#1773 - I am angry with

 

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I am angry with

poem for the world day of mourning

KAKO-day

 

my only friend, the end

               – Jim Morrison  

 

and the Republic summons shite –

the Mausoleum’s last long fart

               – apologies to Lowell

 

 

 

I am angry with it

I am angry with us

 

even at this distance, angry

with the failure to resist

the failure of justice, of right

 

there’s no least corner to escape

 

CRIMINAL IN CHARGE OF WORLD’S DEADLIEST GANG

 

angry at myself to be surprised

 

at the failure of irony to deliver

 

how weak we have been to let

 

it’s really all a kind of display

the eagles and the stars

the golf course

gleaming tower

 

and taunt the wrong?

what good?

 

try reason

see how far it gets

 

angry with ideas

 

to make a world safe for what?

 

foolskin

shared values?

no thanks

 

I am angry with what it is

what it shows

 

angry at all our pretending till now

(but that’s another poem)

 

it’s history where the wrong often win

 

I am angry for the Earth

for Science

yes for Truth

 

what can a poet – can an artist – do?

 

carry a torch to the top of the hill?

watch the world burn?

maybe join in?

 

very few of them can know what they’ve done

they must not be forgiven

 

this is the end of the gift they never deserved

they couldn’t understand

the ancestral blood shed for naught now

 

I am angry with it

with them

no better than the money made

the money lost

 

bare what teeth

grit

 

 

this morning

I was a long time getting the frog out of the kitchen

towards the safety of the no one pond, the bog, the swamp

we succeeded!

 

I am wearing my socks with the stars and koalas

I am setting off fresh again

 

woke up in the night with this

 

and frogs don’t boil by the way

frogs jump out of the water in time