Weapons of Mass Distraction
Amnesiac Game Theory
They get every fact wrong
But people must be willing to sacrifice
Rich men exhale war from the financial bong
Secrets anchored under thuggee
Puzzled slave states farmed mentally
The oasis river of blood annexed botany
Never mentioning miles of fruitless bramble
Cheap votes and breastfed Godspeeds
‘Cheers’ among angels wrestling with chains
3-D earth views surreal to the real deal
No propa-Ghandi reconstructing surrender anemic pains
Yoo-Hoo! We’re rolling up on you
We’re rolling up on you,
Hi-ho the Shock n Awe the scare-e-o
There’s nothing we can do
Reality-check advertisements
Power Brits Hail Hitler from a Rolls Royce
Sex sells the newest old medicine
The atomic DOC, the new Drug Of Choice
Succulent breasts fine meat
Oh, those luscious washboard abs
Beer swilling in the Spring Break streets
But with no morals we’re all too glad
Breaking news
Conscience went MIA
Nobody’s looking for our fuse
All truths are AKA
It Takes a Village is dead
Those voices are silent with dread
For they all sleep in the same bed
All caressing with fear deaths’ great head
Thankful for Daycare for Future Rulers
A new title of their book
“And we be lords and rulers over rouen”
Give us our black beneath Kirkuk
And the skies are black with sleep
And the mood is red like blazing moon
The sun’s orange book-burning history all a-heap
Now icy oceans boil at High Noon
The theory will end under drying eyes
Staring blankly up into the empty skies
The Ravens and roaches strolling casually by
Because on the first day, so did I
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A day in the city of Kirkuk
Man lives not on oil alone
Written March 23rd, 2003
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strong, pretty good
Good stuff and it pulls no punches in vitriolic fashion. I think the 'financial bongs line kills the flow because its the only line that cries out to be challenged that its sole intention was to rhyme and it weakens the point but I loved it otherwise.
As for politicians they are like kippers: 2 faced and with no guts. -
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so honest, and piercing...
the comment, on your main page, about pulling the legs off of houseflies- is that yours?! where is it from? may i quote you?
you put your finger on something i've wanted to know all my life.
a comment you made on somebody's poem,
regarding perpetual wonder
really struck me.
sweet dreams, and peace,
sir tic. -
The prophets always so perverse – decipher them for headaches worse,
Would it destroy some cosmic law – to tell us clearly of the score?
Or do you wish to maintain the mystery and enjoy our serpentine history,
The futures already pretty perplexing without your rhetorical extra vexing!
I bet you don’t tell this one in stand-up! (yours not mine lol)
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this makes me kind of mad... for reasons you cannot understand unless i tell you... for one you wrote this on my birthday... the other reasons excape me...
Breaking news
Conscience went MIA
Nobody’s looking for our fuse
All truths are AKA
man i know why know one is looking for ours... and so do you... its because they know we have them because we tell everyone we do... but we are the peace keepers... what is peace worth when brought by wrath (quote-Forthright Twin by me)...
propa-Ghandi... i like that too... i like it all and i understood it too... oh no i remember what sort-of makes me mad as well... i wrote something simullar to this like two years ago... and one year ago and a month ago and a week ago and the other day... but you are more comical... why is that... you got me... to me the truth = humor or something close to it... i enjoyed...
Doug -
wait
loading
.. l..o..a...d...i..n..g..
...and how Ironic is this.. I don't
even know if you like Enigma but 'sadness' was playing while i read this
and my jaw is still open
it complitly worked!
"Rich men exhale war from the financial bong "
I love it
It's like pudding
smooth,
rich
and oh so very yummy
~NAZ~
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I have to admit my friend you lost me in this one. I do get the moral delema we as a country are in. This is pretty abstract though. But ya know I had to read my fellow Minnesotan.
Red -
Pearlized
This reads as though you must've been about 300 feet above the ground level while listening to a classic medley of Guns n' Roses , the theme from Robin Hood,Ted Nugent's 'Cat Scratch Fever' and Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story". I even hear the static of the full thought in audio mesh. Oh...and -....eating something high-carb and loaded with revelation and the sum of all fears!
The write was very well written, although it was a stay-for-all even with folks with ADD! The thoughts funnel and narrow into solid cognition toward the end, which is wonderful, by the way:
"The theory will end under drying eyes
Staring blankly up into the empty skies
The Ravens and roaches strolling casually by
Because on the first day, so did I "
(Reminds me of "In the Pink ( The End All)" in my list. Blends the current international news and events with the lowered thrills of the human race. Read if you get a chance. Thank you.
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very thoughtful
i really liked ur poetry, it is one of those which implies to the war on Iraq...i read few on that!!!
but ur one different as every one else, becoz they had thrie own views. and i think all of them are worth my respect!
i liked these lines:"It Takes a Village is dead
Those voices are silent with dread
For they all sleep in the same bed
All caressing with fear deaths’ great head "
very thoughtful of u to write such...
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Jeeeesuuuussss man! I am not going to even try to pretend that I understand all of this.....but I don't need to understand it all to realize that is a truly amazing work. The closer I got to the end, the more you pulled me in. Really, really, REALLY wonderful piece you have here. So very impressive.
~*~Sincerely, Janet~*~
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