Leave Us Alone Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Leave us Alone
A risky apathy is darkening our time emails damning
the Clintons never stop arriving and are left unread
The scandal that could have sunk a battleship barely
makes it headline news
Some newspapers are tired of WikiLeaks bring nothing
but unpleasant news; tell us a joke instead.
The Settler on the west bank and Israeli soldiers are
losing their humanity their cruel banality no longer
stirs the mind, we are tired of bad news, therefore
a joke must not have anti-Moslem overtones not make
fun of religion and not be seen as anti-Semitic
We are tired of falling bombs and the dust they create
clouds of coarse dust drifts over a depressing landscape.
Show us sweet pictures of a kitten and cute dogs.
We don`t want to look into the darkness of the coming
the sufferers will have to suffer alone until mushroom
swirls make the humanity extinct.