In just one respect they tend to deviate. <br />In other ways they earnestly collaborate, <br />conform depressingly. <br />The same is true of dissidents and poets. <br /> <br />Almost every day I feel that I'm <br />the only person who's awake, <br />while other people are sleepwalking <br />the world to nightmare: <br />the long, bad time for poetry <br />now born of its dung. <br /> <br />The trickle of blood is time <br />('O ancient, crimson curse! ') <br />Surviving birth was my third crime. <br /> <br />Although the 'Nuclear Winter' <br />would have been the gentler way <br />to kill the world we fundamentally resent, <br />the Bible-blood of history <br />and very recent history has shown <br />that war is justifiable <br />only to unreason and testosterone.<br /><br />Anthony Weir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deviants/
