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wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22
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TEXAS (it's all big)

0 posted 2003-02-07 09:19 PM


There isn’t anything
new in the world
Matter, prefabricated
nor destroyed
fumes in factories
of futilitarians

consummate infinite

I eat the soggy world
on my bone-plate
The tines of my chosen fork
strike a musical forte
The death dirge of war machine
cog-teeth
scrapes the upper crust
from the metal

In the real world
next to the current events
My son covers his eyes,
counts backwards from ten…


[This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (02-08-2003 12:26 AM).]

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BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549
By the Seaside
1 posted 2003-02-07 10:00 PM


Such a powerful ending Walt!
How do we explain this sort of thing
to our children so that we might
still their fear?

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with you
2 posted 2003-02-07 10:04 PM


yeah, Jon and I have been talking to our kids, it's so hard...and the ending Walt, really hits it home...
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