The Burning Bush

Michael Peach

Behold the paranoid President,
Whose literalist interpretation
Of Revelations will self-fulfill
Its “prophecies” and sear the world.

Jerusalem
12 March 2003

Without that Muse who once did him inspire, When he

Palistrael, the Anima and Soul Could Armageddon thwart And men

Some thirteen years ago a hell-bent horde Of bearded Yankee

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me: Israel’s America’s

The truth’s now clear, and duly shocks me:Israel’s America’s sacred

Because King Donald the Election won,The Tenth Crusade has finally