I have several questions. <br />For a few months <br />A radio business channel <br />In Boston carried <br /> <br />Thrice hourly reports <br />On the stock market-- <br />The Bloomfield report. <br />Suddenly it was gone <br />And replaced by a <br />Monotonous religious channel. <br /> <br />I couldn't find it <br />Anywhere on the dial. <br />Why did that happen? <br />Massac came from Casamusetts. <br />Cassam came from Massachusetts. <br /> <br /> <br />They tell you that vitamin E, <br />Grape juice, and aspirin <br />Thin the blood and <br />Reduce cholesterol buildup <br />But if you take two <br />Or three of these <br /> <br />Substances regularly, do they <br />Thin it too much, <br />Causing other, unforeseen <br />Dangers of an interactive sort? <br />Massac came from Casamusetts. <br />Cassam came from Massachusetts. <br /> <br /> <br />If all politics is a lie <br />We tell ourselves, if <br />People who think they are <br />Conservative have horrible <br />Anarchic lives, raping children <br /> <br />And people who think <br />They are radical, and <br />Tell you so, typically, <br />Are repressed, authoritarian, and <br />Thinly frigid in their <br />Personal bearings, <br /> <br />Leaving the world on both sides <br />To be divided up between <br />Aggressive territorial types <br />Finding ideological excuses <br />To kill other people's children-- <br />If all this is patently, <br /> <br />Obviously so, so that <br />Only poetry, and not <br />Politics can save us-- <br />Is there any hope for us then? <br />Massac came from Casamusetts. <br /> <br />Cassam came from Massachusetts.<br /><br />Aaron Fogel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pupils-slip-up/
