The Last Threshold
I want to believe we still talk
about Peace
as if it were out there somewhere
an illumination
in more Xmas card languages
than anyone speaks
"eventually"
won't come for me to see it
Deborah writes
"we all live in a
morally ambiguous vortex"
but the rough beast is done
with his slouching
Bush is massing
his troops for the kill
our dinosaur generals are ready
they are used to the rivers
of blood
that weep from dismembered bodies
howl in the streets of Ramallah
shriek in the streets of Jerusalem
-- Shirley Kaufman
Posted over on Poets Against the War
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