we are ashamed
of the country’s actions
but have stage fright
about confronting them —
what about the old trick?
if we imagine
the entire country
naked
will that give us
dominance over
our shame about
what the country
has done?
maybe it would help
if we got naked too?
after all,
we are just as much
part of the country…
soon enough we are standing
in parking lots
and on
official steps,
naked and demanding
and soon enough caught up
in square centimeters of exposure
and which angles make nice
with the mikestand
once again
caught up in the phrase “will this
make the news?”
we’re caught up
in such inclusive
jeopardy
it would be
almost sweet
if it were not for our
naivete
if it were not
for the shameful things
which led us here
in the first place
and soured
and co-opted
the naked truth
Dark Matter 
February 22nd, 2013 at 8:08 pm
Or, we learn to live in the realities of the geopolitik and accept the terrible necessity of our countries actions and instead protest the incompetence with which the current Administration is carrying them out. Oh, wait – we had the chance to do that in November and gave it up for the right to pay for free abortions for crack hos. I forgot. 🙂
February 23rd, 2013 at 9:22 am
As you wish, buzzug. I’ll just say that I’m not looking for political debates here — if you took this from the poem, that’s fine. It’s not my view, but I’m NOT going to argue with you; the poem stands as it stands.
In the future, feel free to comment on the POEM as poem. But I’d appreciate it if you kept further editorializing off the comments.
I’m not overly fond of the phrase “crack ho,” by the way. Too often it codes out to racist behavior. I am not saying that’s your bag. I am saying I find it offensive.
March 7th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
But what is the poem if not what the poem says? What is the poem if not the comment that it engenders. Surely,t he poet editorializing the reader’s response is a worse thing than the reader editorializing the poem, which is, after all, offered to them for their response.
March 7th, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Then do what you wish. I’ll just tell you that’s not what I meant by the work, and I’m not going to discuss it with you. How’s that?