Yakima) and stopping the proliferation of meth labs.

2. Cut spending on the fairly ineffectual Homeland Security and use this funding to rebuild the FBI in this capacity and to audit the thievery of Wall Street (ie., Goldman Sachs et al.), mortgage companies and the financial powers that be.

3. An answer for contracted security and "police" with private prisons being built in our nation and why the public is not made more aware of it? Is their purpose for illegal immigrants or for fears of our own democratic public rising up against our government? We deserve answers to this I believe.

Aaron Crosetto

Our future mired in the virtues of selfishness?

I stand up for each and everyone,
Since all but those predatory are
of equal value,
mine is a personal war against
those opposing taxation and
Representation, charging forward
my trusty steed one of needed
Regulation; shouldn't reason
instead lead us into sublime
transcendence~~
Not reason in an end of itself...
Not souless laissez-faire carelessness,
objective reality only a useful
tool, like the mind.
I ask the universe of it's heart?
Doesn't this honored question play a part?

Silence, our future's lay in pine boxes, dug, I fear
Can we turn our backs on what makes us most human?
Since our democracy's pulled out the rug from
beneath our feet, our brethren have chosen
Instead this sickened evolution of false rugged individualism,
Silent schism,
Atlas gasped and shrugged. Our hope and heart dare not retreat
lest the final nail complete our coffin?

Mission statement~~

Your life's work is not determined by how much you make, but by how courageously one tries to face any level of fear to make positive change in the world.

Aaron

Important action and rights to be understood~~

Important action and rights to be understood~~
1. Replace Treasurer Tim Geitner with Dr. Stieglitz as soon as possible!!

2. Read and hopefully support the "Declaration of a state of emergency in 2010, by and for homeless people in Seattle and King County" and "Help us to survive & solve homelessness" and "How to get there" on the inside of the front page of the current issue of "REAL CHANGE"; this is similar to a call to arms I wrote and sent into the Mayor and legislature about a year ago...

3. Do not support businesses that condone and support hostile work environments and serious harrassment like Swedish Medical Center, the now gone Broadway Safeway, the lies and set ups to ruin careers of some hard working employees at The Science Center's Fountain's Cafe (circa 2004). Interestingly, the Manager John Kipper and supervisor Robert ? of the Fountain's Cafe were fired. But not before those hard worker's careers there were terminated for fabricated reasons. The Building Managers Jan (manipulator, game player and flim flam man) and Heather (liar and sociopathic corporate climber)of Legacy Partners (circa 2008) who worked at the Seattle Tower also lied, kept people in fear and terminated hard working people for no credible reason. Hopefully the new Real Estate owners and building managers are more fair and honest!

It's so sick how arrogance and ignorance seem to be so prevalent in the seattle business community. The common public seem to be just "sheep" and believe any gossip or social games passed on to them via other public, the streets, or so called government workers (ie., the police). Very sad and tragic!
Posted by Marta Sanchez at 2:27 PM

Bosses with integrity and a good work ethic~~

James (supervisor, Pizza Hut in Ravenna, I worked under him in 1996): very helpful and decent man
Peggy Bailey (Supervisor of CPC Stepworks, I worked under her in 1999 to mid 2000 s): very helpful and good-hearted boss, awesome person, supportive

The Safeway pharmacist Matt (who replaced Eric at Broadway Safeway) was great and a few others whose names I have forgotten. They did not like the checkers of Broadway Safeway (nor Larry, Manager) and so never returned.

Nick Codd (Director/manager of CPC Stepworks): excellent man and good at getting
grants, very supportive
Larry Langwell (Manager for CPC Stepworks Vending): Honest, fair and very
supportive
Penny Kessler (Building Manager at Knights of Columbus): fair, detail-oriented,
kind boss, supportive

We all need to be supportive of good bosses as they help be supportive to us as workers and strengthen the integrity of companies. Fosters loyalty in their workers! Love and team work and egos kept in check bring out the best in everyone.

Plunderer's and thievery continued...

Broadway Safeway (1997) had no problem paying me a meager wage as a pharmacy B tech (which I could not pay my rent and eat on most of the time, I had no one to turn to for help...) and requiring me to do A tech level work (they got paid double the wage because they have the certificate) in order to keep my job. This is an illegal form of thievery and usury done to me as an employee trying to survive in the late 90s recession. Safeway didn't care and they knew they had me bent over a barrel. I never made a single mistake dispensing (unlike other's who did including pharmacists; this was brought out at the time on our local news stations and papers), running insurance or anything. To top it off they never bothered to train me, I had to mostly figure it out on my own. The first two pharmacists I worked with said they didn't train people. What bullshit. The third pharmacist who came along was great and fun and helpful, but it was too late for me by then... Too bad pharmacist assistants weren't in unions and training a requirement--it would have made it easy! I never found the job difficult, I just needed to know how to use the computer programs (two different computers)is all--about an hour's worth of training at most! I eventually figured it all out anyway. Where's the other half of my wages? This does not include the hostile environment I had to work in day to day, leading to a high level of abuse by cruel people in power niches outside of the pharmacy. It was considered to be one of the worst safeways to work at and that is why there were job openings there. I was warned early on by the Head Pharmacist as to how mean the store workers were. The nice people that worked there that I knew, left early on once I started working there. I tried to leave to, but could find no openings for B techs at other Safeways or other pharmacies anywhere in Seattle... Everyone just wanted A techs.

CPC Stepworks increased my workload by having me do the ordering of supplies from Costco and Vistar Products and the accounting for Stepworks vending on top of being the main trainer for years of mentally hanicapped clients(2001--2007), and my boss Peggy Bailey tried hard to get me paid more dollars an hour. I think the Director Nick Codd tried as well. The CEO of CPC decided minimum wage was suffiicient with no wage/cost of living increases for years. My duties also included driving a truck, troubleshooting electrical and mechanical problems with machines, setting up work schedules, loading the truck and machines properly with all our product, and dealing with any contingencies that came along. I also counted money and made bank drops. Why was I only paid minimum wage. I have since cut back my duties out of protest of being used by the CEO.

