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ROSE NEED NOT DO

The rose neath dew
need not do..
Rose only need be

By her fragrance she
does
attract sweet bees.

(to B Rose and W Whitaker, pro
bono attorneys who successfully
sued a city for forcibly mowing
a lawn)

AMOR VINCIT

No amount of gunfire
can stop soul sunfire

TERMITES AND SOAPBOX

There she is again
expounding from
her termite riddled
soapbox
said JBO

Why are birds said to nest
while flies are said
to infest
What is the riddle
that termites
are said to riddle

ANTHEM OF MERCY

In a past life
pawns of the polygamous
patriarchical
petroplutocrat sheik
into silence stoned
his courtesan's shrieks

In this life
they work for
universal amnesty,
all encircling forgiveness
and
unlimited absolution

.Beyond all patriotic hymns
their anthem
like a forest bird's
is infinite mercy

((our present darma is our past karma
.. the way back is the reverse
of the way out..
May Father Mother God now end all violence
on the planet.. whether the stoning of alleged
adulterers in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan,
and United Arab Emirates, the racist death
penalty of US states such as Texas Ohio and North
Carolina, the violence of the slaughterhouse
.. of war.. of cruel thoughts and words)

MONTANA MIRROR

Morning mist rises
from the Montana mirror lake
..as the souls of cows
to God leave
.. born only to be
slaughtered and consumed

(to Howard Lyman and his wife,
changing
the definition of Montana)
http://www.madcowboy.com

GUANTANAMO BAY

The prisoners are treated as chattle
The prisoners are treated as cattle
   What a wonderful world it will be
   when neither prisoners nor
   cattle
   are treated as chattle

NO PEARLS THANK YOU

Pearls are sphered articles
.. mucus covered sand particles
'untimely ripped' from coprophagous oysters
.. themselves torn from their gentle cloisters

QUADRAPUS

What is a quadrapus?
An octopus after run over
and vacuumed up by
a suffocating fish trawler

LOVE QUENCHES FIRE

A true animal rights activist never burns buildings
because mice, spiders, and other beings can be harmed

because fire often colors outside the lines

1990 STORY OF NEW YORK ANTIHEALTH DEPARTMENT

They forced in the team of HazMat
on the theory "he has rats"
who spread malathion and other
poisons
to gloat the coffers of
chemical fat cats

SHERLOCK

Underground corpses had fewer rights
thought Sherlock
than the ferns' shy locks
or dewjewelled shamrocks

THEY DON'T PARSE PARSLEY

Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsley nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers. They plant papayas, and peppers. Their
pulpit is the popular* not the papal but poplars. * not in the sense
of ephemeral fame but what the people want.

PETER PUT DOWN YOUR SWORD

"My kingdom is not of this world.
Peter put down your sword."
Stoners put down your stones.
Thus saith Christ, Christians' Lord.
Not missiles nor bombs nor guns
but Grace and Love and God's word.
It is 'blessed peacemakers'
and not warmongers who to God
move forward.

Did Moses need an army
when God parted the Red Sea?
Did Joshua need anything
but his horn
at the battle of Jericho?
When God multiplied
lamplight oil for the Maccabees
did God need Mideast oil?
Was a fleet of trucks needed
to deliver manna from the sky?

Was DeGaulle protected by
an earthly power
when 93 shots fired
by a crack shot assassin
missed?
Surely Fidel Castro has been protected
by angels from the many soldiers and assassination plots
sent against him.

Was not the chant of millions
singing "Allah Akbar"
enough to bring down
the puppet throne?
The hunger pangs of Ramadan
fasters turn into arrows
which strike the heart of
Allah with mercy.

And the suffering of hundreds of
millions of Hindus.. mobilized
by the heart of Mahatma Gandhi..
did it not give an example to the
world in the power of
nonviolent resistance?

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