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Meditations in an Emergency
Chanting om takes too long when the universe is
expanding faster than a spaceship full of monkeys
on a trip to see the magic kingdom, which is New York
City baby, full of hustle and muscle to jump on the
E train at rush hour, visit Ground Zero and think
about the fifties looking for reds under the beds,
erecting fallout shelters in apartment buildings,
hoping Khrushchev won’t nuke the Big Apple
till we graduate high school, go to college, get a
job and a girl we can have fun with to take our
minds off Castro’s threats to fire Russian rockets at
Los Estados Unidos which JFK called his bluff on
and LBJ raised the ante through the Vietnam War that
Ayatollah Khomeini didn’t give a bleep about as he had
hostage fish to fry and Ronald Reagan asked why keep
US marines in a Beirut barracks blown-up by a suicide
bomber with no concern for the common man whose pain
was felt by Bill when he shelled a pharmaceutical factory
in Sudan trying to get Al-Qaeda so we wouldn’t be
bushwhacked into searching for WMDs and the war on
terror, a conflict we’ve been waging one way or another
since the founding of the republic.
© Martin H. Levinson
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