THE TURKS ARE COMING...THE TURKS ARE COMING...

The TURKS ARE COMING!...The TURKS ARE COMING...
[PRESIDENT BUSH - 'GENOCIDE' is not a bargaining chip to assuage
the feelings of an ally to the U.S. THIS IS HISTORY NOT 'SPIN'!]

The Turks are coming! Run for your lives - we yelled.
Disrupting the pink-and-blue restful summer's twilight
of those rocking gently on the wooden porch
ofthe 'ARMENIAN HOME FOR THE AGED'.

Seven high-school boys packed tight into a Volkswagen "Beetle'.
High on six-packs of cheap beer that fueled
teenaged frenzy, booming our boyhood bigotries.
Trumpeting and screaming wildly as if we were mad 'Kazakhs' from the steppes of suburbia.

Disrupting the peaceful sunset thoughts of those survivors.
Their dark eyes and eagle-like faces reminders
of imagestinted in sepiamemory of a people fading to another time,
another time of religious slaughter by the faithful.

When Abdulhanid's Muslim moon-shaped knives,
whetted with blood of innocents,
laughed in oriental scabbardsexpressing cruelty and unfelt pity
as we laughed and shouted with glee mocking

the hundreds of thousands that fell at Sasum.
Our cries and hoots of cutting ridicule,
remindingthem of sunflowers spotted with blood from children
whose naked violated bodieswere buried

under a thin veil of the world'ssupposedly more important moments of tragedy.
In our perverted sense of boyhood humeurs;
we were as painful as an old scab ripped from a festering ugly wound,
never realizing in that pink-and-blue twilight time;
we were also shameless young Turks to be hated.