Face saving murder and destruction
is every bit as ‘unconscionable’
as the acts they deem ‘unconscionable’.


* * *


A moral high road  

cluttered with advertisements,  

propaganda crap,
phony hopes and used condoms 

is hardly a high road. 

More like a slight incline 

circling to outline 

a pit filled with mass deceptions.


* * *


 Scare us with war talk
then loosen the dogs of speculation
sitting on high, draining us dry,
then tell us again
what's right and what's wrong.

Dark River 

On a far river bank I see 

knee high boots crushing skulls. 

On the other far side I see 

strange perversions lurking, waiting

for the times to change again,

and on a dark river I go

dead center adrift, bewildered I row 

but somehow know 

the worst is still yet to come. 

Rebooting the Fear

There’s nothing like a big, scary apparition

to help justify 

a surveillance program fit for a government 

hell bent on

convincing it's people it’s for their own good.

* * *

The enemy is within
but they point over there.
The signs are clear
but they know not where.

So the best thing to do
they openly declare
is lock up all the doors
and get out of there.