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October 14, 2015
Bombs of love
By Gary Lindorff
poet-pacifist weighs in on the so-called intelligence behind the bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan
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Let us bomb your neighborhood
Guided by our intelligence.
Let us erase your neighbor
Out of love.
Not you, not your children.
Bombs of love!
You should be grateful
After the dust clears
After the evil has been exploded,
After the crater
Has been filled and paved;
We will explode our way into your hearts.
We might miss our intended target. . .
Our missiles of love are no more accurate
Than our missiles of hate.
No one is perfect.
We will say "We're sorry."
And other words.
There is nothing to be gained
By challenging why we obliterate.
We have plans for your future.
We will make sure
That evil doesn't return.
Our bombs are well-intended, moral bombs.
Bombs of democracy,
Anti-septic bombs of change,
Bombs of a new order for you,
Of superior judgment
And love.
Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.
He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.