by Greg Baysans
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Why 313?
Three-one-two
I no longer have
a subscription to
the newspaper and cannot
write my poems.
I am not in my right mind.¹
I get e-mail
asking me to
support the war in Iraq
by buying tee shirts,
much to my chagrin.
Grin. I can't sleep
waiting to read whatever
whoever Todd is wrote.
Forty-four and four
dollars in the bank.
To be continued, unwillingly.
Three-one-three
Seven month old
Tristen doesn't like to
go to sleep.
His left hand
hammers
his forehead
just after
his eyes are closed
but before
he's in dreamland
where
a voice sings in
monotone, "Time
to sleep.
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
Time to sleep."
I do not
envy the pregnant
these days.
Three-one-four
The rest of the
truth
of mice and ice and men and when
delay, deny, defraud,
all I can say is I hate
yelling
spin on
so elegant in its antiquity
hymn
incomplete, ignoble
to the blue.
A battle in Afghanistan?
Nobody's watching the
dying there.
Do they have tee shirts for that war, too?
Three-one-five
Silver gold, I am mute.
Newtext is a typeface.
Violently shaking the head in one's sleep
does the same. We'd have taken Baghdad sooner
using lollipops instead of bombs.²
Three-one-six
I am new to this century and do not
understand its logic. Does this mean the U.S. Supreme Court
is obligated to create the nation of Kurdistan?
I hope so. They've been my underdog of choice
for decades! They revere the memory of Hitler,
from what I know. Speaking of product tie-ins
like tee-shirts, why is it
only now as the U.S. is about to declare
victory in Iraq
that these Most Wanted Playing Cards
are being made available? I'd have supported
the war months ago if I'd only
had the playing cards!
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¹Allan Ginsberg, "America", "I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind."
²when the U.S. "liberated" Baghdad (April, 2003), 50% of the city's population was age 15 or younger.
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