With a head like a light bulb
And almost as bright,
Kokopeli, the trickster, gives ideas to institutions.
He can tell them anything.
He knows they'll never do anything with it,
Including, but not limited to,
Passing it on to someone else
Who might actually develop it themselves,
For the good of all humankind.

But for the prophets,
Those who go in search of the new heavens
For the reality that needs to be now,
Be assured, the New Jerusalem will kill them, too,
Long before they could show us the way,
But not before the idea can be stolen
And given away to the money changers.

-jenn