Contemporary Literary Review India | eISSN 2394-6075 | Vol 2 No 3: CLRI August 2015

Poems by Gary Beck

Discharged

Combat veterans

return home

where little has changed

while they served

in a hostile land

of roadside bombs,

ambushes, sniping,

stubborn determination

to drive out occupiers

with implacable jihad,

but the tour survived,

welcomed by loved ones

who don't understand

why they miss their rifles.

Protest II

Radical groups

easily infiltrate

righteous protests

of social injustice,

using their agenda

of mindless violence

to kidnap the headlines

from sincere efforts

to make changes

in an unfair system,

implicating everyone

in hostile confrontations

with law enforcement,

eliminating the chance

of improving conditions

for those in need.

Plague

Persistent inclinations

to oppressively bully

the weaker, vulnerable,

are symptoms of disease

in a corrupted body,

a carrier, polluted host,

untreated infecting others

with debilitation, illness

halting healthy development,

depleting potential

due to negligent parents,

dysfunctional system.

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has 8 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways (Winter Goose Publishing). Perceptions and Displays will be published by Winter Goose Publishing. His novels include Extreme Change (Cogwheel Press) Acts of Defiance (Artema Press). Flawed Connections has been accepted by Black Rose Writing. His short story collection, A Glimpse of Youth (Sweatshoppe Publications). His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. He lives in New York City.

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