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by John Kendall Hawkins

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There's a war against the human body --

psychosis, colony collapse ahead --

forces and vectors of folly oddly

configured to leave our species for dead.

You've seen it: Invasion of the Snatchers:

one mind after another, body husk

balled up and tossed in the bin, and catchers

round up lammers who have a tell-tale musk.

And me like Donald Sutherland fresh from

Kelly's Heroes, high, whacked, hippy Tank Man

blowing up banks, while reciting my Om,

far out deep inside, a Warhol soup can.

We'll all be ensconced in nonsense that day

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