(my apologies if this not be your cup of tea)

How do persons do such things:
Beyond simple thievery and greed
beyond these daily rude one finger salutes
To the moron who cut us off in traffic
Or stepped in the precious little flower bed.

The d**n colour near same crimson rose
And collected blood of a political innocent
A some screaming child torn from parent and life
As parent them self is taken forever
For being white or black or red or yellow
Or Christian or Moslem or Jew or Hindu
Or catholic or protestant, or reform or sunni or shia
Or G-d Knows What…

I want to dance in and slide down f***ing rainbows
I want to bathe in warm scented waters for hours on end
I want to lie in the arms of an uncovered fair lovely maiden
And taste her flesh and sip light semi-sweet soft wine
Under a candlelit canopy

I want not your bitter words or hatreds or saming complaints
As certainly you neither want my same merciless ramblings and rumblings
Over and over the same same loops of words
As I can quote yours and you can quote mine…

Either one wants what another has
Or one boils differences –and the list dear Walt Whitman
Is too long to start- into hatred from mere salty indifference…

Yes I want a great deal
If not a bubbly and hugging peace
A peace of simple acceptance
Even settle for a peace of grumbling tolerance
Allowing my friends to enjoy a long happiness
Or those who would be my enemy
a slow natural death in their simmering angers…

poetpj 10252005 1451