Here I am going to the center
heading again for the Common
I carry a poster from decades ago
THE KLAN OUT FRONT THE STATE HOUSE
then now inside the State House now
because it’s all corporate law now
50 years later they’re finally ready
really to militarize outer space
SPACE FORCE to the rescue STAR WARS
on steroids hurling down death from
above with Agent Orange Head-in-chief
get him a bonnet with guided missiles
on it and carry him through the street
it’s time for the carnival of bloody
fools the torturer at Central Intelligence
and the war criminal currently existing
at the White House the fire breathing
dragon occupying such a very White House.

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.