Random Acts of Poetry

By Mike Heenan
Literary Editor
True North Perspective

The Village Idiot

  "It takes a village ..."
  With robust babies
Burbling in The Bush,
The agony of adolescence
  At Vimy Ridge;

  Technicolour mid-aged
  Horrors in Holland, Italy
  And Dieppe as
  Nobel Pearson matures
  In New York, The Suez
  And Korea.

  Dancing through the sixties
  Before

  The Art of Dying in Afghanistan
  Drains out our bloody
  Bathwater
  Once more.

© 16 January 2009 Mike Heenan

Mike Heenan BA, BJ, MA
Wordsmith~On~Call
Ottawa, Canada
www.oiw.ca
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