10 poets who read from SGVPQ 54

Charles Harmon

Political Haiku

ANGEL OR DEVIL

Right wing or Left wing?
Which shoulder arms will prevail?
The one that gets Fed….
 
GORDIAN KNOT
What tangled webs we weave.
Governmental gridlock…
How cut loose our noose?
 
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS QUISLING?
Our keepers proclaim
Vegetarianism;
Practice vampirism.
 
SI VIS PACEM PARABELLUM
When the gloves come off,
Hands untied from behind backs,
Curtains pulled aside….
 
FIVE MILLION LAWS
From Ten Commandments
To five million lawyers
Made us all criminals….
 
THE YOKE IS ON YOU
Thought you were born free?
Lower your head, bend over,
Submit to harness.
 
PARASITISM
The more the starving victim
Works and eats, the more
Tapeworm engorges….
 
PRIVILEGE
Created equal
The high and mighty
More equal than I and Thou.