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The Militarization of America (Free verse) by Quarton

America is becoming an immense arsenal, inside of which there will be nothing. Not a people but an emptiness, an arsenal of nothingness. While our real strengths, compassion and equality, defer to paranoia-- misguided perceptions of the perceived panacea that is militarization. If we continue a policy of guns before butter, neglecting the needy and oppressed in our society; perhaps in the vast repository of bombs, deep in the subterranean chambers of our missile fields, someone in that cavernous silence will remember a poem and recite it. Maybe a young soldier will hum a tune of tolerance and others will join in-- a chorus of hope and equality echoing ever louder, until it becomes a crescendo of love and compassion-- in time to prevent the carnage as the doomsday clock ticks closer to chaos. When billowing mushrooms from spent warheads transform existence to emptiness-- where oblivion resides.

Quarton 20-Jan-03/4:17 PM
You are, of course, right on with your critique. I may attempt to salvage this but will probably let it fade away into "nothingness."




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