Would Someone Please Raise John Lennon From the Dead

Would Someone Please Raise John Lennon From the Dead

I prefer not to pull any punches.
I prefer my steak medium rare.
I prefer the pigeon shit on a statue
and not me.
I prefer mercury in my thermometer
and not my food.
I prefer freedom over imprisonment
in the name of anything.
I prefer the straight answer,
the hot shower, the wild flower
over the perfectly manicured,
fertilized, pesticized landscape.
I prefer not to have a war
that needs to be written
about because the news shows us nothing
but images of Mel Gibson ad nauseam.
I prefer giving peace a chance.


Randolph Nesbitt

Posted over on Poets Against The War