Just Beyond Reason

Poems by Patrick Brancaccio

For Ruth

 
  maybe a junk sculpture

people dying in Vietnam
theyıre always dying
flash frozen or slow
perpetual warfare
now more open
harder to forget
this smug and evasive
must stop killing machine
smear blood on its face
give it a hotfoot
will jump and scream
aphorisms whiz by
contradictory telegrams
nothing matters everything counts
People Right Now Dying in Vietnam
history settles nothing
something happens something changes
movies sell revolution
t.v. sells fights cancer
restless consumer
consumed with guilt
bent on killing himself
for joy and delight
serious searcher
makes his way
o mushroom
that says
EAT ME
and dies
friends wonder
was he tricked
People Right Now Dying in Vietnam