Crazy as a loon.
“Crazy as a loon!”
They’ll say, but let them.
They have no feathers to escape with
or beak to browse with.
Loony as I,
who wouldn’t choose to fly
away from nine to five & church only on Sundays?
God.
My God.
Your God.
Polyamorous.
‘Their Gods.’
“IT,” seems to be bigger than Sunday,
Bigger than wars “IT” didn’t start-
Or care who wins them.
When’s the last time you heard of Buddha’s war?
Ghandi’s war or saw a picture of Jesus with a rocket launcher?
Revenge gets you nothing but licking the feet
Of those your given to hate.
Have you ever seen truly dirty feet?
I have-those in a nursing home &
This is not a wise place to end a poem.
“Crazy as a loon!”
They’ll say.
But when a Chinese girl threatens
to cut up your turtle you’ve done something wrong-
likely, very wrong.
In the interlude:
You can’t beat this machine
With arrows or bombs. But beaten with ideas
above money, bones, blood & cheap fuel-
such simplicity shouldn’t keep us from a new flag.
And I have digressed-
“Crazy as a loon!”
They’ll say. But let them.
They have no feathers to escape with.
Only wings & bombs to train with.
Poe. Bach. Debussy.
They had it right…
Sing…sing…sing…
Make God’s voice another man’s tragedy.
Justin Kirby, Copyright 2011.
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Soma Mukherjee
March 14, 2012
oh loved it…the satire, the humour..excellent write up..
BTW why did you post my image in this post..
Justin Kirby
March 14, 2012
Soma-thanks for stopping by & glad you liked the poem. Well, I hope you don’t mind me using your picture/image in the post:) When I saw it…I just had to paste it! Keep up the good work.
Nikhil Jain
March 14, 2012
Truly amazing poem sir:-)
Justin Kirby
March 14, 2012
Glad you liked Nikhil. Thanks for visiting & keep up your good work:)
Nikhil Jain
March 14, 2012
Thanx sir:-)
irenelefort
March 14, 2012
Can’t pinpoint why but I like it. Maybe because I am loony myself too…
Justin Kirby
March 14, 2012
So you’re a loony too? That makes ya predisposed to like the poem:) I like the poem & but I never really wanted to share it. Glad I did. Thank you for stopping by!
irenelefort
March 14, 2012
Cafe
June 7, 2012
Heya Justin! Glad to see you’re keeping up with the poetry
Btw I just found out that my posts may not be showing up in my subscribers’ WordPress Readers if they had subscribed before I changed my domain name (which I did 3 weeks ago). So I am now having to send this message to every subscriber before that time if they could kindly unsubscribe & resubscribe to my blog, by just unclicking and clicking on the “Following” button at the top of my page http://www.yourdailydoseblog.com
I hate to bother everyone about this, but I really value your continued readership. Thank you so much and sorry for the inconvenience!! I really appreciate it!!
- Janice
Justin Kirby
July 19, 2012
No problem Janice….thanks for the link:)