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JEFFREY C. ALFIER
Early Babylon Blues

We angels saw the Lord,
uptown lookin' downtown...
'Let us go down to see
the City and Tower...
see what they're smokin', these
          misguided architects.'

For pride had made trespass
to forestall the scatter
and short-circuit The Man,
down ol' Babylon way.
So God evicted fools...
         and linguists got the jobs.
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Prasenjit Maiti is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Burdwan University, India

As editor and as a veteran, I disagree with the implications in this poem, and I must caution our readers that these questions have their own poetic legitimacy. PoetryRepairShop does not censor.
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PRASENJIT MAITI
To America

You've taken my dreams away, America,
and pawned them on the streets of Manhattan
laid them blatantly across the hungry belly
of young and skinny whores
from Puerto Rico, and played god
when our children died in Baghdad ...
Where are you going America, my dreams
and my insanity? Won't you cry
for Vietnam, and buy flowers for the dead?
Walk hunchbacked in the memory
of all those men you've killed
around the world, and kneel down
to their children and say you're sorry?
You've taken away my dreams, America,
and soon you'd be walking alone
talking to yourself like your insanity

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