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Slashing the Sky (Head-Lines 4/12/11)

(Swords of the East)

Clinic Touts Smoking as Cancer Cure
Curling up, a wisp of smoke slashes the sky with a freshness.
Remedy comes in a silver-white, metallic toga wafting on the air.

Japan says nuclear crisis stabilizing, time to rebuild
Calm down.
Tighten my grip around Nihonto,
allow it to tap into my dream, stabbing and unchanged.

Priceless Egyptian Treasures Returned
Treasures come, as they will, precious, rumbling riches;
ownership’s counterfeit reality; the objects of blindness.

Libyan woman details alleged gang rape
Scream your unhappy cackle!
Fight both fang and nail and stand accused of the details…

Mubarak 'suffers heart problems'
“Here is the butcher.” topples the heavens
and the slums headfirst beneath the cleaver.
(All life is suffering)…


© 2011 by mark prime

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