War and Irony

I feel the irony of life's nurturing molestation with painfully sweet romantic rejection

The Weapon driven home comfortably

In the womb of a moment's passing silence under big, green umbrellas

Outside a little cafe as the rain softly patterns

On the shiny brand new tanks and thousands of armor-piercing rounds, stacked high,

Right next door to dollies with blonde hair and blue eyes

While puppies yelp and wag their tails, nostrils flaring,

At the smell of the sulfur and tears mixing with soot from the smoke stacks

As our children pray for the bombs to cease their taunting cackle

So they might curl beneath their blankets hoping perhaps this year

They saw on television right after the anti-violence commercial

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Digital Transformation Seminar for MSMEs

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