slaughterhouse five times ten

leap backward fifty years
journalists
poets
novelists
students
flower children
enlightened soldiers
fought to end wars

leap forward fifty years
real estate magnates
puppet politicians
people with affluenza
fact-free media
bloggers
tweeters
fight to end organized resistance

leap forward fifty years
“Poo-tee-weet?”

Paul Cech has been writing poetry since 1970. Several of his poems have been published as Saturday Poems in the Pittsburgh- Post Gazette and the Thomas Merton Center of Pittsburgh has published several of his poems in NewPeople. Read other articles by Paul.