Hosted by the Gods....... an allegory of war "on stage!"

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Hosted by the gods,
Played out by,
Men and boys,
On stage.

Women and children,
Seated below,
Protected by chicken wire,
With gutters,
Positioned beneath their feet,
Directing the flow of blood,
Into the purpled,
Pits of Hell.

Authors Bio:

Doug Soderstrom is a retired Professor of Psychology having taught for forty-two years at the college level. He was a columnist for the Populist Party of America (www.populistamerica.com/now discontinued) and has been a feature writer for www.iranian.com. His main interest at the present time is in writing poetry, and is in the process of gathering together somewhere around 700 poems that he has written over the past fifteen years, and will be publishing a book entitled "Loose Cannon Parables" if he can find a publisher willing to take on the job of publishing his book of poems.