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this is really hard to mean

yes--

if it be granted.

if so, it will move

titanium back to ten

tender chicks before these were

necessary: rugers, automatic pistols,

and the "Jap Bomb", sending 

so many into circuses and 

ovulating sand enamel. 

gagging on death.


if i can forgive you once,

pilot,

for the jerk of your clothed

(not forever)

trigger finger,

tearing to shreds the Iraqi child 

maybe 4 months into 

understanding a plant,

i will.

if He grants it, i will.
 

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infinite_dwarf

infinite_dwarf

16 years 11 months ago

John

I find it interesting (and puzzling) that you would be able to forgive something of that nature. A pretty graphic poem. Nice to see you writing again, my friend. ~Jess K. ----------------------- "So I open my door to my enemies, and ask could we wipe the slate clean? But they tell me to please go fu** myself; you know you just can't win" - Pink Floyd
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barbsdad2003

16 years 11 months ago

I think ...

unfortunate the starkness of content that strikes this brain of mine so harshly on reading. Wish it were not so. Wish the reality behind these words of yours were otherwise. I know, though, it (it meaning the queue up to climax) must be said. By someone. By you. Thanx for the impact such that I won't need to nap now for at least a while. And though I can sense a sarcasm might be implied by my penultimate sentence here, any such implication's very much not intended. Yours, Chuck
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 10 months ago

OMG

What a terrible thing to have as a living part of your psyche. I am so sorry that this is in your memories. The poem is a real shocker. Always, Cat