In Memoriam

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In Memoriam

“Can it be in a world so full & busy, that the loss of just one

creature makes a void so wide that only the depth of eternity

can fill it up?”--Charles Dickens.

Memorial Day should always be

                       an epochal event,

but out here

in the smog, mid-maze, in full rodent frenzy,

we tend to let the shadow people,

                                          those behind

                                          or in charge          of the media

pile our mental plates with impiety,

                                          impenetrable dark bile,

racism, sexism, saber rattling, & milkbone doggy-lies,

as events & stories are presented to us without warmth;

like the twenty zealots who have camped out

                                      in a corner of the Mojave

for the past year, patiently waiting for the Messiah,

their eyes glazed,

their hopes luminous,

their efforts ludicrous;

like the stupid yet fresh debate regarding

                                       Michael Jackson’s vitilgo, that perhaps

only pedophiles suffer from it--

                                       propping open the doors of ignorance

with green-glass bottles

                                       and teletubbie back packs;

Like Kesha Rogers, a black woman, trying to lasso the Democratic

nomination for the Senate in Texas,

                                       her political platform consisting of

comparing Barack Obama to Hitler,

                                       & ObamaCare to Nazi cruelty:

like Ms. Ann Hornady of the Washington Post writing about

how the Frat-Boy Persona is depicted

                     in Hollywood movie “college allegories”,

                     where kids are all supposed to enjoy unbridled

“Sex, Fun, & Pleasure.”

& that this kind of ridiculous celluloid mindset,

                     might have influenced

                     22 year old mentally-disturbed

Elliot Rodger to embark on his deadly

                      killing spree, his vendetta

against all those “spoiled bitches & college cunts!”

Actor Seth Rogen fired back an angry Tweet:

                       “How dare you even imply that me getting

                        girls in movies caused a lunatic 

                        to go on a rampage!” 

Meanwhile, on a quiet corner of the page,

within a few rushed moments on early morning broadcasts,

          we honored this country’s Veterans,

          who have given “the full measure of devotion”,

a solemn ceremony at Arlington;

          and as I stared at VA Director Shinseki

standing at attention on the dais with President Obama,

I couldn’t help but wonder

why the hell Kate Middleton received more press

yesterday when a helicopter rotor wash

                             blew up her pretty dress

                             exposing her shapely bare butt,

then those hundreds of Veterans

                             dead or dying, 

who sit on damn waiting lists while

                             cowardly bearuacrats cover their own asses,

& the very people we were supposed to be honoring

are rotting on the VA vine

like strange fruit.

Glenn Buttkus

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