CONFESSION ZERO

Despite demons, Ivins stayed at lab Once upon a time murder moved across the ground followed by his lover, opportunity, flapping her powdery jaws, this, after the twins came crashing down, and they all lived happily ever after! Bin Laden's Driver Gets Short Prison Stint Smashed together like atoms, months become but a simple turn of the wheel, a mockery of the truth beneath the foot pushing down upon the brake. China accuses Bush of meddling All this solemnity, the torch, worn and sad, the unnatural stamp of feet left then to stand unhappily, the tootle of tired music long without rhythm or end. © 2008 mrp/tpm

In this, the blistering wave, what is remembered but the last, the most recent detonation of everlasting war darkening even the most well lit sphere? That which calls down its subjects to deliver sermons on the back of the sun for a people that believe in faith more than themselves in the hearth of holiness that goes unchained? Anything less (or more)… A fire burns. Everything is contaminated, dirty. Terror is the cable which straps the bomb, fear, its cart. The derelict move about, carrying on, as one-eyed kings and their henchmen, whose hands are honed into razors and whose hearts strike as drums echoing low the streets, chop the wooden throats of the guilty trees. In this sphere hope shrinks of its throbbing bravery. “This is no way to live!” explodes the seers. “This is pure folly bathing in impure madness!” But not to any invisible deity or dream merchant, like children holding hands praying to escape the cynical hands of their fathers, the gods of youth safely hold them. The ...

As Oil Firms Seek Drilling Access, Exports Set Record The gush begins to throttle the boot-scratched soil, dark hour, the needle points upon his arm, half meth, half liquid gold. Stumbling, stinking, orgasmic in his reach he pushes for his pleasures profit- drill drill drill! Missing Soldiers Found Beneath a pocked sky of stars the soldier’s bodies lay, flat, twisted like her dreams. Nothing much left of their smiling, her grimace, two spent shells where the dew left its traces of the twin rivers. At last, with dull cadence they fly. Iraq War Effects Missing from Coverage of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac When soldiers are silent, we pack their goods in sacks and mail them home. Bailed out of the raging quagmire they’re now free to move again, yet not past our eyes or able to pull the chute. Wisconsin law: Gay couples can be imprisoned, fined $10,000 The march to freedom is riddled with effort and ennui. They come to the altar carrying the eagle’s prize, not as beasts, but as people...

Truck bomb kills 7 people near Baghdad The surge is working, flew the eagle. The course is dead, soared the seven souls. O! The fetid nature of disagreement! US escalating covert operations against Iran: report Boom bam and a rat a tat tat listen for “war” inside of that a rat a tat boom boom bam! Cover thy ears, people of Iran... (America’s coming to free you) Election May Tip High Court's Judicial Scales Shroud these arbitrators in sacred vestments, cloak them in mystery, anoint with holy water and deliver this newfound land from its wickedness. Army Study Blasts Post-Invasion Efforts in Iraq The aftermath stumbles on unsteady legs. Neither the heart nor soul can end its drumming step. It doesn’t listen nor does it speak. It chooses not to live on the back of treason. Obama Supporters Take His Name as Their Own What’s in a name? Identity? Persuasion? History can inform us… if we listen. She can bring us beyond our labels "Blessing, the good” above the armor of o...

High Court Deals Setback to Bush Guantanamo Plans 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 rel...

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? © 2008 by mark prime/thepoet...

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. © 2008 mrp/tpm