• Re: Poetry and the Iraq War

    Jaime Alberto Galarza

    How refreshing to hear a lucid, a decent American who does not fear the power, the corrupting power coming out from Washington and its prostitute: the media. They are the ones who one day sat and, since they had all been begotten by the same monster, planned the Iraqi crime. They laughed in conversing about the technicalities to be overcome: the US Constitution for example. Cheney, for instance, said that "that paper" was absolutely obsolete. "The President", he said, "cannot be encumbered by such minutiae". In hearing that, the pet immediately jumped on the table and with a characteris… Read More

    June 28, 2008

  • The Big Question

    Jaime Alberto Galarza

    It has to do with our existence. How important and especially how relevant is it? And for whom? Most of us have been led to believe that our lives are important to God, but are they? If our world were about to be sucked into a black hole, for example, would God intervene? These thought made me write the following.                                    MY QUESTION  All of a sudden,From the deepest recesses of the spiritMy heart reached out… feeling, yearning.I watched as a spider flung itsfilamentsIn its eternal task.My question! Does life, my life, your life,its life, our … Read More

    April 6, 2008