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By Victor Schwartzman, on 24-03-2008 08:43

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Yep, Victor runs this page
here, finally
is some of his own stuff
in the Agit Prop mold:

This one was accepted by Pemmican Press, a great political poetry site, but they don't seem to be online since accepting the poem...I think it's a curse, and I wanna find out why Lord Voldemort hates me!


Breathing 9/11

 

 

On 9/11 I was at work

did not see the planes hit

but sure heard and felt them

my whole world shook

 

Later I was outside for an early lunch

when the first building collapsed

a white cloud raced towards me

white death dust covered me

 

The next day the government said

we should all go back to work

we were told the air is healthy

the economy had to stay healthy too

 

So I returned to work

did my part for the economy

but breathing was a mistake

I’d have been okay if I hadn’t breathed

 

Now I have lung cancer

breathing is hard

if I had breath I’d scream

at the terrorists I voted for

 

Now I buy medicine

to stay alive

costs me a lot

but I’m keeping the economy healthy

 

Victor Schwartzman

Want a few more?  Click "read more".  You were (not) warned!

Saved From The Streets

 

I was headed for juvie

a few break and enters

some stolen cars, one armed robbery

the Army was my best way out

before I ended on the street for good

              

I enlisted as an Engineer

got a $5000 bonus

the recruiting sergeant was real nice

he said I’d build roads in Iraq

and I’d never have to kill nobody

 

When I got to Iraq didn’t build no roads

I was put on top of a humvee

with a 50 caliber machine gun

under the hot burning sun

there were shadows

 

An rpg blew up our humvee

the round came out of nowhere

and pierced the humvee armor

then my body armor

then me

 

One soldier asked the Secretary of Defence

why we had such lousy armor

he said you go to war with what you have

he resigned to the golf course

I can’t play golf with no arms

 

When I was wounded my pay was cut

I live in a cheap little room

it’s real clear I’m no longer needed

politicians ignore me except for parades

but hell they saved me from the street

 

Victor Schwartzman

I Will Never Grow Up

 

I want to become an adult

but will never grow up

I’m a calf living in a cage

whether less free than you is not moot

 

I can not move

just stand in a tiny pen

until I’m big enough, tasty enough

then one of you will kill me

 

Don’t tell me you’re not selfish

with your veal cutlets

your calfskin boots

your endless hungers

 

yes, we all must eat to live

some of us live to be eaten

but so cruel?--don’t get me started

on how you cook lobsters

 



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