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Thank God we can't see their tiny faces, masked over with dust and blood. Thank God Uncle Sam erases their mothers' tears in a vast, media-flash of patriotic flood. Thank God they all die over there, and not on our classroom's floor. Thank God we don't have to care about collateral damage behind a bolted door. Thank God we can't see their names lie beneath a bright, smiling yearbook photo of tragic glint. Thank God we bury them out of our mind before they die; the calamity of infants is concrete covered with tiny hand prints. Our Windows are open, but Thank God the blinds are closed. - I hope we write "HOPE" on our missile heads, so they can see what we're really all about.
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Jan 25, 2013
Jan 25, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
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Thank God we can't see their tiny faces, masked over with dust and blood. Thank God Uncle Sam erases their mothers' tears in a vast, media-flash of patriotic flood. Thank God they all die over there, and not on our classroom's floor. Thank God we don't have to care about collateral damage behind a bolted door. Thank God we can't see their names lie beneath a bright, smiling yearbook photo of tragic glint. Thank God we bury them out of our mind before they die; the calamity of infants is concrete covered with tiny hand prints. Our Windows are open, but Thank God the blinds are closed. - I hope we write "HOPE" on our missile heads, so they can see what we're really all about.
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Jan 25, 2013
Jan 25, 2013 at 9:21 PM UTC
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