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Jack Hirschman
The Way to End War
The Way to End War
A Poem for Saadi
THE WAY TO END WAR
When the planet’s as it is today
chockablock with wars
at every click of the computer,
turn of the dial,
button on the teevee remote,
and greed and religions’ hatreds
hatch eggs of grief everywhere
like deathballs, and old ladies
are stamping on throwaway
soda cans worth pennies in the street
and fascist capitalism gives us
a digitalized semi-robotic
comic strip life with a laugh a minute
when that big busty bimbo
takes it all off,
how cam anyone say that communism
isn’t necessary? It’s failed, of course,
NOT!
It’s the way to end war! The only
hope left. The rest is waiting
for atomicide.
Published in Banipal 51 - Celebrating Saadi Youssef
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The Madness of Despair
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