In a Moment’s Time (for Philip Berrigan)
The presses might have stopped in their tracks Television might have shut down in mid-commercial The Internet might have gone off line–and The War might never have begun– If only for one moment of...
View ArticleOn the Waterfront
Heading for the Waterfront The tram stops at an empty Pioneer Square Rally point for supporting the War Rain falling on wet pigeons Homeless youth head for the front It’s early–the first wave of...
View ArticleIn the Meantime
48 hours to get out of town before 3,000 satellite-guided bombs 48 hours ahead of 250,000 soldiers shocking and awing their way to Bagdhad 1.25 billion dreaming nightmares reach for reality’s tinder...
View ArticleJohn Philip Sousa
Measuring March time 600,000 feet move in place A modern armada churns at sea–and 21,000 lb. bombs explode Reality TV Testing fear at home and abroad The clocks tick slow motion The pendulums swing...
View ArticleThe Deadly Mihrab
The human belt is set to go an incredibly difficult business volunteers fused and mindfully set The smartest of bombs can not pretend to be a pregnant woman without an escape plan Spreading around the...
View ArticleRumors of War
He’s dead! He’s wounded He’s alive! He’s on a stretcher He’s in a hospital bunker He’s speaking on Iraqi television He’s a double of himself He’s not a double at all He’s prerecorded His fingers are...
View ArticleRumors of War
He’s dead! He’s wounded He’s alive! He’s on a stretcher He’s in a hospital bunker He’s speaking on Iraqi television He’s a double of himself He’s not a double at all He’s prerecorded His fingers are...
View ArticleSpringtime in Iraq
One million marched to mourn ancient death in Karbala rejoicing, chanting, dancing and slashing their bodies frenzied blood ritual homage to Mohammed’s grandson adding prayers that their “liberators”...
View ArticleBombastic Promise Keeping
The transition from dictatorship to directorship is quite a hardship according to the precedent’s promise Avowing and re-avowing to the world to hunt down enemies of the statement before they even...
View ArticleAn Illogical Reign
To decrease proliferation Tactical nuclear weapons (TNW’s) Will be researched and developed This is not MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) This is UAD (Unilaterally Assured Destruction) Tactical...
View ArticleDisarming Conundrums
While not pursuing, developing, building, manufacturing, deploying or “using” nuclear weapons to make this a safer world Iran has vowed to continue its nuclear program developing reactors said to...
View ArticleStepping into Some Deep DARPA
Total Information Awareness (TIA)–now Terrorist Information Awareness (TIA) is a Defense Department program with built-in mechanisms allowing surveillance to develop ontology-based (sub)systems that...
View ArticleBanking on Saddam?
Statues demolished by bulldozers portraits rendered in bullet holes U.S. rulers in Iraq print interim dinars bearing the purple-and-yellow plundered face of Saddam Hussein Fearing counterfeit Saddams...
View ArticleThen and Now
Then we had a beatitude & Now we have a wanna-be-attitude Then we had jazz with our rock & roll & Now we have talk radio with our road rage Then we had intellectual discoveries & Now we...
View Article(Dis) Intelligence Revisited
I. (CP –June 7th, 2003) Contra(pre)dictions become accurate and true within secret reports of distorted information exaggerating pre-war WMD threats determining what is missing from where nothing has...
View ArticleSpeculation Blues
The bulk of DARPA’s stock and trade was exposed in yesterday’s papers– but who wants them? Homeland (in)Security is a risky speculation. The terror market might fall-out, the bottom line might well...
View ArticleIt’s Incremental Watson
Words can be created aforethought as if they had always been present, yet neo-words such as “Incrementalist” seem to erase the past. For example Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is about to use...
View ArticleWhen All Was Said and Done
We believed what we believed– instead of the truth Leaders didn’t stop lying Generals didn’t stop plotting Soldiers didn’t stop killing Casualties didnt stop dying and…. all we got was what we got–...
View ArticleCelling Out the Alarm
Co-emergent radiation transports an alarm through inescapable tunneling into minds ear-locked onto a wireless technology going senile in the prime of its life, drowning society in microwaves Betting...
View ArticleCaptured in Abasement
In keeping with internal bovine lore Saddam will be contained and stymied, denying weapons of DNA disinformation might be used to extract the honey –What is your name? (Buzzz) –Ah-yee!! –Where do you...
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