Misfortune
constructs Dubya’s photo ops
the Twin Towers tomb
a US carrier bringing home
soldiers
who destroyed a country
death camps in Poland
and
the graveyard of all hope
Middle East peace talks.
Always dramatic camera angles
backgrounds
and vows of godly vengeance
As extras
cheering soldiers are preferred.
Dubya didn’t come off strong
at the death camp,
seemed bored and edgy
no stooges cheering on cue
frustrated
he couldn’t find a sound bite
to blame it all
on Saddam and Osama.
Fear stalks
Coney Island’s Avenue
of forgotten fun and games.
They might get reported
for gathering before a television set.
Terrified Pakistanis living America ‘s
could be future
of total terror
deported or disappeared.
Ashcroft experimenting
with his
first they came for the Paks
utopia of you must obey
but I wasn’t a Pak
Christian Control Commission
then they came for the peaceniks
of merciless moral majorities.
A monumental project of absolute domination
conducted in broad daylight
on Brooklyn’s gossipy streets
nobody sees anything
a small item
in the NY Times
but
you can’t believe a word they write.
