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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:08:05 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lenore Weiss"
Subject: Re: submission_Lenore Weiss
Lenore Weiss wrote:
HI: I am submitting three poems: Invocation of the Dead, Tsunami, and Passover 2004.
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Invocation of the Dead
If the living cannot save the planet,
let the dead confabulate in coffee klatches and tea
rooms,
remain polite for a short while
before spinning on bar stools
with the ferocity of a million drunks
spiralling out of control on a cushion
of portobello mushrooms caps
and frisbees covering their collective ass,
let them scream on a ferris wheel of light so loud
so loud someone will hear;
pray that they release their gangs of children
from the sewers of Rwanda,
Bosnia, Iraq, Palestine, Israel,
or unhinge those stuck between two tectonic plates,
let them dig up AIDS orphans
still young enough to hope for parents,
coax them back for one moment
while we pay an entrance fee
of a punched red ticket,
but forget everything once we're in.
If the living cannot save this planet
let the dead chant,
the first indigenous people,
even as a voice announces,
the park will be closing in five minutes;
after a day of riding Phantom's Revenge,
we realize there's no home
for us to go back home to,
all we can do is to kick a few pizza crusts
to the side of the road.
Source:
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Poem is copyrighted by Lenore Weiss.
Poem is published with permission from the author.
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Lenore Weiss
http://home.earthlink.net/~lpweiss/menu.html
Lenore Weiss lives in Oakland, California where she runs a Web site for a transportation company. She also serves as the Middle East Peace Coordinator for Kehilla Community Synagogue. In 2003, she was named as a finalist in the Poet & Writers "California Voices" contest. Her poetry has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Raven Chronicles, Canadian Women Studies Journal, Blue Collar Review, FrogPond, Praxis, Room, Androgyne, Verbum, Mosaic, The Graybook, The Louisville Review, Contemporary Women Poets, Tunnel Road, and Alpha Beat Soup. Periodically, her poems are featured at:
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2004/Winter4-5/Current/weissl.htm and http://corpse.org/issue_14/new_economics/weiss.html
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