O CANADA
WHEN CANADA GOES IT’S ALL OVER*
For Cpl. Nathan Cirillo the Reaper looked like
Barbra Winters former Naval reservist His angel
of death She told him: Everybody loves you We’re
all trying to help you Your parents are so proud of
you But they could not stanch the blood from holes
in his chest
Who was CSIS kidding ladies & gentlemen? Leaving
those young soldiers to guard the War Memorial without
bullets in their guns The editorials everywhere say: We are
still standing The True North strong & free Except NO
it’s not
Yesterday I heard a racist slur on Yonge St. as 3 young girls
in black hijabs crossed my path some scraggly Canadian screamed:
DON’T BEHEAD ME
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*New York Times Columnist Robert Cohen
Mid Fall 2014
