Gerald Bosacker
1998
CHERNOBYL'S LEGACY
In just ten years man will forget
that all land masses do connect
by waterways that mute collect
Chernobyl trash now circumspect
but holding back ten million tears.
The fatal myth will then arise
that man can somehow pasteurize
interring waste tagged with lies
while poison rays still materialize
for the next two thousand years.
NEUTRON GAMES
Come play with us that game of war
Where triple kill is simply score,
For who can tell who ends ahead
If winners win but toasted dead.
Watch trails of Rockets cross the sky
Profaning cross where Gods might die
With tic tac toes of ghostly white
When man turns off the Heaven's light.
REAGAN MEANS RAIN *Deutches Werdebuch
(On occasion of Reagan's visit to Germany)
We send you Reagan, to make the flowers bloom
saving none for graves when all the world is tomb,
and Gods inhabit caves!
We send you Reagan to wash away the blood
of battles fought before to brew with ash a mud,
dirt-cleansing fields of war.
We send you Reagan, repayment for Von Braun
who helped us Pershings build.
Their pyrrhic curtain will ring down
on Earth when life itself is stilled.
WHEN
Don't cry my child, Here!, dry your eye,
our King will build so we can't die,
A Space-War shield called SDI,
When Eagles swim and Codfish fly!
The sick and old we'll hide no more,
We'll scrap our guns to feed the poor,
Love all mankind and Peace restore
When Lions sing and Robins roar!
Our coward's shame, their weakness spurn,
We build more bombs to sadly learn,
That it's not Peace those weapons earn,
When mountains melt and rivers burn!