Chronicles

Chronicles is a collection of 65 poems by Acie Cargill. They concern events and people he has either observed or thought about. They are written in a journalistic poetry style that he learned and developed with his mentors Mark Strand and Gwendolyn Brooks. There are six poems at the end by Lauren Seeley and one by Marlene Broderick. Cargill has written a series of poetry books which will be soon published relating mostly to events and attitudes of the past 50 years. He hopes that future generations will be able to use this material to apprise and evaluate life at this time. Some of the poems are from the words of Martin Luther King, Ted Kennedy, Michelle Obama, and Abraham Lincoln. Some are critical of environmental abuse, animal abuse, police brutality, self-abuse, general unfriendliness among neighborhoods, the adulation of English and other royalty, the way homeless are treated, and excessively large homes and the lifestyles that goes with them. Some of the poems are adulatory for individuals such as Danica Patrick, Bobby Thompson, Green Beret heroes, war protesters, hobo Liberty Justice, climber Ron Kirk, Pope John Paul II, IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, Coach Jack Robinson, Jack Kervorkian, and Greenpeace activists. There are also tributes celebrating the 50 years of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. Cargill is an environmental and animal rights activist and a member of American Mensa and the Grammy Association. List of Poems: 1. Greenpeace Heroes, the 450 foot Chicago smokestack 2. Get Rid of Royalty 3. Little Sister, Anorexia 4. I Cry For The Earth 5. Gigantos, The Rio Whale Rescue Attempt 6. Earth Liberation Front 7. Pope John Paul II, The Peacemaker 8. Words of Martin Luther King 9. Escape from a Nursing Home 10. McMansions 11. Words of Abraham Lincoln 12. Danica Patrick 13. Did Jesus Exist 14. Pirates of Somalia 15. A Man's Man 16. I Got Pet Zombies 17. Chicago, 1968, Democratic National Convention 18. Death of Ron Kirk 19. Liberty Justice 20. Homeless 21. Heroes of Huong Tran 22. Fortresses of Hate 23. Bobby Thompson, The Shot Heard Round the World 24. Epilepsy 25. The Sea 26. Nero Fiddling While Rome Burns 27. Where I Stand / Ted Kennedy 28. Should You Go To Your Reunion 29. If You Eat Meat 30. Bubbly Creek, Chicago 31. Bobby Sands 32. Words of Michelle Obama 33. Alaska 50 years Statehood 34. Hawaii 50 years Statehood 35. Were you in VietNam 36. Last Words of Jeanne D'Arc 37. Marie Antoinette, Let Them Eat Cake 38. Misogyny Friedrich Nietzsche 39. Oppositional Defiance Disorder / Cinderella Complex 40. Kakusa Shakai 41. Colorado Gold 42. Misery and Regret 43. Murders in Mexico 44. John Worboy, London Taxi Murders 45. MySpace Suicide 46. Skinflint 47. Extreme Fighter 48. I Live to Ride 49. Self-Image 50. Assassination of Acie Cargill 51. Flies Buzzing About My Body 52. When You Die 53. Police Brutality 54. Coach Robbie 55. Prayer for the Next President 56. Thank You, Dr. Kervorkian 57. Vanity 58. Save the Arctic Refuge / ANWR 59. Crohn's Song (Lauren Seeley) 60. Joan of Arc (Lauren Seeley) 61. I Am Judgmental (Lauren Seeley) 62. Attention! Deficit! Disorder! (Lauren Seeley) 63. Living Alone (Lauren Seeley 64. Peaceful Here (Lauren Seeley) 65. Alien Senses (Marlene Broderick) 66. Republic Steel Massacre / Chicago 67. Dear Mother 68. The Burqa in America 69. Blackhawk Mother 70. Jimmy Reed at the Goat Club 71. Underclass1 72. Back to Iraq? 73. Boycott BP 74. I aint no Puppet 75. Dave Carter Tribute 76. Israel / Palestine 77. Skip a Rope (2016) 78. Little Jimmie Blues 79. Cold-blooded Murder 80. Eugene Debbs 81. Joan of Arc 82. Marlon Brando 83. How Did I Come To Live In This Land 84. Robert Johnson and The Devil 85. Ghetto Slide 86. The New Right or Wrong 87. You're Eating Yourself to Death 88. American Buffalo 89. Times are Tough 90. Loneliness on the Treeless Plains 91. Pullman Recollection 92. Cumberland River 93. Being non-gender 94. Faded Memory 95. Cops Killing Citizens