Maybe i'm too subtle? I write these poems, and then the comments I get sometimes make me scratch my head. At least one of us in this equation strikes me as a simpleton.....
FALSE KINGS, CRUCIFIED
in this seething cauldron of days
i will rise like ashes to the sun
in the age of murdered children
i am grateful for vengeance
am a believer in the
wholesale butchery of
demagogues and rapist-priests
there is no point wasting
compassion on cancer
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With respect, john sweet, this sounds a bit too much like a charnel house to this reader.
Then, of course, isn't vengeance the prerogative of the deity?
Finally, I don't think that cancer has any moral sense, in which case compassion and any other human emotion would indeed be wasted on it. It does, however seem to respond to research-based mitigation.
Regards,
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