Necrophilia
August 1st, 2008

Singed and silent corpse,
All the world s leaders
Have fallen for you
And will not eschew
The lade of lovers
To hunt for you in corps

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Good Guys and Bad Guys
August 1st, 2008

 

Who wears the black hat and who the white?
Is evil so easy to recognize?
Can you see inside the shadow of a man s eyes
Who he really is?
Is one man s enemy another man s hero?
We fight with such conviction
These comic book villains who don t really

Exist

Perhaps, by looking in, instead of out
We […]

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Movie Version of Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky
August 1st, 2008

Bowles saw it in the desert, and we can see it again now: what we as Yanks do not comprehend, we squash.

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Emancipation Proclamation
August 1st, 2008

Eliza
Black cook
Left her master when she heard.
Brave the trail, slave no more
She followed Custer, Union Army
Civil War
Served him meals, shared
A laugh, in trying times
Men’s souls upon the block
Futures for sale or profit
The many or the few
Why would she stay
Through smoke and cannon shell
Choose
In service, cold bitter nights
Rain and mud, why?
“Everybody was a standin’ up”
….she said
“Standin’ […]

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Superstition Concerning Blackletter
August 1st, 2008

A new poem by the CommonSense 2 poetry editor addresses the dark look of a typeface.

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Fell Facades
August 1st, 2008

Soldiers seem both rough and tough, –
But don t be fooled by this shell
For facades are not enough
To face-down one s own death knell.
So when our cannons spit and cough
The gunners appear quite fell, . . .
Until they hear the windy sough
Of a foeman s passing shell.

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