GEORGE FALUDY'S TIME
(1910 -2006)

George Faludy
with your love
for Villon
in Hungary
persecuted
for your ancestry
translated Heine
and vilified
by Nazi Germany,
translated Erasmus
for he too was civilized,
and not dated
but universal in time
like Moses and Jesus,
so George,
don't be surprised,
after every ism is gone
as every herbal mimosa
leaves the chorus of earth
and your mature prism
has been critically analyzed
to the satiric laughter
that the world's media
bestows
on less politically orthodox
who would not understand,
imprisoned like a Socrates
given to the hemlocks
we believe in your charisma
George Faludy,
as a miracle poet
of blessed memory
has been finally recognized.

CYBER BULLIES

How would you
describe him/her
with a twitter mind
as a bitter cyber blogger
who writes to harm or hurt
as any stupid thug or flirt,
exchange your black tie
knee pants, shirt
or mini skirt
and look at yourself
critically in the mirror
we think you may have a soul
and really better things to do
with your bully pulpit time
as any Gentile, Christian or Jew
why not have an artistic goal
than destroy other lives
by turning to computer crime.

SAMUEL BECKETT'S TIME

End gamed
shamed as persons
rendered on
Krapp's last tape
hung by pages of rope
from a lying tongue
with no list for hope
in an age of fascism
men turned into soap
when a refugee artist says
in many languages
he is framed.

ALAN TURING'S CODE

Alan Turning suffers his fate
in patterns of a computer code
designed by a genius' mind
beyond any word games to suit
in my ode to honor his memory
from this elegy for his life
to save us from fascism's state,
as in the Manhattan project
science would also explode
for democracy too has a code,
like-wise everyone
has been gifted
with different equations
even in sexual ways,
the cold 1950's Brits finding
as in Oscar Wilde's older days
that buggery was worse
than any burglary
in their very absurd contextual ways.

PINTER PLAY

Not knowing
     yet moving
  along blindly
   acting in Beckett's
     "last Krapp's tape".

DUKE AND DUCHESS

They never fooled me
this comely pair
with petty bourgeois charisma
as clever warrior faces of racism
as the Windsors tie the knot
with a snobby air
and a love for Hitler's fascism,
these two pro Nazi folks
who hated their own U.K.
appearing on U.S. TV.
after the war with comedy
in laughter and stale jokes
as foul traitors they were
like those with a choir
of religious piety
appearing on Variety shows
pretending to be gladiators
of teaching truth and harmony
while preaching to society
when they are truly hostile
(in comity to their own history)
of reality to free speech
we who can see through them
in black and white
within our reach,
shut off the screen and go away.

SILENCE

Pindar knew the verity
of silence
amid blips and stars
of heaven's history
even facing apocalypse,
with wisdom's sincerity
or the gods sanctity
on your lips
you may make a difference.