Would it be so bad?



	If instead of all these movements by plane



	in little metal rooms stacked on top



	of an unstable looking and massively polluting ship,



	people gathering up in long queues



	in tents even, for days in front of borders,



	walls, embassies, would it be so bad



	if everything was clamped tight,



	the borders cast in stone and impassable



	except maybe, and a big maybe,



	for the exchange of food by little holes



	too small for humans and too big for gold?



	Too narrow for the promise of arms?



	Too wide for money on terms?



	 



	Each country to its own devices



	like silos in remote farms.



	No military interventions,



	no UN peacekeeping, no tribunals



	or atrocity exhibition trials.



	You want change, make it.



	Roll up your sleeves, life on the line.



	If in every case a corrupt emperor emerges,



	well maybe that’s our monkey nature then?



	Why should we expect better?



	If a people topple the gov’nor



	for a counsel of elders, let it be.



	Give it time.  If we are meant to evolve



	into something less vile,



	what better than mini experiments,



	a series of Petri dishes placed apart



	and hermetically sealed by lids



	made of invisible germs?



	 



	 



	jam20