Category: blathers

disambiguating Bush

how does a slap in the face
bring US to our knees Bush?
“They kill without mercy?”
as opposed to US killing with mercy?
we are all veterans of Vietnam
who know why no draft…
military enlistees are required
to take a vow making it a crime
to speak out against US government
I’m begging you please Mr. Bush
stop dragging our sons and daughters
in front of the camera
aping bald face lies.
We all wear psychic goggles, now
no smoke gets in our eyes.
We have eyes to see what the good Lord
asked us to see:
we are NOT good neighbors, Sam I am,
so pass the bread and kill the ammunition
there IS more than one civilization here
and loggerheads is no way out…

The Day Before After Pill

she was a fake and he found out
now she lives in the nightmare of her dreams
nightmares of always lost
she buys a ticket to Washington, D.C
but “they” fly her to Norfolk, West Virginia
nor folk or foe only the endless halls
and elevators and mindless masses passing
she realizes “they” have tricked her, and,
more important, it’s a rerun
her hands cover her face in deepest desolation but
there’s always one angel this one
a female, a frump, dishwater blond, a middle aged,
touching her right shoulder
she awakens in disgust
of dream robbers.
8 a.m. Moonday morning in Tokyo
five years is a very long time
Pentagon’s birthday: 11 September 1941
Pentagon’s grutting: 11 September 2001
60 years and now plus five
old enough to retire old enough to crack
doublespeak:
Iraqis killilled Iranians
we will kill Iraqis and then Iranians
when you come into my garden enter as a fool might
a child of wonder child of awe
child of everlasting curiosity
religiosity – check at the door
we all have tales to sleep and
we all have tales to weep and
now is a good time to be Mr.
Rogers’ good neighbor Sam.

we are Safer be very Afraid

the UN should be eliminated
Saddam didn’t follow UN sanctions
Israel is not required to follow UN sanctions
Saddam killed 1,000’s of Iranians
Bush wants to attack Iran his
killing of Iranians will be collateral damage

CNN.com’s No Brainer Quick Vote Today:
Do you agree with research that men
are more likely than women to support wars?
(but did prove 12% of voters were brain dead)

Pat Buchanan: “George Bush can be given credit
for no more terrorist attacks on America.”
Will Pat Buchanan also give George Bush credit
when/if terrorists attack America again?

ABC’s Fictional 9/11

CNN.com Quick Vote Question of the day:

” Should filmmakers use fictionalized scenes
to dramatize the events leading up
to the September 11 attacks?”

One answer is obvious.
The events following the September ll attacks
lead to a war based on fiction.

Scene I: “Daddy why do they hate us?”

Scene II: Warhawks screech “They hate our freedom!
They are jealous.”

Scene III: Osama keeps repeating
“Palestine Palestine Palestine”
“Saudi soil Saudi soil Saudi soil”

Intermission

Scene I: “Mommy why do all the people doing evil
call others evil?”

Scene II: “It’s called ‘a hole in the looking glass’.”

Scene III: Jesus turns his chariot around, crying
“I’m not going back there, they still don’t see.
Who wants to go to their own crucifixion twice?”

Muezzin

from my ear to your ear
from whom given the right
to dominate the space of sound
can i set off firecrackers
five times a day every day
without losing my head to a lop?
or does it only din in my ears
because God has enemies:
puffed up orators in public squares
pontificating profits
for an unholy grail?
railing for centuries
warring the “infidels”

we are muezzins here us roar
in tenor too loud to ignore
brother denying brother
No Good God Would Cotton
endless bloody brotherhood
or first born sacrifices
“No passing Go, directly,
off to prison you must,
dear Abraham, dear Sarah!”

There stands two-headed minotaur
one head Bush the other Osama
one clawed foot grasping America
one clawed foot grasping Arab land
rivers running bloody red

We are in this hell-on-earth together
having done onto us
as we have done onto others
Will the real spiritual leader stand up
and remind all those “religious” ites
“Vengeance is Mine,” sayeth
the Lord. (Not yours!
Not mine! Not theirs!)

67 days and counting…

Politics of Fear

72 days and counting
expect contradiction
We are Safer,
Be Very Afraid
worked in 2000
again in 2004
3 strikes and we’re out Babe
who knows?
our financial transactions
our communications
our health concerns
who knows are private affairs now?
all Hillary’s got going is the first woman
all Frist’s got going is the rise in Power
and Money for HMO’s
“whom do you trust?”
C-SPAN asks severally today –
72 days and counting…

watching how they keep we the people
divided:
death tax VS inheritance tax
morals VS morals
(even as Christians divide themselves)
(even as Jews divide themselves)
(even as Muslims divide themselves)

all the world is watching
who will rethink our foreign policy?
who will remember Les Miserables
seeing half the world starving
what is a poor boy to do?

