This Poem was Submitted By: Michael J. Cluff On Date: 2000-10-19 11:02:33 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Innocent Repetition

The sound of the mockingbird is unimpressive and innocuous in the cold March morning on the uneventful margins of a suburb in flux. The song is too orderly based on its feathered melodic cousins, it sedates the active mind, yet its sound must differ elsewhere. It is reported that in these war-scarred zones machine gun fire comes from non-metallic sources and people there are not too surprised---    when they are gazing upward to gauge the angle of in-coming terror and just happen to notice in the banyan, the palm tree--- the mocking bird  repeating what it has heard so,  so very, very often.  

Copyright © October 2000 Michael J. Cluff


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