Poets of Convenience

Poets of convenience reality to sway A stain that lasts forever excuses not parlayed “Thou Shalt Not Kill” long spoken ancient law upon the land Religious, secular, or more’ bound the truth has one command A billion screaming babies by curettes scraped away As smug self-righteous killers demand to have their way The pathway to eternity lined with voices put to death “Thou Shalt Not Kill” their epitaph —damning your last breath (St. Josephs University: September, 1972)