New Poem: POEM FOR SINEAD O’CONNOR

 forgive us because we didn’t think

 didn’t want to find out why you did it

 instead we went along with the crowd’s anger

 over how dare you question infallibility 

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 some of us (myself included) were such cowards

 returned your albums to used music stores

 didn’t want to be reminded of non-music discourse 

 not realizing disturbing peace was vital to you and your art

 

Commenting on the Pope Francis/Kim Davis meeting.

1.  In my lifetime, it's one of the  biggest letdowns since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974.  The Nixon pardon was announced on a slow-news Sunday in that pre-internet era.

2.  One can't be surprised at the secrecy since the Francis visit was clothed in "people's pope" garments--and seemingly crafted to appeal to those who like their Catholicism centered on big-picture Social Justice (climate change, abolition of the death penalty, curbing rampant greed) instead of inflexible doctrine on gay marriage, contraception, abortion, etc.

UPDATED 10/2/15: Link to the Vatican's clarification of the encounter:
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/10/02/_statement_on_popes_meeting_with_kim_davis/1176270