FRIDAY (6/13/08)
Posted by Mark R. Prime head-lines on Jun 22, 2008
We left the chamber feeling less the monsters that hold us, uttered the five aged and superlative men and women robes floating with them like Halloween costumes, bared faces reveal not fangs or fur, but human flesh worn through to such sparkless eyes.
Judge in Obscenity Trial Linked to Porn Web Page
In the ironic sense it speaks the unanswerable, echoes back a truth, a certainty, a rapid verdict, perhaps of a mask we all wear.
Ethiopia appeals for urgent aid
This is my arid landscape, my famished-brown world; tree trunks open to lavish homes, brittle branches are open arms of mothers, the many winding roots, infinite rations, and sunburned leaves, the cusp of laughter.
In Italy, Bush Calls for Tough Stand on Iran
This call…O this harsh call leaves me wanting. This call brings no hope upon the back of humankind, brings no hope upon the neck of the human race. It brings no hope, its speaker comes devoid of it.
US military release Pakistan airstrike video
The mother of invention, the father of warfare and child of heaven harden the wings of all they touch like an unappreciated king.
Have You Heard (9/11)
Posted by Mark R. Prime 911 poetry on Jun 12, 2008
Have you heard? A country's taking the wrong drug, slipping the noose round death, fitting shores in electric wire, defending human rights in jest.
Have you heard? Ground Zero to open in 2009.
The country's ingesting Pantethol, five thousand milligrams in all. Skipping out on the Pavulon dose, straight to Potassium Chloride.
Have you heard? Ground Zero to open in 2009.
A country in this slaughtered age- O! Can you hear the failing noise; bombs and guns; depleting disgrace, chambers filled with a dying face.
Have you heard? Ground Zero to open in 2009.
We longed for more. We yearned. A lighted path, an eternal flame hovering there on golden wing instead, two-way mirror our malign.
Have you heard? Ground Zero to open in 2009.
A country's taking the wrong drug, slipping noose of bloody election, fitting in shackles of mined metal, and governing the self-injection.
Have you heard? Ground Zero to open in 2009.
Have you heard?
TUESDAY (6/10/08)
Posted by Mark R. Prime head-lines on Jun 10, 2008
Republicans Block Taxes on Big Oil
Now the orators leave their darkened palace the penniless people are silent, without fire. Heads now battered as cakes… quenched. Everything’s been taken. Nothing left of desire save for a final lunge… and then another.
US net firms to block child porn
The young poured over us like honey, dripping down onto the virtual floor, fingers clicking their sticky breathe- scanned, quarantined, deleted.
Suspected US missile fired in NW Pakistan
Loud upon the sparkle-backed sky the empire’s arrow flies, radiant and cautionary, raging symphony…
China Drains Lake Into Ruined Town
Quiet now. Hush. Listen. An angel’s wing caught in a cloud, tearing at her soft breast. No. What you hear is teeth gnawing flesh.
MONDAY (6/02/08)
Posted by Mark R. Prime head-lines on Jun 5, 2008
Judge orders return of sect children
Yes, a thing yet spoken, not yet language, can extinguish expectation; fill one’s throat with dewdrops of dread. Best we use it, this wordless wish, before it howls.
Danish Embassy Attack in Pakistan Kills at Least 6
Waiting by the curb, eyes wide in life… There it is. Statuesque. Resilient. Breathing. The rodent on the ground is no match for the eagle. Still, both parasitic animals, yet not the spirit which they've little control.
After Tense DNC Meeting, What Happens Next?
Damn! It certainly makes for some great television! Entertainment meant, intended to distract, deflect the truth. Holy Christ! A reality show of adulterated democracy! A game of cat and mouse leading us further from the nub.
Home from Iraq a Marine is Fatally Wounded
Rage, the world’s brute, isn’t merely for war and warring. Rage can climb out of its makeshift margins and land next to our startled feet and staggering eyes.
(Startled feet rarely run straight and staggered eyes are blind.)
Rage has superpowers, flying long after we’re home and war’s a whisper.
Kennedy Undergoing Brain Surgery for Tumor
Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Said the lion facing the knife.
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