Synchronicity again somehow contrives
to deliver a total eclipse of the red moon
the morning of the fourth day of the U.S.
and Israel ‘mowing the lawn’ with bombs
In Iran and the Secretary of State narco-
Rubio says we had to do it becuz’ Israel
was going to attack so we, us, the U.S. had
to, too, a preemptive strike to the response
The Israeli attacks most certainly would
provoke this regional war in count them
on both our hands of fingers and still need
another hand to sum up the death and the
Destruction of jet planes zooming circles
as bombers missiles and drones drone on
across the oceans across the east seas so we
see satellite images of aerial attack lunacy
Where the U.S. (that is us) provided Israel
tens of billions to kill hundreds of thousands
in Gaza over the last two and one half long,
long ugly years of genocide but cannot stop
Israel from starting a regional war as it tries
to control W. Asia from the river to the river
or the Tigris-Euphrates to the Egyptian Nile
our Israeli Amb. said, “they should take it all”.
Oh, the blood red moon mourns Iranian dead
school girls as it disappears in our own shadow.
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.