Getting paid $10 an hour to do heavy cement work with Patrick at Sonje's house in Magnolia Hill was very unfair. People who do that kind of work I've been told get paid around $40 an hour. I even had to give up my Seattle Philharmonic tickets that day to help Patrick finish the job with substandard tools. A nightmare.

Jim Ware's WSCS (whom I was employed by as an independent contractor) at the Seattle Tower still owes me a guestimate of around $6000 or so dollars. Jim claims it's Legacy Partners who owe the money and he and other tenants are suing Legacy Partners right now. It may be many years before any kind of settlement (if ever)can be reached. It has yet to go to court. Legacy Partners (Building Managers) who I've been told are going under financially now are being sued for money not paid to Jim Ware's WSCS. This does not entirely make sense to me because Nattapawn and David were being paid every month, I know Melissa was not being paid properly and she lost her apartment because of this and quit and complained to the building managers about Jim (Legacy partner's Jan and Heather), left her keys and badge and walked out! I was paid about half of what I was owed each month and Jim promised me he'd keep paying me even after he and Nattapawn lost the contract. I haven't seen hardly any money since, which means that on a monthly basis when I worked there was just pocketing the money he owed me without any intention of paying me. He told me he'd start paying me once he got his new job (which was loss prevention at Rite Aid). Another lie. he gave Nattapawn the good paying Building Steward job (whose been a friend of his family, his baby sitter and worked for him for many years) even though he promised it to me. In stead I got the much harder job of facilities, deep cleaning and maintenance that pays much less... Thank you Jim for blatantly leading me on and lieing to me. This is after Jim told me I was his best worker/trainer at The Seattle Tower and wanted me to some day run a commercial building for him. People I trained for Jim (in what little time he allowed me to, I needed more time to train his new hires) were repeatedly not liked by Nattapawn. Why? They seemed competent, just needed necessary training and leadership which never came from Jim nor especially Nattapawn--who could not train, lead, or do much of anything beyond security. I helped Edrol in engineering off the books and did the day porter job as well. I wish I could have defended those people that Jim said he had to let go of because of Nattapawn. Nattapawn seems to get jealous of people who are obviously more competent than her, including experiences i had with her. To top it off, David (who worked for Jim in WSCS for many years) royally screwed over a bunch of demo contractors at The Seattle Tower (whom I was getting to know and really a good bunch of guys) and they truly wanted to kill David, the whole group of contractors cornered me twice begging me to come back to do security in David's place. I told them I was so sorry, but was more interested in doing Building Engineering with Edrol and the day porter work. Security and concierge work at The Seattle Tower I found to be pretty boring. David turned out to be real sleazy. Jim told me he had to blame me for something I didn't do wrong in his words "we have to take the blame for things we didn't do in order to save his company" when dealing with the Building managers, who were also quite sleazy. Nattapawn would try to take credit with the Building Managers for things I had done, I caught her doing it and Jim wouldn't do anything about it. he'd just shrug. Not trying to belabor Nattapawn's ineptness, but I had to show her how to attach a dust mop handle and how to turn on a vacuum cleaner when at The Knights of Columbus amongst other things. Even though she has a master's degree, it means nothing. She is too inept to do anything more than security I believe. I think Penny is fooled by Jim and her. Reggie and I can't figure out why Penny is fooled?

How do I get remunerated for my services rendered? Jim Ware has the books of our hours worked, we do not. I even worked about 20 hours a week to help the new building engineer (Edrol with Egis) for free off the books to help him not get fired and to start learning as an apprentice. With Jim getting fired, we all had to go. I would have been rehired under the new Real Estate owners, but Jim told me that because of his litigation with Legacy Partners, they would not hire any of Jim's employees/contractor's associated with him. I put in a lot of free work to help the company and the building engineer, and now I can't even get paid the thousands in the books still owed? I have credit card bills, and regular bills and borrowed money that I can not pay off enough to get out of debt at this point and with the high percentage rates on credit cards my bills just get higher due to their cruel level of high interest! I see no way out of this black hole without a decent paying job...in this economy??

I've been underpaid at other jobs as well; this seems to be the 90s/new millenium model of business unless you are lucky enough to get into a good union or work with an honest, decent owner/person. The laissez-faire business model is nothing short of slave wages to make the rich richer!

This business model is a crime. Businesses are condoned for their immoral behavior it seems, unless they are caught. Most of us are just working as hard as we can in a seriously downsliding economy--and yes business is taking full advantage of it!!

Plundered, but United We Can still stand...

The rich thieve's around us have lied and plundered us and will continue to do so. None of us people are perfect, but to these self-righteous wealthy thieves I say, "Let any such self-righteous person who is a perfect saint cast the first stone..." We must put our EGOs completely in check, only tapping ego when necessary for will*

With all of us together on the same page, united, even with our differences, we must come together--small businessman, worker, unemployed, policeman, prostitute, fireman, EMT, artist, scientist--together with solidarity we must tell the legislature and Wall Street and big business that we are the People and the Democracy of Main Street they are beholden to, OR WE WILL BE WALKING IN DINOSAUR'S FOOTPRINTS...

*Highly recommend Eckart Tolle's "A New Earth, Awakening to your life's purpose"

For patriotic citizen's only**

Please watch the following documentaries:

"The End of America" with Naomi Wolf
"Why We Fight"
"Food, Inc."

And may you help join the revolution in restoring perhaps an antique notion of "America"

Thank you,

Aaron

Letter to the legislature 4 12-10-09

These are some of the issues I hope you will support:

1. Support unions and work to close union shops as a protection against corporate abuse and greed. You are a disposeable "unit" in any corporation. It is set up for favoritism and so any one can be fired or replaced for any reason at any time. In America's history, many were hurt and died for the creation of unions. Team work and supporting each other are of utmost importance in this day and age. A business can conger or make up any reasons to fire any one; your union is pretty much your last line of self defense. What's wrong with being supportive of one another? It helps eliminate abuses by those entrenched in power niches as well. Team work without fear of unwarranted reprisals is the most efficient way a business can operate. Let's support training in working on each other's strengths and build each other's weaknesses into strengths. It will save businesses money on a cost/benefit analysis approach as well. Worker's who may try to stand up for their rights and/or sue correctly for damages may not be targeted as much down their career paths by retributive companies as well. This is also a serious issue!

