Canada

The politics of Ottawa

mothers and fathers
 need a good wage
elders need housing
 and the poor fed

You waste time posturing and
scoring one upmanship
while the
children's bellies are hungry for a
good meal

Canada is alseep at the wheel
 and
the united nations are gathering

what sort of world you ask one
built on compassion
or one that
will make the third Reich

 look like
a tea party
oh foolish men wake up

Clutter

My mind is scrambled like my house
with endless clutter of experience
where to file I do not know now
perhaps a bonfire is the way
yes burn all the memories in the
easter fire  and begin a new
with windows clean and clear
write a book and place them
memories in neat rows of words
otherwise the rooms will fill
with nothing that makes sense
today I begin a new chapter
its spring and birds are singing
take all the pictures of the wall
paint new fresh white paint yes
white the color of clarity pure
decorate one wall of photos
begin clear clean glass like
Marlene has on her wall