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Open Poetry #33

Those Who Will Not Burn

davidmerriman
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since 2003-04-30

Posts 123
Dallas, TX

0 posted 2004-10-13 12:07 PM

this poem is about war and society. it's not very good, it's not polished, and i don't really want to do it. :-) i hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

Those Who Will Not Burn

It’s like a video game,
Tanks crawling across the dirt
With shrubs and hot sun
Seeping from the cracks,
And fuzzy screens with bright
Colored-coded blurbs,
Bouncing bright and bursting,
Advertising to the soreness
Of ever-weary retinas,
Of bunnies in their holes,
Plushy, fear-stricken,
Shaking in the soft of their fur.
Our big bucks must stay.
Their big bucks must go.

It’s like a video game,
And plastic pushed to metal
Makes the moving, roaring sound
That sprays down ground and
Shoots up sprays of dirt.
Save us please, from all the
Crawling, sneaking, prowling wolves
That lurk within the night.
They hide within their packs,
While we stand true and just.
Open and fair, we take the young
And throw them in the grid,
Throw them in and tell them
Exactly what to do.

The pack is one wolf,
And only the paws,
Young and strong and coarse,
Need to be dirtied.
Soft fur that will not go
And taint its lavish glow,
Those who will not burn
Will sink into their sofas,
Will die on greasy bags
Bubbling in the stomach
Of the beast they hate and love,
That oh so comfortably
Pushes all our buttons,
A God that demands sacrifice.

MGROVES

Member Elite

since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

1 posted 2004-10-13 07:18 AM

interesting read. thanks

Mary Parry
Junior Member

since 2004-10-12

Posts 45
Felixstowe, England

2 posted 2004-10-13 09:51 AM

Wow, that struck a chord. Do you ever feel that this crazy world is nothing but a giant executive toy on the desk of a Superior Being?

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