Author: Summer

and Flossie Nightgown’s ears are smoking!
do those news moguls and political dogs
believe the masses do not understand that
if you have building 18 at Walter Reed
it implies there are at least 17 other buildings
are all the buildings as bad as #18?
how many rooms are in building #18?
how many of those rooms are look-alikes
for the one room that is screamed at us?

ask better questions the french poet proffers.

Do members of Congress or Presidents
receive medical care at Walter Reed?

Why do we not remember August 6, 2005
the day a “federal panel” voted to close down
Walter Reed Hospital?

do forgive this ol’ retired registered nurse
i’ve seen bureaucracy and peter principle first hand
but i’ve also seen nurse’s aides fighting over a dress
they both wanted for their patient that they so loved
i’m weary watching old women/men’s tongues clacking
and have felt for the poor inspectors who had to justify
their salaries by finding some lint-like “correction”
that needed to be enforced and smelled the power trip
of administrator’s memos and the nurses who never
lose their idealism in spite of personal suffering
that comes when willing to share the pain of another
and yes, some need to harden to carry on…

Maybe John Fitzgerald Kennedy did all he came to do
by leaving behind “Imagine” what the great wealth
of this nation could do for others, if only,
we changed our foreign policy.

If it takes a whole village to save one child
does it take a Whole nation to save the children
of the world?

Can these Divided States become United (whole) again?

anger faced brings fear brings guilt brings desolation
with freedom and peace residing a little deeper

anger not faced brings violence
the boiled pot that’s never watched,
never faced

divided, one half cries, where’s Reagan???
in counterpoint with it’s other half
the other half cries, where’s John Fitzgerald Kennedy!!!

Cold Wars being as they are, Proxy Wars
Big Chill being as it is, Blowback

Hot Blood our children blown to bits
Cold Blood the claim of innocent deaths being
Just Collateral Damage.

The…in the…was the…
full moon hiding or is it only
my perspective, Rachmaninoff’s Return.

We did not go to drink their oil
(we already dood that)
We could not spread democracy
(we already knew that)
We did not have an exit plan
(we do not plan to exit)

736 US military bases in 140 countries
Come on good ol’ white boys we’re almost
there…over there…(all is never enough)
all 50 states get military dollars
either military bases or weapons manufacturing
with 100 Senators who follow orders to get the $’s
that buy the votes to to insure the contracts
that keep the people’s knees locked.
Don’t need military bases? “Oh, yes,
it is our major income, can’t be closed!”
How do you test new weapons systems?
Evoke a war.

Bush’s way to negotiate with Iran
on giving up their nuclear arms program:
“We won’t negotiate about nuclear weapons
until they give up their nuclear weapons program.”

Timothy Garton Ash:
“Marx thought capitalism would have a problem
finding consumers for the goods that improving
techniques of production enable it to churn out.
Instead, it has become expert in a new branch
of manufacturing: the manufacturing of desires.
It’s that core logic of ever-expanding desires
that is unsustainable on a global scale. But
are we prepared to abandon it?

“We may be happy to insulate our lofts,
recycle our newspapers and bicycle to work,
but are we ready to settle for less so others
can have more? Am I? Are you?”

leaked report about US war plans prep:
24 hrs to Iran Shock and Awe
called “wrong, misleading, and mischievous”
by our stute would be ruler

When Swiss Miss comes calling one quarter
of a century later will you answer Arby?

Have you returned to Iran which
you politically could not then?
Are you now the age of your mother then?
And did your wish come true
before she left us if she did?

Swiss Miss did not know then
Miss America’s involvement
in your woe and Iran’s
for This and Thee she now burns
blue candles at 3 a.m.

Were she in Switzerland now
passing secret messages between
Miss America and Mr. Iran
years best Oscar song?
“Wake Up America!”

Let’s remember Iran/Contra
Illegal money to illegal Contra
let’s remember bombing Cambodia
both high crimes and treason
Instead of impeachment we get
Nixon downed by the lesser crime of Watergate
while the Reagan White House got white washed.

Let’s remember the clatter of impeachment
tax dollars spent for a lie all false lovers
are bound to do…

Now remember
all our politicians thus far refusing
impeaching Cheney and Bush.

Is this really the 25th anniversary
of the stupa building consciousness
in that lively rural community in Colorado?

It is dream time in New Mexico Arby…
I’ll trade you a million man march on Washington
and another million women all against war…
for equal rights for women in Iran.

there is Nelson Mendella and Ghandi
reminding us there is a people’s power of the purse
Ghanddi taught us non violent resistance
Nelson taught us not to hate the oppressor
and when the oppressor agrees to stop oppressing
to find compromise
when there’s peace in the heart there’s water in the soul
differences in culture or belief need not be deadly
tick tick tick tick
waiting for the tock tock tock tock
keep your titles just give us our raises
your net gain 1’000’s of % times ours
when the elected state officials
no longer serve both nation and state
must we to have another bloody civil war
it is always the poor who lose most of the blood
it is always the rich who think there blood is worth more
when there’s money in the heart there’s calcium in the soul
come on people now
let’s get together now
right
now

Does the sunshine bright on your ol’ Kentucky home
Mitch McConnell is no Davey Crockett
he, your Mitch, your Minority whip
will block our Senate
from bringing our boys home.

O Paducha little Jimmy dickens
O Kentucky blue grass
Who the horse and who the whip
and who the McConnell that runs your state?

I only know how history corrects itself
like the Golf of Tonkin, when confronted,
“I…thought they were shooting at us!”
so will your history O Kentucky
correct Mitch’s mistake?

No I guess not he’s a rich good ol’ boy
what can rural country folk do?
Today’s news:
Iraq buys $5.8 Million Mansion in Washington for Diplomats
that’s what politicians can do for themselves
be they Iraqi or American we get
political pockets lined with pork.

More today’s news from Senator McConnell:
“morass presidential election” – translated:
a soft low-lying area of land that sinks underfoot
The land is America. Who the foot
and who the Fool that keeps her there?

Oops I got the date wrong…
the proposal will be for March 8th, 2008
to Start removing our troops from Iraq
well no, it may be a mistaken date,
but who will count the bodies
of our children and their children
that fastly bleed to death
every day after March the 8th, 2007
till our troops, safely, come home
to their little brown house in Kentucky
or their adobe where
the deer and the antelope play.

TV Fox “24” makes torture sound
like the feel of masturbation ending.
Want the sound of torture break a leg
then move the broken leg without support.
The ethicist goes to sleep at night smirking
believing he has rationalized torture
because the person being tortured
has a human moral duty
to save the lives of his enemy
by betraying his friends.

What would the ethicist deem most evil
the violent death of 3,000 or
the violent death of 650,000 plus and rising?

Hear the clamor over building 18 Walter Reed
then see the size of beds in hospitals in Iraq
see they are no wider than a gurney rowed
upon row and growing lacks of medical supplies.

The lowly cockroach, whose species will survive
the deadliest nuclear attack – the “civilized”
shudder at the sight of even one,
Meanwhile back in the third world they eat them
for nourishment to the body.

A 16 year old innocent boy died 5 years ago today
in this rural New Mexico town
and thousands in their silent grief
created a wave in spirit waters
imagine the tsunami created with Shock and Awe
then lift your feet
the in breath is coming.