We’re at the end, indeed bitter ugly
END of the post-WWII & depression
era of U.S. super stupor power order
of endless forever war war war war
with every day this full court press
complex military industrial strength
at expense of humanity of life itself
with agent orange head driven to use
weapons of mass destruction world
of multiple genocides all traced back
easily to that good old boys network
U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. the cheerleader
chant of those addicted to addiction
everywhere with gun violence spiral
response to over the top violation(s)
of basic human rights a system shut
to the people an open violent field of
power play for corporate greed feed
& entities international class forces
ruling elite impunity metastasizing &
become an orgy of privatized sadism
masquerading as a humane policies
so we have to invent a strange word
to describe an invention of supposed
aide organization that instead maims
starves & kills innocent victim babes
               PERFIDY

 

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.