Take 3
And the Pretender to the title Leader Of The World has a spiritual
outlook not far from that of the meanest, most vicious and ignorant
superstitious and xenophobic peasant of the Dark Ages (A.M. Talk Radio)
. . . and Moses is a washed up old drunk who raises a flintlock above
his head and vows "Only out of my cold, dead hands!" (Charlton Heston
at an NRA convention) . . .and a young boy proves manhood hacks the
hands off a half dozen enemies (Nyumbani Mythos-80's Rwanda-90's Next?)
. . . and Rosie chased her daughter with a revolver for making fun of
her bloomers ("funny" childhood memories--everybody else wuz laughin',
anyways) . . .and most people in this 21st Century are stumbling around
in a self-induced state of hysteria, paranoid of microbe invasion, only
wonder is there aren't more killings (me, talkin' to myself) . . .and
bedrock belief of the West has a persecution complex, heap big chip on
shoulder, founder executed as criminal and heretic, followers sought
martyrdom out of shame and guilt, believers wanna join in the deathlist,
Holy Book brimming with triple hearsay, crocks, intolerance, exhort-
ations to "spiritual warfare" calls to put on the whole armor of God,
kids get this at their parent's knees (It sez it in the Book) . . .
first story I sold this year written after wanting to kill man and
woman, afterward didn't want to hurt nobody no more, editors praised
its vividness ("Bogie Would Be Proud") . . .how much better the world
if we would write down and kill poems kill verses kill words instead.
Chris Hayden
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