An Exerpt of Poetry
from - If All Men Were Angels

by John Davis Collins.....© 1998 by John F. Clennan, All Rights Reserved

Outtakes from IF ALL MEN WERE ANGELS were published by the legendary Bill Loepkey's Inditer Dot Com of Canada. Against advancing illness and frustration which the legal system imposed, Bill Loepkey promoted literature and culture on the internet. It is no small recognition that his countrymen have hono[u]red Bill in their Bibliotek Nationale. In many respects Angels complimented Mr Loepkey's complex situation: a fascination with the new electronic against the onslaught of an illness induced by the marvels of technology.The central message of IF ALL MEN WERE ANGELS twisting the themes of hope and dispair agianst the background of the Third Industrial Revolution might have been met a receptive audience at Inditer Dot Com . Hope and the promise meet reality and gloom at the gate of Hunterspoint Correctional Facility in a factory turned prison housing the masses displaced by the Third Industrial Revolution. I am a deputy warden, who keys a sturdy gate. You call for Mr Bridges, at a portal designed for freight. The Bridges poetry is a significant component of IF ALL MEN WERE ANGELS as young Ben Bacone an upcoming young lawyer looking for a song and his jaded mentor Jack Nater planning to cash out on one last big case and retire face a Brave New World of the Cyber-age where the old rules no longer work. What was up is down and turned around, as by nature's order reversed, What was then implored is now deplored by an angry surf. Who will survive and by what measure? Blondie "Haunting as a conscience?" says Donald Grant Deman Editorial Board Inditer Dot Com of Canada. If All Men Were Angels Take a trip through the secret corridors of power, Read IF ALL MEN WERE ANGELS

Give Me A Song Give me a song a bright melody Play me a tune, in harmony. Strum with a flair a sweetened refrain Tell me you care lighten my pain. Deliver my prayer in bright hearted surprise Blanket the air with sweet little lies. Give me a Song ! Give me a song send dark clouds away A cheery melody to brighten my day. Words softly croon with sensitivity Cover the moon in rhapsody. Whistle me a tune make my heart ache Come to me soon I Can't hardly wait. Give me a song Give me a song a ballad to hum A search for miracles tender no pain. Thunder my plea emotions untamed Fortunes fickle chuckles burning inflamed. Words left unsaid rattles my brain Loneliness ahead drives me insane. Give me a song Give me a song Be ever so kind Magic of words You be my friend. String it verse Thoughts can pretend For better or worse the song never ends. Set it in rhyme Watch me burst Drive me out of my mind Oh, how it hurts. Give me a song Give me a song Just out of key Rhythm and rhyme Staccotic symphony. Bright cheery chimes Fade quickly away The meter clicks time with nothing to say. The last long line unwinds at the end Song lingers on air We part as friends.

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