White-Binder Poems  

Catastrophe would strike America only if millions of citizens
were being killed in conflict, cities burned, outcasts were gassed
by the millions, totalitarians took over the institutions. At
that point one could say that catastrophe had the better day.

A few rotten thoughts, even in one generation,
don't make for a catastrophe.

Putting a criminal in public office teeters on
       catastrophe.