Sit in the van getting ready
The last night will be your best
A little bit afraid of the full moon
Thinking where were our angels
When the bombs were falling?
Before the story of war
It was going quite well
The days of ecstatic dance
Learning to live with animals
Before it was all paved over
Is the antiphon dirge or beatus
That plays when life is risky?
There will be a party afterwards
But first the audience applauds
The woman who fights the air
Furry ropes and tired props
And cigarette butts joining
White feathers on the water
All of it invents the story
You will keep on having
Glory is all drunken singing
There is a sorrow in angels
No doorways or corners
The set of war is suicide
Why are you crying?
© 2011 Rob Schackne
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