HISTORY: REAL (REVISED)

“The Framers didn’t use rolling papers.

The Constitution was real paper!.”

Chauvinistic twaddle sinks quickly

into the sensationalistic minds

of a susceptible high-school class

eager to see real American History.

The history teacher’s on furlough,

so a Tea Party re-enactor plays

Benj. Franklin in period costume,

carrying a 6’ Revolutionary Rifle:.

“Revolutionaries held their rifles

in their right hands, out of respect

for the Constitution.” Young heads

nod in approval as twaddle sinks in:

"Guns, right! In their right hands,

not their left! History’s easier

when it speaks right to us! This

is real American History! History;

books are just paper. This is real!"

(17 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA)v4

appears on The New Verse News Thurs. 23 JUN 11
www.newversenews.blogspot.com

Can I Can I

CAN I CAN I

to carolin

Can I can I tell you
how much I failed
to cherish you enough,
grieving now for all
you are to me, my
carolin, companion,
my young wife.

(16 JUN 1, Santa Clara CA)v4

IN the INtimate

Stance is the gift of the poet – Frank O’Hara

Starting a step above,

I end up

steps below,

in the intimate.

People insist they

can’t hear me as

I descend octaves.

(14 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA)v3

2008

Rooibos tea steeps in the round green carafe
as I fill 2 envelopes with my 2008 poems,
addr.to: Melissa Watterworth Batt, Curator
special collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Ctr
UCONN Libraries, Storrs CT 06269-1205
calmly archiving my recent poetic past.

(12 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA)v5

BANK ON IT

According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation. --Robert Reich


When bankers wail
workers should wonder
Q: What happens next?

A: When bankers wail
they communicate like
wild animals caught in

regulatory traps, crying:
“Regulate us less!” &.
“Keep the workers out
of our deep pockets!”

(8 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA )v2
on The New Verse News: Sun. 12 JUN 11 www.newversenews.blogspot.com

AHEAD

No longer wanting to lunge for the snap in everything,

I seek sustinence for me & others in the longer line,

the longer unbroken phrase. Years ahead look back.

Stroke the cat & rise to boil water for camomile tea

steeping it for an hour in the round green carafe.

(10 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA)v2

while listening to Henry Cowell: Music for Strings
(NW Chamber Orchestra, Seattle, CPO 999-222-2)

WHEN BANKERS WAIL

According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon,
the recovery has stalled because of strict banking regulation.
- Robert Reich

When bankers wail
workers should wonder
Q: What happens next?

A: When bankers wail
they communicate wildly,
like wild animals caught

in regulatory traps, crying:
“Regulate us less!” &.
“Keep the workers out
of our deep pockets!”

(8 JUN 11, Santa Clara CA )v2