[Newspoetry] NYTimes: right in small stuff, misses big picture

[DL Emerick]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020206E.shtml
 
The NYTimes editorial, prim and proper,
tells what Bush says is no show stopper,
not at all, for a leader of the whopper;
ghosts haunt intelligence like old Topper.
 
A better view is the one I offer here;
the truth is simple, recurs year by year:
man cannot live in the shadow of fear,
wondering what words come to an ear.
 
Any agency large enough to hear it all,
will be so large that it never can fall,
nor tell you when to act upon its call,
because it is much too large a ball.
 
This world is such a damned big place,
your file is a folder of your disgrace --
for they record each being in a race,
to move from birth to death in space.
 
But, even computer-aided information
leaves us far apart from the creation
of reliable wisdom about this nation,
by we in reflecting call adequation.
 
A fancy way that is true to say:
ends and means must join as way,
a path of living by its joy of play,
else, lacks worth as a time of day.
 
The spy-game is a way to be blue,
as if it doesn't come seeking you,
as if it could protect from rue,
that hindsight always comes true.
 
MORAL: The NYTimes should have said,
it wastes to call on the databank read,
before the times could happen; instead,
I say, intelligence is always lately dead.
 
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