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Today we heard that local herdsman carrying bows &

arrows  have formed a network to share tips on where

the girls  might be   The area is 62,000 sq. kilometers wide

forest covered mountains  rolling savanna  & semi desert

The rains are coming  so we can only hope for caves   many

caves   Where until the girls are saved   they may stay

Huddled together  dry  learning hymns   So far the world has

only planned: the finding part  while there has been no talk of:

the rescue part    Surely the villagers  farmers  & hunters  have

a plan   With bows & arrows in hand  they will stealthily invade

Boko Haram territory  hunt the captors down  1 terrorist at a time

Like baboons  wild boars   psychopaths

In videos released this week  the hostages were shown reciting

hymns  Those interviewed said they were not mistreated   But

they will never un-see  what they have seen    un-remember

where they have been     un-scream 3000 screams

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SPRING  2014

HOORAY

HOORAY   FOR  THE     RIFF/RAFF

It was a dingy bird with a yellow crest at its

throat  Hobbled by the door of Bacchus Roti

I didn’t want to look too closely   Would it be

a doppelganger of the 3 legged dog who chased

me in the park? (right foreleg long gone)

Or would it have a mangled wing   & a mangled

song?

Here comes the roti-lady   squawking   She has a

way with birds  shrimp   goats    In a moment or 2

Parkdale becomes Eden   The man running in circles

snatches the bird  from the gnarlytree  & lights out for

the territory   ahead     O this neighbourhood  built on an

ancient riverbed  with hipsters now 20 deep   at Walnut St.

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O to be radical  young  desirable  cool!

Stanley Kunitz  1971

SPRING  2014

POCKET

A   ASS   POCKET   FULL  OF     BLUES

and a scotch full of boob   Is anyone as cool

as the old Delta crooners?  Wake up on a grey

day in your stinkin city   Problems of the world

wearied   You wonder how the young man named

Bowe  a POW for a ¼ of his life    will fare

Will the released Commandos of terror  take down

another tower?  Will Bowe take a wife?   Resume his

old life? Or has he been turned like Brody  on Homeland?

Now contemplate the 2 cousins  14 & 15  found hanging

from a mango tree  Uttar Pradesh  Wednesday   India will

further revise its gang-rape laws   There’s some strangefruit

Billie Holiday   &  a band of angels wrestling with the ropes

Why the blues were made for times like these!

Just look at the ecstasy on the Howlin man’s face

Lift you out of the mud   & blood stained trajectory  of our

21^st century   Just listen carefully   The crossroads are everywhere

Juno Beach 70 yrs. Friday    Normandy looking clean & tidy

Blood swept out to sea

How low can you swing?

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SPRING  2014

PONY

YOU  KILLED    MY  PONY

Life is a combo of :  choices  judgements  forks

catalysts   gamechangers    will    genes   history 

skeletons  repetition compulsion   an  albatross or 2

And a lover who reminds you of : Joseph Stalin

Built a Gulag just for you  with rooms full of roses

in your favourite colours    Cupboards stuffed with

curated vintage     A huge diamond or 2

And a gilded cage for your small bad heart

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SPRING  2014