What once was covered up by Security
State secrecy is now barely concealed
by the corporate media that refuses to
talk about the long litany horror stories

Of babies separated from their mothers
by military garb mega-mean macho men
and toddlers pepper and tear gas sprayed
sitting next to their Dad in the family car

Or marching in their costume in the old
Halloween parade or the masked crooks
assuming the identity of masked Federal
agents kidnapping women off the streets

And we all know it is going on but judges
keep getting overruled by the Supremes
injustices overturning their orders as the
real masked agents marshall to disappear

Millions but the main-lame steam media
in a corporate collective disappears it all.

 

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.