WAITING ON GRANITE

Above the surf a cave waits,
listening as the world pounds on,
oblivious. 

Tens of thousands of years
preparing for a collapse 
to be set free. 

Time passing, calendar pages 
measured in the granite of eons.
love is like this.

MDurfee
2/272026

WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PTSD

 

The new poetry is at the end, keeping to the time line and all. I have long been thinking about cause and effect. Everything we have seen with our eyes, heard with our ears. How has the emergence of Post WWII society come to be this. Therefore the name of this is…if I missed something please let me know…we have seen many significant events.

WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PTSD

 

1940s

• 1945 — World War II ends
• 1947 — Cold War begins to harden
• 1948 — Truman desegregates the U.S. military
• 1949 — NATO formed

1950s

• 1950–1954 — Korean War
• 1950–1954 — McCarthyism
• 1950 — U.S. military advisors sent to Vietnam
• 1954 — Brown v. Board of Education
• 1955 — Rosa Parks; Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1955 — Emmett Till lynched
• 1957 — Little Rock Nine
• 1958---Charles Keeling measures Co2 climate change
• 1959 — First two American soldiers killed in Vietnam
• 1959 — Castro takes power in Cuba

1960s

• 1961 — Freedom Riders
• 1962 — Medgar Evers assassinated
• 1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis
• 1962 — MACV established in Vietnam
• 1963 — JFK assassinated
• 1964 — Civil Rights Act
• 1964 --- Vietnam draft begins (1973)
• 1965 — Voting Rights Act; Selma. Pettis bridge
• 1965–1968 — Vietnam escalation
• 1966--- Black Panthers emerge neighborhood service
• 1968 — MLK assassinated
• 1968---Chicago democratic convention
• 1968 — RFK assassinated
• 1969 — Apollo 11 moon landing
• 1969 — Woodstock

1970s

• 1970 — Kent State shootings
• 1972 — Watergate break‑in
• 1973 — U.S. ends combat in Vietnam
• 1974 — Nixon resigns
• 1975 — Fall of Saigon
• 1977 — New York blackout
• 1979 — Three Mile Island
• 1979 — Iran hostage crisis

1980s

• 1981 — Reagan assassination attempt
• 1981–1989 — Reagan era reshapes economy and politics
• 1983 — Beirut barracks bombing
• 1986 — Challenger disaster
• 1989 — Berlin Wall falls
• 1989 — Tiananmen Square
• 1989----GHW Bush elected

1990s

• 1991 — Gulf War

·         1992 — LA uprisings after Rodney King verdict

·         1993 --- CHANGING OF THE GUARD BILL CLINTON 1st BOOMER PRESIDENT

• 1993 — Waco siege
• 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing
• 1998 — Clinton impeachment
• 1999 — Columbine

2000s

• 2000 — Bush v. Gore
• 2001 — 9/11 attacks
• 2001–present — War in Afghanistan begins
• 2003 — Iraq War begins
• 2005 — Hurricane Katrina
• 2007–2008 — Great Recession
• 2008 — First Black U.S. president elected

2010s

• 2011 — Bin Laden killed
• 2013 — Boston Marathon bombing
• 2014 — Ferguson protests
• 2015 — Same‑sex marriage legalized nationwide
• 2016 — Major political realignment
• 2017 — #MeToo movement
• 2018 — Parkland shooting
• 2019 — COVID‑19 emerges globally

2020s

• 2020 — COVID‑19 pandemic reshapes daily life
• 2020 — Nationwide protests after George Floyd’s murder
• 2021 — Vaccine rollout
• 2021----Capitol Insurrection riot
• 2022 — Inflation spike; global supply chain crisis
• 2023 — AI enters mainstream public life
• 2024 — Intensified political polarization
• 2025----Trump 2.0
• 2025 — Ongoing climate‑driven disasters across U.S.

2026 —
50 flights to the phallus peak where Washington reigns,
Mary’s little flakes, with hoods as white as snow,
stood down and stood by while waiting
for that shipment of government camo. 

The shit is here…now.
No longer a that but a this,

regardless puss;

we trained for war when we were kids
we trained for war when we were kids
we trained for war when we were kids

 

TRANSCODED

I live my life, in caves, houses, mansions
(multiples, cuz ya,know, I can son),
highest of higher risers
and now the epitome calls
To the be alls ends alls
I am living my life digitally.
Computer literacy;
don’t need nomore printed page
or mind teasing mysteries.
This is it,  I done been outmoded:
I HAVE TRANSCODED.

MDurfee
1/28/26

ISLANDS IN THE SEA

 

 We the billions of souls on the planet,
not manipulating markets
and planning trips to St Moritz,
are the seas. Treading water,  
attempting to survive, praying
(just as taught)
to swim to some hoped for “better place.” 

There used to be a promise,
a dream of life earned, safe.
But there has always been owners
and the rest, us...
That upward dream drowned in calm seas
where our dying is still not hard to accomplish
or very notable. 

And when they own all of the carbon,
burn through all of the forests,
flood the valleys of the mountains;
they will have finally finished
establishing their islands
in high, dry and isolated
 separation from the seas. 

We, the sea, live to provide so we can survive.
Labor, entertainment, pleasure, service
until the algorithm finishes
taking our measure…
entering on the sand washed up from the sea,
they have me build a wall so they won’t see
 AI has learned is here now, replacing me.

MDurfee
1/19/2026