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Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

0 posted 2006-02-08 05:54 PM

For the Record, I Told You So

My furious tone
Bangs on your governor’s door commanding more,
Demanding everything and what not.
My voice can’t tap dance loud enough
On your space-wasting brain.
I can load my message into a shotgun
And send its fragments towards your head.
It may sting.
But better that than a nuke and a cruise missile
Knocking down your palace
On Christmas Day.
I know you can hear me,
There’s no getting around it
As I scream it through my megaphone.
You can dig trenches around it
And try to shoot the hell out of it.
Nice try but you missed.
Twenty years down the pre-apocalyptic road,
You’ll remember
That ringing banging your eardrum.
Stomping on your ignorance
Doing its little rain dance
Waiting for it to rain bombs.

Momma says, "Life... is like a box full of chocolates, you never know when you're gonna get one with a nut in it".

ravenapples@yahoo.com
Junior Member

since 2006-02-07

Posts 17
Los Angeles, CA

1 posted 2006-02-08 09:08 PM

So what did you tell them?

Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

2 posted 2006-02-08 09:32 PM

I told “them” that war with nuclear weapons will lead to a very bad place. In layman’s terms, war + nuclear weapons = bad business. Because sometimes war is necessary but when the big toys are pulled out, someone might lose an eye or a country. - Ed

Momma says, "Life... is like a box full of chocolates, you never know when you're gonna get one with a nut in it".

ravenapples@yahoo.com
Junior Member

since 2006-02-07

Posts 17
Los Angeles, CA

3 posted 2006-02-08 09:51 PM

kewl

Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

4 posted 2006-02-08 10:17 PM

Thanks. A common misconception about my war poetry is that it is angry. A lot of people have asked me why am I so angry in some poems. Totally untrue, I just get passionate about the topic. I am a pacifist so when I write things like,

"I can load my message into a shotgun
And send its fragments towards your head".

It's purely metaphorical. Cheers - Ed

Momma says, "Life... is like a box full of chocolates, you never know when you're gonna get one with a nut in it".

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2006-02-10 07:33 PM

Keeping to the metaphors,
something lingers on my tongue,
about honey, and vinegar,
and flies.

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om
Junior Member

since 2006-02-10

Posts 31
ontario/canada

6 posted 2006-02-10 07:53 PM

humerous I thought,
little weak on the ending after 'you'll remember', but a fun read and said with voice

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

7 posted 2006-02-13 04:18 PM

A very powerful write.

:-)

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize Wi

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