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This poem was first published online in 2003 but was written back in the 1980s in London. It is a Cold War poem, written back in the days of President Ronald Reagan, when global thermonuclear warfare was the expected outcome of the provisional reality which we were, for the moment, permitted to inhabit.
City poem (Cold War poem) FREEZE FRAMES in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. This poetry collection includes school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems, death poems and assorted other poems. Topics touched on in the collection include America, Africa, Japan, the experience of a first kiss, pregnancy, breast feeding, death in battle and many, many other themes. |
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A girl and a boy Holding hands for public inspection. In an upstairs room, Middle-age Sweating toward failure. Two dogs in heat. An old woman Buying potatoes — The dirt starves her tapeworm. A kid on a bicycle Licking a hypodermic. The hangman having lunch On a construction site. A poster: The end of the Dow-Jones index is nigh. The sky: A million times over-exposed. |
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