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POEM -- "Beheadings" by Thomas Herr

I'd like to share with you something I found while cleaning up -- an excerpt from a 2004 journal -- October 11, 2004.

Writings and musings are snapshots in time.  So here is a snapshot in time. 

Note, March 26, 2015:

Beheadings are back.  Thank you ISIS for keeping this poem relevant, although the atrocities you condone will be the cause for your ultimate demise and disappearance.

Enjoy:

October 11, 2004


"So much news to carry on our backs…every day…we should wrap our bottles in it and learn from it and stand up and shout about it.  But most of us know nothing – most of the news comes from afar and even if it’s geographically close it still comes from afar – Wealth and shame from poverty and blame – murder two streets away but might as well be a hundred miles.  We know nothing because we create our circles and hide in them, protecting ourselves within them."

Beheadings

By Thomas Herr



Car Bombs
Kill
11 in Baghdad
Bloody Day
Today
In Baghdad

Beheadings

British boarding schools
Walls hide abuse
Former students
From sixties
Come out with
Their stories

Beheadings

Pursuing a lead into
The Sinai
Bombings
Israeli
Vacationers
Go Home

Beheadings

Taiwan Calls
For Peace
Talks with
Mainland China

Beheadings

Rumsfeld visits
Troops

Beheadings

Bush calls
Kerry calls
Bush
A Liar

Beheadings

Grapple with
The Web
World Wide Web
But is not to be believed

Mistreating
Abu Graib
Terrorist
Prisoners
Shame
Shame
Shame

Beheadings.

So, there's a happy little poem from long ago, forgot I wrote it!  Tell me, has anything changed?

1 comment:

  1. Glad you're back online. I happened upon your blog because I'm currently translating Rilke's 'Die Insel' for my own blog and saw that you had done it about a year ago: good work. I like the link to the 'Day with Rilke' blog, so thanks for that. As for the 2004 poem above, though the subject matter is so different, your comments about us living in our own little worlds relate it to 'Die Insel', nicht wahr?

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