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machiner
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0 posted 2004-09-21 11:35 PM


This poem is not pretty. I wrote it as part of a thread I was involved in 10/01 on theconnection forums. I thought I had posted it here, but I searched and came up empty.

I have posted the thread on my website, and a topic with a link to it in the Discussion forums, Philosophy 101, for discussion.

===> discussion topic

Here is a short swipe at raw.

    Here is Orphan:

babies cry louder than bombs
requesting the attention
of a "precisely targeted" mom
not listening.

glistening -
still warm pools of red
caked like wax.
Caked I said -

are her condolances.


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1 posted 2004-09-21 11:53 PM


Poetry and prose about war should not be pretty.  War is not pretty or nice, and all instances of death by violence are ugly.

Stay a while, and speak your piece, machiner. While war and violence are vulgar and repulsive by nature, poetry does not need to be.

Welcome back.

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