go back to those two Greek philosophers,
the one, who wept at the follies of mankind,
the other, who laughed at those same follies…
In order to justify the invasion of Iraq
in 2003, on the other grounds to ‘regime change’,
i.e. that Iraq had ‘wep-ma-struc’ in Bush-speak,
the federal government has made public
48,000 boxes of papers captured from Iraq.
These include instructions on how
to make an atomic bomb.
as if air had just been invented,carrying scents, andtaste, and touch, and sparkling clarity –it could even be singing to my contented listening;cool air, waiting to be warmed by the sun;at this magic hour, it matters not whethercountryside or town;and I’m suddenly, unexpectedlyfilled with the nobility of life –and simulteously, or perhaps just after it,humility…and…
into red lips drippingthe hairdresser takes my pleasantries,chops them with a cruel hand,throws them back in pieces in my facesnip snip into blond hair, brown hair, black, grey, white,what heroic restraint, condemnedto a lifetime’s cutting, and notto plunge the scissors into a spinal cord…this little girl who cut her finger withher mother’s scissors perhapsto try…
and heard a forest sigh in painin Amazon’s deep land.
I watched from the pub windowas a van from a high-class Consultant onspatial and temporal problemsit impliedin one of those pretentious titlesof enterprising thirtyish freelance entrepreneursgunning for a profitable big corporation buy-out I guesspulled up and parked in the very placeand for the very timeguaranteed to cause most disruptionto the desperate gotta-buy-her-sump’n traffic on the…
God within me said,‘I am in you; and you in Me;yet when I hearthe glorious sounds of singing praise,the open heart of gratitude,the words of wonder and of love,and see the shining eyes,I am the world for you;and cast My Two-nesslike the sweet Spring rain.’
S Though times changeH They don’t stay the sameS Or perhaps they seem to changeH Or seem to be differentS And we change tooH We’re not quite the sameS Though perhaps they only seem to change because we’ve changedH Perhaps we’re different and they only seem to changeS On the other hand, perhaps times do…
