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No more dulce et decorum est, from embedded journalists; here to eternity blow to eternity in a sudden shadow cast. She runs and burns forever, flesh like fish hangs in strips hung to dry in a dry season. No more e pluribus unum from one nation under deism, a untied we stand hubris: fear damnation if you don't. He waits an eternity to die; his breath held before the click, like a child turning blue. No more eye illuminati from the all-seeing Republic whose gullible keep fixating on distorted facts and lies They act like stock characters, tongues hanging as if in shock, in knee-deep with the knee-jerks. No more morituri te salutant from the brainwashed conscripts who for their baccalaureate trade bullets for brains. They aim to please their leader whose nose grows long from lying to the asses he has kissed. No more amor patriae ad absurdum from teeming bourgeois masses who so dulled by creature comforts deny what all the world sees plain. · · · · · ·
Poetry on Swans Iraq on Swans Gerard Donnelly Smith, a poet and musician, teaches creative writing, literature and composition at Clark College in Vancouver WA. CERRO de la ESTRELLA (Logan Elm Press, 1992) was chosen for The Governor's Award for the Arts in Ohio, 1992. Excerpts from THE AMERICAN CORPSE (10 poems) were published in Apex of the M in 1995. He is the current director of the Columbia Writers Series, an Honorary Board Member of The Mountain Writers Series, and co-advisor of the Native American Student Council at Clark College. He has also organized readings for Poets Against the War. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this article on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting the first paragraph or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work on the Web without the expressed written authorization of Swans. This material is copyrighted, © Gerard Donnelly Smith 2003. All rights reserved. |
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