Category: poetry

Americans are more equal than others
say whaaa? stammered Jesus
who is Pat Robertson asks Hugo Chavez
beats me, responds Jesus
wowser! really!
he’s been slinging your Father’s name
as his Right Hand spokesman
but how how how
did Americans learn to precieve themselves as such? – J
they’ve been saved! by You! they declare
no I declare! i Do declare!
2000 years they’ve heard my words
blessed are the meek
I came, I saw, I wept.

She was a weekend warrior
Missouri National Guard
easy money for the over indebted
took me there too almost my son
thought to refuse to sign responsibility papers
for his then 16 year old sister
before he or i decided
i had to lam from alcoholism
more than a thousand miles
and the choice was double mute
remembering Beautiful Ohio
becoming deadly National Guard

retired i hope now my friend
easy became sand storms and killing
10 years post Kent State

my weekend warrior friend
put me in an awkward position
in the presence of a Guard member
who, when i expressed my awkwardness,
by stating “the National Guard is Kent State”
told me they changed their policy
with their oath including
to disobey any order they deem immoral

praying this is so
and all our military are sworn in
with full understanding of the Nuremberg’s Trials
and that “I was just following orders”
is no defense for an immoral act
not with God
nor with Man.

Is it not amazing the words
spoken out of Bush’s mouth
within hours CNN has a video
of the four Pruett brothers
boots on ground in Kirkuk
with a fuzzy story
of the four strolling side by side
armed and ready
three are ready
one of the three a preacher
forth a bartender says
I hope nothing happens…
amazing timing CNN.
Fox News keeps singing
ARUBA ARUBA

who’s children died before them:
(every parent’s worst nightmare)

God bless you too Gary Qualls
with a 16 year old motherless child
speaking with the tenor of controlled pain
i hear the same in Cindy Sheehan
the low number polls of America
is not against the troops it is against the Bush
do you think the pain is any more or less
than the 130,000 innocent Iraqis dead
General Frank may not do body count but someone is
one of those someones, another American,
was killed in the bombing of Falajah
remember the story of the no fly zone
north a safety zone for the Kurds
south a safety zone for the Shia
no one mentions coalition deaths numbering 287
add to the 223 in Afghanistan and to that
1,864 in Iraq equal total military deaths of 2,350
Cindy and Gary had honorable sons
they both died for their country
dishonor is not theirs in this dishonorable war
it goes right up the chain of command to the commander-in-chief
and his bunkshooters
here is the difference between the Iraq War and the Vietnam War
when Vietnam Vets came home protesters spit in their face
they too misdirected their anger and they are remorseful
when Iraqi Vets come home they are embraced and thanked
and how do US troops feel that have boots on the ground?
firstly it is illegal for them to speak out against it
secondly we know in the age of text messaging
in cyberspace messages are accessible to many
including the commanders all the way up the line
Cindy does support our troops
Donald Trump is embraced in China
“How to Become A Millionaire”
cold cash with hot blood
he who gets the richest is manufacturing arms
and selling them to both sides
future shock is here now
peace is war
love is hate
“We had to kill them to set them free.”
God will bless American
when Americans become more like Jesus
and do what he would do.
Gary and Cindy were brave like Jesus
speaking from their hearts who can not feel them?
Gary sacrifices for his remaining 16 year old son
Cindy for her aging mother

Truth will set us free.

– George W. Burning Bush

mission accomplished
Iraq long war like WW II
for WMD’s
for democracy
washing machine in spin cycle
Billy Sunday Billy Graham
heil hail ave Mary
TV glued minds
the media is the message
any way we want it
but no art in the garden
they might remember their roots
steeples on churches is as pagan as it gets
burn the books and drape the statues
from Secretary of State background
body politic believes itself clothed
populace sees only fig leaves
covering only mouths, the offending body part
imagine that
building wall around self
building wall around country
media owned by power corporations
reporting the news as we like it
in any secret government
denial plausibility is possible
gone that dirty feeling we once felt
when causing other’s pain
gone the stench of money ill obtained
the divorced female lamented
“He wanted a whore in the bed room
and a lady in the parlor.”
the divorcee female lamented
“He wanted a virgin in the bed room
and got a whore in the parlor.”
the land of the free got
whores in their parlor wide screen TV
women and children raped in the streets
in their homes, shot in their schools,
priests raping children of their congregation
smash the TV take up typing piano walking running
read and the mind dances
garden and the soul sings
life is not a cabaret but it is all there is
come out come out little conservatives to life
of course we all wish a hereafter
it’s soo cold here among the living
hell lives in an atomic bomb or nowhere
save our own mind
do not go willing into mind control
with wool covered eyes and baa baas
percentage points dropping take me to you leader.
got speech?

“Get married and stayed married to get wealthy.”

bomb me with guided missiles
need constitution by today or tomorrow
Monday the latest
“the politics of taking over a country should not surprise anyone” – Friends
narcotics of poppies negotiating point
Missouri really is like the dark side of the moon
ally with those who know the terrain
“Fox in the hen house” is a funny image for Fox to spin
Jon Stewart Jon Stewart move over
i’m a goin’ down if youse hafta
legal drug addicts want to imprison illegal drug addicts
while the legal drug addicts hafta git illegal drugs to git e’nough
and want their medical records protected because they prove doctor shopping
Limgaugh’s reluctance encourages other users
did he want Jesus to die for this sin
and the sin of calling the kettle black
the courts won’t kill BTK the Christian Friends want inmates to
it is not enough Dennis Rader is in a cage 23 hours a day
they do not want him drawing dirty pictures or writing why?
How many news hours will Fox News bring us today from Aruba
my 50th anniversary?