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Alternatives (Free verse) by Dovina

Let the war go on three more brutal years. Double our losses, double theirs too. It’s worth the cost if during that time technologists come to our cure for a sickness we all endure. If by then the carnage persists, admit we’re defeated, sit down with the winners. Save what we can of all we admire, And give them their wishes, as much as we must to stop the killings and grant us some peace. So, you with the math, the physics, the code, we give you three years of our blood and our souls. Go into battle with all of your heart, Root out the evil, force them to stop, because you, my friends, are all that we’ve got.

Dovina 29-Jan-07/4:58 PM
If we want to tell them something like, “You win. Lets meet and discuss the terms of our surrender,” it’s simple—just put Bush on television and have him say it. I hope we win this mess and save ourselves the embarrassment and chaos, but at the rate we’re going, who knows.

Technologists just might, for example, develop a super-sniffer to tell us where the bombs are, or where they make them, or how they distribute them. We might learn to track their movements, their meetings, where they sleep, with a badguy-resonance-gizmo. I’m trying to kick technology butt here, and show how much we depend on them.

Ok, kicking butt isn’t the way to do it, you say. Suggest something else then.




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