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Free Verse: Stop the War! (poem now under new management)

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Stop the War, I wanna get off

uppity heroes on horses shooting down, heroines shooting up horse

it's a magical animal kingdom by the Seventh Sea

it's a tragical, families Fall

lackadagical, shrugs is all

and now the Russians are bluffing they'll use their nukes

ol' Uncle Sam saying put up your dukes

and you just know there's gonna be

a bigbangboomdiddleyfullwattssmashbiffzangandzowiepizzlefiddleyowl

on the town tonight

Well, the good news, the silver lining is,

Cain's armies have set themselves up pretty

Spam stocks have soared, water's on the rise

Spacious caves are being organized

Mass conversions to Mormonism will be conferred

to easy transit to the Big Loving needed

10 women assigned to each soldier to repopulate the plan

(it's what they meant by multiverses, constellated big bangs, says a man)

et economic growth fat belly knock ups fiscal models of Rand

y pants, George C Scott lickin lips up and down

on newborn babies butts he goes to town

cheeky cowards he'll not withstand, he frown

Well, if it does have to end and we need to start over

millions of years of accumulated knowledge and culture

cavepeople starting out this time with Picasso frameworks

bison posing in the nude

kids tossing buffalo chips like frisbees

hunters gathering hunters

with abstract expressionist smiles

Jeff Bezos in the corner all shy and fragile,

covering his blue planets

neo-cro-mags circling him

2001 ape man at watering hole next to husband and wife sorting out the domestic violence in therapy with foam batons
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and as far as the watering hole goes

kinder gentler monkey men

will wisely use foam encounter batons

last used in psychodrama sessions from the 60s

to gently but intently beat the sh*t out of mom,

or vice versa, both beating the sh*t out of Tommy

Boal's theater of the oppressed exercises

with optional primal screams

to drive away, to drive away, to drive away

thirsty paleo-commies

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ICBM missile silos will become AirBnB

lifestyle changers, bunks, missile dressed for Christmas

phallic in the offseason, prophylacticked

"the great failure to launch" art installment

the kids will be told to go outside

and bring back buckets of air to convert to a kind of water

for boiling dinner -- red faced lobster screaming soup

faux environmentalists will be lordflypiggied on a spit

it's a recovery for the nuclear family!

no abortions on the political plate now

no one now fuckin with the Tao

Still-standing cathedrals will be become

great examples of period irony, terrible beauty

Corinthian bones, massage parlor lapse apses, Mary on the cross,

instead of Jesus, him all mission aborted, staying on the kool-aid commune

people, who no longer see themselves that way, will gather

in the stinkin pews

to hear the troglodyte bemuse them with bims and boo-hoo-hoos

backwards readings of the Apocalypse in auction speed English

people turned edgy duckrabbit with the More Bad News venal vibe

gargoyles replaced with animists, animists replaced with bongs

Our salty little poet from the theater of cruelty,

with the hairy overburdened heart, opens the shutters of his Nikon

adjusts the F-stop, down by the darkling sea,

where the waves roll in like shapeshifting Annabel Lees,

dregs of drafts of love -- the lees -- we'll never again see.

Reading to himself "Fragen" for free.

All the roiling intertextual bodies dark before him. O, Mother McCree!

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O stop the war!

Stop the War, I wanna get off

Stop the War, I wanna get off

Stop the War, I wanna get off

O stop the war!

I wanna get off

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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