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for every woman
who hasn’t knowledge of contraception
if they are in a low income level
tax payers will be paying
for the birth, for the food, for the housing, for medical costs
for possibly 18 years
if you want to stop child abuse
start with the unwanted child
then go to the abusing adult
who was the abused child
and also you have
all […]

legalizing drugs will stop black market violence
treat drug addiction with interdiction via treatment
make food crops more lucrative than poppy fields
in Afghanistan and elsewhere
Reagan’s Iran/Contra
trading guns for hostages to win an election
is known by Iranians if not so many Americans
while it won’t stop “terrorists” from hating us
it will dry up their resources for attacks
if we would […]

not in my back yard!
can’t release even the innocent ones as
they now hate us for torturing them
and now they have reason to kill us
so we have to keep them locked up
holy kamoly kow!
we create a Frankenstein
and he bears our name
STOP! in the name of God
before
we
lose
our
souls
STOP! in the name of Evolution
before
all
life
loses
may our better angels find their […]

from sunup to sundown
a new day in a great nation
the boogie men still shout
on Fox News
“What scared me most is ‘he’ didn’t say
‘Drill baby, drill’.” and or
“Hope is not a policy.”
and policy can not be a verb
like hope
nor is policy a virtue
like hope
exceptional and thru the cold
they stayed we stayed i stayed
until the parade
until the […]

NEW YEAR, 2009
by Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales
Venus in the arc of the young moon
is a boat the arms of a bay,
the sky clear to infinity
but for the trailing gossamer
of a transatlantic plane.
The old year and the old era dead,
pushed burning out to sea
bearing the bones of heroes, tyrants,
ideologues, thieves and deceivers
in a smoke […]

Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv
high rise proud believer
the devil really only
may be the temptation
but no body makes you do it
but your own
splitting hairs at night
waiting for another dawn
and another dawn there’s only a few
remaining
“We’ll stop firing if you stop firing
see we
are not occupying Gaza
only controlling it
by land, air and sea.”
sounds like a concentration came to […]

reality tv / judges shows
lack no real characters wanting
15 minutes of fame
staring as living examples
of the psychic effect of
all those children’s tortured screams
half way across the world
releasing demons otherwise humanly restrained
and there is no shame they wrote their own stories
and did what they felt like doing when they felt like it
and what is the fascination […]

salmonella peanut butter crackers
flesh burning white phosphorous
shopping spree mortal sins
post trauma stress disorders
bombing UN food storage
bombing schools
bombing hospitals
call it self hate
call it revenge
God needs a heart transplant
a bowel resection
a repentant Jew
a confessing Christian
a Muslim not seeking Virgins
America spends itself to oblivion
five days and counting down
hope no hope hope no hope
is Spring eternal?

what tell and pray
is a
“proportional response”?
and why is it not enough
for those who profess faith
in the biblical edict
“an eye for an eye”
funny how the Jews never
“got it” and Christians
who profess faith
in the biblical edict
“turn the other cheek”
insist on an eye for an eye
demanding the death penalty
for murder.
All praise the 10,000 Jews
living in Israel
holding a protest […]

“Rockets intended to kill the maximum people possible,
falling indiscriminately on Israel.”
As opposed to Israel smart bombs intended to kill
only Hamas militants but killing instead
UN workers, doctors, children, women.
60 YEARS and how’s it goin’
Senator Reid, Nancy Polosi
et al political puppets
of an American Foreign Policy
that has not changed, either,
in 60 YEARS.
And what of American opinion polls?
40 - […]

Israel Barack repeats his 2000 Gaza attack
during the same lull between outgoing
Bush and incoming Clinton and
the month before Israel elections
repeat repeat with only
12 days counting down to
American President Barack
who promises change
yet to be realized…
60 long years who isn’t
queezy is vomiting
or should be
“Huge differences between
‘us’ and ‘them’,” Israel spokesperson.
ya sure.
The Palestinian Authority IS
the duly elected Hamas!
Stop […]

In this small New Mexico town’s Opinion page, twin headlines are: “Why Israel is bombing Gaza” by Ephraim Sneh and “Israel can’t find peace with bombs” by Rosa Brooks
Sneh - “Gaza became nothing less than a military base for Iran” (when the duly elected Hamas took control of Gaza from the US/Israeli backed Fatah). […]

who has the muscle and who the slingshot
what monster rips out olive trees and
bulldozes rock houses full of people
who declares
“We will never forgive you for making us kill your children!”
what Kingdom is not of this world and
who the meek and what the giant
where is Sharon who three years ago today
at age 77 fell into a […]

the equation:
100 Arabs to 1 Jew or
1 Jewish eye is equal to 100 Arab eyes
or how will you have it
who pays the doctor bills for starters
the World Tax dollars of $60 billion
to aid the suffering Palestinians
a bundle load of candles in their homes
Santa Maria
when electric goes out all over the world
will there then be silence?
no […]