“Breaking News” (below) is the second of two poems recently submitted to this blog by Kootenay Shambhala member Bobbie Ogletree. It has been published in Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry.

To view the first poem (and a photo of Bobbie), click here.

Breaking News
By Bobbie Ogletree

krakow’s museum of jewish culture and history used to be a synagogue the kidneys and bladder are especially vulnerable in winter oh my god my husband was on that plane osama bin laden rode out of afghanistan on a white mare I don’t know how she puts up with him a naturalist gave a chicken some duck eggs the chicken sat on them and when they hatched was not disturbed to find ducklings and later led them to water fucking bastards will ruin the whole damn province abandon your poverty mentality and visualize yourself wealthy from 1962 to 1972 the us air force sprayed approximately 20 million gallons of defoliant over an estimated 10 percent of south vietnam norton anti-virus is not enough protection though sentient beings are numberless I vow to save them all in my opinion with his kidneys osama bin laden is dead a few weeks ago in minneapolis minnesota there was a lottery the winners got beds in homeless shelters my religion is kindness at a factory farm a naturalist found up to 5 hens squeezed into cages 12 inches by 12 inches I say dispatch them to allah immediately george w bush really wanted to be a baseball commissioner in arizona a woman died a few days after her 25 year old son was killed in iraq she couldn’t stop weeping the newscaster reported when a country is ruled with a light hand the people are simple the price of crude oil exceeded 100 dollars a barrel today bring it on the president said a saddhu in india kept one arm raised for 28 years for our sins the bible predicted all this would happen this shall not abide we will hunt them down and bring them in dead or alive they need potable water food medicine immediately if a disaster of unequalled proportions is to be averted we did not order this dessert

Tags: Bobbie Ogletree, community artwork

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