[Newspoetry] Newspoetry won't play White House

[Donald L Emerick]

NewsPoetry won't (have a) play(date at) WhiteHouse

Laura Bush believes in separation of literature and state:
nothing women and men have to say about the state
could be acknowledged as a current literary event.

That is also why Laura Bush does not believe
in another separation, the one of church and state,
for the book of the church is not poetry and song,
nor is it even to be thought of as a literature.

The (reputed) words of (an alleged) Super-God
would be significant so far as they command man,
teach him how to bow, kneel and pray to a Lord,
teach him that he is never equal to his superiors,
teach him that he must follow the way of slavery
with a cheerful heart, doing whatever God wants.

And, what is the basis of this bargain of Man and God?
God says, if you give me all of yourself for just one life,
then I'll give you infinity, living beyond wildest dreams,
and I'll damn you to hell forever if you don't believe me.

A bargain like that one would do well to pass over.
Let us talk, instead, of the separation Laura wants,
which aids a rule of the church-lady over our state.

To speak of anything living today is to talk of our politics:
it's all the handiwork of politics; it's always been all politics,
and that word, in my comprehensive dictionary, means
the eternal war between public and community concerns,
on one hand oppose private and individual affairs of heart,
on another hand, a hidden hand that rules from secrecy.

The two hands are fated not to know each other;
they can never shake each other in a friendly clasp.

The hidden hand mimes that it is destined to rule
because the other hand could never be as efficient
at getting what a person narrowly wants for himself:
this speech is absolutely true, but entirely irrelevant,
says the visible hand which rules all hiding places
to be illicit, to be deceptive frauds of public purses.

The only good poet is never any dead poet;
Laura Bush confuses concern for state safety
with poetic substance, or poetic procedure,
or with something she mistakes for poetry,
the safe mindlessness of the renown dead,
who, editorially, do model a kind of perfection
that the State idolizes, reveres and adores:
the subject is unable to say anything relevant,
anything that is controversial, anything more,
unable to oppose the State's selfish privations
in the public name of a State's own better self.

Thanks for listening,
to my unheard protest,
Donald L Emerick