mirror mirror before my face<\/p>\n
who you x-ray in my eyes
\na walking miracle walking pain
\npainted blue black and red,
\npaupers penning poems-
\nis it always somewhere 3 a.m.,
\nhalf the time, 3 p.m., and
\nalways autumn somewhere
\nwhen a poet dies?<\/p>\n
wildflowers always die in summer
\nwith mother in their mirrors
\noh where are our dear fathers
\nsons gone, every one
\nwhen will they ever learn
\nwar breeds revenge?<\/p>\n
mirror mirror of perpetual war
\nsee us here all violence begetting violence
\nvoice box by-passing human hearts
\nknowing in the gut speaking violence
\nthru the heart is life destroying<\/p>\n
bird songs in the right ear
\nTV war talk in the left<\/p>\n
eureka Gregory declares Kim Jong Il
\nis “The Mouse That Roared”
\nhow coulda we forget?
\nis it\/was it what happens
\nwhen The Fox splits countries
\nnorth from south?
\nwho coulda not known Iraq
\nwoulda become a Bush Burning Triangle
\nin the Belly Button of humankind<\/p>\n
mirror mirror on the wall of history
\nwho is the biggest Fool of all?<\/p>\n
Mirror answers,
\n“The eyes that refuse to see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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