2. Let's enforce and put an end to hate crimes. No more social games, slander and lies used to target innocent and good people. The poor tend to get targeted over the rich. However slander and targeting can be passed as a weapon through the business community, the streets, bars, coffee houses etc. Lawyers, as an example, have been known to leak personal information that legally must be kept private. There are other government funded bodies known to have done such things as well. this leaves targeted people with no way to defend their reputations.

3. Let's reallocate the funding intended for a new prison facility for low income housing (pay one third of your income approach). There will continue to be a greater and greater need; we can not continue to ignore this desperate need. Let's show we are on the side of humanity!

4. Let's reinstate the corporate gains tax, close offshore loopholes, and put this money as well into bolstering the very needed Basic Health Plan and allow a much greater membership with lower premiums. There is no time to waste on this issue. Can grants be aquired to help benefit this need as well?

5. Let's amend Washington's backward tax system and turn it into preferably a progressive tax or at the very least a flat tax.

6. Let's put more funding into our Seattle, King County Library system, especially in such needed times as these. When the economy is bad, increase the hours and days open, not lessen them. People will badly need these resources. Please.

7. Seattle/King County needs more hospital beds open to those struggling with mental illness; stop making them wait for many hours in the E.R.s, then send them back into a truly uncaring world when they are desperately in need of help. I've witnessed this going on now close to a decade. Enough. The weight to care for these denied individuals usually then falls on one or a few tired and weary individuals who need help in caring for these people and we can truly feel overburdened. The true measure of a society is how well they care for their elderly, children, indigent, and those struggling with mental illnesses.

8. Again, support local, small organic farming. Maybe buy less Chinese products for example, and save unecessary spending and put it toward healthy organic real food for ourselves and our children. This may help to bring big companies on board to sell and support healthy organic food. Do not support GMOs and repeal the patenting of seeds and food products. Companies like Con agra, Monsanto, Cargill, and Tyson etc. can and do target small farmers and try to sue them so they can not survive except to give into those large, bad companies and pay ridiculous fines. Small farmer's legal fees get too exorbitant to challenge these companies and the large companies will win! This is immoral and unjust. The small farmers are forced out of being able to save their seeds, etc. Let's help put in legislation that will help protect small farmers against predatory agribussinesses.

Thank you very much for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

Our rights removed by a GREEDY city (nation)~~

Underneath the polite, passive/aggressive Seattle is souless festering pustules of GREED. (Yes the business/government model now for decades). Any hope of the public, aside from the rich, being heard and represented has been systematically removed over decades so the business community can rule the city by the Greedy for the Greedy without fear of the Constitutional rights we citizens are guaranteed? They pull the strings of the Mayor and the police force.

Take a stand against against local businessmen abusing your rights. They are running this city (like our nation) under the iron fist of fascism. What little democracy is left is now sliding into a withering Republic only. A city of "had sheep" stuff their fears down with another beer, a martini. Why do we look down at the ground or just plain ignore such losses of rights as if there is nothing left we can do? Ignore the abused and indigent? The amendments are your rights and they are being stamped out! Support the ACLU and unions and Public Citizen publication!! Stop ignoring Bill Moyer's programs and Democracy Now, etc. The hour is getting late... We need to stop being passive/aggressive victims to well orchestrated wealth.

Again, our forefather's continue to roll in their graves.

Aaron

An answer to high fructose corn syrup~~

Remember when farmer's could make a living and not be bought out, forced out by rotten large agribusiness companies? Remember the days when banks didn't take advantage of struggling farmers forcing them into great debt, forclosure etc wiping out their families and lives? Yes suicide rates were high. Families left destitute... Useless low grade inedible cornbelts planted instead. Industrial hemp is the answer, cheap and affordable... How do we fight off insidious agribusinesses?; let's go back to eating locally and organically in the totally true sense of the word. Yes, as usual, Mr. Nader was right about our absolute need to enforce anti-trust laws (as a start). Let's bust the death stars--Montesanto, Cargill, Con Agra and all the other insidious ilk. Let's help out our farmers again and reconnect with the soil...

Letter to legislature 3

Some suggestions I hope you will find interesting and strongly consider:

1. We need to grow industrial hemp; everyone knows it's superior to cotton, the oil is quite useful. Let's also use hemp for biofuels and additionally help stop global warming. It has so many uses. Hemp can also be used as an excellent source of food. It's an inexpensive, easy to grow crop. Stand up to the cotton, oil and prison guard lobby groups. Why is it the rest of the world seems to understand this?

2. Let's establish an official fund for EMT's; it will get more attention for donations that way. This money can be applied to families of those killed on duty or for EMTs in need of medical help or counseling. The police departments and fire departments already have a fund for this.

3. If it's not already a requirement, let's require a minimum of 30 hours of high school students to volunteer in some capacity to help the homeless whether it be in shelters, food programs or helping to get grants as a requirement for graduation. Love, skills and awareness toward rebuilding our future will be side benefits. Consider also www.nationalhomeless.org and www.hud.gov.

4. Again, we need to develop worker projects for restoration of infrastructure, and to just put people back to work. Do we really have to wait for the cost of oil (for freighters and shipping, etc.) to get so high that it finally becomes profitable to restore industry back on our soil? Let's act sooner than later. Let's continue developing programs for teaching people on how to get grants for aiding students, non profits, schools, libraries, etc. Let's make such training more widely available.

