Sunday, May 31, 2009

Over


was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

was it over when Custer slaughtered the Japanese?

meet me at the hot tub with your bottles of beer

and we’ll toast the farces that make up 

our mutually falsified history

meet me where Gengis Kahn plundered the Hoover Dam

let’s make love where Alexander the Great tortured the Incas

but missed Macchu Picchu

By Dan Ames

1 comment:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

Dan Ames is a poet living in Michigan and has had work published in many journals including, but not limited to, Magnolia, Flutter Poetry, Hudson View, and Edison Literary Review.

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