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"You Cannot Dry the Whole World's Eyes": Selections from the poetry of Neil Mochrie

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or send missions to maltreated Muslims

offering baptism under slow fire.

This is the last wagon to roll

(we go as far as the Moon

but the stars are too far away).

This is the Last Chance saloon

try one last throw of the dice

put your stainless hands in your pockets

for discounted guns, bombs and rockets

or, if you want to be nice,

bandages, aspirins, rice.

This is the closing down clearance

these are the final reductions

this is the LAST DAY OF SALE!

Hear the Big O at the end

(Z is for zero my friend)

Look at the scroll rolling up:

here is God in the Garden

weighing his long pruning shears

gauging the tall Tree of Life,

there is the dead branch of Man,

leafless and fruitless in summer,

waiting on high autumn winds

to know what He meant by the Fall.

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Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, (more...)
 

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