[Newspoetry] Why Life fails to imitate Art

[DL Emerick]

Why Life fails to imitate Art

 

Frank Rich | Rumsfeld's Dance With the Nazis

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090306Z.shtml

 

Big Broadway revival a few years ago.

The Producers.

With its show-stopping musical number

"Springtime for Hitler"

 

It's ghastly what images are produced,

to jar common sense as bottled vapors,

reviving a right of rewriting history,

that is reserved to the powers that be.

 

Ken Silverstein | Bush. and Godwin's Law

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090106N.shtml

 

The chance on a blog thread of a Nazi-note

Is proportional to the length of the thread -

Or every thread has an Auschwitz potential.

 

A conclusion is inevitable, a path is not.

That's the motto of mortals in living:

All paths lead to Greco-Germanic nobility,

Superior insofar as it kills its enemy,

And wipes out all rival civilizations.

 

Go off road when mass murderers prowl

And see a far country for what it is,

And know that Rome would rule it all,

Turn every tongue into a Romance one,

Where words hide reality in laughter:

Autobahn Field Guide to Human Nature -

Them or us: laugh at them, but not us;

hate them, too, but never default us.

 

Why does Art go wrong?  It sells itself,

And, knowing that it is to be sold-out,

It has no pride in being left alone,

Left on the shelf, or in the gallery,

Unattended when it is staged as play.

 

The art of the left never sells well.

 

Art is an expensive whore of war yore,

Warriors need to find sexual outlets:

They decorate their treasure chests

And paint their bare faces with blood,

They click their heels to the tunes,

And strut proudly in their self-esteem,

As crowds march into death's valley,

And wonder why hills cover them up,

make infernos of the killing traps.

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