Edited by Richard Stone
This month’s selections are by Wayne Warkentin, longtime peace activist, a board member of Peace Fresno for five years, an environmentalist (Sierra Club, Earth First! Save-the-Redwoods League) and an advocate for the homeless and for historic preservation. Warkentin can also often be found reading his poetry at open-mic venues around Fresno.
Ron Holly’s Cup
Do I want to drink
Ron Holly’s cup?
He would lie on the ground
day after day
passionately kissing
with one of the prettiest girls
in the school.
How I envied him then.
Then he went off to ’Nam.
I heard later that he’d
gotten sick there and died,
some kind of tropical disease.
His was a short life.
Would I want to drink Ron Holly’s cup?
Walk a Mile (for Peace Fresno)
Walk a mile for peace
Do it with a friend.
Walk a mile for peace
Do it without end.
