P. O. W.

[Nazz]

Prisoner of war
as the war may see fit
in no particular order.

In Santa Fe,
touching four-hundred years literally,
the old church leans and ages gracefully,
the bar code adobe patterns of Santa Fe,
the wine drunk text of recount.
To the victors go the spoil.

There is so much history!
Until 1846 or so that place was Mexico.
So history might be like theft.

They converted us with swords
and later with guns and explosions.
I knew it wouldn't work.

Prisoner of war
in no particular order.
The Russian sub collapsed under
white phosphorus burns and random bullets,
or wires attached to genitals, or flamethrowers.
No, none of that in particular,
and in no particular order.

But rest assured we are at war
as the ancient demands.

[mtmynd]

war is necessary or there wouldn't be war.

there are different types of wars - those that resist the inevitable change... wars for territory, wars for food, wars for breaking the chains that bind the masses... the list is long as history is long, for what is history without wars balanced by peace? nothing? we can't live with nothing... nothing to live for if nothing is our only goal. but what i want is far different from what they want.. and it's all due to timing... when i want or when i need is not when they, he or you want or need... we're all outta time and yet we all race against the clock to war, for we're all prisoners of these wars of the wants and needs, no matter when, where, why or who... they go on and on until we learn how to step off the wheel and truly see what's real...

(thx for the inspired write, nazzer!)

[Nazz]

Yes, necessary.
Always necessary by definition.
My existence is war against the non.

I bond with the strangest things.
My truck seems to have its own pulse,
its own soul, its own wondrous survival.
My truck is a warrior in the truest sense.
Despite the beating I've put on my truck,
it still wants to run, it just wants to run.
Man, I love that machine. It breathes.
I don't express it often enough.

Wow.. ok..
I got all the burrs outa my saddle..
Kerry's testimony, the Santa Fe tourist pit,
the hot and cold wars, the revisionist history..
I'm on a roll! Thanks for reading, Cecil.

[Dave The Dov]

Keep on rolling!!!!

Here's a war that lasted just 40 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

This hangs over your bed Nazz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_ ... pe_Hidalgo
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[saw]

Patton said war is hell, and Dostoevsky said hell is the inability to love ......hmmm.....guess there are just a lot of loveless warmongers from hell making all the decisions.....interesting piece....

[Arcadia]

beautiful poem, mnaz!!

[Nazz]

Reading this one again.. I guess I just slipped into a zone, into a little intense back eddy of sorts.. Like I said, I've been thinking about swearing off my (umm).. idiosyncratic poetic scrawl for a while.. definitely time to "gear down". Anyway, thanks Arcadia, saw and Dave. Over 'n out. Hey, where's T-kopf these days? He'd show no mercy on this one..