Category: No Time for Poetry but Exactly What Is

We Expect the Germans

To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was

We Expect the Germans

To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was

McNamara and Co./1

In his 1995 book, In Retrospect Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara [translation: former Secretary of Aggression) Made an apology to the American public For the harms brought to the country Because of his unwillingness…

You Are My Hero

“… le dur désir de durer…” –Paul Eluard “You are my Hero” Yes, that’s what I inscribed In your copy of The Book of Mev No, I am not putting you on a pedestal Proclaiming…

My Aspiration

Each & every year, as long as I live, I want to… Talk to you on your birthday Elicit your laughter when you most need it Listen to your for hours at a time Embody…

At the End of the Semester

For friends in Spirituality of Service & Social Justice classes I want us to be freer I don’t want us to be in thrall to guilt I want us to let our light shine Why…

War Isn’t Over

Dear Laura Last night I was reading Frances Fitzgerald’s Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam This afternoon I listened to a playlist I made Of songs from the Vietnam War…

Harvey Silverman’s on Edge

Perry I figured you’d understand the following— You know, I’m very sad That Dylan accepted that medal from Obama (I’ve been in a trance alternating Listening to “Masters of War” And then rereading Robert Fisk’s…