Poetry

from ‘Gyroscopes’

I’d like a break from

compulsions of idealism

and religious psychosis

I’ve seen pictures of

real stars exploding,

They confirm the spatial illusion

the time inverted reality

Holy vaudeville cast with

self fulfilled prophesies

I’d like to know what

they confirm in the algebraic brain

a scratchy infinite equation

leading to lost and partial quotants.

four billion years

to know what it is I seek.

Now, seeing the upside

down line of your lost silhouette

it only seems probable to

lay next your soul to challenge the universe

to its cyclonic fragmentation

An uncharted moment

lost to all but us.

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Now we have, Umar Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber and a new pten line of terrorism from al Qaeda from training camp in Yemen. In a ‘You’re doing a hellava job Brownie’ moment of This Week WGS Sunday Janet Napolitano was completely unreassuringly about terrorist tracking on the airlines. Since Umar’s own father alerted authorities in Nigeria weeks ago that his son had been radicalized against the US and felt that he would strike, where was the state side pickup? It was homeland security that was caught with its pants down. What good is the list 550,000 suspect names and 4,000 ’no fly’ names if one’s father dimes you out, he paid for his one-way ticket in cash, he had been traveling without luggage, he was denied entry into the UK for lying about a school he said he was attending. Napolitano clarified on Monday that she was talking about the events after the fact, and acknowledged that there were failures leading up to the incident. The upside to all of this is that all of this is actionable intelligence.