Author: Summer

“What is the exact number of US troops you are willing to see die in Iraq?”

William Boettcher and Michael Cobb,
of the Washington Post, ask in a poll
with their findings finding 500 deaths the mean number
of acceptable troop deaths. This twosome did not reveal
the highest number. They did reveal there were zeros,
but not how many.

While their methods may have been commendable
their conclusion was a lie:

“When the US military stormed into Baghdad,
public opinion was solidly behind the war.”

Shake ’em and wake ’em I say!

It was the first time in American history
of an anti-war movement BEFORE
the first bomb was dropped BEFORE
the first life was lost (theirs or ours)
AND the largest world wide anti-war protest
in human history.

Letter to Harry Reid

Please give us the democracy we and our ancestors
have fought and died for.

Please do all you can to change American foreign policy,
including Iraq, but not limited to…

We understand that power entices
and ultimate power entices ultimate.

Your voice has the tenor of a humble servant
of we the people.

May you walk your talk.
May we all walk our talk.

General Westmoreland on the Educational Channel

General Westmoreland

“It is repugnant to think of the news media
showing film of our military getting killed.”

The Iraqis had television sets and computers
that showed them what OUR news media was showing,
the Shock and Awe, and the musicality …..
And to mention also, daily doses of live killings
for the last two years and nine months.

That was more than “repugnant”!

Truthiness, That’s the Word

C-SPAN caller:

“The people that are against the war
want something for nothing…they want
the money spent on war to be spent on them.”

Begging the questions:
Who are the greatest abusers of “something for nothing”,
Ken Lay or my friend on food stamps?
(btw – why did Ken Lay have to die?)

Caller #2
married 22 years:
“The wife says choose: Rush Limbaugh or me.
I’m not going to live in a police state. I
choose Rush Limbaugh.”

You mean that Limbaugh who confessed
to being “their” watering boy?
The man who prefers “cut and run” to “retreat and regroup”?
The Rush that imports prescription drugs,
a republican made, illegal act, or
the Limb augh
addicted to prescription drugs, advocating
jail for his fellow drug abusers.

Caller #3
“No one knows how much money is spent on defense
at any given time.”
If the money was low wouldn’t they want us to know
what a bargain we get?

Einstein – “If there is a 3rd World War
the 4th will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Truthiness is just a word we needed,
created by a brave word warrior,
Stephen Colbert,
to fight word crafter spinners,
circa 1984.

And blessed be the creator, Lisa Jensen,
of a Christmas Peace Symbol Wreath.
If the world broke out Christmas morning
full of these new wreaths,
would Peace break out all over?

Iraq Special Committee

Don’t tell me it’s cherry picking time
winter is still two weeks away
and night falls hard in Iraq
in their dream time we argue fruit salads
in our dream time they seek revenge
revenge on Bush
or Calif revenge?
It’s Christmas times at the North Pole
and the ice is melting…

The Night Bush Father Cried

The Night Bush Father Cried

was it pride in Jeb or shame in George?
it was heavy the feelings were real
or was it 150,000 US troops hostages in Iraq
created by his own flesh and blood?
Hate between the Shi’ite and Sunnies is ancient
Do Protestants still hate Catholics
for selling indulgences?
If they had the power to do so
would Christians chop my head off if they could
cause I had an abortion or was gay?
The line is thin between to lop
or to wish to lop.
Be on notice Shi’ite Sunni men
when you stop abusing your women
Be on notice American men
when you stop abusing your women
ask Uncle River
“Mother Earth Bleeds”

John Bolton: Man of Steel?

Oh John Bolton was
a steel drivin’ man
but now’s he’s the latest in the line
of resignees al la Bush II

Oh John Bolton could
still be a JFK if he
becomes his larger self and writes
how he became seduced
by the ultimate seducer
Power

When steel drives flesh
be thankful if still alive
after the blowback…
hope lives there, too

The ultimate promise
in every eureka moment
is not to repeat what does not work
or causes pain to others

John Bolton won’t you please come home?

Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas

yeah momma
they do learn stuff after they leave home
some prophet for profit grabs ’em
from “Jesus loves me this I know”
they get “God hates gays”
oh papa
you shoulda let ’em boys grow up
to be cowboys home on the earth where
we play with the deer and antelope
God is Good let us share our food
lead us not into the temptation
of prophet for profit
the ultimate blasphemy.

See them frenzy Jane
down at the ol’ Baptist Church
Reverend stirs the brew
“toil and trouble, double”
Rev. Fred Phelps, Sr.
What did your daddy do to you?
Did he make you lie in fear
of his belt buckle?

This ain’t Kansas “Reverend”
this is Nathan Goodiron’s funeral
an American hero killed in Iraq
died for your free speech he did.

Ah Dick,
free speech is how we learn
who the REAL terrorists are:(

bastard sestet for the six o’clock news

even Cyclops is king among the blind
secure upon his throne within the cave
mono vision mistaken for sharp mind
weak sight accepted as sign he is brave
the king has never really been unkind
he’s taught them to gather and to save
they’re starving and weaklings are left behind
but they revel, hoard scraps of food he gave
Cyclops leaving his cave and low, dark throne
wanders the stone cold shallows all alone
dimly seeing the crows worry the bones
red breasted with blood the victims moan
all’s well Cyclops knows and grins at the sea
the blind have nobody to set them free

– Ken Peters

Honoring Father and Mother

hell Mary i miss my mother
who art in heaven these several years
who was a Victorianized wife
of a Catholicized husband
which caused both to need to die
before they could freely send love
to seven siblings
our father now is also
holy love
pouring down from above
so as below
we honor you in heaven
as our mature vision now comprehends
your great sacrifices
thru the Great Depression
now comprehending how your childhood settings
deprived you both of outwardly expressing feelings
one of your great gifts being siblings never fearing
being without home or food or fear of everlasting damnation
leading us from the greatest temptation
of power and greed
back to the Athenian Dream
again renewed by the real American Dream
that people needed no King or dictator or religious leader
that they have the capacity to rule themselves
(religious freedom is not free
if there is no quarter for freedom from religions)

When US leaders change “retreat” to “cut and run”
and deny the dictionary definition of “civil war”
in their desire to create the War of Worlds
with a War on Words they fail to understand
we all understand “1984”.

hell Mary our father
we know how we got from there to here
climate changing global warming
world starvation

FEAR

but it is not yet December
and winter is three weeks coming
your great grandson is gathering wood and we are awaiting
our first snowflakes’ arrival…