i got a situation

[the mingo]

people got situations all over the place
tonight I got a situation
tonight I'm writing with
lee harvey oswald's gun
the stars don't shine tonight
and the moon goes for shelter
because lee harvey oswald's gun wipes out
what would have been & makes widows
of wives in less time than it takes
to say it
lee harvey oswald's gun turns pink to red
gives birth to talk & talk & talk
lee harvey oswald's gun killed every boy
in vietnam
killed bobby
killed king
made nixon president
woke up the arabians & the persians
brought a peanut farmer to the white house
followed by an actor
... and i'm not going to go the way of ginsberg's opus
word after word
page after page
because lee harvey oswald's gun
was made for hunting
and meant to kill millions
the quick way
by blowing open their skulls
so their brains escape all over the backseat
lee harvey oswald's gun gave birth
in less than five seconds
to a new world
a world that is now 48 years old
and counting
seems longer tonight
maybe because I've got a situation
and I'm writing with lee harvey oswald's gun
the one that kills us all at the opening
of the new frontier

[Arcadia]

when, the night passes so I guess also the danger... Never thought chronology in that way...

lee harvey oswald's gun gave birth
in less than five seconds
to a new world
a world that is now 48 years old
and counting

gracias for the poem, mingo!!!!!!!

[the mingo]

Thx, Veronica. Every once so often I have an idle thought that rises up and takes me with it.

[saw]

damn I was typing and it vanished.....yes what if the firing pins were all removed and secretly replaced with ink cartridges and people cared as much about A People's History of the World as they did about X-Box.....liked the journey mingo

[the mingo]

Thx, saw

[mnaz]

hell yes! puttin' out the word . . .

(and careful,the family keeps an eye on its subversives...)

[stilltrucking]

You need to print that out steve
I hope you are saving your work to your hard drive at least.

Stuff posted to the net is ephemeral.

Thank you for the poem

[stilltrucking]

I am writing this with the pen that signed a peace treaty that killed a hundred million people From Verdun to Hanoi to Baghdad

You don't need to do nothing
I just liked your poem a lot

[silent woman]

on a probably nongermane tangential unrelated personal note:

billy joe shaver is god
there aint't no god in mexico
and there ain't no way to understand
How one ex marine, 15 seconds and three shots almost made me choke the dog shit out of my mother.
not to dwell on the bad
just noticing crazy shit in passing
when I was crazy I was still afraid of being crazy.
America the land of the brave and the home of the scared sh*tless
we need more lawyers less warriors
don't tread on us or we will sue your ass off





thanks for the poetry steve
a good capture
please pardon multiple user id and replies
don't mind me I am still crazy jack son of crazy mike
I feel like I just got off the boat in America™

first generation born in the usa
I am practically a green horn
I still remember when I believed all the Evil in the world was in Germany and Japan.
an ignorant child who believed my country was always right because I was so proud to be an American. Before I surrendered my freedom to the American ruling Class.

[creativesoul]

I think that the 48 years you speak of- got stolen by a gun- the ideas of " more is better" and we know -
That we have had enough of speculation
On more or less
Same ole story
Songs and dance
Situation
Mmmmm