The American Enterprise Institute
has on a historian lecturing on & on
in this machine gun rat-a-tat-tat-tat
of the commercial republic platonic

Dictatorship of glorious ga-ga merit
enshrinement of, oh private property
originally assumed under royal guise
as the Commonwealth was and still is

The earth from which we all first come
and all eventually must return back to
such a precious vulnerable global cover
from which we rise and then sink back

Until Book TV that transitional form
an old form becoming the new content
contained in stamping plant new now
flash of electric instantaneous message

Gone mass-age we should not be so truly
surprised to find that those so politicians
so embroiled in it all now hasten to tell us
the reforms of the last great global crisis

Are the only real problem of such a long
creeping contagion of new world order.

 

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.