Fool me once
Shame on you
Fool me twice
Shame on me
I swore you’d never trick me
I thought I was too strong
For the wicked games you play
But you have proved me wrong
I have fallen twice before
But that is twice too much
Soft brown hair and secret smile
You had me with one touch
...
Leaves are slowly
Like drops of human blood
From a fatal wound
Covering the cold ground
That one colored crimson red
Like the stained water
That washed onto that small beach in France
That one is murky brown
The color of the dirt
And mud children shift through
Another is blazing oran...
In my mind’s eye
I see a pretty pasture green
Blue of the clear sky
In which black birds soar
High and low and horses circle
Round and round the bloody carcass
Of a dog
Ripped apart like shreds of paper
Or chocolates torn in a child’s mouth
From a dying country
That has more hope
Than...