There he is again in full acting out mode
the “Art of the Deal” guy who just keeps
on trying to catch fragile eggs as he ‘dons’
two old fashioned softball catcher’s mitts

No one seems to know old age occasions
a certain fragility as they play at WWIII
aces dog-fighting for whole world to see
butts all the way up that genocidal pole

And in full defensive mode I can do what
ever I want and want no matter what it
is or what anyone thinks here we go and
once again we hear thrilling silver strains

Of the William Tell Overture whistling
thru the ruins & down the mountainside
they are bombing the ‘Houthi’s’ one more
time like an ever rolling stream the bombs

Falling again on Gaza in a mass bombing
can’t even claim it’s strategic no, not at all
now nightmare flash that so blinds us all
the brighter the bombs burst darker it is

Until there we all are together one more
time offering our breast to streak arrow
thru which we dangle thru which we then
fly over the world of such pain and walls.

 

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.