<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nails in the Coffin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">there's an American flag burning<br> in a barrel down in a broken alley.<br>three homeless vets warming their hands, <br> passing smokes, and a bottle of 'mad dog'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">paint peeling from the haunted porch<br> of a vacant house; trash blows<br>across the yard and down the street, <br> an old dog waits furtively at the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the girl with the needle, and<br> painted eyes, sprawled naked in the tub...<br>watching roaches crawl across the floor, <br> fear struck dreams and the mother rush.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">little boy playing in hand-me-down clothes<br> left out on the sidewalk in the cold.<br>hungry, and he just dont know to care, <br> wonders when his mom is coming home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the devil and the preacher both selling soap, <br> the far right patriots just selling hate.<br>the deaf-eared mongers in Washington, <br> turn their heads and pour another drink! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but 'all is well! all is well! ' resounds, <br> the caw birds lie on the hypnotic screen.<br>nails in the coffin, gun in the mouth, <br> an American flag burning in a barrel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388452" data-title="Nails in the Coffin de Eric Cockrell" data-description="there's an American flag burning in a barrel down in a broken alley. three homeless vets warming their hands, passing smokes, and a bottle of 'mad dog'. paint peeling from the haunted porch of a vacant house; trash blows across the yard and d..."></div> </div> </div>

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