Abe was shot in ’65, Booth the crook still at large. Abe was shot once again, Illinois to Choshoo funeral train. Tragic blow blood on snow, flag of the Rising, son still bleeding. Fetters of free intelligence! By whores of apes ’n ignorance! Shinzo means ‘heart’, surely was a Braveheart. Safe no more! Botched security corps! Hanging tree Sakura, the land of the fleeting Buddha.

JB Editorial Team

THE MORNING GOOLIES 「Daily Milk Delivery!」presented by Japan Broadcasting.net Corporation

The poet is shellshocked at the assassination of Giappone’s illustrious statesman. The unforgivable catastrophe is reminiscent of that of Abraham Lincoln.

‘Choshoo’, by the way is an alternative spelling of Choshu, which is today’s territory of Yamaguchi in Southwestern Japan.