World War 3

[RiverNotch]

The allusion is so thick in this one as to make it inaccessible to those who haven't read Cohen, or whoever.  The pun in No. 2 is terrible :-D
And even the most accessible of the pieces, the final one, has a peculiar ending. It may work for some readers, I don't know.

I would think it's to those who haven't read (or at least heard of) Rilke or Radnoti. The Joni section is, as you have noted, the most accessible (especially since as far as I know Woodstock is a really popular song), and I don't think the Cohen allusions run too thick (I mean, I think it works even without knowing the song "Hallelujah", or the reference to his fusion of Zen and Jewish all throughout -- the only really hard one there is "Chelsea Hotel", and that's discounting the title, which in that case I don't think is not necessary to understand). And even then, I only straight up quoted one Postcard in section No. 2 (the pun is very, very terrible -- and I think a clear enough clue?), and none in section No. 1 (it jumps off mainly from Duino 6 and a cursory reading of Rilke's biography, but then I think that section is straightforward enough to be understood as "the speaker talks to a cowardly poet"). So I don't think this piece is particularly inaccessible, compared to the other stuff I composed composing this (namely Babal and Up Mountains, the first being the mad mad hodgepodge this isn't, the second based on legends only 0.001% of the site knows), but I'll probably judge better if this gets moved to a critical forum -- it's that last section, and how everything really builds to it, that bothers me. Thanks for the notes!

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Also, I think this is the fourth nigh-incomprehensible four-sectioned piece I've posted on this site? Well, I don't really know what to make of that.