Watchtower

[Thunderembargo]

Watchtower
 
Call me Jehovah.
 
I will make a nation of you
who would knock on doors
'till the day
all the houses are emptied.
 
But you're lookin' and lookin' and lookin'
when the beast is in Brooklyn.
 
The beast is in Brooklyn.

I read the dukealien critique in order to get some baring, or perhaps bearings, on the poem.   Although I have to confess, because of the religious reference to the Judeo-Christian God---which initiates the poem, my first instinct was to associate the beast with Mustafa Shalabi who helped the opponents of the WTC, NOT Jared Kushner's real estate co.    I really like the poem nonetheless.