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