violence
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Artifacts of Reference, No. 14
A version of “God Hunting in Mesopotamia” first appeared in Poets Reading the News on March 17, 2017.
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Harris and Galtung Wheatpaste Hudson, New York
Wikipedia Poem, No. 843 An act of violence occurs when injury or suffering is inflicted upon a person or persons by an agent who knows (or ought reasonably to have known), that his actions would result in the harm in question. John Harris Violence is present when human beings are being influenced so that their actual…
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Breakfast in Bed (Overnight Iranian Forces Fire)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 778 overnight iranian forces fire d around 20 rockets into the israeli-controlled golan heights target ing forward positions of the israel i military according to an israeli military spokesman the rockets were all either intercepted or fell short of their mark the spokesman said but were nevertheless a signifi cant escalation in…
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Colonial Backwash
Wikipedia Poem, No. 700 simple hunger from the eastern shore just past edge of frame the worst violence is a hunger for power the open ocean from the brutal american nurture by all of us drowned saying hunger from the pacific creation’s backyard deemed too far think of horror the you ess frigate united…
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“One should aim to memorize the precise point on the map to retrieve those pleasures.”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 694 you logic in softness please so stay rodents surface war again some sinful slime a boar ever in bush you pinch birch crush them between bite the seconds count to 206 degrees you posit soft chew that proof of god in the bark not weak please again don’t knock
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On The Media
warm we link arms before the brawl breaks our ranks we touch again ineffectual fist to ineffectual face we are touched again to be peeled apart sprayed toward sobbing and held again in rapturous pain do you remember now singing by torchlight? do you remember the strange sounds of which we are capable? the moan…
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