BARRIE
My Barrie
used to jump
up on my bed
and bury bread
beneath
the bedspread
SAMARRA
While some 'prolifers'
support the illegal
war in Iraq
first an arm
then a whole dead child
was removed from
the bombed out rock.
As on trees an
appointment with birth
grows in future samaras,
death found he had
no
appointment on the
Volga's Samara
..instead he was called
to .. the Tigris' Samarra.
(samara maple seedling
Appointment in Samara:
Maugham story about a city
on the Volga)
PASSING THE WAND
The people of Pennsylvania
are record inspectors
and therefore hand the sceptre
to another from Specter.
KERRY COUNTRY
Tennessee
on the ascendant
Ohio rising
Nevada quickening
everywhere Kerry
is on the horizon
IN CAR DO NO HARM
the peace officer in
chasing the speeder
killed 6 animals
and hit a child
HIPPOCRATES HYPOCRISY
For vivisector
MD's
the oath of hippocrates
is hypocrisy
COURAGE TO BE FRANK
Hypocrisy
.. means secret criticism
.. means saying behind
someone's back
what is not said to
his face
DAWN SUNDOWN
Mars at dawn
Venus.. sundown
Alone by choice after bedrise
Together neath even's starskies
JOHN WAYNE MOVIE
They weren't digging a grave
They were trying to find
water