JIHAD

Goats can get by, I swear, / on the notes no one else sings. --- From “The Fretless Banjo” by Dave Bonta, Via Negativa, 08-19-11

JIHAD 

Notes no one else sings are melodies

everyone should sing: a prescription

like this must come from the bowels

of hell, like decreeing the decapitation

of one,  Salman Rushdie, writer, who

has written about the verses of  one,

Satan, and not unlike a loyal Lucifer,

sang his own version of Allah Akbar,

sealed his sentence from angry imams,

decried the descended jihad’s wrath,

and the world of revolted men cried: 

Let him live! He is not even an infidel!

Let him perish, and he will live forever,

like that proud and fallen archangel,

who sat brightly as a burning minion

of the Almighty at last count, and still

wreaking murderous mayhem where

places are still hovels of madmen who

praise merciful Allah as they slit throats

of kinsmen who get by on notes no one

else sings, like goats, and angry poets. 

---Albert B. Casuga

08-20-11