Things Are War or Less the Same
(written May 1971, Boston and Saratoga)
may
next spring
not be
silent
majority
of housewives use Dove
so gentle to the hands
of this callous
calley
assed
the president for mercy
and the president said, “Oh, pardon me,”
and kept his peace,
for peace is a precious thing
and shouldn’t be given away lightly,
it’s just common sense
input
in-
sens-
itivity
experiment
in mob psychology,
incense
to burn
baby
burn
mother
but side-burns shall not extend below the middle of the ear
and thine eyes shall see the gory
newsreel
and unreal
reeling
in this atomic age
of unfishinable
streams
of consciousness
expanding
war
or less
the same,
moralless,
insane