John scott ridgway's Blog – July 2009 Archive (7)

As much as I have written about war and peace over the years, I have never heard of this one... The story speaks for itself... wonder if it also has to do with the huge percentage of soldiers families who are so poor they are on food stamps?









WASHINGTON - Children of U.S. military troops sought outpatient mental health care 2 million times last year - double the number at the start of the Iraq war.

There was also an alarming spike in the number of military kids… Continue

I wrote this poem when Bush was about to invade Iran. I majored in Military Intelligence, and was doing some consulting at the time with... well, that's confidential... but trust me, they were close... I am putting it up here now because poem seems all the more relevant with the Iranian protests in full swing.









NOT ONE DROP OF PERSIAN BLOOD



the blood of persian poets

has barely been washed off our hands



a few more nuclear reactors in the… Continue

When did we vote to say that the government can listen to every conversation

monitor every line of type that flows from our fingers?



Did I miss that ballot box?

Where is the politician who is supposed to damn this intrusion?

Jimmy Stewart all alone and proud and indignant got voted out

After the Lobbyiests gave someone else the money to get elected



occasionally the media creates a camelot

to siphon the steam off our dreams

before we… Continue

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Disturbed

Distraught

Desperate



Monday morning news gives a solemn count of the weekend murders

between jokey weather and sports





TEN shot DEAD over the Fourth of July in Chicago









They show the relatives hugging and crying

images of yellow police tape and cops in bulky, blue body armor



the smiles come back as another story rolls around

can't be too negative on the morning show



I picture their… Continue

can't be another hitler

in those dark shades

that bleed away all the color

reduce these visions to black and white



I post-modern man all wary

staying away from drawing lines in the sand

or declaring anything permanent

for any length of time



refusing

to be a judge

in a court

of impossible standards



I oblivous stoic going thru my mundane day

MONKED AWAY from the masses

telling no one what I do

learning to… Continue

u sit at your computer

recently knighted

at the center of a vortex

of groceries, socialization, physicians, teachers

cops and cunt and cock and revolution and redemption

ready to poke your little head in all over



a reluctant revolutionary

aware the sewer system goes down and millions die





a buffalo soldier

in the war for america*





in your medicine bag:

as much tv as humanly possible

comics books concerts… Continue