Back Ordered

Parts were back ordered
including body bags
their future called for some heavy lifting
heavy duty cleaning materials
manipulation of material inside the entropy

Refugees streaming into the screaming
broadband media found work
in multi-national international conglomerates manufacturing sectors
grinding poverty
constructing their dream for export

At the edge of their refugee camps
they blended barley seeds
with leaves of grass for delicious breads
they carved on walls with neolithic 'new science' tools
they rented out their dolmens on the weekends

Near the door to their cave of hunger
was a crude cardboard painting
of an Indonesian woman at her sewing machine
with a sign saying, "Plenty of work, no shoes."

next to it was a young man
hanging
out on an American street
with the words
"No work, $150 shoes."

Tim Leonard a Vietnam veteran, is a graduate of the University of Oregon. A poet, writer and digital photographer, his work has been published by PoetrySuperHighway.com, Stirring (V2E1), JournalE.com, Kid's Highway.com, Babylontravel.net, and Comrades.org.uk., ozimages.com.au a photographer's cooperative in Australia, grazalema.ws, and zonezero.com. He published a children's book with ebooksonthe.net and is a book editor with atlanticbridge.net. He finished his first novel, a memoir, last fall and is looking for an agent and publisher. He recently returned from gathering material in Morocco and Andalucia for a new book and is sitting down in the Northwest, where he chops wood and carries water.
Note: Featured author in December 2000
E-mail: tmleonard@earthlink.net
Writing interests: Travel, Children, Poetry, Prose
I.D. Theory articles: "Going North from Santa Fe", "Bali Creativity", "Old Man Hands", "Roof Ball", "Commentary in December", "Sun River", "Leaving Through DIA", "Pawn Takes Pawn", "Elements of Surprise and Laughter", "Field", "Gas is Cheap"
Digital art: "Cutting Fingers," "Error 404 File Not Found," "Scratch," "Remain in the View," "The Orchestra is in the Pits," "National Poetry Month," "Untitled Means Exactly What It Means," "Woman in Thorns," "Royalty Discussing Just Desserts," "Truth Clarity Power Immortality"
Links: Tim's Website