Saturday, July 15, 2006

When Last Week's Terror Seems Like History

Jenna Orkin

When last week's terror seems like history
as with an addict who seeks newer thrill,
the mutual destruction of Israel
and Arab world replacing Kim Jong Il,
When leaders who should model saving grace
are, rather, all-consumed with saving face,
and hopes of peace grow by the day more faint,
allusions to it brushed aside as quaint,
When hurricanes swirl metaphorically,
sooner, more intensely than before,
the dollar falls as the sea level climbs
so even Murdoch longs for boring times,

In refuge from outrageous Fortune's slings,
it helps merely to contemplate true things.

5 comments:

Chris Shaw, Australia said...

Money is the best way there is
To put the greatest distance
Between our actions
And their consequences

Said the Tasmanian Premiere
As he wiped his arse with a forest.
(bleached of course,
and two-ply).

Said the skanky chimp
As he hacked the tree of life
To get the topmost fruit,
(he couldn't stand heights).

Rice Farmer said...

TV standby buttons will be outlawed
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C19509-2266159%2C00.html

Jenna Orkin said...

chris - fascinating poem. if it's by anyone but you plz let us know because there are legal issues.

thanks!!

Chris Shaw, Australia said...

Mine, all mine.... but do have some, it's free.

Love.... Chris XX

Rice Farmer said...

Pentagon and Peak Oil: A Military Literature Review
http://www.energybulletin.net/18056.html