The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News

(a poetic description)

The Wreck of Your Life on the Evening News is about what is

at the heart of the heroics (and heartache) of being an American.

As in "Your nephew saw it-the fatal-car-crash screen footage

on 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 with

breasts summoning like some kind of roadside signage."

The poems about deliverance and other less dire potentialities

real and true. Point being if we dare hope, at least that act of faith

will 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