The Missing Links

Mr. Bones was
adding links to his blog
when everything

went to hell
on the spot---
the blogspot.

His Winnie the Pooh
dead in Iraq gone,
his links

to the greatest
of all chicano poets
gone.

Mr. Bones was standing
on ground zero,
Nagasaki,

the links looked
like the outlines of human beings.
Dubya’s smile was radioactive

and he was threatening
other nations again and again
with his brand of Texas democracy.