5. No more incandescent bulbs. Let's phase them out of the market. Let's make compact fluorescent bulbs a requirement as soon as possible. Where possible, let's make full spectrum lighting a requirement for long fluorescent tube lighting needs. Full spectrum lighting is far healthier for workers and for patients in hospitals.

6. Let's ban unnecessary plastic where possible. For example, plastic lids for to go disposeable coffee cups (which are also unnecessary). In other words, maybe bring your own mugs and tumblers. Minimize unnecessary use of plastic bags. Plastic is not very economical to recycle either. We have continent/s of plastic pollution floating in our oceans...

7. As a new right of passage, let's require students to plant at least one tree before being allowed to graduate. Maybe require some time in organic gardening/ developing p patches--learning about natural growth of food and in a sense reconnecting with the soil. As industry continues to "massacre" rainforests, forests of any kind, we can do our part to continue beautifying and restoring oxygen to our futures.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

Letter to Legislature 2 Thanksgiving 2009

I have some important suggestions to consider:

1. Please increase funding to the FBI to go after Citigroup, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Chase, JP Morgan Stanley, etc. for mis-use of money and sub prime loans (which are still going on...). Barney Frank has really dropped the ball. Please help out Paul Volcker et al. in trying to correctly and hopefully honestly rebuild our economy and stop the abuses of tax payer dollars. Let's get these tax dollars recovered.

2. We need to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and start applying this tax payer money toward our debts and reinvesting in our infrastructure and helping to create jobs/green jobs for rebuilding the middle class (our beloved tax base). Do we really need to be fighting over this oil pipeline? And other oil sources in these regions. Let's stop unnecessary defense contracts; wasteful spending of tax dollars for unnecessary business/military contracts at once. Let's not allow defense contractors to overcharge the government (ie., the tax payer) Let's put an end to the Halliburton mentality, etc. Let's sincerely heed Eisenhauer's warning of the military industrial complex...

3. Since America is based so heavily on the highway, let's put tax payer dollars and proper incentives for "our" companies for building excellent competitive electric cars--competitive with China and Japan. Let's stop producing substandard vehicles.

4. How can we get our GLOBAL "American" companies to start getting concerned about American workers again? Let's rebuild our infrastructure! This is a primary concern of mine. We need worker project programs again.

5. Repeal NAFTA absolutely!! No more excuses and ignoring this issue. Our government almost did it, what happened?? The pollution and destruction of individuals, communities, cities and abuses in factories as a result are criminal.

Thank you very much for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

A Letter to legislature 1 11-24-09

Some issues and possible ideas for solutions I wish to discuss are:

1. With gas prices set at $4 a gallon, we could take out percentages of it for national healthcare single payer system, help rebuild the infrastructure, promote green jobs and help get Americans working again (if America takes the reigns on pushing Green energy I believe the rest of the world will follow more quickly!)

2. Legalize marijuana and tax it at a high level to restore our tax coffers. All states, not just California, should get in on this one.

3. Make banks and government transparent. This is mandatory now that our government has cuddled up to Wall Street and employed them in the Administrative cabinet (ex financiers as well); require them to pay back what they owe at a fair interest rate. We are currently back in a seriously dangerous/economic bubble that will burst again, perhaps with far worse consequences.

4. Put money into mental health advocacy (our society is very ignorant about many issues related to this and its IMPORTANCE); re-start citizen oversight committees that have real power to do something, a program with teeth; rebuild free legal services for the poor because as it stands those with the money and the power can abuse their power and do so; get a "No Bullying in the Workplace" bill passed with teeth.

5. Retrain police units to understand PTSD and other causes of crime that can be prevented through proper counseling and understanding--maybe with some understanding of how Japanese Kobans operate and how they work with communities (I understand that in Japan that their society is more homogeneous than our's); many people are in prison today because of PTSD how it is still fairly misunderstood (one does not have to be a combat veteran). Education, counseling and understanding is the key. Down the road I believe it will be as big a program as AA and Al-Anon.

6. Beef up our police forces because of the growing problem with cartels and organized crime gaining power inside American borders. It's a serious issue now that will only get worse in the future.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

A TESSERACT'S WINGS

Freedom built out of long riverbends
A hypercube bursting out of being
Embracing charcoal reflections
Burned from red blue impressions
From a childhood of feeling
Adulthood mindful heart childlike reeling
...an assembly of mysterious yellow rejections
Built from faulty traditions...beheading rotten
statues of a times without honor

Canceling credit for my charred remains
Smashing crystal balls into feathered headbands
Rowing a rocket into a random and senseless universe,
God doesn't make the world this way--
We do. Can we all have spent time as whores
in weird and golden lives?
Did we look into microscopes of our old photographs
of star dust after their anticlimactic reports?
Finding a muse with prismatic sight
Perceiving time in loving dimensions;
Don't let her get further away,
My sweet I'll be there in 5...

...blinded, trodden on and bleeding
stigmata to stamp a dreamer to death
unless he becomes a butterfly quickly
without rest,
There is only danger in false reflections,
Pools goverened by Pilate's secret police~~
Pretending without listening--always their cruelest punchline...
Defying lethargic laws of entropy,
Jumping off a cliff to save our lives;
Societie's velvet fool with a most benevolent smile
Garnering hopeful release

"A man who can't be bribed, can't be trusted"

Ghouls creep in and out of Mammon's towers,
Where gargoyles pick through lesser daemon's bones,
The jester placates while assistants cower,
wondering whom will succeed the bloody throne.
Divided the subjects stand and so shall they fall,
While alliances shift like sand in the wind,
Masks turn to see who is not amongst them...
Are we hiding in plain sight so other's will know;
"What you reap so shall you sew."
Crooked fingers always pointing toward the hardest toiling amongst 'em~~
A trapdoor littered with bones below.

