Eating at the corner of the world
And seeing only the sinnews of life
Like crumbs from large loaves
No longer living
No longer awash with the smiles
Before people were shot for smiling.
Eating at the corner of the world
Saying only the names of the dead
And then just with our eyes
As they move from photograph to photograph.
In the few hours of light
We bury dead dreams, dead hopes and dead bodies,
The latter wrapped in
The corner of their world
From now to forever.
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Jacques du Lumière
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Soldiers are dipped
Into the boiled egg of the world
And eaten by death.
But death is not evil
Only those who kill are evil,
They will never break the bread
With the yolk of Jesus Christ
No matter what the priests and generals
May ever say.
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Jacques du Lumière
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We see it in the rainshine
The elephant in the boatyard
As the corn spins
In a deathly silence.
No one feels like singing
Since snails climbed the mountains
And humans ate humans
As fish ate fish.
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Jacques du Lumière
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Like a breath of fresh sand
We tumble down the hill
Some into nettles
Some onto landmines.
Children pick up deadly bombs
Designed as pretty toys
And sold by the good o' USA
To help a president
To remain in office.
Like a mouth full of cold-dust
We tumble down the hill
Not even thinking what may lie
At the foot of it.
Barbed wire or psycho-soldiers
May lay in wait for us
To finish off us who
Had tried to escape down the hill,
More people to die
For the good o' USA.
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Jacques du Lumière
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