“Pull self up by boot straps” to those
who have not boots does not compute!

Who stepped on the crack,
who’s breaking Mother’s back?

Opinion Prison Blues

War of Words
better than
War of Worlds
Civilizations
“Too serious
to be laughed at”
probably
“too dangerous to be.”

Imagine
becoming
the best of both

Opinions turned to stone
is where the stoning began
flip-flopping the only road
to awakening of consciousness.

Got consciousness?
Get more!
Consciousness is a process
not an end-all
until the end.

Want End? Why?
What is so set in stone that
death is preferred over a flip-flop
of a cherished opinion?

How is even a life time of an opinion
more precious than life
with one precious moment of truth?

“Barter” pens poet Sara Teasdale,

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.

Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit’s still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.

Martin Peretz quotes Supporting John Bolton

“When I was a child, liberal Democrats saw the filibuster
as antidemocratic and reactionary.”

(When I was a child, Americans learned the high value of a
filibuster from the movie “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”)

“But the fact is that Moynihan and Bolton were cut
from the same cloth….”

(But Bolton is no Moynihan – Moynihan warned us of the impact
government secrecy while Bolton was up to his eyeballs in
the Iran/Contra secret weapons/drug deals….59 former
American diplomats sent Lugar a letter…saying that Bolton
had “an ‘exceptional record’ of opposing U.S. efforts to improve
national security through arms control.”)

“When there is a crisis, the U.N. apparatus is mobilized to pass a
resolution….almost the be-all and end-all of the United Nations.”

(But when it comes to U.N. resolutions Bolton and Peretz pick and
choose WHICH resolutions they want enforced – none when it comes
to sanctions against Israel…for starters).

“Alas, Bolton was one of James Baker’s gang who went to Florida to
snatch the state’s electoral votes from Al Gore. I personally resent
those who engaged in that venture.”

(But Peretz does not vomit over the number of tortured and killed
during Reagan’s secret support for the Sandinistas…and exactly
why he is opposed today.)

Max Boot quotes from the “Jewish World Review” today:

“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “must go.”…along with
calls to convene a commission of inquiry to investigate
why Israel did not have more success in stopping the
rain of terrorist rockets.”

(Do the math. Hezabollah rained down 4,000 rockets
and killed fewer people than Israel’s ‘surgical strikes’.
If one side kills 100 people and the other side kills 1,000
people who is the biggest terrorist of all?)

“…a catalog of defects that analysts attribute to…Olmert…
Tzipi Livni…Peretz…are national security neophytes.”

(Not to mention the IDF not knowing about Katyusha rockets
or getting intelligence wrong regarding Iraq. And the US
touting Israeli Intelligence as the best in the world.)

“The air force….In their attempts to knock out Katyushas
fired from residential areas, the fliers wound up inflicting
substantial civilian casualties that, as Hezbollah intended,
hurt Israel in the court of international opinion.”

(What hurt Israel in the court of international opinion was
the number of mistakes the surgical strikes made and using
a sledge hammer to kill a mosquito. What saves face for Israel
in the court of international opinion was not using their
atomic weapons, nor threatening to do so.

“The offensive finally began just two days before irresistible
international pressure imposed a cease-fire, leaving Hezbollah
bloodied but unbowed.”

(And who would Max Boot have them bow to?)

“Hezbollah’s obvious toughness is being contrasted with Israel’s
supposed softness.”

(NO. We are all holding our breath that Israel will meet with the
leader of Hezabollah and the leader of Hamas with an honest
broker (not current American leaders – be they Dem or Rep).

“Hezbollah did not, however, break Israel’s will to resist.”

(Israel did not, however, break Israel’s will to occupy.)

“But few think that either the U.N. force or the ineffectual
Lebanese army would be willing and able to disarm Hezbollah
or to prevent its resupply by Syria and Iran.”

(But few think that this cease fire will prevent America
from resupplying Israel.)

“…to invade “Hezbollah land.” The soldiers were willing to close
with and kill the enemy.”

(And you call them terrorists and link them to American terrorists
and 9/11, Israel will be sanctified…without innocent blood on their
hands so to say.)

“…Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat, who blamed the
prevalence of autocracy and theocracy in the Middle East on –
who else? the West.”

(And why would we think just because Bush held hands with
the king of Saudi that he would also have his hand in a pocket?)

“Israelis, by contrast, look within for the source of their
misfortune. That allows them to correct what went wrong
and get stronger in the future.”

(Does this mean Israel will now negotiate in good faith – build
no more illegal settlements and create a cease fire in Gaza –
not to mention the quarantine?)

“This process is now underway, and Israel’s enemies would
be well advised not to underestimate that nation’s fighting
capacity…”

(No danger of that as long as Israel retains nuclear weapons.)

(Indeed, max boot…imagine that…Hezabollah can also cease firing.)

Time for a real reality.