on a nondescript
summer’s day in
2006 a.d., the
fulcrum of power tilted
east
& across all
asia.
the war-plagued
israelis had
invaded lebanon with
fearsome incendiary
force & the arabs
held.
neither the blind but
stubborn president nor his
ice-hearted & ambitious
secretary of state
could save the
day.
the oil in the
ground & the gold
frozen in vaults &
the natural electricity
in the air
now have a new
majority share
holder.
who can say if
such might have been
otherwise without
the Bush
byzantium?
but the future
would assuredly
have been altered
had all interested
parties acted with
compassion, objectivity &
nonviolence instead
of their
opposites.