Tag Archives: war

GIMME

GIMME

world’s
falling apart

little children
getting blown
to
   smithereens

so gimme that
sweet false consciousness
that would come
with a
    SuperBowl victory

don’t let Mahomes
spoil everything
with
    an insane overtime
charge

this after Kyle left
his best laid plans
in a briefcase
in the
    locker room

this is not
   the script I want,
I need

so write me a new one
bring me that
thick syrupy delusion
that a Niners’
Vegas victory
          would bring

the world falling apart
                         bits
of little
children

how come I always get
             caught this way

how come
I’m not
         so smart
                   

AND BEYOND

AND BEYOND

happily
we are
expanding the war
extending the fighting
throughout
to whole region

taking on
every axis of resistance
axis of evil

allowing the entire
government, every
politician to
wallow in
power
play
    at battle

extend expand
the conflict

across the globe
to the edges
of ths galaxy

killing boldly
where no one
has ever killed before

for
all eternity

to infinity
and beyond

DAVID

DAVID

if you are
the David in
this great battle

why
are you slaughtering
all the poets?

if you are Solomon
with so much wisdom
to bestow upon humanity

why are you
flattening all the universities
burning the archives?

watching as
culture and history goes
                                    up
in smoke

or dancing
around the flames

INCOMPLETE

IMCOMPLETE

do not learn

we never
learn

what have we
learnt?
don’t hold back
just
   let rip

tell me
tell me!

look at me
pay careful attention
thorough scrutiny

all those years
gone to waste

sitting down

lying down

standing up

writing something
learning nothing

what in here
worth speaking?

out there
worth reading?

what
   good are books
when there are tanks
in the street?

indiscriminate slaughter
clearing a path house
to house

room
to room

every alley
every precinct

this book of horrors
as yet unwritten
as yet incomplete

one two
three               four;
             every paragraph

breaking
    every wall

VICTORY

VICTORY

You were screening
a film about your victory

when news
of your defeat, your
complete defeat came

sudden consternation
in the projection box
reels were exchanged
and that
film replaced

by one so different,
one that dealt
with the death of hubris,
end of arrogance

and a way that slowly,
painfully
        the sins and crimes

might be
confessed before humanity;
some redemption take place.

CHILD’S PLAY

CHILD’S PLAY

like a child:
but did not mean
infantile

did not mean
psychotic

did not mean
projectile vomit
all over that globe spinning
in the living room

did not mean
    you blood-painting
yourself
into a corner

all the while selling us
your  story that you
are
    responding to
Tik Tok and text message

direct
   from above

SOLITAIRE

SOLITAIRE which way is the wind blowing? empirical, metaphysical equally valid as a question so let me sit here debating whether to play solitaire or show my solidarity writing a poem must not cannot absolutely unable to face the thought that one less casuality one less maimed or broken soul if I had sat playing solitaire rather than battling with each angry bitter word trying to shape them shape of this poem