because our lives were so short
we had to imagine One more patient than we
perhaps even one reborn every year
so we celebrate the man who reenacted Osiris
“cherchez la femme” yes quite possibly Mary
of Egypt upon whom the Roman Empire
did *not* build its monotheistic monolith
& the zealots are of course always with us
the poor miserable and vicious zealots
Palm Sunday. Kosovo. NATO. Clinton
now tries to atone for Andrew Jackson?
stop Milosevic’s Trail of Tears?
(after the innocent and the ugly
here comes the *bewildered* ‘American’)
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first they asked for your Ausweis
then they took you to Auschwitz Kosovo! Kosovo!
the way the species now does what it does
is the way it has always done it
& the way the species will do what it will do
will probably be the way it is doing it now
exactly the way it has always been doing it
Kosovo! Kosovo! yes, the species: a serious underachiever
may well go on flunking Conflict Resolution 101
until the end of time
in the great continuous absolutely unstoppable
weave of sad memories medium of human existence
“a murderous dream, confetti falling
helplessly into the fissured past”
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last 2 lines quoted from a poem by Rachel Loden
Anselm Hollo
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