war world

get your war on
in the background
no one paying much
attention as a few
(hun-
dred)
are killed around
the world.

got the war on
my mind in the
back-
ground
listening to
the reports
here and
there
in
caves
halfway
around the
world, this
world, this
planet, the
place i find
myself in at
the moment.

parades in
america's
hometown
bigname
movie-
stars
(green,
mister
green?)

as a poet
or as a human
with both my eyes
open i see the misery
spread as if a torrent
of emotion spilled forth
across the continents
inconsequential with
-in and with-
out. as a poet and even
as a simple man trapped
in a complex existence-
as a complex sentence p
o
e
m

o,i,e,u
ai,ai,
oh...

world of war as the
laugh track stations
cause confusion with
the masses of human-
i
t
y

the war of words
part and parcel of
the global package -
so, then, in words,
kindly, timely,
listening and
sharing.