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I.
emergency numerology-
a date with fate that wouldn't wait
like stone Buddhas
blasted from tea route cliffs
bringing down the house
like Charlie Parker riffs
genocide surprise
flying the unfriendly skies
my dad fought kamikazes in Okinawa.
today Islamic infiltrators
did Tim McVeigh one better:
graduated from trucks to jets
to strike the symbols of "the great satan's" power
Gemini deconstruction
Pentagon gone gone
worm hole in the Apple
a smaller ground zero than Hiroshima
first there is a tower,
then there is no tower,
then there is.
II.
I am the ghost of cold war past.
The peace you sought
it could not last.
You gave us the guns
To kill Ivan the Red,
And now it's you
That we want dead.
We hate the modern world, you see-
Your wealth and music; women so free.
Our oil is your heroin
And here is where we've always been.
So break out your flags and have a parade
But remember what Tennyson wrote
About the Light Brigade….
Bob Brault
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