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Three Poems | Poem

Better Laws Abate Guns
   Senator Told Me Thanks
Disgruntled in Chicago
half a dozen die today
Bobby told US long ago
put extra US guns away
Sent me letters before
he got shot dead in CA
Revolution on US shore
brought forth new hell
Said the Supreme Court
create US national law
opened the flood gates
many held under a flaw
 

Time To Call In Our UN
   Share The Wealth
We are getting whipped
in Afghanistan or Iraq
Bechtel Bush Money Inc
to be sealed for years
Stolen oil lower price
Smashed infrastructure
by mass US destruction
is the better business
Shultz with Weinberger
built the USA that way
with Stanford Pentagon
and US Grand Old Party
All part of the system
 

How Does History Start
   Jung & Schopenhauer
A beginning everything
must have myth mystery
and Ikons of the world
the unconscious hidden
stuff making a culture
jumps across centuries
began with ideas words
symbols like this poem
that deals with a will
vulnerable to everyone
but powerful to humans
who recite Remember Me
as a source of destiny

(c) 2003 Frank Anthony

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