loved it Chris, fantastic!
Helen
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>Poetry and Violence
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>My Daddy tole me one man slew a thousand
>Wit' an ass' jawbone
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>And when done had a cool drink from that gory club
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>Holy water A fine tale memorializing the slaughter
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>O the blood O the blood O the blood done signed my name
>
>The Muse croons after violence like she do flowers and rain
>Wardrums git her jiggy widdit
>And pain
>In the lines of Homer and Song of the Cid
>Even in Gentle Walt Whitmans Drumtaps
>She's doin' dat thing
>She can dance to the rhythm of hate
>Just like she gets rite with Spring
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>For hate is steady forever Hate is like iron
>Love like a summer breeze
>Strong hot today
>tomorrow gone
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>I know it wuz the blood I know it wuz the blood I know it wuz the blood
>for me
>
>If he who is angry without cause
>Must burn in hellfire
>Is even one to be saved
>Even one
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>My nation stands stiff at attention
>At words wrought at the cannon's mouth
>Rockets Red Glare Bombs Bursting in Air
>
>What 21 odes shall salute Noodle McVeigh
>What poems shall explode
>When the next one sets off the nuke in his suitcase
>
>Chris Hayden
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