Last night I listened to Marshall McLuhan way back in mid-1960’s
revelation time
of 1950’s conformity regimented lifestyle bred of depression and
global world war
That built the military industrial complex so congressional revenue
in every district
a vast national spending orgy mandating lifeblood oh, giant flood
of wartime blood
Half the world’s population under sanctions feudal siege style
of embargo blockade
of China over 15% of world’s human beings in trade war as
industrial giant created
By us, the U.S. with hundreds of billions of dollars over 3
decades and since Trump
got the trade war going oh, that is so good until the new war started
just like they
Had to have another war when they ended Afghanistan as the U.S.
was still so stuck
really in pandemic economic shambles with poor miserable
homeless encampments
Everywhere a MassCass of mass addiction fentanyl overdose everyone
carrying narcan
around that everywhere hordes of the poor besieging doorways
and cluttering halls
And never such levels of mental breakdown we will never know how
many covid hurt
brains lost it lost it because so many mentally ill are cut loose
wandering on through
Their very own deserts of delusions and so much fear everywhere of
this war regime
everywhere everything for the forever war machine it must go on and
it will go on, on
And on even as Mother Earth is burning when the last time they
burned the witches
now they’re burning the Mother Earth herself in flames and, oh, it’s
our last chance
Frittered away on the warhawks lifelong Cold War always going into
the next cold war
the more they fight the weaker we all get nothing like war to
trump everything else ….
(no Trump pun intended or needed).
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.
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