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.