HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? A New Year’s Spring Equinox soundpoem…

IMAGE: Peace Flag withe White Oak, Ohio Country How did this happen? Outside of London, 2000 pound bombs are loaded one after the other into the bellies of B-52s headed for Iran, and no one cries out to stop this industry of death. Creation is slow; destruction, fast. How did this happen? A culture that gave us a full fifth of Nobels and musicians extraordinaire, that suffered the full thrust of Nazi terror, now itself an utterly ruthless apartheid Waffen-SS, head of the most hated state on Earth. Creation is slow; destruction, fast. How did this happen? Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and that same body gives us now 535 of the most dangerous beings in human history and tells me I have to be a Christian or die on their cross. Creation is slow; destruction, fast. How did this happen? Upon the altar of God I pledge undying hostility to any government restriction of the free minds of the people. Schools are boarded up. Radios silenced. Abortions, illegal. People don’t have enough to eat. And yet the bombs get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, till Nemesis can no longer hold her breath.... Creation is slow. Destruction, fast. MUSIC: from my RIOT STICKS, available on Soundcloud….https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/riot-stick-wav download score (rough cut…..) at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/riot-sticks_print.pdf