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Category Archives: War
History
In olden times
The agile sword
Won fields,
And thrones, and wealth.
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Paradise?
Seventy-two unemployed, young virgins
Await you in paradise Ishmael
(The mullah promises)—and all your sins
Erased by feats your relatives retell—
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The Way It Is
Yeats was right; that shapeless, slouching beast,
Its toxic breath infecting all the Earth—
Perilous mutation—nullifying
Sense and arch philosophy,
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Bible Tales Not Heard In Sunday School
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The Rape of Dinah (Genesis 34)
Dinah, comely sister of Jacob’s sons,
Foolishly, wandered a strange neighborhood
Revealing to Prince Shechem, luscious buns,
Accoutrements that turned his dick to wood.
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