Commemorating A Stone That Fell From The Supreme Court Building

ODE TO A STONE

PROPHETS MENTIONED OVER THE PHONE
tHE RELEASE OF THE BIG STONE
NOT ANY STONE MIND YOU
BUT A STONE THAT
COULD LEGALLY BIND YOU
UPROOTED FROM THE TOP OF THE COURT
IT GOT VISITORS A LITTLE OVER WROUGHT

AFTER ALL, WHAT DID IT MEAN?
IS WHAT WE'RE PRIVY TO A BIBLICAL SCENE
WAS HERCULES SENDING DOWN A BOLT?
OR DID THE LOOSENED STONE
SOMETHING ELSE CONNOTE

PEOPLE RUSHED TO THEIR BIBLES AND TORAHS
COULD THIS BE
A NEW VERSION OF SODOM AND GOMORRA?
WAS IT ELECTION RELATED?
THE INTELLIGENTSIA DEBATED
OR WAS IT SIMPLY THE EXPECTED BLIGHT
OF A BUILDING TILTING
TOO MUCH TO THE RIGHT?

PEOPLE CHECKED THEIR DIARIES AND DATES
AND GUESSED IT WAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH EXTREMIST FATES...
AFTER ALL SADDAM WAS BEING
INVESTIGATED BY THE iRAQI PEOPLE
AN APPROPRIATE TIME
FOR ROCKS TO COME
LOOSE FROM OUR UNBENDING STEEPLE

WAS IT THAT
OR SOME OTHER TIRADE
THAT COULD HAVE THREATENED
ROE VS. WADE...

IF THIS LOOSE ROCK IS A METAPHOR
OF THE FOOLISHNESS OF WAR
MOST OF US CAN AGREE
THAT THIS IS A GOVERNMENT
LAYERED IN HYPOCRISY

NO ONE QUITE KNOWS FOR SURE
BUT IT SEEMS TO REFLECT
A GOVERNMENT QUITE INSECURE

WE COULD PULL OUT
AND DO IT NOW...
AND TURN OUR WEAPONS INTO PLOUGHS...
OR BUSH COULD JUST SIT THERE AND WAIT
UNTIL WE REACH 2008...
A DATE THAT THE REPUBLICANS CANNOT EQUIVOCATE
WHILE THE REST OF
CELEBRATE!

les Aaron