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Capital Punishment
Oklahoma City
  How horrible
168 murdered
      No, wait
Make that 169
There,
  that's better

The Colouring Book
In her first colouring book everything was red It was her favourite colour The sky, the grass, the houses all red And the grownups smiled As she grew, she found other colours The sky was bright purple, the grass orange People were often blue The adults stopped smiling She should know, by now, that everything had proper colours She was no longer a child who could see the world as she chose Look at the blood that flowed from her wrists Not some ridiculous colour like green but very red

The Unspoken Prayer

God grant us victory in this war
Help us to come home safe and whole

Let it be the other young men
who are maimed and killed
Let it be the other families who
lose their homes
and die of disease and starvation
Let other children be targets for missiles
and play in fields filled with land mines

Let thousands of other people
suffer and die
They are nameless and faceless
and have no meaning
Just take care of me.

Amen.

Songs on a Sitar

Songs on a sitar
Dreams of love
  and death
Hope for life
   A run for freedom
Take a drink
   Of undiluted pain
And pray to your god
   to be able to dance
And go out
and face the music

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