COWBOY
http://www.maverickmagazine.com/articles/385/1/COWBOY/Page1.html
Regina Krummel
Regina Krummel is Professor Emerita, Queens College, City University of New York. She is actively involved in teaching in prisons and will be acting as an individual therapist for a woman in prison. Most recently she has published a book of creative non-fiction, The Underground Woman and a novel Liquorto Casket, Cummings & Hathaway, publishers.By Regina Krummel
Published on 06/14/2009
He strides the rallying halls
Waving huge cowboy fedora
Leather bindings
Clear beige color
Salutes the crowd
Well wishers in Billings, Montana
Waving huge cowboy fedora
Leather bindings
Clear beige color
Salutes the crowd
Well wishers in Billings, Montana
He strides the rallying halls
Waving huge cowboy fedora
Leather bindings
Clear beige color
Salutes the crowd
Well wishers in Billings, Montana
Bush delivers the lies of love for soldiers
Wallowing in the horror, muck
Debris, destruction and death
Yet beneath the lovely cheers
The raised joyous hands and fists
A photograph hidden in a crumpled newspaper
Shows the flag concealing
Coffin of dead Billings’ son
Brought home for burial
While Bush declares
Democracy for Iraq
Back in Iraq
Bechtel, engineering giant
Is departing
No more reconstruction -
Of sewage and water and power stations
In taxes we gave Bechtel nearly three billion
They are fleeing
Death of employees
Iraqi people remain in untreated sewage --
The police academy built with more billions
Of American taxes
Has urine and feces dripping from the ceiling
We here in America
Wallow in the death-dealing lies
Of victory and freedom in Iraq
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Waving huge cowboy fedora
Leather bindings
Clear beige color
Salutes the crowd
Well wishers in Billings, Montana
Bush delivers the lies of love for soldiers
Wallowing in the horror, muck
Debris, destruction and death
Yet beneath the lovely cheers
The raised joyous hands and fists
A photograph hidden in a crumpled newspaper
Shows the flag concealing
Coffin of dead Billings’ son
Brought home for burial
While Bush declares
Democracy for Iraq
Back in Iraq
Bechtel, engineering giant
Is departing
No more reconstruction -
Of sewage and water and power stations
In taxes we gave Bechtel nearly three billion
They are fleeing
Death of employees
Iraqi people remain in untreated sewage --
The police academy built with more billions
Of American taxes
Has urine and feces dripping from the ceiling
We here in America
Wallow in the death-dealing lies
Of victory and freedom in Iraq
Copyright © Regina Krummel, 2006. All Rights Reserved.