...band names
children, recipes, guitar,
reading and travel stapled and taped together
Fight fabulously for freedom, or against terror -ism
a soldier said she missed the orange juice
please play politely impassioned parents intoned
she likes orange juice too
too long en-toured soldiers missed
too long lips un-kissed
and upon returning, families finding
mental health un-wound
impassioned freedom against terror fighters
finding mental health and care without
and pittance for pay within
the nation's notices of terror narrated
noisily, unnecessarily,
now unneeded (not unheeded) the place for speech as
“from within. Do not seek it without.”
Famous faces narrate needs for fighting
not re-counting families uniting
worrying about paying the lighting
and having orange juice
when, or if, they are coming home.
The quote is from Sakyamuni Buddha who is speaking about peace.
Written for the 2008 Weekend of Peace
