Peacemaker

The Peacemaker The animal stood in the corner of the room chewing on a bail of straw, dung on the floor; a woman, with a bucket, came and collected it for the rose bushes. We know Israel has nuclear weapons, but unless we are drunk and in bad mood we are too polite to mention it; so I left the senate. Stood on a bridge, threw tiny rocks into the river, a yacht passed, and her navigator was hit; collapsed, but got back on his feet again and waved to me with his fist The Israeli army had blocked the entrance to the bridge and Hamas, dressed in stylish black and silk scarves, the exit, I didn’t know how to end this poem so I invented the phone, it rang, Obama, he didn’t know either, I held up the phone so both parties could hear his voice and they backed off long enough for me to get away home to my thistle valley, where eagles fly, sheep bleat, and no one pays attention to biblical prophesies and self igniting bushes.