Bruce Dale Wise

“On the 60th Anniversary of the Killing of JFK”

a poem by Caud Sewer Bile

photo c/o New York Times

“ruthless men seek my life”                       
—King David, “Psalm 54”

Does anybody still believe, in ode or threnody,
Lee Harvey Oswald murdered John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
There was so much corruption in that so-called Camelot,
and false analysis done on the body that was shot.

Which members of the militant industrial complex
joined with police and secret service for such vile effects?
Which judges and which politicians were complicitous?
How many people in the world were duplicitous?

How many had to die to keep the cover-up in tact?
How much fake news flew through the mainstream media, in fact?
Who in the mafia, the FBI, and CIA,
were at the beck and call of ruthless men and LBJ?

XXX

(Caud Sewer Bile is a pen-name anagram for poet Bruce Dale Wise.)

“Jon Fosse’s Work”: A Poem

by Lars U. Ice Bedew

photo c/o Henrik Montgomery, TT News Agency

Influenced by the Irish playwright Beckett, in his scope,

his plays are bleak, impersonal, and minimal in hope.

From “Raut, svart” to the doppelgängers in “…Septology…”

his novel on Lars Herterveg explores psychology,

where he observes two crossing lines, one purple and one brown,

slow painted, thick, they mix and drip—not how art should be done?

Yet of the things that are most striking of Jon Fosse’s work

is that the prose and poetry are written in Nynorsk;

in short terse sentences he gave “voice to th’ unsayable”,

like a Norse Hemingway’s words, earnest and conveyable.

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(“Lars U. Ice Bedew” is an anagram pseudonym for poet Bruce Dale Wise.)