poetry
The Cure for Headache
by AcyutanandaCut off your head to be rid ofAll those pounds of ugly fat!Can’t you find any betterSolution 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…
Let us all agree on this one simple thing: It is not OK to kill people.
by Robert Randall (reprinted) It is not OK to kill people because you don’t like them. It is not OK to kill people because they don’t like you. It is not OK to kill people because they are different from you. It is not OK to kill people because of what they believe. Or…
“Seamless Garment” — Poem by Daniel Berrigan
The beauty of the “seamless garment” image! No one, not one exposed to the rude winds of the world, No one, however lorn or lost, out in the cold. No one rejected, no one unwanted! the unborn, the aged, ill, condemned, the expendable, “lives of no worth”- no matter the tag, everyone matters! If these…