Category Archives: War



Working Title: Scream!

The tagger and the terrorist are clones,
Spawn of the self-same primal need: Fear me!
See me! Listen! I will never lie prone
Beneath your abasing heel! Your cheery Continue reading →

Posted in Conformity, War

Applied Poetry

Zeal inflames guts and brain—gurgles, boiling—
Creates this piercing patter that arrays
Fresh agitation. Sound patterns roiling—
Image, meter, rhyme (nothing too outré). Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War

Political Discourse

We’re losing on “tough,” the handlers point out,
We’ve gotta make a move. OK, how’s this:
I’ll strike the bastards anywhere (he shouts),
Even in Pakistan; we’d be remiss Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, War

Nanking, 1937—What Really Happened?

“Rape of Nanking toll disputed,” proclaims
The headline (seventy years later). Now
What have we here? Some Japanese, defamed
(It seems) by Chinese rancor, question how Continue reading →

Posted in War

A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Nature of Happiness

Down at the beach, a friend of mine
Frowns when he reads my verse. “You’re sick,”
He says. “You need a shrink!” Sunshine,
Blue skies proclaim me heretic, Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Luck, War

Bellus Bellum

When a beaten bellicose addled drunk
Through puffed lips cries “Can’t we just get along?”
You wonder: is this pious scofflaw punk
On to something? Could be. But not for long. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War