just thanks

tony hillier

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From: "D.C Bursey" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:49 PM
Subject: tic


> ...... tic.......tic
> hear it............ now
>
> the bomb of the future
> so ........ so .......... so ..
> .....  si ..... lent
>
> Some hear it.
> See the poems on the walls
> poets know it
> artists see it
> some dream it
> animals know it
>
> can you hear it?
>
> all good children need
> heaven ......... heaven ........ heaven
>
>  just ....  not ........ not .....................  friggin' now!
>
> war, guns, uniforms
> and hell down from the sky
> ... dreams so real......
> ....... I wake
> to find .........  I was not dreaming
>
>  bloody.... bloody.... bloddy
>  in hell with ...... my-
>
> thought .......  processors .....
> ......  busted
>
> dan.......
> gling
> between
> greasy fingers of .... night .......  horrors ............  images
>
> wasted life on carpet
> paper towels stuck on skin
> marks city maps......
>
> overwhelmed  ................. creatures ............. like snakes
> once attached,
> had a body
>
> now face down in
>  a living room grave
>
> now hanging soft pale reminders
> of little time.........
>
> ........ quiet sleep .......
>
> kicking into slumber,.................... priceless peace
>
>  angels weep of foreboding....
> danger.......windowpanes cry and I
> disconnected,......  just cry more
>
> at
>  war a
> substitute for....
> ....... life ........... life ...........life
>
> can you hear it?........  tic-(whisper)-tic ........ tic
>