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JOHN ("JAKE") COSMOS ALLER - POEMS

7/3/2019

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​John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller is a novelist, poet, and former Foreign Service officer having served 27 years with the U.S. State Department serving in ten countries (Korea, Thailand, India, the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts, St Lucia, and St Vincent) and Spain. Prior to joining the U.S. State Department, Jake taught overseas for eight years. Jake served in the Peace Corps in Korea. He grew up in Berkeley but has lived in Seattle, Stockton, Washington DC, Alexandria, Virginia and Medford, Oregon. He has traveled to over 45 countries and 49 states. He has been writing poetry, fiction, and novels for years. He has completed four SF novels and is seeking publication. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines online. His poetry blog can be found at https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com

​Buddha Cat of Edsall  Road 

​I had another encounter
With the divine recently
Another Cosmic cat perhaps
Perhaps not
 who knows what cats are
are they alien from another dimension
or was he channeling God ?
 
I call him the Buddha cat
For the cat loves
Sitting in a meditative pose
Not moving
Just starting at me
With his soulful deep eyes
Boring into my soul
exploring all my secret thoughts
 
the buddha cat
does not move
does not react
as he is so deep
into his interior mediation
truly in tune
with the cat universe
and the cosmos as well
 
the buddha cat
seems to be
one with God
one with Buddha
One with Allah
And all the other
Billion names of God
Known and unknown
 
The buddha cat
Can teach us all
About the art of meditation
As he zones inward
And loses his soul
Joining the cosmos
And becoming
The buddha cat
 
The buddha cat
Lives in a modest
Town house
In a modest suburb
Proving yet again
The divine spirit of God
Is everywhere all around us
 
The buddha cat
Reminds us all
To look for god
In the everyday
All around us
If we but have eyes
To see 

​President Trump  Your Words Don’t Make Any Sense Anymore

President Trump
Your words don’t make any sense
Any more
As they are increasingly
devoid of meaning
 
Often every word
out of your corrupted mouth
Is the exact opposite
of the accepted meaning
Of that word or phrase
 
Just one example
You were accused
Of trying to hide
the name Mc Caine
From the ship bearing that name
 
So that you would
 not be confronted
With the hated name
Mc Cain  
On your trip to Japan
 
If you had the chance
I am sure
You would engage
In the soviet era practice
Of removing people
from historical records
 
And Mc Caine
all references to the Senator
And his admiral father
Would be forbidden from being used
Seen or remembered
 
But you could not
even do that
As your evil foul deed
Came to light
In a memo
 
 
Written by an underling
Rather than admitting the truth
You gave us a world salad
Filled with unhinged words
Lumped together
 
President Donald Trump
insisted Thursday
he had nothing to do
 with keeping the USS John S. McCain
hidden from the site of his weekend speech
 
He said whoever
had done so was
“well-meaning.”
“I wasn’t involved.
I would not have done that.
 
I was very angry
 with John McCain
because
he killed health care,”
Trump said,
 
referring to the late senator’s
deciding vote
that killed a Senate GOP bill
to repeal
the Affordable Care Act.
 
“I was not a big fan
of John McCain
in any way, shape or form,”
Trump continued in comments
to reporters
 
“Now,
somebody did it
because they thought
I didn’t like him,
 OK?
 
And they were
well-meaning.
I will say,
I didn’t know anything
about it.
 
I
      would
                  never
                                have
                                            done
                                                           that.”
 
Almost
 every word
in your statement
Has been verified
to be a lie
 
And your statement
That whoever did it
Was well meaning
Contradicts
 “Well meaning”
 
For no one “well meaning”
Could have even contemplated
Such an act of monstrous  
profound disrespect
For three war heroes
 
Senator MC Caine
tortured in Vietnam
For five years
His Admiral father
And his admiral grandfather
 
In no way
could these actions
Be described as “well meaning”
As they were
profoundly mean spirited
 
 
And how pray tell
did John Mc Cain
Kill Health Care? 
By voting to not repeal health care?
Without a replacement plan
 
 
Meaning 15 millions people
would lose health care
Overnight?
That is how he killed
heath care?
 
It seems to me that the only
Accurate word would be
That he saved health care
From being destroyed forever
 
 
And how did you not know
Anything about this?
Why did someone in your team
Come up with this bizaro plan
Straight out of the Soviet era playbook
 
Perhaps President Putin
advised you
How to disappear people
from official photos?
And official memory as well?
 
