Sue for Peace

Note: this came out of my own frustrations with the situation in the Middle East and a student's inquiry into my thoughts and feelings about it. I know that all I have is a page and my imagination to launch a pretty weak arrow at a beast that will not go away, but I have to say something...and I have.

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What to do; what to do.

What to do for peace.

What we can say about it…

Well, we can sue.

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We can take it to court and sue.

All violence will cease.

All the things that fit

Will be what we will do.

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And if we can sue

There is no need to police

Ourselves. We can admit

That we know what to do.

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Yeah, that will do…

But wait: do we release

All our thoughts freely? What benefit

Do we get if they sue?

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We can put down the words: sue,

Do, cease, police… We say our piece.

Go online; read and do nothing, like a hypocrite,

And say, that’s enough; that will do.

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