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THE PANTRY - The 26th September Song

The mobile pantry slopes along, smiling food upon the icy residue of winter, thrusting the mourning further down the road, away from the waiting mouths and stiffening lips of death. O! Quicken the pantry’s pace, speed it along with imagery like those fast motion dreams where familiarity is blurred, voices are jumbled in fullness, children dance, and laughter pulls us happily awake. © 2009 mrp/thepoetryman

Shrouded Machinery (Head-Line Poetry, 9/5/09)

Why AP used photo of dying Marine Next year the tombstones will be a skyscraper. We die there, we should not, waging, "we must win", against an unkind backdrop while icy winged nymphs shroud our eyes. Afghan anger after scores die in NATO air strike The fireball made dust of human flesh turned hearts inward. O death, what is your reason? Shame on you, death! Pitiful, steadfast claws scraping the inside of life with your machinery, bringing demise like maggots to rotten meat the weapon of powerful art used as murderer with a single stroke of the brush. Panel Rules Against Ashcroft in Detention Case Have we forgotten that all of the goodness was slain, as if love itself had been sucked out by the lips of hell and arrogant and depraved men grinned at the thought? Somewhere out there, a beast mumbles their names. A Swine Flu Germ Factory It is best we heed the call of the virus. Remain alert to its sway. We mustn't forget a thing. Make a list. Have we remembered ev...