The Cure for Headache
by AcyutanandaCut off your head to be rid of
All those pounds of ugly fat!
Can’t you find any better
Solution than that?
“Got to end this endless war,”
Said President Truman,
So he pulled out all the stops,
Did something inhuman.
Tony Timpa got excitable
(It was cocaine self-pollution),
So they arrested his cardiac,
Called it conflict resolution.
Your child was inside of you,
I know you wished it weren’t.
Now the earth is scorched,
And innocence burnt.
It’s now the 21st Century
Since the Golden Rule,
That bright idea
That we learned in school.
© 2021
Author: Acyutananda (“c” pronounced as in “ciao”) is a yoga monk. He believes in the consistent life ethic. His blog is http://www.NoTerminationWithoutRepresentation.org
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For more of our posts with poems, see:
“Seamless Garment” – Poem by Daniel Berrigan
Let us all agree on this one simple thing: It is not OK to kill people. by Robert Randall



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