Cheryl-lee

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,
Set to sail and sailed the sea,
Sought she, sought she,
Deep sleep on surserant sea,

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,
Stayed from shore, sailed sea to sea,
Silent in silence, alone and alee,
So sailed and sailed,
Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-Lee,
Sought and sought a roiling sea,
A sea seeking and seeking only just she,

She, oh she
Set to stay in distant sea,
Slept she, Slept she,
Deep asleep, asea,

So sailed and sailed,
So stayed and stayed,
So sat, astill
Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,

Another Angry Protest Poem

• I

The dead of Chernobyl,
Died
For nuclear power...
Free tumors for everyone!

Geronimo,
And old Yellow-Hair,
Ask you to die
For the land....
Quite similar men, those two,

And the dead of Stalingrad
Ask you to die
For Communism ....
and for the Reich...
Working that out, though,
May not be fun

The Confederate dead want....
Well, nothing good
But being dead
Still expect it

The dead of Ireland...
Want more dead in Ireland....
So support the I.R.A!

The suicides of Iraq
Simply forgot
"No son of a bitch
Ever won a war
By dying for his country...."
Are we any smarter?

• II

Still--
None of the dead,
Mind the squan-der,
Both here,
And in far yonder
Of casualty, the currency of war!

Nor do they pay any mind
At any place or at any time
To the casualty that comes the first...

The twenty-First Century Blues

Cyber votes from George's Jeb,
But no damn jobs
On a world-wide web

I c'n Google all across the Earth,
But can't find gas
For just its worth,

And all along the cyber-way,
Each site tells my kids "just play,"
And each and every cyber-whore,
Offers 'em a little more....

Oh--
I got the twenty-first century blues.

Science Haiku

The pithiest view,
The binary essence it,
Science or Haiku?