This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2001-12-10 12:27:13 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Last Bastion

Hunger doesn't listen to the news, Or care what sheik the future has in store,  Or know the range of shrill B-52s, Near Kandahar. It huddles at the door Of caves and greets rapacious air, In joyfulness, takes Winter as a groom,   Births twins of conjoint famine and despair, Then fox trots into bunkers carved from gloom. Hunger comes in riding on a bomb  Then stands at border crossings, halting aid,  While tightening the bellies of the throng, Grand Master of a desolate parade.      When Hunger infiltrates and works the crowd      A lifted veil can quickly be a shroud

Copyright © December 2001 Rachel F. Spinoza


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