[Newspoetry] President Clinton's Heart

[William at Spineless Books]

"Former President Bill Clinton's heart bypass expected today will probably 
be an ordinary replumbing of his ailing heart not some new whiz-bang 
robotic or keyhole surgery leading surgeons say."-Ireland Online

clinton's heart wept openly on the operating table an injection of tetra 
hidro cannabinol took the edge off

so many planes in the sky 1000 american troops dead in iraq

when ronald reagan died in a rough edge of town above a boarded up 
hospital shone a billboard depicting a colorful pile of jellybeans on the 
sidewalk before it a pile of dogshit

president clinton's heart did they inject the news into your valves on 
september 11th 2004 do you wish you could teach that john kerry to grow an 
ass and blow sax did you flatline your assault weapons ban was not renewed 
legislation passed in 94 outlawing instruments of mass murder a good idea 
into the 
ether

flagshrouded coffins conveyorbelt through your arches parts of iraq are 
not secure but the twist given by deranged rhetoric escapes the 
light and so without any meaning to hitch it to the solitary stanza under 
glass is left no option save to publish through the screen of newspoetry 
that which passes for information to those whose education gives them the 
peculiar ability to calibrate information those who know those in the know 
that it is too late for the left wing of the two right wing party system
and the heart of a president who read books
who like the rest of us
lied about sex and drugs
neither to inhale nor ejaculate

did we have a vision collectively of a petroleum farm rising from the 
bedrock the commodity we most need to combust somehow the fox news has won 
dinosaur bones and smoking stones president clinton's heart did you 
willfully deceive us when you in the guise of power opened the language to 
your ideas about language to your policies regarding the collapse of 
structures intended to protect people from the market told in your voice 
of honey if they told me i'd be nostalgic for it 

i would have laughed

William

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