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Christopher Nelson, Forest Roy, Paul Cerda SCC Students
by Forest Roy from my window i look down through panes at Autumn over a battlefield of incandescent colors puzzles of sifted light and tempests of mad leaves rush for the front lines to lie against Earth's breast like fallen matches flickering spent in dramatic repose above a tree once taught the truths of seasons and now speaks proudly of her brave children each pining for absolution so soon to come with the hand of God in every limb it is said and the soldiers of autumn realize that there is no greater glory than that of natural beauty
Post 9/11 and pre-restoration of civility and Civil Rights by Paul Cerda Terror ties tongues in knots hides in shoes falls from sealed envelopes lays silent in brown paper bags in parked cars and under park benches. Terror prompts people to turn in their neighbors and the government to restrict rights in a rush to "protect citizens" from the terror of Saddam Osama and Al Qaida Abu Sayaf North Korea Jemah Islamiyah and anyone who won't follow orders from the red white and blue. "If you're not with us, you're against us!" Meanwhile terror runs rampant in corportate bardsrooms and bedrooms. It assaults the Dow and Nasdaq with shredded paper trails and false profits. Everyday reveals revelations of a bull that was always a bear And CEO's growing fat while avoiding prosecution. Beware! Beware ! The Terror! As long as terror is foreign and foreboding Corporate corruption will continue. While we hunt for white vans white powder shoe bombs and things that go bump in the night corporate kings fill their coffers and funnel funds to offshore accounts So which is more terrible? Lost lives lost rights and lost nest eggs Or gained fears? © 2002 Shoreline Community College™ |
