While the World Burns

Michael Peach

Just as the complete man
Is a true microcosm,
So thinks he globally,
While acting locally.
The opposite, in fact,
To George W. Bush.

Jerusalem
3 November 2006

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

In his sonnets Will’s narrator loves a manPlatonically; for he’s

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