by Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
WMD
In countries
where people read
A writer
would rot in prison
for burning his president in prose
in the land that manufactured Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
remote-controlled drones
The poet
faces a new weapon
in the history of dictatorships:
he is ignored
Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
From Intimate Geography, Ragged Sky Press
WMD was selected by SDFP Contributor Karen Kenyon. Karen has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, British Heritage, Westways, and The Christian Science Monitor. She also has two books Sunshower (Putnam, NY) and The Bronte Family (Lerner Publications, Minnesota) She teaches at MiraCosta College and UCSD-X.