Carey Lenehan

Come into my parlour, said Obama to the fly,
lurking on the outside,
and the fly, with five points to every eye, stepped inside,
treading carefully
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I pop it in my mouth, this political pill,
feel it fizz on my tongue
and the back of my throat go numb,
Feel it whizz in my bloodstream
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by Carey Lenehan © 2002

We're bringing chaos to your lands,
with loaded weapons in our hands
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We ran in the same streets, but we walk in different worlds
You and I, poles apart, thinking, not thinking about
understanding each other,
no chance of ever, seeing eye to eye
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I looked for it in Church, this thing they call Faith.
The arches were pretty, the air was still
but in the dusty gloom
of all those criss-crossed chantrys,
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Hunt on wardogs, seek, scent, destroy
but,
do not try to pretend this is more or less
than a new game, a new toy,
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Follow me as I walk onward
And fear not the future
I will lead along safe pathways
And I will look for the chasms
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Soldiers, soldiers, everywhere, with no good wars to fight
How do you flex your muscles, the weapons of your might?
Where do you go to kill these days, false enemies in sight?
How do you earn the wages paid? Through false created blight?
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Moments like these
A sunny day
Rare as a North Pole flower
Birds alight with song
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Our children were gifted this world...
what a world we are leaving for them...
How do you sleep at night,
for I,
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In this hour
Categorized immigrants plod, hands filled with hope
in two directions, with one expression,
muted by dispossession and unsure
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Can I put the leaders of the world on trial,
Force them to climb down
from their ashened pedastals
and confess the wrongs
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I'm not inspired by love today
And with the sky a solid grey
The world of nature leaves me numb
I'm trying but the words won't come
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Summer flies by and the soft voices cry
for a mist of cool and a clear blue sky
White clouds drift and within their mist
is a safe, still place like a solitary kiss
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Carry me on your sloping shoulders
and I will try to grip on with my toes,
my arms around your neck, crouched here, clinging.
Leap with me from branch to hanging branch
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I dream about innumerable things
Vast and fervent wonderings
Gallant knights and days of old
Battles fought and heroes bold
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What are the things you cannot know,
the moods and shades I cannot show,
the many nuances of myself,
Stuck dust collecting on the shelf?
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Ask yourself,

What does it take to be a ‘Terrorist'
To put cities and nations, under the fist?
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I watched the Dinosaur crawl from the bowels of the mountain.
We heard the rumble as it climbed up from the bony bed,
from the rock,
Into the cold sunlight, between the pillars of ancient Gods it ambled,
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I feel, therefore I love,
yet
what is love but a diverse melange of base ingredients,
clumsily blended by inept hearts,
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