Friday, September 4, 2009

Invasion


INVASION

Let the “trip-trap” of snares
beat sullenly
‘gainst the dry drum skins
In time to tramp of human hooves
In time to the gun’s crackling death.
In time to the midnight
shrieking children.
Float them over seas’ bloody swell
March them over earth pocked with shell
Then–
With your great broom sweep
this face clean of life
Gutting the world with you knife.


Lewis Sanford Smoler

Posted over on Nicholas D. Kristof's Blog Site

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