Jack the cat is dead

lost at JFK getting free of his fatal baggage

and wandering the terminal for 61 days

until a plunge through a roof

gave him wounds from which he could not recovery

God damn American Airlines

who ran the 'Airbus' that crashed

on Belle Harbor two months after 9/11

and God Damn their 'condolences'

and the imbeciles at Kennedy International

the brain-dead ex-cons

who's second chance is to land a gig

where they could care less about the job they are doing

and frisk young women and old ladies

at security checkpoints

and let animals go because they're just animals

and what do they matter?

God Damn this whole earthly systems

breeding human monsters

the drones and their savage bosses

who think they are God's representatives on earth

or who don't believe there's a God at all

all the filthy power-madness that passes for human desire

and rules this world continuously to its fatal ends

God Damn all these little tyrants

and God Bless poor little Jack

who's last days must have been a bewilderment

few of us could have sustained

we all are Jack the Cat

and we all are looking for that clearance to lift free

of the runway and leave this miserable world

which is also the suspect design of the Perfect One

Jack the Cat's turd is worth more

than the whole stinking enterprise

and we envy him the ending of his misery

may he find and play with my buddies William

and Mammi in that heaven of animals Dickey wrote about

even there faithful to the human spirit

that showed him the love the World could not muster

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