Magi listening for Mammon's flow,
Leaping to other banks when embankments seem more sure,
Who we think are friends, maybe never were.
Those who moil for truths inside them,
Hold the aces close to their chest,
Ready to sacrifice themselves before the altar--
Veracity called the hero's quest.
The fate that awaits them maybe cold...
Lies will fly from every wyrm,
But only with a heart of gold, will they ask for nothing (in return)...
You can try to put them in a trick bag
But they will turn it back on those who lied.
A spine of steel whittled and time tested,
Lo, a man who can't be bribed, is the only man who can be trusted.
That is how true friendship is discerned.
Service is our greatest honor,
Covering each other's backs throughout the term.

June 2008

"A man who can't be bribed,

ANOTHER INTERREGNUM

Corruption:
subprime loans, OIL, anything
at any cost~~ethics are laughed
back to the 60s
Financial powers
dictated the business model
corporate, police, government bodies
down to the streets...
A Post Traumatic world we live in?
underground growing
A new business model coming
Since America became for sale
perhaps especially since Reagan.
Praying to HOPE
does not change the world.
Terror at our heels
who do we turn to now?
Who can we trust?
No one. We've been undone
and there may be no way back
home.
In 12 years, how do we survive
the upcoming depression?
Who will be the dominant currency?
Will they build enough prisons
to house us?
Truth, justice and the American way
died as we lost our way between
cups of coffee and reality shows and
forgot our Forefather's warnings~~

Are there hairs standing up on the back
of your neck?

INTERREGNUM

In my soul therein lies
a traumatic rabbithole...
How is my role?
Bookended by love?
And Heaven above?
Daze where my future
lies in the past? Present chemical
lobotomy exempted--where
future can there be?
Geodon raped my soul,
axed orgasm, evil landscapes
mind flayers imprisoning life
Picasso red expression
Period. Blue
No longer relaxed in my skin.
No amount of Tai Chi
can heal this crime.
Must begin again>
Where is my courtesy phone?
Cubed in my MIND
Trapdoors, to everywhere
But safety, vampiric jungle. Multiple liar team lawyers
weaving a tangle of mind crimes
Deathstar went up a hill casting shadows
and aspersions into
A man. And not a man.
There is no room for lies here.
Not for this one.
A primal scream will not heal,
only love and absolute clarity, we feel.
Hooligans and rats running around
the town they craft everchangingly
toward a great loss to true citizen.
Is this a capital offense
brought to life by Jupiter's northwest
Rome?
Why won't they leave?
Where is my home?

Untitled

There are no losers and uncertainties,
Only misunderstood artists, some are c omm uni sts
capital ists and s o c i a lists painting crimson and umber
to a crowd of ivory windows...
Troubadours never taught to understand
the unwritten vanishing point

Leaf Play

gathering leaves, crackle crackle,
blowing wind
calling back to thoughtful moments
happy-go-lucky ghosts
piling up to jump in
grinning from my ears
over the years
I will spread leaves
to every yard
so they can believe
in Halloween.

Seattle

lawyer think tanks on highest
Defcon
Playing the finest cruel duel
Makes one think of Enron's
not so distant rule
Crystal echoing the witch hunt
backed by Swedish Hospital's ascent
as champions of king of the dung hill.
How can we stop the wicked wicked lies
of Wraiths and the Lord of the Flies
Confusing the simple masses, they do
Awake. I lie helplessly in quicksand,
waiting for an end

Seattle

A fool can be fooled for so long.
A clever man his whole life~~

Been thrown to the wolves...

Can anybody help me now?

Grinning with a great drug of choice...

A taste of cream-filled chocolate
Toungue dancing playfully
Propels me happily through
rainy days,
like these

Conversations with an anonymous policeman

when the poor come to you for help...why do you laugh?
if you smear somebody's life and you make a mistake...why don't you admit your fault?
Then follow through with undoing the damage. It's not a sign of weakness...
If someone is suffering from PTSD...how come you persecute them and operate out of denial about what you are doing?
I already know your answers to these things. I've lived it. I'm still living it. Guess you have it planned for the rest of our victimized lives. Guantanamo Bay.
How usefull and safe is Homeland Security? As safe as a mortgage loan?
What do you think of criminal private paramilitary prison systems and sanctioned torture inside the U.S.?
Confess to how you would treat a victim of depression, PTSD, and schizoaffective disorder...I bet you toast to their likelihood of suicide.
Why do you spread lies in the neighborhood about innocent people? The locals eat it up like a coffeehouse cookie. You could talk to the targeted individuals first. That's functional.
Do the business owners understand right from wrong? Their bigger picture is to demonize and spread it through the streets, to local professionals and TV station workers. The Elite.
Do you live by Sun Tzu? Could you try something honest and peaceful instead?
Why do you call us "crazy" to dehumanize us?
Your brutality comes out of which playbook?
Can you do the right thing instead of subjecting victims to Sysiphus fate?
Mistakes made by PTSD were replaced and paid for a long time ago. You know.
Why do you treat us like an animal, plotting terrorist?
How will you dress up for Halloween? Take the badge off so you can have psychopathic vigilante injustice?
Why is compassion and love considered sedition?
Why do you use coffeehouses and bars for spreading propaganda? Do you support organized crime when it serves your purpose? Corporations that lie to get away with crimes against it's people, cities?
What would the Dalai Lama say? Jesus Christ? A person on the street?
Maybe we just want to be able to live, breathe, work like we did once--able to survive...before it was wrongfully taken away. yes it was.
Why did you handcuff the American dream?
Help treat us to unrivaled injustices...isn't that a little obscene?
Here we stand together at the scene of your crime.
Mussolini must resign.

A SCHIZOPHRENIC NOTE TO GOD

To love and forgive, divine.
Show me a sign--
That is not a voice of mine.
Joy is your smile without revile,
A stigmata in my mind.
Dying to thine self,
If only that would free
My caged soul
Like a passionate drink of wine.
Show me a sign--
That is not a voice of mine.
How completely can we love,
Without a devil whispering?

Am I still listening?

This is dedicated to people I know suffering from mental illness.

