Constructing Eden

Michael Peach

O hear the news! Geneticists
Have made at last a thornless rose.
"And soon," the General insists,
"We’ll take the sting from all our foes."

Jerusalem
20 August 1995

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,