Sunday Poetry: Jean Gerard

LULLABY FOR A HAPPY LITTLE CHRISTMAS

(a more or less found poem for
a more or less lost soul)

Rock-a-bye baby belly-down
On the living-room rug,
legs from the knees kicking
the air as you manipulate
the controls of your

new digital all-the-rage game
“Waterboarding-house.”
Don’t think. It’s about reaction!
Hone your gear! Blow your mind!
Response is where it’s at!

This is the fastest-moving
revolutionary
targeting
system
yet produced.
Live dogs! Realistic
Islamofascists!

Open-ended game play!
Challenging, eye-ball snatching!
Mixes fun with brutality!
Heads up, man! Here’s one
comin’ at you
compliments of a little digital geek
in Outer Mongolia!
ho! ho! ho!

Jean Gerard

(Published at Poets Against The War.)