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Voices and Pictures

Voices saying bad things in bad places
Pictures of objects once objected to
Expressions with feeling lacking faces
Imaged details which some say misconstrue

Realities favor those who once lied
Beacons some claimed at times of proclaimed stress
Truth's determined actions on false seas plied
Friends of bad priests must now feel somewhat less

Than those favored by a recording god
Who now may leak out such information
As would compromise those evenly odd
Plotting to rule thru their situation

Those living in places they once desired
Under old rules of order theirs controlled
Such forms in which their history once mired
As well as that of those much less extolled

If control were to shift wherelse but sums
Why not to others who chose earlier
History unravels like bees on plums
Bits of choice consumed on waterless pier

Countenance killing for egos of blacks
Positing distortion of common sense
Hiding bulldozed buildings causing attacks
Hours before observers observe pretense

(c)ERA
12:52 PM 2/5/03