MDDM ch. 68: Uncle Sam on Ice

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

Couldn't help seeing a little coincidental figure for
the Bush family in the ferryman set piece- Father
on the near shore paying out the line into the current
of history, Son on the far shore taking up the slack,
the uncle, in the mythic role, being used in this case
to shake down the working men...

Religion and politics, two sides of the same coin, especially
here in america, where we worship money, of course.

Prolly just me... But that theme would work quite as
well if one were thinking in terms of a religious scam.
(Little Oedipal activity thrown in just to cover all the
bases: "The last Dead in this have not yet been born."
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Shaw's father wanted no monument
except the ditch,
where his son's body was thrown
and lost with his "niggers."

The ditch is nearer.
There are no statues for the last war here:
on Boylston street, a commercial photograph
shows Hiroshima boiling

over a Mosher Safe the "Rock of Ages"
that survived the blast. Space is nearer.
When I crouch to my television set,
the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons.

Colonial Shaw
is riding on his bubble,
he waits 
for the blessed break.

The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose foward like fish:
a savage servility
slides by on grease.

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