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The Future

For you ‘I don’t give a damn’ you’re only out to destroy simplicity the innocence of a new born lamb, little children striving for felicity! For comfort! ‘A tube of glue’ the populous in dialogue rejected layman, preacher left without a clue the nation’s health the first to be neglected. No peace! ‘Within the ghetto’ despondency etched in each despairing face, rivals chant with sottished stilettos no one to wander from this imbroglio place. Mothers! ‘Bewail the smack train’ sons and daughters stoned beyond recognition, master nurturing the seeds of pain just to keep the subdued fixed in detrition. Outside the wall. ‘Grandeur feeds’ gullibility the food that nourishes, there a different adrenalin bleeds in stark fear of a system that flourishes! © Harry J Horsman 1992

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Date: 7/5/2013 10:54:00 PM
Rereading this one of yours on the future. I am having anxiety these days over the future. So scary.
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Date: 2/15/2013 11:26:00 PM
that grim scary future indeed, Harry. You always write of it so well. I am working my way ever so slowly through all your oldies again. Wish to see those new writes!!! But your oldies are forever golden.
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Date: 2/7/2013 12:52:00 PM
Dear Harry, Very Oliver Twist setting A ghetto is a ghetto be it in Merry ol' England or across the Pond in lower Manhatten. Where people must wallow in dispair and desolation Superb Write. Though we are and ocean apart, I see similarities in Feelings, You have the better of me in Vocabulary and Spelling. I find YOUR POETRY alluring LOVE ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry
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Date: 1/4/2013 11:17:00 PM
I like the imagery Harry, straight forward... i need to eat, in order to see it... enjoyed...pd
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Date: 4/22/2012 10:13:00 PM
It sounds perfectly horrible, which is what you are wanting us to feel, yes, it's such despondency. that is the best word for it, Harry. Good one and scary!!
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