[Newspoetry] It's W-all over now (when isn't it?)

[Donald L Emerick]

Of course, I was thinking
(how could I not be thinking)
of Frost's anti-Wall poem:
off the wall is my primal mode
for thinking, which is emoting,
for I feel how things are;
thinking feels it way forward
through feelings it may truly have
only by knowing them to be there,
where they are encountered,
in the flow of current things,
and, at the same time, thinking
is remembering what is proper
to each feeling, so that none rules,
just because it screams loudest,
just because it whines longest,
just because it would forget
how it may be responsible
for its own pained present:
real wounds may be badly treated
in many ways by bad doctors
who exacerbate extant harms.

I think how repression occurs,
as how civic psychosis appears,
as willingness for partial truths,
a willingness to tolerate lies,
when they serve some purpose
of the state, the king, or a career
to advance its own self-interests,
regardless of truth as other obstacles,

The first thing they do,
before they build prison walls,
is shoot all the jailhouse lawyers,
as if they wanted no arguments
which point to possible errors:
and they call this total tort "reform"
when they bar you from suing them:
henceforth, courts one-sidedly serve
as instruments of a class oppression.

Every wall falls one-sidedly down--
after it falls,
one may only imagine the other side;
before it falls,
there was no side there at all:

We wrongly let common sense tell us,
there must be another side to this wall,
when, for all common sense knows,
this boundary fence may be Moebian
or have some other plain topology,
nothing Euclidean could be certain here--
a one-sided assumption stone-walls
a one-sided assumption; stone walls.

Thanks for listening
at this wailing wall,
which Israel builds for people
to wail against unwillingly...
Donald L Emerick