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"You Cannot Dry the Whole World's Eyes": Selections from the poetry of Neil Mochrie

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but experiences no satisfaction.

The hunter who dropped his prey swiftly

has turned his slow hand to slaughter.

He shoots, intending to maim,

his enemy's three year old son

who is toddling after a mother

who walks far too fast to follow

as she clutches a small loaf of bread

and a jerry-can half-full of water.

He starves without knowing or heeding

his bosom friend's teenage daughter

who nurses her crippled lover

unaware that her unborn child

is withered forever within her.

The oil-fired white knights of power,

their tanks painted pallid for peace,

confide to electrical ears

that this is not war as they know it.

The howl that comes over the aether

Is not merely a technical defect

but a voice from the Pleistocene past

crying out across the millennia

trying to shout very clearly

"This is what war is for."

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