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MONDAY (4/28/08)


Obama declines Clinton challenge
Spared such a spectacle of tit for tat the relieved electorate enjoy the silence... breathe easier...for now.

UN troops 'armed DR Congo rebels'
As for the moans of anguish, they would thereafter sidle along wailing with a gait of monstrous deformity. Man witnesses, but does nothing. (Who are the misshapen again?)

Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm
Like large carrion birds they come. These scavengers do not feed on carcasses- they feed off of them.

Female suicide bomber kills 3 in Iraq
If song were a suicide bomb it couldn’t sing, not so tightly wrapped... Only later, after the music ends and the humming dies.

Election Day may end up looking 
This script’s been written for some time now. Penned while we were frenzied. Polished with planes and floods, war and torture, fear and apathy. If it becomes a bestseller we will have been its author.

© 2008 mrp/tpm
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