The Pen Is Mightier...

A Letter to the Editor They Were Afraid To Publish

by Sam DiBernardo

Dear Editor, when someone slashes your tires, eggs and keys your car and does the most horrific things to one and is unseen, hiding behind the cloak of stealth and darkness; perhaps captured on camera and quickly erased so that even though they certainly know who the criminal/criminals are, the proof needed to make an arrest is lacking; and the criminal acts condoned or even ordered-- What do you do? YOU FIGHT BACK!

I don’t believe in acts of criminal mischief but, that doesn’t mean I can’t fight back with all the weapons at my disposal; my talents as a poet and writer! Yes, I can fight back with my most dangerous weapon MY PEN!!!
So, Mister, this might be a first, it is A Poem to the Editor with a note that all people are NOT hopeless and some fight back against all odds and against horrific autocratic rule and this is how! It matters not you refused its publication for this is a new age and a new time—it is THE AGE OF THE BLOG!!!

The Co-Op Board

After oozing forth
Out from under a dark rock
The slime is formed and becomes
The Ambrosia of Gore
Like the snake
That sheds its putrid scaled skin
it slithers
And it creeps into power
scratching clutching grabbing holding on to corrupt
More and board power it craves
To fill his spiteful clawing paws
to spawn dissent and enmity
and line his purse made of sow’s ear
Yo be it, he vilifies all that is good and pure
Corrupting corruption beyond hell
And to keep a strangulating grip
on the throat of the goddess of truth
it forms the cadre
The blind and muted co-op board
the mindless and easily led few
that suckle at puss laden teats
to curry his favor and gain ill gotten rewards
The treasured member is he who sucks up
this scum of mutts
the juice of his ignorance
the putridification of many years
to suffer his poison
To suffer his rule
But know he is truly cursed
with sickness of mind and filth filled soul

So good men, women and ye of courage
In its Eye
Poke it with stick and arrow
As the gods have done
To suffer no more
To suffer no more

Sam Di Bernardo, Candidate for City Council Dist 32, Queens NY