Say Uncle

I wrote this poem shortly after 9/11/2001


Oh, say ma,
By the way,
I do love you!!

Sorry ma, for being so deadened
In the name of freedom, there
Is no reason for resentment.

You must agree, though, lately
The temper tantrums,
Are much out of hand. Huh, what say?
I cannot hear your blighted
Utterance over the sound of our equality.

I love you, ma, but only because I do agree
With your main argument: that
There is only one God.
My heart has been saddened, that
Through our agreement, we learn
Only disagreement and hatred.

We are the stronger victim all right,
Now you’re a man without a world.
What do you mean the world hasn’t changed?
We annihilated your annihilation, we offered your
People our freedoms. They bit from our apple
And saw it is good.
The world is black and white,
We’re up and you’re down, in and out, back
And forth, over and under, through.
Bigger,
Better,
Righter.

A spade is just a shovel, Muhammad and Jesus,
Two men under God. With liberty
And justice…

God bless America,
And forgive us our sin.
Please, thank you, and Amen.




david u a. l