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?”

Bush troop deaths exceed Osama’s 9/11

“The 9/11 attack killed 2,973 people, including Americans and foreign nationals but excluding the terrorists. The 9/11 death toll was calculated by CNN.

“The comparison between fatalities in the war on terror and 9/11 was drawn last month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.”

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 Peace

16 days and counting up
silent the guns of war
between Israel and Lebanon
loud the hawks of fear

Freedom Fries re-morph
into French Fries by
any other name – the same
we are all birds in the feather

Peace, like Love,
is a verb not a noun
chiseled stones do not reflect rock
ties do not reflect a soul*

got bums? throw ’em out
70 days and counting down…

* from a poem by Uncle River

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.