Mikael Covey likes to make scathing political comments at The Cherry Orchard. He’s just finished his novel aimed at stopping the war, all wars.

 Now if someone will just publish it...

Tailgunner Joe v. the Statue

cajoled me with your spangled waving dream

but I have seen

the Negroes hanging from the midnight trees

and I have seen you

murder children in the economic wars

I can’t believe, you’d kill your children just for greed

and spacious skies so full of shit that we can’t even breathe

sometimes I feel

surrounded by the whores that you conceive

with godless books

for huddled wretches who can’t even read

I can’t believe

a land of bounty with people left behind

a statue in a harbor

with a visage that is blind

no child of mine could read those words and find them true

an uninspired lying legend

lifting for the few a light

that never shines

on reservations

where the natives have all died to make us free

sometimes

I think

they might have died for me

sacrificing rights

out on their trails of tears

I hear the wail of crying voices

while the masses still revere Tailgunner Joe

who wields our drunken sword of liberty

against a common union

of the working slavery

in factories with smoking pipes

that wage

their war upon the world

Tell the Children

I see the sacrificial pictures

posted on the screen

the little girl, I think she’s ten,

the mom and then

how do you tell your children

daddy won’t be coming home

again

and never see you,

hold you

teach you,

or your children

when they’re born

he died in war to save the oil

for Saudi’s

and the Carlyle Group

and maybe gasoline’s a penny less

a penny more

now – daddy’s dead

and no one cares

but hey – who won the car race

and did Barry hit one out?

the things we do

and don’t do

make us shamed

to be alive

when daddy’s dead

Genesis 19:28

I watched the concerned man of Georgia

agonize over Spic alien invasion

while his immigrant Korean wife

broods about their separate views

and I say to him I'm tired

of you fuck you in the ear politicos

where God made earth for you

and fuck the rest of the unchosen few

And I watched the eloquent PLO

ambassador to nowhere

assuring me solutions are as

simple as Samaritans

while Palestine gets by on less than

2 dollars a day per child

and now the funds cut off

by terror sanctimonious hypocrites

and say to them I'm tired

of you fuck you in the ear politicos

who lie and cheat and steal and

use our children as a human shield

And I know the earth is dying

yes I know the earth is dying

from Amazon to New York's

pav-ed streets

and the question is Gomorra

is there someone left to save

is there anyone among us

not deserve to die this way

Last update : 12-10-2007 18:06

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