CPJournal #4

The Little Sound
Byte That Wasn't

I'm listening to
Verras Militares
(War Pigs) on CD
when Maverick
Senator John
McCain comes
on TV's town hall
meeting where the
Arizona veteran
has been asked
to name a poet
laureate or two,
and for an instant
the possibility floats
that he will flash
to eminence within
the artistic community
by saying "I don't
know but I wish
somebody had sent
me some Bukowski
books during my
5 1/2 years as a
POW in Viet Nam,"
or "I loved Robert
Pinsky's book The
Life of David where
Samuel says "This
will be the manner
of the king that shall
reign over you: He
will take your sons...
and some shall run
before his chariots..."

But McCain doesn't
bloom with this

and it seems some
shall be in Iraq
or Afghanastan
post aeternitatem
(after forever)

no matter who gets
the winning nod in
November's election

most without any
Bukowski
or Pinsky
books-much lik
McCain himself on
via gravis
(a hard road.)

barking tree frog
silently soars
through red road rain