the Wreck of Your Life on Evening News

The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News(a poetic description)The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News is about what isat the heart of the heroics (and heartache) of being an American.As in "Your nephew saw it-the fatal-car-crash screen footageon the evening news. Complete with footage of the blood-and-brain-spatter, the rest of the mayhem you had caused.He ushered a son away from the TV. Offered a magazine.Mercy was the Playboy opened to distract your kid withbreasts summoning like some kind of roadside signage."The poems about deliverance and other less dire potentialitiesreal and true. Point being if we dare hope, at least that act of faithwill be built on a demanding pursuit of truth and beauty because, besides, you know the rest. The part John Keats reminds us of, where beauty is truth and truth, beauty. Always worth a look.--Roy Bentley