Last Freedom Lost

Having nothing else to lose but
the pain of having failed to
win respect or credit from
the greedy heartbreak
of Californication,
I found salvation and reward
in Death Valley’s Healing Grace,
Her thermal watershed,
where I could relax my guard
against the trauma dramas
of the heartless World,
the cold realities of elitist struggles;
and where I could remain insubordinate
to the demands of uninspired fools.
My Youth is gone,
and so is my strength to fight
rapacious pillage and eviction from
Tecopa’s Last Free Hot Springs of
my Desert Valley Home;
but I am determined to outlast the siege,
trusting that Sovereignty will prevail,
and that California Land Management
is doomed to fail.

Morgana Sage, December 1st, 2004