All these words
No longer mean
what they used to mean
Now they mean what they mean
in a Trumpian bizaro world
 
As our mad prophet King
Chases the rabbit
Down the rabbit hole
Into the land
of wonderland
 
Where he hopes to rule
us forever
Screaming off with their heads
As he cuts words up
Into meaningless drabble
 
Where all words
Become unhinged lost words
In a cosmic word salad
Where they lose their meaning
And their mooring to reality
 
 
Found Poem Version
 
President Donald Trump
insisted Thursday
he had nothing to do
 with keeping the USS John S. McCain
hidden from the site of his weekend speech
 in Japan.
 
He said whoever
 
had done so was “well-meaning.”
“I wasn’t involved.
I would not have done that.
I was very angry
 with John McCain
because he killed health care,”
 
Trump said,
referring to the late senator’s deciding vote
that killed a Senate GOP bill
to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
 
“I was not a big fan of John McCain
in any way, shape or form,”
 
Trump continued in comments
to reporters
 on the South Lawn
of the White House.
 
 “Now,
somebody did it
because they thought
I didn’t like him, OK?
 
And they were
well-meaning.
 
I will say,
I didn’t know anything
about it.
 
I would never have done that.”
 
Trump’s second denial
came after 
The Wall Street Journal reported
 Wednesday
 
that the White House
wanted the Navy
to move the destroyer
“out of sight,”
 
citing an email
between military officials.
 
The ship is named for the late Arizona senator
and his father and grandfather,
 who were admirals.
 
Trump initially
denied any knowledge
of the effort in a tweet Wednesday night.
 
But an email to Navy and Air Force officials,
obtained by CNBC,
 had a number of directives,
 
including: “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight,”
and asking officials to “please confirm”
that directive “will be satisfied.”
A source with knowledge of the matter
confirmed to CNBC
the existence of that email.
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The Journal
said a tarp
was hung over
the ship’s name ahead
of Trump’s trip
 
and that sailors
were directed to remove coverings
from the destroyer
that bore the McCain name.
 
The newspaper also said sailors
assigned to the ship,
who generally wear caps bearing its name,
 were given the day off
 
during Trump’s visit
to the nearby USS Wasp.
Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan
 
later told reporters,
 
“I would never dishonor
the memory of a great American patriot
like Sen. John McCain”
 
by asking that the ship be kept out of sight.
“I’d never disrespect
the young men and women
that crew that ship.
 
I’ve asked my chief of staff
to look into the matter ...
and as soon
as I find out more about this
I’ll let you know,” he added.
 
Note:  Please do so and let us know who gave the order
And whether this order was carried out
And if so, under who’s authority??
Inquiring minds want to know
 
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/trump-whoever-kept-uss-john-mccain-out-of-sight-was-well-meaning.html
 

 
 
                                                      
 

​Virginia Beach Massacre Never Again Ever
 

Virgina Beach
In a night of horrific scumbagery violence
Rarely seen in this jaded age of ours
Gone in one hour
In a spasm of horrific scumbagery violence
In just a few short minutes
Nothing more than that
In just a few moments
All 12 victims were murdered
 
By a disgruntled employee
Every one he knew was shot
And killed for no reason
Caused by the demons
His soul was so infected
 
Murderous demonic voices
All in his head
Screaming kill them all kill them all
Screaming none stop violence in his head
All the time
Causing him to start shooting everyone he saw
Regardless of who they were or where they were
Everyone must die screamed the demonic voices in his head
 
No one can be left alive
Everyone must die
Virtually all must die in his internal video game
Everyone must die
Regardless of who they were or where they were
 
Again just another day
Gone horribly wrong
All across America
In every town
No where is safe anymore
 
 
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/31/us/virginia-beach-shooting/index.html

 

​Berkeley Life Scout

​Best thing growing up
Experience as a life boy scout
Really great experiences
Kind of unique
Especially in Berkeley in the 60’s and 70’s
“Like wow man boy scouts are like fucking fascists training camps man, you are going to be a future FBI CIA DEA Narco undercover James Bond and shit, super bad assed motherfucking cop or something like that man.”
Everyone who was not a scout would tell me
Yet I persisted and loved being a boy scout
 
Life as a boy scout was weird yet totally awesome 
In those weird and wacky days learning to play with guns in the woods
Filled with denunciation of incipient fascism by everyone I met
Everyone told me that I would become a FBI counter intel agent
 
Still I persisted in my boy scout folly
Can’t blame folks for thinking those thoughts
Of course the boy scouts were all male, mostly white, non-atheist friendly
Unfriendly to the LGBT community
This was against the boy scout oath to be morally pure
 
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