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I if I yelled into a walkie talkie, would you melt, or burn, blaring noise glaring sun, glaze the windows, someone!                  II fade away and radiate, move the people dis-populate, we may all glow, there are leaks, they know, but that is not all they are going to build an icy wall to STOP thoseleaksnow, some one strong willed                                       is taking charge of those positive and negatives                                                                                keep an i on atom, physically speaking.          III shake, shake roll the water shake shake roll the dice shake shake what happens in the kitchen where it is hot and you bang plates together the do break, explosively this time, no tsunami, so sue me but it was a six point one when we get a nine what then?            IV they have politics, they have unrest, they have strife, put the ad in the paper, some one misunderstood, vehement denials, sabres rattling cementing bad relations blame the propagandist bad formula blame the chemist bad politics cost elections bad people take lives that are not theirs to erase, displace or otherwise disgrace, I know we will never know what has gone on, but it really comes down to ONE, all it takes is one to die, and it - whatever the point is is wrong, all it takes is a million refugees, not one in power will listen if we say   STOP                    please, think of the creative talent who have died, think of the number of times you have lied, think of the geniuses unable to breath through their face, oh wait, if you did think, in the first place, you still would have done it anyway, because that is who you are, makin' people wear sarin, eau de ... deathly                                                 silence is a grave filled with the cries                                                 of the innocents                                                 chaos is a grave filled with violent                                                 death with intent                                                 lashing out first and with such force                                                 is a grave filled with numbers of                                                 the lost, who now are no more                                                 the cost is too dear to bear                                                 except with sadness, and mourning                                                 but there is no time there is danger                                                                                         and warring                                                                                                             while the world dithers uncertain, close the blinds draw the curtain, cover your ears, we are doing something here, umm, there.
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
Poetry in the News in four parts
I if I yelled into a walkie talkie, would you melt, or burn, blaring noise glaring sun, glaze the windows, someone!                  II fade away and radiate, move the people dis-populate, we may all glow, there are leaks, they know, but that is not all they are going to build an icy wall to STOP thoseleaksnow, some one strong willed                                       is taking charge of those positive and negatives                                                                                keep an i on atom, physically speaking.          III shake, shake roll the water shake shake roll the dice shake shake what happens in the kitchen where it is hot and you bang plates together the do break, explosively this time, no tsunami, so sue me but it was a six point one when we get a nine what then?            IV they have politics, they have unrest, they have strife, put the ad in the paper, some one misunderstood, vehement denials, sabres rattling cementing bad relations blame the propagandist bad formula blame the chemist bad politics cost elections bad people take lives that are not theirs to erase, displace or otherwise disgrace, I know we will never know what has gone on, but it really comes down to ONE, all it takes is one to die, and it - whatever the point is is wrong, all it takes is a million refugees, not one in power will listen if we say   STOP                    please, think of the creative talent who have died, think of the number of times you have lied, think of the geniuses unable to breath through their face, oh wait, if you did think, in the first place, you still would have done it anyway, because that is who you are, makin' people wear sarin, eau de ... deathly                                                 silence is a grave filled with the cries                                                 of the innocents                                                 chaos is a grave filled with violent                                                 death with intent                                                 lashing out first and with such force                                                 is a grave filled with numbers of                                                 the lost, who now are no more                                                 the cost is too dear to bear                                                 except with sadness, and mourning                                                 but there is no time there is danger                                                                                         and warring                                                                                                             while the world dithers uncertain, close the blinds draw the curtain, cover your ears, we are doing something here, umm, there.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/03/london-skyscraper-car-melt.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/03/fukushima-japan-government.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/09/03/bc-earthquake-pacific-tsunami.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/09/02/france-releases-intelligence-report-on-syrian-chemical-weapons-use.html
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Sep 4, 2013
Sep 4, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
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