So now it’s the 21st century version
of the old Battle of the Bulge at Kursk
the site of World War II largest tank
confrontation Eur-asian boundary plain

And I can’t believe it’s actual, actually
real life in my times it’s so, so stupid
I’ve been saying it’s the war that never
had to happen for two & one half years

But they don’t even talk about the bombs
rocket falling on the poor holy land Israel
where they assassinate that very person
they’re negotiating with for their hostages

And simultaneously kill a political leader
in Lebanon not content with firing on up
Iran by killing the negotiator there, yes,
it’s just all of us now on the edge of our

Seats watching as Netanayu that terror
artist keeps himself out of the prison he
so richly deserves by (again) engineering
his glorious heady pathway to World War III

Oh, light at the darkest hour before the dawn
is an unearthly explosion sun bright in the sky.

 

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.