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A maroon for remembrance

Turn off the news, don't answer the phone,
if anyone calls, just say I'm not home.
 
I don't need comment or lectures on wars
from a lip-glossed floosie with wings in her drawers.
 
I don't need hushed whispers from close by Ground Zero
from a slick newsroom hack who thinks he's a hero.
 
I don't need a failed academic in Brook Brothers shirting
using clever stock phrases to explain why I'm hurting.
 
I don't need film shots endlessly looping, I just need flowers,
to help fill the hole where once stood Twin Towers.
 
John Bailey
Carmarthenshire, September 2003

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Note:  A maroon is a large firework used to produce a salute like a cannon for solemn ceremonies
 

 

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