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From: prem@eagle.UUCP (P.T.Devanbu)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Poem in response to a particularly moving radio program
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 20:36:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 20:36:29 1984
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	Impressions on hearing Black Vietnam Vets tell war stories
	 		on WBAI, New York.

		Listen!
		Disembodied voices
		relate
		a soulless sequence
		of death and horror, 
		events we railed against, we
		stratolounger ideologues,
		lunchtime moralists
		and fairweather dissidents.
		
		Heartrending words, numbly droned
		by killers, rapists, pederasts, torturers..
		and confused, sorrowing, ignorant
		humans all, fighting for....
		freedom ? 
		for who ? us ?
		from what ? boredom ?

		Listen.

		Pain, guilt, fear, questions.
		Right and wrong fade into 
		muted terror.
		But soon, ignorant sympathy flows,
		soothing, easing...

		"Jeeze, put on some music, will you ?"

				(C) Nov 26, 1984, Premkumar Devanbu
				

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