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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354681" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sun Wields Mercy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the sun wields mercy <br>but like a jet torch carried to high, <br>and the jets whip across its sight <br>and rockets leap like toads, <br>and the boys get out the maps <br>and pin-cushion the moon, <br>old green cheese, <br>no life there but too much on earth: <br>our unwashed India boys <br>crossing their legs,playing pipes, <br>starving with sucked in bellies, <br>watching the snakes volute <br>like beautiful women in the hungry air; <br>the rockets leap, <br>the rockets leap like hares, <br>clearing clump and dog <br>replacing out-dated bullets; <br>the Chinese still carve <br>in jade,quietly stuffing rice <br>into their hunger, a hunger <br>a thousand years old, <br>their muddy rivers moving with fire <br>and song, barges, houseboats <br>pushed by drifting poles <br>of waiting without wanting; <br>in Turkey they face the East <br>on their carpets <br>praying to a purple god <br>who smokes and laughs <br>and sticks fingers in their eyes <br>blinding them, as gods will do; <br>but the rockets are ready: peace is no longer, <br>for some reason,precious; <br>madness drifts like lily pads <br>on a pond circling senselessly; <br>the painters paint dipping <br>their reds and greens and yellows, <br>poets rhyme their loneliness, <br>musicians starve as always <br>and the novelists miss the mark, <br>but not the pelican , the gull; <br>pelicans dip and dive, rise, <br>shaking shocked half-dead <br>radioactive fish from their beaks; <br>indeed, indeed, the waters wash <br>the rocks with slime; and on wall st. <br>the market staggers like a lost drunk <br>looking for his key; ah, <br>this will be a good one,by God: <br>it will take us back to the <br>sabre-teeth, the winged monkey <br>scrabbling in pits over bits <br>of helmet, instrument and glass; <br>a lightning crashes across <br>the window and in a million rooms <br>lovers lie entwined and lost <br>and sick as peace; <br>the sky still breaks red and orange for the <br>painters-and for the lovers, <br>flowers open as they always have <br>opened but covered with thin dust <br>of rocket fuel and mushrooms, <br>poison mushrooms; it's a bad time, <br>a dog-sick time-curtain <br>act 3, standing room only, <br>SOLD OUT, SOLD OUT, SOLD OUT again, <br>by god,by somebody and something, <br>by rockets and generals and <br>leaders, by poets , doctors, comedians, <br>by manufacturers of soup <br>and biscuits, Janus-faced hucksters <br>of their own indexterity; <br>I can now see now the coal-slick <br>contaminated fields, a snail or 2, <br>bile, obsidian, a fish or 3 <br>in the shallows, an obloquy of our <br>source and our sight..... <br>has this happened before? is history <br>a circle that catches itself by the tail, <br>a dream, a nightmare, <br>a general's dream, a presidents dream, <br>a dictators dream... <br>can't we awaken? <br>or are the forces of life greater than we are? <br>can't we awaken? must we forever, <br>dear friends, die in our sleep? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anonymous submission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a><div class=q>
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but like a jet torch carried to high, 
and the jets whip across its sight 
and rockets leap like toads, 
and the boys get out the maps 
and pin-cushion the moon, 
old green cheese, 
no life there but too much on earth: 
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