Month: May 2011

  • Some goodbyes last awhile...

       Sunday, 22 February 2009

    Goodbye, ObL .

    A tsunami of activity is underway.
    Can't be seen.  Not discussed.
    Funding is hidden in something called a "Stimulus."
    Intelligence has been reworked, missions rabidly deployed.
    Right now nobody is missing George Bush more than some guy named Osama.
    Will it be weeks? Or months?  Moving is such a pain in the ass.
    Squeeze the women and kiss the kids...
    It's time to make one's peace with Allah.

  • Perpetuality

    How sinister the clover in this bed
    that lays in wait for me.
    Not to be laid upon but under
    now my heart no longer thunders
    in rhythmic harmonies.

    How lurid is the bird
    that sings strange funeral melodies
    in yonder leaning tree.
    With notes that float to be unheard
    as dark accompaniment to my strange destiny. 

    How morbid, too, the buzzing just above
    of this fuzzily bumbling bee.
    Seeking to make honey I’ll never taste
    now that I lay in waste
    for all eternity.

    Yet how absolutely perfect it all is.
    How darkly beautiful all things be.
    As the triumphant sacrament of life
    endures the futile sacredness of death
    to perpetuate the Great Mystery.

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