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"princip" poems
I can name you The exact date On which he was shot: June 28, 1914. Who killed him? Gavrilo Princip, Member of the Bosnian Nationalist Movement: The Black Hand. Suddenly this montage Of bullet chambers And dead wars Shift - Hands. You. Me. Your fingers, Which I long to hold. Your voice, Which I long to hear. Which I have forgotten - Sometimes it is hard To trace the annals Of history. Our ****** pawprints Make the trail of Arms and hatred Harder to keep straight Than sin and so We walk backwards. ****** trail of footsteps Perhaps stepped Into By a meandering Mao, or ****** Or Tojo. Muddied further By the presence Of an Alger Hiss - Your voice Is a whisper, It sings to me in Secrets - I do not Know you but I Am in love, You are beautiful and I don't know why But there's a War. In my heart. A war of attrition. Subtraction Of causes. And the Archduke, Well the Archduke Is glad to see you. Hear his dates blur Into yours - History tests, And love notes Crumpled away folded And stored In the same junk Folder. I imagine his hands To have folded Quite slowly, Searching for something To latch onto. Like mine. Empty palms flickering Amidst a trail of Blood and dust - Oh, and yeah The history lessons Of course.
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 2:12 PM UTC
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Assassin
If you want to be a true influencer you should put in some actual work ****** the Archduke of Austria and his wife The Duchess of Hohenberg Gavrilo Princip did not have many followers He did not have any discount codes for his online store He had a simple dream to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia, and instead he started a world war If you want to influence society for centuries to come Stop being a coward posting vacation pics online Go out and get yourself a gun
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Jan 7, 2021
Jan 7, 2021 at 7:02 PM UTC
Influencer
mila sedi na wc solji. prebira dlacice po brezuljku. nekako odvratno ali radoznalo trazi one pod zemljom gusto groblje-guste misli: dve prodavacice prodaju sok od sargarepe, na smenu- jedan dan jednoj plati jednu cenu drugi dan drugoj drugu. cuti. zakopa to u zeludac. guta vazduh namazan budalom. cuti. plati.  popije samar i sok. na ulici razmazano oker govno, kao kanapei na srebrnom tanjiru.   preskace, obilazi ga ona. preskace, obilazi ga i pas. kisa pada, oker krem gubi gustinu, pas nece pod kisobran juri senke i zapisava skupocene alo tepsije onih kojih se i pauk plasi. zanoktica o vrh narandzastog jezika- rekapitulacija popisanosti i pogresno usmerene finoce. krv stedljivo iz nokta curi natapajuci nepce a mrmlja da sledeci put ce... ali verovatno nece. jer ne razume tu gadnu nepravicnost. jer to je samo princip. mozda i hoce. jer princip je i sve. dopire krik playback narodnjaka- komsija stigao sa posla, investitor umesto izloacije sigurno je kupio dzipa. masina se centrifugom lansira u orbitu svake sekunde- privezala bi se za nju toaltet papirom.... aman, idi uci. bolje ces se osecati. kraj prozora cuje se ono dete sto svira trubu. makar jos ne moras da trazis posao. eto imas vremena da smislis sta zelis da budes. na kraju krajeva nemas urasle dlake. i da, auto ti je parkiran divlje pokupice ga pauk sigurno. i nemas dozvolu. kese za govna su u gepeku. trebas psa izvesti. sutra kupices sok od sargarepe, po ne zna se kojoj ceni. rekla bi imas princip a i lenja si.
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Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 4:01 AM UTC
smrt jednog dana
mila sedi na wc solji. prebira dlacice po brezuljku. nekako odvratno ali radoznalo trazi one pod zemljom gusto groblje-guste misli: dve prodavacice prodaju sok od sargarepe, na smenu- jedan dan jednoj plati jednu cenu drugi dan drugoj drugu. cuti. zakopa to u zeludac. guta vazduh namazan budalom. cuti. plati.  popije samar i sok. na ulici razmazano oker govno, kao kanapei na srebrnom tanjiru.   preskace, obilazi ga ona. preskace, obilazi ga i pas. kisa pada, oker krem gubi gustinu, pas nece pod kisobran juri senke i zapisava skupocene alo tepsije onih kojih se i pauk plasi. zanoktica o vrh narandzastog jezika- rekapitulacija popisanosti i pogresno usmerene finoce. krv stedljivo iz nokta curi natapajuci nepce a mrmlja da sledeci put ce... ali verovatno nece. jer ne razume tu gadnu nepravicnost. jer to je samo princip. mozda i hoce. jer princip je i sve. dopire krik playback narodnjaka- komsija stigao sa posla, investitor umesto izloacije sigurno je kupio dzipa. masina se centrifugom lansira u orbitu svake sekunde- privezala bi se za nju toaltet papirom.... aman, idi uci. bolje ces se osecati. kraj prozora cuje se ono dete sto svira trubu. makar jos ne moras da trazis posao. eto imas vremena da smislis sta zelis da budes. na kraju krajeva nemas urasle dlake. i da, auto ti je parkiran divlje pokupice ga pauk sigurno. i nemas dozvolu. kese za govna su u gepeku. trebas psa izvesti. sutra kupices sok od sargarepe, po ne zna se kojoj ceni. rekla bi imas princip a i lenja si.
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Just six inches long and not hard to conceal, I examine the pistol that began the Great War. It’s been put on display in the British Museum And it must be regarding with awe. “The Archduke must die!” Mister Princip declared, as he emptied this gun at close range. “Sophie, live for our children.” The dying Duke begged, But sadly his pleas were in vain. Great armies mobilized, by August, guns roared For Four years the slaughter went on Till all the King’s horses and all the King’s men and even the Kings, too ,were gone. Now news comes from Turkey of a murderous deed; a Russian Ambassador slain. Once more a pistol was used for the deed. How much can this poor Globe sustain?
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Dec 20, 2016
Dec 20, 2016 at 8:06 AM UTC
A Weapon of Mass Destruction- 06/28/1914