Thank you for Mexican dining and fulfilling my thrifting whim

and for your taxi skills after a long day for you! When I get some more energy I will bring the massage chair and I will work on you on this weekend :)

RAIN LIGHT

All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you are alone you will be alright
whether or not you know you will know
look at the old house in the dawn rain
all the flowers are forms of water
the sun reminds them through a white cloud
touches the patchwork spread on the hill
the washed colors of the afterlife
that lived there long before you were born
see how they wake without a question
even though the whole world is burning

--W.S. Merwin

SAMSARA

If you could wrap your arms
around the City Council, the Mayor,
the business community, the Battle
in Seattle,
even the darkness over belltown--
one might find some kind of release?
Love is a confusing conundrum that requires
utter simplicity of heart; peace
impaled by the crosses handed
to us while listening.

I wish a simple thank you
would be enough. No one cheers
or hands out medals for those
unable to climb onto a pulpit.
Keep on trying and never give up
half a smile in honest change.
It's free of all strings.
Tat tvam asi!

Thanks MartaBear for wonderful nachos and time together. Aarbear

Cab was good too!

ANANDA

When we rise
Wake up and roar!
Our mind's eye
aligning our heart ever more
we sing wind and fire--
breathing earth and meadow
Counting the notes in between heartbeats
Always listening within...
Letting thought waves flow
Harmlessly above
Earning no less,
Seeking no more.

*Ananda means "Joy"

MISTAKES

We all have made some.
Some wings melted
early before too much
damage was done.
While others flew to the sun
Realizing only too late
the gods were laughing,
betting on how
They'd be undone.
Consider this...
How close are we
To the one we might
defeat? a solar flare of
sun. Sometimes
it is better to back away slowly facing foe
or confront
than it is to run.

TWO MUST SEE FILMS!!

I really liked "The Hunting Party" and "Zen Noir"...happy viewing

Seattle Storm and The Mariners are kicking butt!!

Lauren and Sue were awesome last night as they led The Storm in beating Sacramento! Ichiro, "Bat Man", and Ken Griffey, Jr. are lookin' real good too. Yes, Seattle's back on the map! Hoorah!

Naturalist and poet Gary Snyder

Marta invited me to see Gary Snyder tonight at Benaroya Hall. Magic, music and humor makes poetry happen... His ideas on ecology are smart too; I've heard these things said by UW professors as well. His best poetry is his most recent! Check him out! Wonderful man...brought to se him by a wonderful woman, Marta!

Films/documentaries about very important issues to be aware of:

1. Human Trafficking (starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Southerland) 2005
2. Trade (starring Kevin Kline)
3. Crips and Bloods: Made in America (doc.)
4. Sin Nombre (2009)
5. Lord of War (starring Nicholas Cage) 2005
6. Fast Food Nation (film and book by Eric Schlosser)
7. Changeling (starring Angelina Jolie; Dir. Clint Eastwood; aspects of this still go on today) 2008
8. The End of America (documentary re: Naomi Wolf)
9. Read "McMafia" by Misha Glenny and "Give Me Liberty" by Naomi Wolf

Let's help to try to find solutions to these problems. If you hate predators and ignorance as much as I do, contact me here. Send hard copy letters to your legislature! Thank you very much.

Poetess Naomi Shahib Nye

What an incredible, understanding selfless poet trying to bring important aspects of the world (and Middle East)together with sublime insight! We need more Naomi's in the world!

A few gems from film "The Examined Life"

1. We are all finitude and fallible
2. There is more courage required in looking into the recesses of our own mind than for the soldier on the battlefield
3. Let's dump romanticism on it's head: instead of attaining 'everything' or a point of all knowing at some point in our lifetime as if there were nothing else to get, it is our trying to learn, grow and try however incompletely toward something greater that is the beauty of life.

BOYCOTT!

Boycott the following places for condoning human rights abuses: Swedish Medical Center and Safeway Industries! Do not buy into the lies that I started it all. It is not in me to start anything negative. Yes I helped whistleblow at contractor's requests and tried to stop abuses in the company--sticking my neck out for other's as well as eventually myself; people need to not be afraid to stand up for what they know is right! I take a lot of abuse before I started to say anything. Now days I'm not passive-aggressive on any level; take as little abuse as possible, am diplomatic and communicate directly instead of holding it bottled up inside (I had no one in the past I could go to for help or would listen, except for ex- CPC Case Manager Joshua Canady, a wonderful person, who still didn't know a lot of the story). At some point looking for the silver linings in extremely difficult, prolonged horrible situations can help oneself survive--even grow until too much happens. At that point burnout and exhaustion will occur. By that point, it may be too late. People, open your ears to those in need, extend your shoulders as other's bleed. Thank you. It can help prevent devastating problems to people in the present and their futures...

REAL CHANGE in our world

Please make time to purchase and read REAL CHANGE on a weekly basis as I now believe it is the only way to get any realistic news in our city. Save The Seattle Times for starting your camp fires this summer--yes it may still have a use. Thanks again!

People please help block this house and senate bill!

Please help block HR 1877 and S 808 as these bills will hurt thousands of desitute and homless families and people from federal aid they need. (HEARTH Act of 2009).

Thank you, many other's will too!

Attention Tim Burgess/Nick LaCata/Governor Gregoire 2-12-09

I just want to say I support you and all you are trying to do in very difficult times. I just have some requests that hopefully will enable us to weather an economic storm that frankly looks a bit hard to surmount for some time to come. Here's my two cents toward positive support for our infrastructure:

1. Please increase funding for social workers, social services and teachers in general; do not cut these services; these workers are critical to helping a community transition through extremely difficult economic times when people are freightened about losing their jobs, have lost their jobs, can't figure out how to get jobs, feel very disenfranchised. There is no way I understand to prevent growing homelessness. Communities really need to come together and work together. We need to all be supportive of one another's needs. This definately includes professionals in our communities who are trying to help; they deal with very complex issues around multi-cultural needs, the Mayor, the City Council, merchants and business sector, schools, severely lacking social services, etc. Please do not cut funding for these professionals. Perhaps, increase funding for training to deal with the complexity of the situation--psychologically, socially and economically. Can we include realistic courses on economics based in hard reality for Junior High Schools, High Schools, and Colleges to help us prepare for current times as well as our shared furure as citizens. Help prepare our youth beyond basic home ec. courses. Some schools are probably already doing this. Let's make sure this is required and provided for everyone!

