This Is A Terrible Day.
This is a terrible day.
Outrageous day.
Over thirteen hundred murdered:
Women,
Men
And children
In
A gas
Attack in Syria
Whose rulers say “Not us!”
Then there’s Bradley Manning
Who leaked
Military secrets like:
“let’s get ‘em, kill ‘em all” the …
Or words to that effect.
For that
He’ll suffer thirty-five years
In a prison. Here
In Sweden he’d have got
Six months, a cell phone, and a lot
Of loving letters.
Speaking of which,
Swedish citizens are going sick;
Taking billions from the taxes
To recover (or do something)
From the new bipolarist depressions ups and downs;
Stress related illnesses that do not end in ouch.
Taxes taken
From the healthy watching TV on the couch
To pay the weakened on a couch
Without a cure in sight.
But worst is loss of life.
The Mozarts, Rembrandts, who’d have been
Now dead without a fight.
This is a terrifying day.
This Is A Terrible Day 8.22.2013
War Book; Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 