You can be sure this poem was inspired by a news story. Bruce’s imagination runs rampant, but his poems about war or other violence are reactions to stories he’s heard or pictures he’s seen in the media.
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EXplosion
Wretched
Diabolical
Detonation
Crumpled
Into
Scandalous
ConFlagration
Replicating
Riotous
Arrhythmic
Conjugation
Out and
Out
Into the community
—
Hanging..there
…In the air
—
With no
Responsibilities there
—
And
—
The
Aftermath
—
…Is like
Iwo Jima
And
Bataan
And
Corregidor
—
And
East
Los Angeles
—
And
Any
Ordinary
—
Bomb you happen
—
To know
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Copyright 2008 Bruce MacGibeny. All rights reserved.
