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Poetry || Submissions37 daysif it takes 37 days to figure out who won an election how many years does it take to find Bin Laden? and hope we limit our resources, thinking about whats going on over here we are in dire need of some direction how many years does it take to rebuild Iraq? and I hope we think about what we're doing worrying about whats going on over here a friend got layed off today and by no fault of her own had to cancel her communication lines cause of course she couldnt pay the fines and the spin is in the rhetoric of whats really important listening to the news and sitting praying in the pews it really doesnt matter if you're one of muslims, christians or jews, it affects all american you's it do it do what about for you? and if it takes 37 days to figure out an election we should pick our fights with better selection and worry about our own direction even robert frost wouldnt want to get fired for writing poetry on the job yet who would pay the cost of being tired, for writing poetry for the mob pretty soon she'll find some work hopefully something she's qualified to do and not for some hard-assed jerk as quickly she'll be through and we are in tight times, of slight rhymes of light minds, and fight lines. "let's go to war!" some seem to say while others scream, "don't waste our day!" I'm feeling quite aroused by this, I don't know what to do, cause war seems real fun and nice til the draft-card's stamp finds you yet I know I'm probably okay cause I have a trick bum knee yet my 18 year-old brother's day will seem to the government free and for him I'd go to death against someone I didnt care, because its kids like Seth that shouldn't go over there if it takes 37 days to figure out who won an election how many years does it take to find Bin Laden? and hope we limit our resources, thinking about whats going on over here we are in dire need of some direction how many years does it take to rebuild Iraq? and I hope we think about our direction cause young lives we can never have back ©2002 by Yosh Yosh is 28 and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He has published 18 poems from his collection, "Confessions of an 80s Mediachild", in various print and e-magazines. Most of his work focuses on media and the self, including "Headphones Jones", "Sell Fish", "Chip In My Shoulder", "This or That", "Cheescake" and "Doctrine of Compensation". You can write to him at Yoshmail@aol.com More poetry by Yosh at http://www.yosh.net/ More poems by Yosh at Ariga Two poems by Yosh Work Play Sleep by Yosh Seditious Libel by Yosh Today's Situation
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