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VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 11:02 AM Apr 2016

Blindfolds and Sundries.

I wound up being asked to post this by another poster earlier today. A textbook case of my fingers doing the poetry thing when I don't mean for them to.

You said,
"The water is perfect,
why not stop the whining
and take a dip?"


The "water" you speak of
is soiled
with runoff from fracking,
the blood of innocents,
and the powder of munitions
we keep selling to Saudi Arabia--
who need I remind you,
created the very same brand of Islam
that ISIS worships.

The water is only perfect
if you're blindfolded.
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Blindfolds and Sundries. (Original Post) VulgarPoet Apr 2016 OP
I have just started to dip my toes awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #1
Thank you much, my friend :) nt VulgarPoet May 2016 #2
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
1. I have just started to dip my toes
Sun May 1, 2016, 02:42 PM
May 2016

into reading poetry, and this is my first post and reading in this group, so my opinion might not a big deal, but I really liked this. K&R.

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