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Samotage!
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since 2007-11-26
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0 posted 2007-11-26 04:40 PM



Welcome to the Midnight Nation
Land of the Unapologetically Jaded
Where silohettes of ideallistic romances
Lie lifelessly in the streets
Where the denizens of suburbia dwell
So beautiful with their store brought smiles and black hole eyes
Or the picturesque display
of the people with no names, living on the edge
of drunken nightmares, searching for salvation
Or the overzealous fanatics,these soldiers of light
secretly wanting to hang themselves
with their Bible Belts

Welcome to the Nation
of the corporate messiahs
Bane of the working class, advocates of the well to do
Oaths and cons of the new Great Ceasar
play in your ear to downplay deaths of unsung heroes
Where sweet little girls dream
Of Silicon Valley and the sweet nothings
it whispers in their ears

Welcome to your home
And the melodramatic trend
We'll give you a vial
to hold your tears
And a romance to plunge the knife in
Oh, lovechild of rebels
deformed into an abortion
A facsimile of an ideal
Possibly doomed from the start

Goodnight, dear nation, you've taken your final bow
The angels no longer sleep at your feet.


© Copyright 2007 Samotage! - All Rights Reserved
ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
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Michigan, USA
1 posted 2007-11-27 07:07 PM


Welcome to Passions.
Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945
Texas, USA
2 posted 2007-11-28 04:37 PM


Ah, but did they ever?  Where Cotton Mather preached that the stench of dead Indians was a pleasant smell in God's nostrils?  Where were the angels then? The same place they are now, I think.  I like the flow of this one, and the way you use language.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2007-11-29 12:35 PM


Sounds like you understand our world very well, Samotage.
                               Ida

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