songanddancegirl

C.I.A.

KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE + THE CIA CLOSER

The horror is in the details   Take rectal feeding for

example    The CIA pureed food which they later

rectally infused into detainees    One prisoner was

thrown into a darkened cell  shackled to a wall  standing

& forgotten for 17 days

The CIA is under attack for acts of: mundane brutality +

day to day degradations  in a report released yesterday

One that is largely redacted    a.k.a. censored    Barak + other

American notables say CIA are patriots  though their methods

insult their country’s morality   High ground  slides to new lows

with these atrocities

When the good guys behave like depraved sociopaths  +the bad guys

are depraved psychopaths  it may in fact be time to re-evaluate the

thin veneer of civilization between humanity  & the animal kingdom

Senator John McCain  POW in Vietnam  tortured repeatedly  cannot as

a result raise his arms above waist-level  He said: Torture isn’t necessary

and it isn’t even helpful

Torture does not elicit co-operation  or produce accurate intelligence

Generally speaking the near dead tell their captors  what they want to

hear  or anything at all to  STOP THE TORTURE    The 2 psychologists

hired by the CIA to advise on + help run the torture program  billed the U.S.

government: $81 million

So  is this a tragedy  or a modern scourge?  Perhaps it reeks of cataclysm?

Surely a convulsion of depravity   Or is it simply the new-normal in our

21st Century?   Gird yourselves.

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Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are

almost always bad men.”

Winter 2014

GOOD

WAR   WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR

The mean streets are buzzing today

with a breed of wasp which cannot

be shooed away (reminiscent of

almost husband #2)  And the man

who would be V.P. of the free-est

country in the world believes:

Rape survivors automatically

abort their would be progeny by

some miracle of divine intervention

If this were true   how then can you

account for  the soaring birth rate

after the rape & pillage of war ?  So I

ask you Mr. Prospective V.P.   What are

you good for ?   Absolutely nothing

Say it again

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August  2012

SAY

DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO

I don’t know why I   punched

cancer girl   said my   12:45

A child so down & out that

there is some doubt   about

the presence of a conscience

I thanked her for her honesty

and encouraged her to think of

me   the next time she is angry

And like a snake charmer I gazed

into her dangerous   green eyes

I hoped that my conscience would

seep through the cracks of girlskin

Now like well worn leather from

proximity to Daddy’s sins

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April  2012

BEAR

DOES  A  BEAR?

Every cliché you have ever heard   is true

Grief is dulled by time   but then so are you

though you may still walk sprightly & sing

the odd tune   The searing will have come to

an end  especially from when  they wrenched

your bulldog away   You will become part of the

landscape   Your sighs quieter than the wind

Take the path you never saw before   and run

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August  2013

ELEVEN

11  11    11

Four WWI bombers flew low over

my house  at the 11th hr. of the 11th day

of the 11th month   The newspapers rifled

off numbers of dead in the millions  at places

like Vimy Ridge   +Juno Beach

The bombers were small   smaller than the

stealths that fly over at the Air Show   Killing

machines have grown since the Great War

These pale yellow planes flew in formation

buzzing ominously  heading to a glitzy ceremony

A repairman on the roof across the way dove

down to his hands+knees    Maybe he didn’t know

it was Remembrance Day    As Halloween decorations

blew in the breeze  & the first few Xmas lights blinked

I couldn’t help but think about the 3or4 wars +at least 2

genocides in my lifetime

Later one stray yellow bomber made it’s way to the festivities

as a giant Peregrine eyed me malevolently   The repairman now

on his belly  crawling over bloody bodies  to safety

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And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes

Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devils bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

Joni Mitchell   Woodstock  1970

November 11, 2013

SOUP

GOAT’S HEAD   SOUP

Picasso’s goat has a swollen vulva

fallen udders & a splayed buttocks

The distended belly smacks not of

fertility but of Bangladeshi bloat

Twinges of repulsion  & visions of

fornication  prick   for this stunted

little she goat   standing all alone  at the A.G.O.

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May  2012  *(this from a man who reportedly loved women)

SISSIES

*VACATIONS ARE NOT FOR     SISSIES

It is my duty to comment on mundanities

because I have just been   perhaps for too

long in the city that never sleeps   I returned

to lilac laden parks  & an unmade bed   And the

dread of another holiday growing by the minute

Please   don’t make me have so much fun

$200 dinners & a roaring surf have made my life

a purgatory    A desert so real  I will likely die of

thirst    That is  if my life doesn’t kill me  first

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May 2012   *12 days in NYC

BREAK UPS

GIRLFRIEND   BREAK-UPS   OCCUR   EVERY 3.5 SECONDS

We had past our best before date  probably

by year 3   But continued to flog the carcass

with a combination of sexual repression &

ennui    After year 8   over a plate of garlic

nan   Your middle finger flapped close to

my left eye   You dropped a 20 on the table

and left without   saying  goodbye

3 years later you called during a snowstorm

and thought that a celebratory reunion was

in order    O my long lost lovely    I seriously

wonder if you are not a borderline personality

gone berserk  at the Indian Rice Factory

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*girlfriend break ups cause 26.5 % of heart attacks in women

June  2012

OLD

THE  BEST  SOUND  COMES  FROM   OLD  ICE

There is a 100,000 yr. old iceberg in Uppsala  +a man

carving it into musical instruments   the sounds of which

might even soften the hearts of ISIS    Though they would

have to be human for this  & not Nazi re-treads on a mission

There was a time when humans venerated age   Now the young

rejoice in the simulacrum of Barbie   Doll smooth   Doll parts

Hairless +perfect    Defects banished in post-millennial Barbie’s

through surgery   All of this in service of quest  for the perfect

selfie  in what may be  an emerging selfie-economy

Dr. Sam Rizk who specializes in Rhinoplasty says: Too many selfies

indicate a self-obsession  and a certain level of insecurity that most

teenagers have  (human nose does not stop morphing until 26)  

They come in with their iPhones  & show me pictures of the nose they

desire   Sam notes a 25% increase over the past year in his Manhattan practice

Mirror Mirror on the wall show me a face my mother can’t recall    How is it

that Renée Zellweger  morphed into Kim Bassinger  with a few slices of the knife

There should be laws to protect the Renées from petrification   Now the slob beside

her feasts  What wonders is she sitting on?  Barbie catatonia  at odds with rapture

Insentient beauties  worship dead Gods   says Poet raging  naturally

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Winter  2014

ROSA

ROSA  PARKS  IS  ROLLING

Last night on tv  the mother of   Eric Garner   43

choked to death by police  for selling loosies*   spoke

eloquently: Protest calmly  Have dignity   My boy

had none   Big black man   asthma  6 cops   Use your

imagination  Father of 5  married 27 yrs.   Don’t they

give tickets in New York City?

Esaw Garner  widow  did not accept the officer’s apology

Hell no, the time for remorse was when my husband was

yelling I can’t breathe  He’s still feeding his kids  and my

husband is 6 ft. under

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*loosies – single cigarettes

Winter  2014