Little children in this world
That the powerful wounded are wrecking
Almost as they have nothing better to do
Than to sew chaos right to the
Natural fibers of my welcome mat!
With Greta I hiss -- How dare you!
War crimes in Ethopia? You don't even know
What a crime is! You never have.
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A different kind of climate, a climate that I hope and pray will change!
Yes, if only I can outlive my sense of outrage, at having to live in a world that glorifies war, that leaves a bitter taste in my metaphorical mouth that I must purge periodically by expressing myself through poetry. It is only a stopgap measure. This poem is a good example of how, when I need to write an anti-war poem, I never have to look far for the catalyst - a phrase, a dream fragment, a headline. I have always felt that, if it wasn't for the warmongers, those hot-bloods who are prowling the sea and sky, ensconced in their high-tech war machines, those profiteering capitalist-freaks who make money (and careers) out of selling weapons to anyone with the cash and even cash in on promoting war as high-fashion and sexy. ("I always like a man / woman in a uniform." . . . I would answer, "How do you like them dead in a uniform?" ) See? It's not healthy, this climate we live in, this climate of normalizing war and violence. What I started to say was, if it wasn't for the war-mongers, most people on the planet would probably figure out pretty quickly how to live here in relative peace. I guess that's really all I have to say. I doubt that any of this is going to change in my time remaining on earth, but I pray that I will make peace with my enraged shadow who cannot bear to live in a land with so many criminals and guilty judges walking about passing judgment on their fellow criminals and other guilty judges. Give me a break!!
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