This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2001-10-21 14:35:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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It Can't Happen Here

for a second we got it   we really did those planes exploded out of our TV sets turned our mauve carpeting gray filled our rec rooms with smoke and  blood  for a second we knew we really did  Then we started to wave flags as if the flag waving could clear the smoke as if  choruses of  "God Bless America"  could bellow bones clean  It can't happen here not here We are not used to counting bodies on own shores The millions who have starved, been bombed slaved away lives in other sad lands  never really did tally up  For a second we felt it  We really did  We took a deep breathe Then, inexplicably   too far away for us to hear the moans we began bombing   In the off-chance we would smoke out the man in the cave or whoever was in charge of madness  For the month of September  on this odd planet.

Copyright © October 2001 Rachel F. Spinoza


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