What if?

Noticed a lot of the poems - some of  mine too - I read these days has activist tones. This goes out to several poets, myself included. I wonder how poetry would thrive if the spikes of suffering, of sadness had been flattened out. How many would write about the magic in an orange moon as it …

Let our country sleep

  Take this. Nationalism. Wear it like a medal around your neck. If need be, take it off and use it to strangle those anti-nationals. You can use it any other way you wish. Roll it into a ball, and gag anyone who sets loose his evil tongue against your decrees, your beliefs, your definitions. …