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Yahoo, Yankees

King Arthur and Winnie the Pooh are fighting over

what colour to paint

your talisman,

the giant overflowing soggy marshmallow,

while captivating cries cleaving, clinging, and clutching

cocker spaniel ears

become stretched into rippling blue ribbons

to the symphony of squeals from its filthy charge,

the sow on heat

humping

thumping

bumping

after elusive wings;

and do-it-yourself cats strangle themselves

with slipknots in their tails,

their rotting flesh

dripping

its offending wisdom

along once since route 7,

now cluttered with dogshit.

This poem is a condemnatton of U S policy in Vietnam