[New-Poetry] WHERE (THEY ARE HERE) ARE THE WAR POETS

[Alexander Jorgensen]

On Train to Kraków

>From our dining car, a man 
in a “double-breasted leather pea coat,
wide-lapeled and espresso colored,”
stares with eyes half-closed. 

    It's in 
the tone of the voice and 
how you hold your cigarette, 
he says, smirking:
-unless your muse is the bomb!
And where bayonets locomote, 
there's only virtue.

Leaning back, he tiptoes a postcard 
to hip-pocket, removing a palm leaf 
woven into a tiny cross.

Gunpowder recedes as we depart Ostrava.-


While Thinking Dylan Thomas
Irrelevant to any argument 
of justice & universal equality, an organism
whose only propensity's 
the attempt to develop into a human life-

    ONE.

Goats (mountain 
sheep)’ll climb

wandering their way
without contempt

for their
excretions (i.e. shit)

    TWO.

Waving a glass
of MD 20/20
and cussing husband Stuart


the daughter’d
take the stranger
down a footpath.

    THREE.

This is alls
I want the planet
to be (STOP)

Like who I’m 
on the inside's 
not good enough (STOP)

“Think of England
-that’s what 
ladies do in war.”

    FOUR.

Death’s freedom
to all the spectrum of hills!



Schadenfreude
In memory of Otto Dix

If pushing limb
through an eggshell
were easier-“Weeste noch?”

not entirely
more daunting, say-
“Sehr wirklich Leben,”

thousands of
daisy cutters [1], der
Selbstermörd (1000 lb/in²),

might’ve led one
to meadows, however
miniscule, of quiet.-

But looking on
long enough, “Nach
diese Platter dort.”-

one becomes
drowsy,-feels anemic.
“Relative,” he said,

“-to naught.”
No voice. Stilleben.
And all is graceful.

[Footnote 1:  BLU-82B, nicknamed “daisy cutter,” is an extremely lethal 15,000 pound bomb originally designed to clear ground for helicopter landing areas.] 


--
Tennessee Williams: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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