April 3, 2005 Literary Journalism

/

Poem 4

/

This second season Daylight Savings Hour is a New Sunday all

The World mourns the Real and Final Death of Pope John Paul II.

What is a Vigil? If Vigilantes called “the minutemen” have arrived

In Tombstone, AZ border, to hunt down immigrants by shotguns

/

Yet a wild motorcycle cop is chased via live TV, a motorcycle wanted by warrant,

somehow broke all possible endangerment codes of policies

recent numbers of deaths forced, and no one can find this policeman!

Can illegal immigrants be identified when L.A.P.D. can’t identify L.A.P.D.?

/

Poem 5

/

Virgil, Cicero or Roman Empires are not involved in sole New Social

structure of sounds and pictures as informants on Guttenberg Press.

No more words. No more language. Death by slogan. War by slogan.

Buy by slogan. Die by slogan. Death by some Key Buzz Line.

/

Liberals are Progressives, with Air America. Religious are now

merely Spiritual under penalty of thy and thou perjury on the religion.

What other words keep Orwell tossing, turning a generation

past his prediction annum? Los Angeles had 1984 Summer Olympic Games.

/

They burned all copies of “1984” the movie starring Edmund O’Brien and

remade with John Hurt playing a more pathetic and sympathetic sod.

I was with his son Brendan at his dad’s drab apartment, with a tarnished Oscar,

when the new “thought corporation” police confiscated a Last living copy.

/

Poem 6

/

Twenty-two is years later I would never give an old Mexican apology of,

“What could I do? He had a gun! So? I pulled down my pants!’

An old man Moreno now says, “You’ve got all the guns, so shoot already!”

They soon learn there is nowhere to run, Treating Me that way!

/

What can I say? When will anyone hear with ears? Never meant

To be anything but listening devices! Who will turn off all filters

for an unknown Source? Does it matter if all Human Minds will

never taste the Truth? Never eating any information that tastes bad.

/