Protest
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in this daisy-cutter world roots and seeds and messengers killed sweet rain or acid all the autumn colors appear greener is this the year of its fall that monument to men an ear to the sweet ground as nuke talk flies through the air anti-war/peace petition i sign and go on as if nothing
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from the bible from the oval office: kill the wicked in dc a tree smothered with all that capitalism can buy 'operation candyman' a pack of pedophiles busted world 'sex trade' hardened new growth of the pines 'adult movies' full of horses and goats along with
'everything nice' then we redo everywhere like america a very violent place i didn't get to sign a 'we the people' document or even suggest stuff just where are those dotted lines parents dead child missing the dripping leaves a light rain with a heavy rain to follow as poverty increases the blues talk of urban warfare heats up the evening cool in line beside the barbed-wire a baby comes out in a taxi 'amber alert' somehow home-grown tomatoes fall flat
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Copyright Marlene Mountain, 2002