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Accidental Miracle, for Joanna

Upon the sand that slips
                      through the glass
That gets blown by the wind
Upon the rock of hardness
                    the heaviest mass
Upon the dust where
                               we all begin
Upon the glass that lays
                a jagged way unsafe
It is here, where most likely
We can mend by the wisdom
and grace of the
                   accidental miracle

For the Presumed Sins of Alger Hiss

 

 For the presumed sins of Alger Hiss

Edward Dmytryk gave the “House on Un-American Activities Committee” a laundry list

of workingman’s Hollywood: intelligencia, socialists, communists

 

Dmytryk had decided it wasn’t fair to watch

his film making career being ripped from him

No Gentleman Jim

 

His reasoning, he insists, is that by the communists

Dmytryk had been

tricked, bamboozled, hoodwinked, duped

 

That isn’t really how he thinks…

 

Though they were his friends and colleagues

perhaps some were communists,

(which is perfectly okay to be,

according to our country’s liberties)

 

and most definetly there were some hapless

working class consciousness Hollywood bystanders, too,

got cooked in the soup

 

To get his career back, he was the only one

of the Hollywood Ten to sink as miserably low

as Elia Kazan stooped

 

 

He would go on to restore

his Hollywood glories

Though it would cost many

 

He insisted that the case of Alger Hiss

Who was accused of being a spy for the Soviets

Was what got him to turn so many in

 

to the committee for Hiss’ presumed sins,

but Alger Hiss maintained his innocence until he died

an old man in his 90s

 

Dmytryk maintained his opulence by making The Caine Mutiny

 

In honor of those harmed by the vicious and unconstitutional

McCarthy witch hunt, in general

Let's unite to defend, with words and deeds,

 

Your right and mine to be a communist

Or any other thing to be

Except a fascist, sadist, disaster capitalist

 

or a friendly witness like Edward Dmytryk