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Subject UnAmerican Activities
Date February 4, 2023 1:00 AM
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[ Arkansas poet Gerry Sloan speaks to global absurdity (think
Ukraine) “weapons of mass destruction place…victory out of
reach…” ]
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UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES  
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Gerry Sloan

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_ Arkansas poet Gerry Sloan speaks to global absurdity (think
Ukraine) “weapons of mass destruction place…victory out of
reach…” _

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UnAmerican Activities

By Gerry Sloan 

 The chances of writing a successful

political poem are slim to non-existent,

but we keep rolling the boulder uphill

while the raven perched on our shoulder

keeps croaking like Bertolt Brecht:

"Why were their poets silent?"

 

Because we're the Forlorn Hope,

idealistic volunteers to be first

through the thermo-nuclear breach

since weapons of mass destruction

place notions of victory out of reach,

our leaders playing high-stakes chicken,

the absurdity of their rhetoric

enough to make a maggot sicken.

Gerry Sloan is a retired music professor living in Fayetteville,
Arkansas. His poetry collections are _Paper_ _Lanterns_ (2011)
and _Crossings_: _A_ _Memoir_ _in_ _Verse_ (2017) plus six
chapbooks, the latest included
in _Wild_ _Muse_: _Ozarks_ _Nature_ _Poetry_ (2022).

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