Why Bother?

Why Bother?

When something as ridiculous

And childish as the “Tea

Party” comes to prominence -

And Sarah Palen too -

Incendiary, brainless -

And once again (for years)

Israel's fighting Palestine -

It's never going to stop -

It's time to quit the planet,

And put away the news.

No longer has the human being

Anything to offer -

Not government or

Or poetry or music.

 

Just A Poem

I can remember my grandpa,

Gentle and loving and old.

He kept me alive for an hour,

But my future was already sold.

My mother, a thing without pity,

Did she know I could see that she knew

Things that outstripped my awareness?
Now she's dead. And her knowledge is through.

That she wolf did far too much planning

To bring her three children up right.

I still hear her shriek, “I will change him!”
Like a knife in the bosom of night.