The Ratliff File

"Be Ye Happy"

friendship disarm

israel-iraq-libya

china-u.s.-cuba

is lots of fun

next thousands years

"1992"

re-elect george

bush november

sends message to

him bugle clear

we want panama

bloodier

and desert war the

next four years

"Desert Storm 1991"

each conflict feeds

the monster war

mash brain-mash eyes

mash gut-mash balls

envelops earth

in gaseous fart

ignites a flame

to heaven's halls

"Ballot Box Ninety Two"

perot supports

victims of

vietnam

bush-clinton-gore

celebrate george

gulf war

vote ross perot president november

"Israel-Iraq Libya-Cuba America"

The dekalogue

beatitudes

constitution

cannot contain

the daemonic

"Nurture"

I.

breast

not bottle

baby

key

happier

future

II.

mother child breast

years her milk flows

is birth control

immune strengthen

love's fulfilment

future less dread

III.

fifty bottle

and fifty breast

babies compare

for a lifetime

"Twentieth Century"

u s versus german

is world war one

u s versus japan

is world war two

u s versus russia

is cold war one

u s versus china

is cold war two

empires past/present

rise and fall by war

america rises

and falls by war

primates seldom learn

of their gore and blood

ike negotiates

korean dispute