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where have you gone, joe dimaggio?

Post author By aayoung
Post date October 4, 2014
2 Comments on where have you gone, joe dimaggio?

poetry

is the purest

form of journalism

in an age stripped
of its innocence

.

where the huddled masses

are reeling from the latest

upgraded Halliburton version

of the vietnam war

.

as children of the eighties

we wore throwback peace signs

waxed romantic for woodstock

and tie dyed everything

because we wanted in on the optimism

the blatant irreverence

we wanted a hit off their cause

.

now we have our own vietnam

and our children are craving

the eighties

laughably

a time we considered

a decade of decadence

coining the phrase greed is good

yet they view it as a simpler time

.

i suppose

that is the natural order of things

in an unnatural world

.

besides

in the eighties

we still had food

that would biodegrade

because it wasn’t

made from polymers

.

pete rose

didn’t break my town’s heart

’til 89

after having made it swell to heaven

in 84

.

don’t make direct contact with another human

don’t believe anything the government tells you is the truth

and don’t drink the water

as mr. murrow would say

ladies and gentlemen…

good night, and good luck

Tags Afghanistan, chronology, consumerism, delusions, Edward R. Murrow, Halliburton, history, innocence, integrity, Joe DiMaggio, journalism, peace, poetry, Simon & Garfunkel, societal trends, Woodstock

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redeploy

Post author By aayoung
Post date June 19, 2014
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the news man says rebels have once
again taken over parts of iraq
and all i can think of is

that blonde haired
blue eyed boy
they captured
in a convoy

the one they took video of
with guns to his head
then beheaded
before they burned his body
and strung it up in the street

that blonde haired
blue eyed boy who went to my high school
who died for a government’s lies
planting seeds of democracy

that blonde haired
blue eyed boy
who is the reason
the little community where i grew up
will never stop hanging up yellow ribbons

oh yes
mr. president
redeploy
as if we ever left
let’s make sure these wars are mistakes
that keep on giving

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