While Zafar takes his crop to town
Businessmen snort ******
Teens buy bundels to fill their veins
With housewives Oxycontin reins

The Generals demand their Percs
Technocrats love Dilaudid's quirks
While drones fly over Zafar's field
Counting flowers for next year's yield

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The Poppy and the Drone

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removed.-n3

this is obviously a piece on a troubled country. It tells so much with so few lines. I admire the simple strength
And powerful message.

terry-oleary

Well... we sure accomplished a lot...Terry

se-reimer

men and their pained, twisted plans, their disturbing, frightening wars. there's much between the lines here, r... a good style of positing the questions we all need to be asking, the ugly we all need to take responsibility for.

mariau4

removed.-1kis

Brilliantly written on a sad and troubling issue

pradip-chattopadhyay

rebecca-askew

Big, big, big business... that tears its way through everything it touches.

removed.-m7ml

sally-a-bayan

Everybody knows it is true, everybody agrees...most of us, we are angry...but I am scared....still, you made them rhyme...admirable, rick.
Sally