<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ex Post Facto</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i. Prologue Ex<br> <br> This forever war is flowing somewhere…<br>A ballad of the blues over sanguine seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The baghdad blues: <br>a man in a corner does not move.<br>His wife and children, strewn: lost love-letters of blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beneath the veil of a willowy dream, <br>as if the world shall absolve you with buttery palms. <br>God is watching you, sad soldier, <br>dragging the landing gear of prosthetics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>ii. Post En Medias Res</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this land of no escape, <br>Take me to Walter Reed, <br>The privatized foothold of rats, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Birthing future breeders<br>Of post traumatic stress, <br>Oil oligarchy disorder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To spend limbless days, <br>basking in the sun’s rays, enlivened<br>with particles of biochemical warfare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">iii Facto Epilogue</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I hear America crying: <br>politicians as war heroes, <br>priests as common criminals, <br>bards at the podium.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And where are the philosophers? <br>Destined to the peeling wail <br>of a teetering helicopter, <br>Small mosquito in the eye of God? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen, America, dry your tears, <br>don’t bask in the permanent grandeur<br>of abandoned radio halls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As we walk on water like Jesus, <br>Apprenticed for Armageddon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marina+Gipps">Marina Gipps</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=551840" data-title="Ex Post Facto de Marina Gipps" data-description="i. Prologue Ex This forever war is flowing somewhere… A ballad of the blues over sanguine seas. The baghdad blues: a man in a corner does not move. His wife and children, strewn: lost love-letters of blood. Beneath the veil of a willowy dr..."></div> </div> </div>

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