Short Pittsburg Poems

Man of hate attacks 

The Lord's holiest temple 

Faithful's soul depart!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
      29 October 2018



* Dedicated to the eleven victims of Pittsburg synagogue shooting .
God bless their souls!...

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Take your gun to a place of worship
And take the lives of 11 people
Whose crime that day 
Was to worship God at a synagogue 

Hold the police off until you are trapped
Then give yourself up
When they ask you why
You say in your best voice
All these Jews need to die. 

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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God Help Us When Afraid

God help us, when we became afraid;
Through problems and fears will wade;
Experience sorrow,
Today and tomorrow,
Caused by sinners  who have strayed.

Jim Horn

More people harmed in a synagogue
in Pittsburg. More to worry about.
Bauer obviously is German and may
be of Jewish ancestry. Another hate
crime....

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Those long bus rides 
between Urbana, Illinois and Wheaton, Maryland 
were all in the interspace,  
hours of smooth nothingness punctuated 
by jangly nothingness 
at change points like Cincinnati and Pittsburg. 
Blurs in memory, dreamy, 
taste of intensly needed sandwiches 
and the desperate need to be clean. 
Long half-sleep voyages 
through fantasy, through needle-sticking 
drives, erection, thirst, 
looking out of the window for relief, 
only to see darkness....

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