GUEST POET: WARREN BROWN
America Awakens to Moral Values November 2004
America awakens to moral values
and reaches around
to pat its backside
I am amazed at this clarity
like discovering the sun after
nearly three score
years of life
Like awaking in a strange skin
or a strange bedroom
where the ceiling light
blazes one from sleep
And one sees a stranger's
reflection in the mirror
on an unknown wall
War does not matter
illness does not matter
hunger or hopelessness
rusting factories
crumbling hopes
Children abused
unwanted
born to empty breasts
and empty hearts
matter less than
nothing
It is the sunshine of Moral
Values that pertains,
the happy grin of a
life correctly tithed
No lie is too great
to achieve morality
no life is too small
to ruin
no ignorance too monstrous
to yield to knowledge
All means justify
and justice
is its own
paradise
Not here, perhaps
not here in pain
not here in doubt
not here in Holy War
But in that great rising,
that paradise promised
by those Godly men
in the white castle
Though great,
our empire is just
a dream
awaiting the promise
of poorly written
novels that
assure resurrection
We will cover our women
keep them safe in their pens
we will save our sperm
we will covet our eggs
and sacrifice our children
The noise of our snowmobiles
and Humvees will sing
a song to God
and in our beds
we will smile the smiles
of sheep
and wait for our shepherds
to come for us in the night
Note: Warren Brown is SF writer living with his wife and daughter in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has published stories in Omni, The Best of Omni Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, After Hours, Amazing Stories and Tomorrow. He has published poetry in Nimrod and other magazines. He has written a novel, What Happened in Fool the Eye, and a second novel, Underland, is in progress.
He is also the author of The Liberal Creed.
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