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by John Hayes
Banish the bully
bombs
Mad British bulldog bytes
Building blocks broken
Children chockin'
Mother's wailin'
Fat man sailin
Banish the air
dynamite
Horrible putrid patriarchal sight
Burnin' and broken Burnham wood
And stinkin' senseless flesh
Brick and ears and rubble and blood and trouble
Patently distressful
Another fine messful
Push the fat boy
from the cradle
Brink bomber plane grows lighter
Bully bombs fallin'
Computer targets callin'
Bombs that went to college
Lookin' for honors in geometric knowledge
Sear and torch
ignite
A desolate dim-Disney wasteland --
Scarred, scoffed, scorned,
Skinned, scattered and scorched
A blight
Pitch a batter brushback
Whack! hit him in the earflap
Delicious boom and
delicate bam
The unmistakable thud and wham!
Push the train off track
Wagon's broken axle, wizened sewer pipes
No bulbs, no food, no shows, no showers
No electrical or water power
Just brick and ears and rubble and blood and trouble
Patently distressful
Another fine messful
Banish the
unquenchable clustered grapes of wrath
Melty-hot massive lethal fiery asphyxiates
Killer-king-kilo kettle drum symphony
Boom boom ba
Boom boom ba
Every bomb a Hitler
Nettled Martian
mettle with Britain backing
The brawny yet bewildered Stars and Stripes bully
Out-of-sight, hot flashes of brilliant burning light
20,000 leagues over the sea
Pilot dreamin' of
Pippin' pie, home, and teary-eyed Bambi
Banish the bully
bombmakers
In the lab coats with ruler and protractor
Crunchy crunchy hums of computer revolutions
Bulldozer janitors sent in to pick up the crumbs
Stocks soaring, babies howlin'
Assets roaring, wind growlin'
Patently distressful
Another fine messful
Of brick and ears and rubble and blood and trouble
Ashlan D'Antigone
1991
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