2. Can we open up more churches as shelters and their parking lots and have tents and sleeping supplies and hygiene supplies ready for people's needs in their communities? Can civic centers be used for this need also?

3. Encourage the community to use extra unneeded resources for community (ie., food, beverage, toiletries, supplies, etc.); find ways to coordinate most efficient delivery of supplies for shelters, outreach organizations, people on streets, etc. We have enough organic produce and food to keep everyone in need fed easily many times over from restaurants and stores.

4. Employ the military and citizenry to help rebuild the infrastructure (increase Habitat for Humanity, housing, streets, sidewalks, clinics, shelters, etc.) in our city.

5. Expand health care for families and individuals in need; this includes mental health needs which will be heavily on the rise and taking in those already in need overlooked by our system. This would also include alternative and preventative medical coverage including healing types of massage, herbalism, etc. which will help us stay healthier and prevent more future illnesses and ultimately cost us less in the long run. We need to have naturopathic medicine put to rigorous standards and measurements by the FDA (also, eliminate all aspects of fast tracking drugs!). What I am asking is for all insurance coverage (including state DSHS Medicare insurance) to cover alternative medicine.

6. More forums where citizen's ideas can be heard and possibly used.

7. Inrease ways and budgets to stop identity theft--increase funding for this beyond what is already being done.

8. Protection from increasing scams; increase awareness as this will be continually on the rise.

9. Please pass a bill for 'No Bullying in the Workplace' and make sure it has teeth. We need to put an end to entrenched sociopathic people in power niches; they ruin really good worker's lives and ultimately hurt companies. It would help to save good workers from being cruelly targeted and having their live's potentially ruined by office politics. People need to be justly treated, their productivity and trust will increase dramatically. If someone proves to be incompetent on the job, they will be layed off or fired for the correct reasons instead. Let's try to put an end to lies, backstabbing and office politics.

10. We need more low income housing! Create economic incentives for private companies as well to invest this way in real estate.

11. Do not shut down more of our libraries! Yes, Mayor, we are literate and use them all the time.

12. Make public restrooms available all over the city for everyone and try to convince restaurant owners to open their restrooms again to people who need them and can not afford to purchase something. As everyone knows, people will urinate etc. anyways--only it may be in less acceptable areas if you prevent them from available restrooms. Do not spend money on expensive toilets for the public that we know can be misused. Try to do this as best we can. Thanks.

Thanks so much for your time and please email your legislature on behalf of these issues!

--Aaron Crosetto

Ponderosa

When we kiss the abyss
and see water reflecting beauty,
a puddle jumper blowing bubbles
rippling puddles amidst the city.
Frog jumped off his slimy heap,
nothing more rattled than a tiny branch.
Water skimmers skirting eminent splash.
A dog looks up, sideways
Lids at half mast,
spying a kitten with uncertain love.
Dog days are not all bad
you see...
Feline relaxes, pawing dandelions
while mice dance the "fated" ball;
It is time for frog to call it a day
giving a satisfied croak
while fly stood up tall.

Together a kiss so synchronous
Father Time foretold, where
someday a bullfrog bard paired
with the rapier wit of a winged sidekick
will complete this tale told...
Together hoppin' along, singin' that song
"side by side".

All life renewed again,
refreshed in a tiny gully, backyard friends,
dappled by shady trees
defeating all doubt
that Fall will be the final call
on summer's sunny ground.

Great local people to read and get to know...

Read 'Adventures in Irony' and Reverend Rich Lang's column in REAL CHANGE; Please support Trinity United Methodist Church as they do so much for our community; Attorney William Broberg helped out WTO protesters, etc.; Kerry Bramhall and Russell Kirth wonderful lawyers and advocates!! And to everyone finding a way to help one another in consciousness raising, economic needs and in heartfelt support where needed!! Thanks for making Seattle a much better place!

the united states of complacency?

Smiles and donating your time to help others will help brighten the world. Forgiveness is the result of one's heart reflected through the soul...

United States of Hypocracy

"I'm not going to be lied to any more"
Why do you coral them into street corners called Hell?

Nobody chooses to live in Hell
Were you born into Hell, too?
Does your school teachers teach hell to you,
for lack of a real answer?

We knew the futility of the drug war in the '80s
Police work stopped being done, how's that you say?

Juke the stats, baby
Juke the stats, and there'll be a promotion for you...

The kids of Havenotville see through the economic lie
Ask them on the street corner if they see through the lie that always will be
"the truth" for you and I.

The moneyed interests cast off the black, brown and poor
"We don't need them any more", any more;
You're allowed to be discarded by the law; the centurions
now can coral you and let you kill each other off...
Lowers population and improves the stats of those with jobs,
"don't be soft on crime", sweep sweep them into the corner gutter

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, problem with this??
"Are you a socialist!?"

Everybody needs a sense of national, economic shared purpose...
Change the law: decriminalize drugs or legalize them--take as much blood out of it as you can, let those of us go
to rehab and job programs so we can rebuild the abandoned
unions and working classes; do it now! Return our purpose!
Even if the good ol' US of A doesn't need them anymore...

Anymore...your self feels this to it's core core
Not gonna take it anymore? What are you gonna do for for?
Sustenance.

Will it change? Have you been threatened to the point where
you will put your neck on the line?
They will try to placate you with a few table scraps
and then they will lie lie lie

Irony is the new reality...If you subscribe to an institution
you believe in, it will find a way to betray you. BETRAY YOU.

What say you? What say you now? Tired of the business model whore?
Rotten to it's core...but there's still more money more more more,
not your's. though. Yeah, they're getting richer as we breathe

Your trusted officials will juke the stats so you assuredly will not
know the truth any more
Waves of fraud will continue to erupt until journalism is restored, but
the oligarchy doesn't want us to have power any more any more...

