| Remember Yo Mama billions of dollars being spent so many people getting killed or paraplegically bent, with maybe 1000 u.s. military bases worldwide time to turn this belligerent tide... oh army barracks ohbomba do your part and show some love for yo mama earth, can all these wars get a period instead of a long drawn-out comma? and how about a peaceful nobel chat with the dalai lama, with the indigenous on how to work with pachamama, with the hare krishnas chanting hare rāma, and a lesson from the spanish te ama, (btw what’s with the off-shoring in the bahamas?) remember vietnam, uh what about osama? ’cause there’s this foxnews headline from december 2001 “report: bin laden already dead”1 so maybe it’s all a not-so-mellow-drama, a photo-op framed as us versus them but for everyone the bombs and the mines and the bloodshed leave a residue of trauma... remember yo mama, yo mama, yo mama, mama earth whose deep black soil is of priceless worth Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. His newest haiku chapbook is “so many people go hungry.” He also hosts an audio show "Between the Lines: listening to literature online." You can contact him via his literary website. READ MORE POETRY AND ESSAYS BY MANKH ON AXIS OF LOGIC 1 - “report: bin laden already dead” |