Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Darrell Grizzle

interfaith activist bear www.wildfaith.com

The Job

Buddhist monks in long robes drumming handdrums chanting
          na mu myo ho renge kyo
carrying banners for peace as their pilgrimage
leads them through another small-town square

and the townfolk gather to stare at them
with amazement and confusion
as if they were alien beings from a distant shining planet

and a cashier sees them through the window
          over the rows of carton cigarettes
and shakes her head with disgust and says
if those assholes had jobs they wouldn't have time for all this shit

as if the job of peace were not important

as if the job of prayer were not what holds this world together

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