What can we draw from our street corners any more? our empire teaches us
to be rotten to the core core core

We should love one and all, care for even thief and plunderer, what is different as
we are one one one under the sun on that street corner, let us say a prayer
for us all...so we may salvage a future for laborers and recycled plunderers
Together, yes on the street corner, we'll settle the score
and maybe reincarnate what we once stood for...
We should keep demanding an answer for one and for all;
Weren't we guaranteed some rights once; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How about outside the good ol' US of A as well?

I'm not going to be lied to anymore.

Hopeful evolutionary leap...

What is the root of all human evil? A: What humans do with 'Mammon'. Therefore greed and ownership are truly an obsurd notion. Once we let go of having to own and prescribing to rugged individualistic notions, then we can share and work as a TEAM. This is a key notion to understand. Our country has proven that Kleptocracies* will only benefit a tiny percentage at the TOP. Do not allow group denial of this situation to permeate your thinking; it will eventually ruin you and your family's future. As well as your country's future as well. Well regulated capitalism (remember Mr. Nader, Adam Smith, etc.) with aspects of isolationism--where it can be applied, works. We need to rebuild the middle class and the blue collar middle class--remember the American tax base? Repeal NAFTA. Idealism only for now, yes. It can be made realism many years down the road...


Manufacturing Consent will teach you only about consumption and egoistic self-centeredness; we really can live more simply and with less. EGO must be put continuously in check in order for such a thing to happen. Racism, sexism, and other isms will diminish and people will become more connected. There were native cultures who succeeded on this level. We can too. Our country has become quite decadent in it's attitudes, the "have's" feeling they have entitlement to so much, while most everyone else has so little... (This includes US Citizens, sweatshop workers, majority of citizenry in other countries, slavery and sex trade, etc etc). Look at the negative, even sociopathic behavior of our CEO's. Consumerism is consuming us mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Ownership is necessary for essential items and some fun, hard earned items wanted to one's personality; sharing is useful for most other things. Continual accumulation of "stuff" does not lead to happiness. It only feeds negative, addictive habit patterns. How do we each take steps to throw off this yoke of social engineering of "selfishness" that tells us how to covet and remain divided from our neighbors? How do we self-educate beyond prescribed agendas and curriculas by our lacking education centers rooted in old models? What are the essential building blocks? That answer is innate and requires we learn outside the grid to a degree. We support each other's strengths and build up each other's weaknesses into strengths. It's the basics I try to do in vocational social work. This is team work supporting each other in the growing process. We are allowed to make mistakes; this relaxed approach can build confidence and relax the mind to become more effective in it's thought processes. Find the people in your organizations who will work with these ideas and try to grow this network. Yes it will take some time. Old habits and power niches take time to undo.

Ownership is an outdated, false notion when taken to our extremes. As long as we have it, there will be endless crime, wars, incarcerations, terrorism, etc. If you want to hoard, there will always be BIGGER fishes behind you waiting to gobble you up! This can not be disputed if we are to learn from history, sociology, economics, business tactics and politics. Think about what it is you really want out of life and feel you need to own? And do you want to be socially engineered into fearful, complacent corporate drones (not to mention manipulating each other for limited power niches) heading toward fascism--which is about where we were...maybe still are? Think again...it is your own ability to control your own thoughts no one else can control that will be your real place of power from which you can work toward a common, TEAM-oriented goal/s. Many indians, only a few needed chiefs; much less disparity and bureaucratic levels. Believe it or not free thinking will prevail and self-motivation will be enhanced.

*read 'Germs, Guns and Steel' by Jared Diamond

INTOLERANCE

I wished my cars climbed trees,
to heights rarely traveled--
To love all members of life
I must completely surrender,
no longer an expectation
in return.
Why is there so little love
in this marvelous Tree of Life?
Politics with deep roots,
all with different vices.
Consumer love won't suffice,
nor ego proving their cars
are bigger and better.
There is no resistance
at tree tops,
no confusion of stop and no
in an imposed web of entrapment...
Life offers little breaks,
for beauty's sake we see
silver linings, giving without pining--
or else we fall from a branch
crushing so many on the way down,
breaking anything different
plunging through broken windshields,
twisted mangled masks,
snarled and dying. Inside.

MAY I SERVE YOU?

Through service we grow
in love, deeper and deeper
for so many we touch unaware.
Every so often we must step
back, and then
leave plateaus for higher mastery.
Is this what growing into the mystery
is?
God always suspending us over the abyss
with a child's hands

Angrezi

straddling barstools in an unkown room
spilling whiskey down my trowsers
into a lousy spitoon, too young to be this soused
while lies fade into another room...
leaving me out of earshot of their conspiracies,
pitting my uncertainty of strength
against a gang of cloaked cowards in devil masks
Slandering life itself!

Here we go again,
Here we go again,

said a tired salty self still too young, while a roach
climbed to drown in my drink, for me.
It's cheaper than human sacrifice.

I can not follow, where is this strangerland?
'cause my body keeps eating my muscle to survive...
I'm afraid it's all the strength I have left. In the death zone.
Who calls me from this ouija board of germane astrology
where the only real untruths rot and fester
in that other room; just out of earshot, sometimes not,
planned for me after I was kicked out of holy womb.

Since I was old enough to climb a bar stool,

There I go again,
There I go again,

Into the drink of seething froth
paid for from that other room.
Cheers laddies!
to that darker side as I moon, humor is my toungue
liquid courage proffered
to the sage next to me straddling his deep, dark spitoon--
it's meant for them
in another time, another lie, another room.
Was I a citizen of our Rome, burning,
imprisoned in this tomb?

We both raise a toast, discerning whom,
alien bloodbrothers trapped in this strange bed we must lie
drink of truth we must endeavor to write
on bathroom walls,
only the janitor's are listening, while frustratedly
cleaning the walls