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Poem For
Madrid
Spanish Civil War
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PAZ ? PASS!
Exploding trains
Withdrawing troops
Off the rails -
war!
Cell phone sabotage
Back packs off tracks.
How many civilians dead?
before troops withdraw?
Goya lives!
in shattered flesh
train wrecks...
ETA? CIA? D.O.A!
Bombing soft targets
Hard questions
Cross examinations
Interrogations
Ghosts and shadows...
Posthumous
Remote control devices -
Consciences.
Flowers of civilian blood
Fertilise Spanish battlefields
Killings only stop
when enough people say -
PAZ!
Bull versus swords
beaten into ploughshares
Grief
for loss
of peace
Post-traumatic
peace dis-orders...
War? Paz?
Collaterally damaged...
It takes one million people
to say that all people need
to be safe
If you cannot change war
Change a government to one
who will
After bomb blasts -
Travelers. Cautious,
Every train carries
ghosts, shadows,
reminders
passengers at peace...
When you died
for no reason
Eye had to create one -
PAZ!
In another language -
Bombs translate to peace.
Peace is a process
subject to demonstration.
© THOM March
16, 2004
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