Hell (with room service and cable).

[mnaz]

Inside the war room,
weathered moral men pound leather,
push pawns and knights,
masturbate over their legacy,
take justice to a cheap motel
and fuck her properly.

They snack on rotten flesh
for lunch,
for Christmas,
for the armor-plated numb of it,
for the holy livin' screamin' hell on earth of it,
for the buzz.
Mostly, for the buzz.

[~K]

..."for the buzz.
Mostly, for the buzz"

Not according to the A-Team...they do it for the jazz...that IS awfully close to buzz though...

I think it is a very lovely poem, & this:

"for the armor-plated numb of it"
I love.

[mousey1]

this read is a pleaser
a real ball squeezer

I read it with plenty of venomouse zest
I spewed it forth
dug through it and found much truth

I don't think they much worry about fucking her properly...just thoroughly.

I enjoyed thoroughly this poem.

Cathartic and from the heart ache.

Go mnaz!...rah rah rah...excellent!

[Zlatko Waterman]

mnaz:

Smashing polemic, my friend.

Let me recommend W.H. Auden's war poems. You and he were taking on some of the same freight.

And, oh yes, another favorite writer of mine, Robert Graves. Same subject sprinkled throughout his poetic opus. He's mostly known as the author of "I, Claudius" and "The White Goddess", both delicious prose works, but his poetry is outstanding too.

Just click on the link called "Country Sentiment" ( a book of Graves's poems about WWI)

( URL)

http://www.readbookonline.net/auPoems/Graves/106/


--Z

[mnaz]

....."thoroughly" vs. "properly".....

yeah, mousey, (I see what you mean).

anyway.... it's part of my personal bias, to state the obvious from time to time-- our unrepresented abhorrence of state-sponsored hell, for profit, imposed on its own people. I can't seem to let it go.... (my loss, I suppose).

thank you all...

and Z.... I have some reading to do (well, of course). The abomination of WWI started the whole needless 20th-Century chain reaction. And it's still boiling like Chernobyl.