Nonpolitical Poetry

The essential thing about
poetry is you can
say anything you
damn well please
in any way
you please
you can say fuck this
political system
you can say anyone
who at this
point in time
that does not think
the american way
of life is dead wrong
is a sad and lost soul
you may think this is a
political statement
but you're dead wrong too
`cause this is about as
nonpolitical
as it gets

Poem For A Political Poet

What honor is there?
The lie creates idols of death.

Why hang the grave clothes of the
'old man' on the new man?
And, from where, brother poet, does your
new man emerge?
Ideas? Concepts of Cultural Global
Political Revolution?

Politics is a grotesque lie.
Politics is a vexation of the spirit.
Politics is an affliction of the mind.
Politics is the devil's street game.
I see the rage in your face.
I am grounded with the brilliant rage of your poems,
into the sense of your sensibilities.
Your language has always been my language; your
words I know from the very blood of my soul.

Often we react to the
oppressor with stupidity. When we
don't acknowledge that stupidity,
it becomes iniquitous, and the psychotic
barbarians resume their dance in
praise of the dying atmosphere,
as once intelligent men and women
pay homage to dictators, liars, butchers,
who promise equality, liberation; men
who would cut the throats of your children for an idea.

Men whose souls rot and stink with
the hatred of innocence and regenerated life,
men who collectively tortured, enslaved,
and murdered millions upon millions of people,
men would pour wax over poets and
burn them as candles in the bloodied moonlight.

© 2003 - Doug Draime