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CALM POTATOES AND THE RETURN OF THE DAWN STAR
CALM POTATOES AND THE RETURN OF THE DAWN STAR
Once again this turgid world is becoming murky;
The essence of the semblance of reason is confusion.
How long must we wait for the light of the dawn star?
No one can convince us that this mud is not beautiful
Until it is mixed with the spittle of Jesus to cure our
Blindness; even then the Pharisees of confusion remain.
The same Fallujah of old reminds of us of our divisions;
The same Tyre and Babylon are rife with money changers
And burn with the black pith of anger from new conflict.
Old generals of hegemony are reborn to replant young
Souls in the dug up confusion of ancient killing fields
So that the god of this confusion becomes a mighty golem.
We are all haunted by these old ghost but summon them
To do a bidding of a new evil empire as if the lessons of
Sodom and Gemmorah were never learned in our turnings.
We are faithful companions to unfaithful stars unmindful
Of the first dawn star over Bethlehem beseeching us to
Follow the light of reason by loving and not overtaking.
Like a beaver we kick up this mud with marching feet trying
To make dens from misreason and succeeding generations of
Beavers mind never reach the Promised Land by this Moses.
Red seas continue to fill with blood of innocence as we all watch
The saddest glowers on TV calm as a couch potato while the widows
Weep. There will be no calm potatoes until the next dawn star.
