Hey!
I'm a news hound.
It's been an obsession with me since childhood. I've never
purchased a comic book.
I know I'm weird.
I'd like to use this thread to post links to interesting news
stories which I find each day. If I were to post each story or
headline separately or as separate posts, my Nic would flood
this board.
Here is a poem which I wrote about the Iraq War.
I Remember
"Look at you, Society!"
I heard a hippie scream;
"You've failed us all repeatedly,
While portraying a no-where scene".
"You ban the gun, but hug the bomb;
While attending church to sing your psalms".
"What might you think we hippies are"?
"Rejects from the planet Mars"?
Shocked at this, I chose to pause.
Afraid to answer in fear to cause
Identical riots as those obliged
So, I stated this with solemn pride.
"What of you and your youthful scum;
Who eat the cake and waste the crumbs?"
"Yuh got 3 meals and your dowry;
Why impose yourself on life's peaked Calvary?"
Feeling that I had said quite enough
And knowingly sounded extremely rough
I awaited for the hippie replies
To tell me that I spoke of lies.
Moments passed and a young man rose;
To speak his views of slight impose.
"Sir", he said in truth dismay
"I speak for all who are here today."
"Employment is our greatest debt."
"We would work if you would only let
Us stay until the weathers warm
And our love-in childs are born."
Relax! I shouted, and perhaps unheard
But I was getting a bit disturbed
I wanted to call them a bunch of psychotics
But chose the word unpatriotic.
"This is not the time to ask of me;
For any help of any need that be."
It is a war of words that are left unsaid
Maybe you love Saddam instead?
I tried to shame them towards my beliefs
I promised a future of absolute relief
I spoke of pride and opinion polls
And claimed that dissent would take its toll.
Within the crowd whispers began
Another young man decidedly took a stand
His war of words seemed to bend the wind
And he simply asked: "Where is the peace dividend?"
Paranoid Dot Calm