Just reacting, y’all…
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When the President says, “these pictures are not
the America I know,” I believe him in spite of
the crows that have slipped into the air above him,
that flew out of his mouth wanting
someplace cleaner to land. What America does he know,
they are thinking, circling Marion, circling Leavenworth,
Sand Creek, Vieques, Wounded Knee? What country does he know
that is free of hoods and electrodes, forced sodomy,
humiliation? That would be a great place to land,
they think, soaring out over the face of the flood.
When the President says, “These acts were perpetrated by
a few soldiers who will be prosecuted to…” , we know the rest:
the snakes drop from his lips and slide over his feet, tingling and venomous;
we’ll see small trials and big cameras
with someone bowing and scraping before them; and soon after, nothing
will happen. Somewhere a dove finds a tree
to land in, but something must have gotten there first;
there are big black feathers everywhere, shit covers the limbs,
bones in the droppings point to small violence repeated again and again;
there’s not a crow to be seen.
When the President says he knows he is right, I know he is telling
the truth. He can afford to be, in his world of crows and snakes
where no one is tortured who doesn’t deserve it, where he can shake his head
at people being people. “These are bad guys,” he says. He’s right.
War can do that: the love of country and home
makes bad guys of us all. The soldier smells Iowa in the fear-sweat of his charge
as he clips the wires onto the scrotum. The terrorist dreams of sheep and green pastures
in the light of burning towers. The crows steal the eyes from the bodies
that have been left behind. The snakes curl through ribcages and skulls. The waters are rising
higher all the time. The President is sure he’s got it right.
Dark Matter 
May 12th, 2004 at 5:42 pm
Please Guys Help Out
Please.
If you haven’t already, go to johnkerry.com
and to democrats.org.
There is an on-line petition calling for Donald
Rumsfeld’s resignation.
If you’re in Mass. we are heading up to New Hampshire
on May 15th, May 16th and May 22nd. You can sign up
for field work, phone work, e.work and anything you
can offer up.
We need your help now. Anything you can offer will be
appreciated.
May 12th, 2004 at 5:42 pm
Please Guys Help Out
Please.
If you haven’t already, go to johnkerry.com
and to democrats.org.
There is an on-line petition calling for Donald
Rumsfeld’s resignation.
If you’re in Mass. we are heading up to New Hampshire
on May 15th, May 16th and May 22nd. You can sign up
for field work, phone work, e.work and anything you
can offer up.
We need your help now. Anything you can offer will be
appreciated.
May 12th, 2004 at 5:42 pm
Please Guys Help Out
Please.
If you haven’t already, go to johnkerry.com
and to democrats.org.
There is an on-line petition calling for Donald
Rumsfeld’s resignation.
If you’re in Mass. we are heading up to New Hampshire
on May 15th, May 16th and May 22nd. You can sign up
for field work, phone work, e.work and anything you
can offer up.
We need your help now. Anything you can offer will be
appreciated.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:14 am
This just makes me so very sad too.
…utterly helpless in the current fate of our country and the world. Those Iraqi prisoners are not alone. I would trade places with them in a heartbeat. I feel naked, tied and tortured. I want a physical badge for my anger.
I know I know … lament of the surburban middle class white woman don’t mean shit.
Pulling a lever in six months isn’t going to turn back time.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:14 am
This just makes me so very sad too.
…utterly helpless in the current fate of our country and the world. Those Iraqi prisoners are not alone. I would trade places with them in a heartbeat. I feel naked, tied and tortured. I want a physical badge for my anger.
I know I know … lament of the surburban middle class white woman don’t mean shit.
Pulling a lever in six months isn’t going to turn back time.
May 11th, 2004 at 11:14 am
This just makes me so very sad too.
…utterly helpless in the current fate of our country and the world. Those Iraqi prisoners are not alone. I would trade places with them in a heartbeat. I feel naked, tied and tortured. I want a physical badge for my anger.
I know I know … lament of the surburban middle class white woman don’t mean shit.
Pulling a lever in six months isn’t going to turn back time.
May 11th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Chills.
This absolutely gave me chills. Wow.
May 11th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Chills.
This absolutely gave me chills. Wow.
May 11th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Chills.
This absolutely gave me chills. Wow.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:09 am
Thank you
Great political poem with wonderful imagery. Thank you for sharing this poem.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:09 am
Thank you
Great political poem with wonderful imagery. Thank you for sharing this poem.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:09 am
Thank you
Great political poem with wonderful imagery. Thank you for sharing this poem.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:06 am
Re: i thought about that…
perspective can change the whole dynamic of a situation. Mr. Bush has his own perspective which seems to be very different and distorted from most of the rest of the world. Unfortunately he has surrounded himself with enough people that for whatever various reasons support his delusions. Therefore his perspective tells him he is doing the right thing. It’s kind of like how if someone tells a lie often enough they begin to believe it is the truth.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:06 am
Re: i thought about that…
perspective can change the whole dynamic of a situation. Mr. Bush has his own perspective which seems to be very different and distorted from most of the rest of the world. Unfortunately he has surrounded himself with enough people that for whatever various reasons support his delusions. Therefore his perspective tells him he is doing the right thing. It’s kind of like how if someone tells a lie often enough they begin to believe it is the truth.
May 11th, 2004 at 8:06 am
Re: i thought about that…
perspective can change the whole dynamic of a situation. Mr. Bush has his own perspective which seems to be very different and distorted from most of the rest of the world. Unfortunately he has surrounded himself with enough people that for whatever various reasons support his delusions. Therefore his perspective tells him he is doing the right thing. It’s kind of like how if someone tells a lie often enough they begin to believe it is the truth.
May 11th, 2004 at 4:56 am
Thanks. Anything I can do for the gentle art of fucking with slam stereotypes, I do.
May 11th, 2004 at 4:56 am
Thanks. Anything I can do for the gentle art of fucking with slam stereotypes, I do.
May 11th, 2004 at 4:56 am
Thanks. Anything I can do for the gentle art of fucking with slam stereotypes, I do.
May 11th, 2004 at 4:03 am
Wow. A political poem with an actual cohesive image system rather than ranting. Nice work!
May 11th, 2004 at 4:03 am
Wow. A political poem with an actual cohesive image system rather than ranting. Nice work!
May 11th, 2004 at 4:03 am
Wow. A political poem with an actual cohesive image system rather than ranting. Nice work!
May 11th, 2004 at 2:27 am
i thought about that…
this is not the america that does these things…what america do you know mr. bush?
and then i remember reading late last week a description or transcript of bush’s interview on arab television asked or stated “most iraqi’s believe you are as bad as saddam hussein” and bush was visibly taken aback, completely surprised and shocked. “how could they think that? don’t they know why we are doing this?” seemed to crosss his mind.
sigh. sadness
May 11th, 2004 at 2:27 am
i thought about that…
this is not the america that does these things…what america do you know mr. bush?
and then i remember reading late last week a description or transcript of bush’s interview on arab television asked or stated “most iraqi’s believe you are as bad as saddam hussein” and bush was visibly taken aback, completely surprised and shocked. “how could they think that? don’t they know why we are doing this?” seemed to crosss his mind.
sigh. sadness
May 11th, 2004 at 2:27 am
i thought about that…
this is not the america that does these things…what america do you know mr. bush?
and then i remember reading late last week a description or transcript of bush’s interview on arab television asked or stated “most iraqi’s believe you are as bad as saddam hussein” and bush was visibly taken aback, completely surprised and shocked. “how could they think that? don’t they know why we are doing this?” seemed to crosss his mind.
sigh. sadness