Nihilists

Michael Peach

The nihilists have cause to cheer,
There’s now a drug that kills all fear:
For each whose life than death is worse
Bin Laden has a hijacked verse.

Jerusalem
28 February 2002

Though wholeness is indeed my priority And the sensing function

My body now, alas, is paying the price, Together with

Due not least to constant U.S. vetoes Of U.N. resolutions

The streets near the park In Ramat Gan, Traffic-clogged and

Israel’s soul is all but lost. For the most vocal

Were he alive today, The holistic Qohelet, Or Ecclesiastes, Would