Lucid triptych beginning
middle and very final end
confrontation with zionist
turns into seeing red rage
as decades of deceptions
set(s) loose an apocalypse
of lying demons put on us
and the land until casual
visit to techland toy place
of manufacture produces
helicopter gunship pilots
gunship prophesy war war
gone genocide palantir tar-
get shot in White Heat, mom
look at me I’m on top of the
WORLD blown up with huge
gastank self in a madman
trance …
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.