Archive 01/13/10

   

Reconciling

                                                                  

 

My mind is dumfounded, as I watch the nightly news,

Showing clips of Mark McGwire, with his bloated muscles,

Hammering human-growth-hormone, anabolic-steroid home runs,

Tearfully insisting that his use of drugs contributed not a single hit

To his record-setting statistics,

 

Followed by a ten-minute report on the accumulating corpses

Of countless earthquake-undertaken Haitians

In the streets of Port-au-Prince, their stench choking survivors,

Who are dying of starvation, thirst, infected wounds,

Separated from families, themselves, bereft even of desperation,

 

Leaving me to ask my imagination what I might conceivably do

To correlate, reconcile such disparate human conditions,

Diminish the distance between moral hypocrisy and physical atrocity,

The former so despicably disillusioning to the spirit,

The latter so merciless, murderous to it. I switch channels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

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