Joanne Kyger
       Short Cuts to Baghdad

Sensitive  to these demands
        women,  scientists,  heads, found in a flower bed

Security, ah yes, security,           good luck      life is suffering  right?

Psychic wound inflicted on the soul of every Arab
   With the usurping of Palestinian land. . .
     . . .says the president of Pakistan
               In the UN today

Oh the injustice    oh the stupidity     oh the awful father  oh the punishment
   A thousand in Haiti swallowed by mud,
      Venezuela gives 1 million dollars, U.S. $65.

White bread is going bankrupt
 with the sodden guzzle of the moment

    Waiting for the solstice quail  count
           THEY   don't give a shit
              It's the flip-flop year of the monkey
                A perfect way to get around
                     On hot desert sand




September 22, 2004