Poetry


• AND LEAD US NOT - Fast Eddie
• Shoot first - Pano Douvos

AND LEAD US NOT

by Fast Eddie

let us not worry excessively
over those who must die
if they die it is Fate
and if they must be taken
all the way down below
it is the devil’s work
neat and absolutely.

let us not worry overmuch
over the bankers, the brokers, the speculators
wheel-barrowing home millions
and billions
physics is physics
and what rolls nicely is
least friction absolute.
very neat and very simply.

and, last but not least,
let us not worry over malcontents.sissies, and liberal pinko weirds
who claim altogether extravagantly
we have no business
doing this war, or being right here
where we are, either.

we follow gen. Sherman
James Monroe, and the robt. e. lee
we have business
and nothing but business

move out fellow warriors;
the Iraqi coat is clear.

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Shoot first

by Pano Douvos

Rumors are ricochetting who knows
how credible
barbers report great strangeness afoot
nightly lights blaze in north Idaho caves
spotting much activity of a furtive kind

mad survivalists hot at their drawing boards
design top-heavy monster mansions
crenelated fortresses for those in the know
add-ons proliferate moats draw-bridges
you choose
gun-ports for AK’s or cannons optional

also bullet-proof SUV’s for gun-store visits as
Idaho cavemen busily create super-SUV’s
double-decked like red London buses with
rope ladders retractable against boarding hordes

safety-assured travel for pennies extra
machete clad hub-caps for historic look
extra security pays great dividends
or do you want to lose Philadelphia

Dubya can’t hide his truth
launch bombs now or its Armageddon
shoot first
ask questions later

Posted: Sun - December 1, 2002 at 04:12 PM          


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