Soon

Michael Peach

Soon there’ll be no quiet places
Left in which to stroll.
Modern man with his diabolic toys
Will have conquered solitude completely.

Jerusalem
11 January 1994

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,