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Life Arts 1/14/2009 at 9:08 AM EST

Extreme East

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(originally published by The American Dissident, Spring, 2004)

Peace rises like unleavened bread.
Sand transferring
in hour glass forever,
top always fed.

Bright red paint
can’t cover cracks created
upon application.
Sanity’s cosmetic.

Hatred landlocked.
Parts of people
airborne within blitz
of powerful squalid vapor,
landing on
their reason for existence.

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