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Letter to Myself Before I went Vegan
                       
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Over the past year I have asked vegans to take a quantum leap with me. I asked them to write a letter to the person they were before they went vegan. The responses came from all over this beautiful and diverse world we share. Reading their letters I felt the full range of emotions. These are extraordinary people. People who have ignored the dominant perspective and instead invoked their own moral compass to pioneer and navigate a way through a landscape where exploitation is normalized, where despotism is acceptable as long it is some other group of beings whose rights are violated. These are individuals who have the moral courage to be voice for those we generally refuse to understand. By speaking to that part of themselves which violated others they speak to that part of our society as well.

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Check out the poetry of Colton Claye in the January 2024 issue of House of Poetry

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Check out the poems of Colton Claye in Literary Veganism
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Dem Bombs
I.
Obama's bomb's connected to
Kim Jong's bomb
Kim Jong's bomb's connected to
a center in Yongbyon
Yongbyon's connected to
uranium
the uranium goes into
Jong's big bomb
North Korea's got a beef with
the South Koreans
The North and South are connected
but the U.N. said they couldn't be one
So the North was connected to
the Soviet Union
And the South is still connected to
the pentagon
the pentagon says our bomb
is better than Jong's bomb
They say our bomb is connected to
altruism
and Jong's bomb's connected to
his egotism
so the U.S. uses food as a
weapon
while Jong threatens
Armageddon
and all the people are disconnected from
imperium

II.
Ezekial's in the valley with dem live bombs
Ezekial's in the valley with dem live bombs

 

 

 

Elephant in the room

Only man can elevate and degrade you
Putting the prod in Ganesha's hand
to push us toward truth and good
And wield it in our own to beat you with
Training you to do what's not natural to you
A lifetime confined
for our instant gratification
while we graze on cotton candy
and then become distracted by something inflatable for sale
And while in the wild,
when you're visiting the bones of your dead loved ones,
you can't call it grief that you're feeling
or loss you are experiencing,
but man can be that abstract.
And yet man can also take you from the wild,
keep you captive, pack you on a train,
sell tickets, and use you for his amusement.
Only man can film your spirits being broken when you're young
with whips & bull hooks
and then take a brush and carefully illustrate
a smiling clown to be put on a poster to advertise it all

 

Ad Libitum -Spoken Word album (2005)
Asleep in the cheese (2011)
Good News (2012)
Apocrypha Now! Collected Poetry & Prose 2002-2012 (2012)
Letter to myself before I went vegan - various authors (2017)
Three Poems - Collected Poetry & Prose 2013-2019 (2019)
Ants in the Pants (2020)
Book of Bri (2020)
Conversation Hearts (2020)
Moon Fun Shop (2020)
Sound Arguments - Spoken Word album (2020)

Latest Testament (2021)

Several Titles available for purchase

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