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The colored screen

May 17, 2012
By JaguarPawCommando1701 BRONZE, Plattsburgh, New York
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What’s in our genes that makes us laugh
While others bleed?
How can we watch others agony
Through the colored moving screen.
Ask what goes through your mind
When you watch mortals die?
Do these horrid things grow in our veins,
Or is there someone behind the scenes.

© Billy A., Phoenix, AZ

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about how people feel nothing when they here news of devastating statistics
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