REFAAT

REFAAT

so now
they have resorted
to killing poets

because
the pen is mightier
than the sword
it is said

and they took that literally
and
    as is well known
James Bond carries
his old Q branch
speciality
of rocket-
launching pen

nothing
      more deadly

which
you know,
       we know
  
every spy agency knows this
it is something that
military intelligence
                even one
caught false flag asleep
at its post
has prepared for
extensively
trained for
exhaustively

knows
   only too well

and how can
target
    be a poet

if they are all animals?
that is the syllogism for you
to
   take to heart
the
   reactive-armour
heart they
gave you

as you plough through
guilty humanity
     steel-skinned in
your Merkava
   kampfwagen

hunting for the tunnel
will take you down to Hell

where
     poets, great poets,
will all be waiting

to raise a few things,
take issue with you

by hook
   or by crook

endeavour to persuade you
that there is
something in
this voice, about
                    this speech
that justifies itself

SPECIAL

SPECIAL

a bit exotic
nothing special

nothing we would
for its insight and presience
for how it moved us all
the whole of humanity
have to send out
in timecapsules
to every other galaxy
every other Sun

which stars and planets
never got a whiff
never got a mention
not a single image
in any of your poems
all
of your poetry

which is not what
hhe fat-brained corporate
commisar and sponsor
for your brand said

when extolling your creativity
as they launched the last
dodgy rocker with
your logo on it

from a former nuclear
missile base
the Earth no longer
habitable for
the human race