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RSWells
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0 posted 2005-02-03 01:03 AM


Somewhere there’s a leaning forest,
fertilized by placentas luckless Americans
don’t bury, that leave hospitals in light blue plastic,
shuttled in the wee hours by harder plastic hampers
into white vans like tragic hazards
(though some go into NuSkin products
“the secret of youth”)

Somewhere else a man, one finger nubbed,
squints like a sun washed predator
seeking out the next stunned moo cow
to convince her she needs him and that she
is a racehorse and that surely his saddle fits,
all squeezed between teeth I paid for,
in a voice not heard outside of “Gunsmoke,”
and will leave at the next to last drop of milk

Elsewhere, in an orange clad line, several
sleep deprived will eat baloney on white bread,
with a choice of mustard or mayonnaise, an apple,
in a cold hard place and do a mini dance before a judge
where their ghost like presence is denounced in familiar
language by a broken record and they, voiceless
and having been braced by a stranger on their feet
beforehand, will eat whatever’s handed them
without a choice of condiments    



Poets against the war is redundant

[This message has been edited by RSWells (02-03-2005 11:35 AM).]

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passing shadows
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1 posted 2005-02-03 02:57 AM


baloney isn't all that bad, on white with mayo
Sunshine
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2 posted 2005-02-03 06:00 AM



I cannot explain it
but I understand it...
it's an emptiness that,
whilst you may claim it
is borrowed by others...


Gentle Spirit
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3 posted 2005-02-03 09:08 AM


Every verse holds such impact and yes,
the emptiness though you feel it is shared by many Richard.  

and yes, I, along with many walk on the same land that you do as we all reside on their land.

LeeJ
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4 posted 2005-02-03 09:22 AM


Richard...I'm speechless, which is a feat in its own...


RSWells
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5 posted 2005-02-03 11:37 AM


The later edit was to change the line in the second stanza from "teeth I bought" to "teeth I paid for"....made a difference to me.

Poets against the war is redundant

inkedgoddess
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6 posted 2005-02-03 11:43 PM


yea
we're all so damned pathetically human aint we?
enjoyed your sardonic blistering blast here

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