So there we have it all out open view
cover-up-in-plain sight impunity so
in your face Agent Orange Head says
Epstein Files exonerate him all while
His name appears 38,000 times and
includes allegation of teen forced give
him oral sex ( shades of Monica and
Clinton & all the Arkansas tall tales
They threw at him in 1992 campaign
which became Ken Star cum-stained
dress impeachment on perjury 2000)
just one of the so many ways in which
The election of that year was stolen
culminates in Bush v. Gore Supremes
endorsing the whole scandalous mess
as now extra-judicial killings abroad
And at home and ongoing genocide in
Gaza (& Sudan & Myanmar & Indonesia
W. Papua New Guinea) and, yes, the U.S.
that is us in very middle of it all, all all
Going back many long painful decades
of coups, regime change & forever wars.
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.