EXCLAMATIONS INTO QUERIES

From each perch
the hows and whys
will be probed
for seasons to come.

From each perch
the answers appear
obvious, uncluttered
simple.

* * *

MEN IN HOODS

Twin symbols of affluence
sprouting from earth’s bosom
revert back
and an enemy
fabricated, concocted
thrust upon the unwary.

Wise men in hoods
in establishment,
academia, institutions,
manufacturing consent
and bigger lies
chortled in unison
‘It is them! It is them!’
and yes, were careful
in not branding
all billion plus
as Al Qaeda…


…finally, the men in hoods
rubbed their hands in glee
the dissolution cloned
a perfect replacement
for the ‘red’ menace
and their adversarial system
can merrily whirl again
to manufacture,
to destroy,
to build ,
to profit.

* * *

IN IMPOVERISHED LANDS

As the exclamations dissolved
some thanked the divine
others heaved
they chanted, they danced
justice, justice, justice
in camps, in bazaars, in
lands usurped, occupied,
by their own, by outsiders
they danced, they chanted
justice, justice, justice.

* * *

BEHIND THE STATUE’S BACK
and
WHERE ALLAH IS AKBAR

Sadness, disbelief, anger, rage
followed each other in a maddening whirl.

(and in unison, they ask)

who were they
how could they
how did they
whyuswhyUSwhyus
how could they hate us so?

* * *

BLINKERED ENEMY

Who’d guess the victims,
turned successor
zio-nazis of the cauldron
would so hijack
the media opinion makers
who would now without whimper
adorn and adapt the zio-nazi blinkers
abandoning reason, justice,
relinquishing nation’s, world’s interest
embracing dictates
volunteering blinkered pens
(and keyboards)
manufacturing consent,
ever creating
enemies everywhere.

* * *

FRIENDS

Friends from across the pond
of those who dwell behind the Statue’s back
tell the emperor
he is sans clothes
they tell him
he is inane, insane
they would not
join his new assemblage
of murder and mayhem.

Alienated, intoxicated
he denies advice
of friends and foes
refuses to reason.
Cows when mad we put down
what to do with mad giants
they ask in disbelief.

* * *

SHROUDED, UNCIPHERED

The lessons of fading exclamations
bring justice, bring justice
fall on humanity’s burst ear-drums
yet again.

With excavations completed
and the lessons of holocausts past
Auschwitz, ’47, Deir Yassin,
Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, Chechnya,
Baghdad, Gujrat, RamAllah,
still shrouded, unvisited
they prepare to embark
on newer Vietnams.