IN HONOR OF AMERICANS PREOCUPATION WITH VIOLENT IMAGES AND STORIES

HERE IS A CREEPY POEM

if you are still reading this
by james a. galgano

Today follows
Like any other
Tail between legs
With shivering shards of fear
Looking over someone else's shoulder
As a cold wind sends death a familiar message
I am open for business today
I wonder if you will see me coming
No light in the tunnel
For this oncoming train
I prefer to quietly follow your every footstep
Unnoticed and unexpected
My success is in the murky mixture
  more...Of my elemental surprise
There is a calming effect
Which your screams and tears bring
To my cold and calculating desires
I find solace in the fact your loved ones
Will one day forget your dismembered face!
Torture seems to have that effect on innocence
As it is much too busy trying to survive
To remember endearing memories
Upon these photographs which I now burn
As an offering to the vengeful deity
I call my own intimate messiah
Tomorrow will be a memorable one
Unfortunately for you it will be your last
For I grow weary of idly creeping
Through the minutes of your tedious routine
It lacks the aura your smile once emoted
The question now is how
I will introduce myself to you
Prior to terminating your contract
With tomorrow's hopes and dreams
Nevertheless it will surely happen
And if you are reading this
Sooner than you think

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Moral obligation
By james a. galgano

On the other side of tomorrow
Where memories fade into the abyss of eternity
Taking with them all the hopes and dreams
Of what never was nor will ever be
Lies a time never again to be
Built upon the sacrifice and sweat of ancestry
Now posthumously praised yet so easily forgotten
Written off as a misinformed budget breaking expense
Thereby forgetting what requires recompense
To care for the less fortunate, the infirm, young and elderly
Who in fact should be those dearly cared   more...for completely
If our history of achievement and progress were to make any sense
Nevertheless there are many in power who deem this a drain on our economy
Seeming to forget it ignores the foundation of our national obligation
To form a more perfect union, promote the general welfare,
Establish justice and preserve and protect our domestic tranquility
Upon these truths we once deemed self-evident into perpetuity
Are now not only taken for granted but easily bargained away
Upon the tendency to regard the moneyed interests and powers that be
More an overriding obligation than making the necessary sacrifice for our posterity
To demonstrate and insure that for the historical efforts those before gallantly made
Are shown their honor and thanks for these everyday heroics and not feel betrayed
As well as encourage our future generations to be as productive in their participation
For an equal share for meeting their own expected obligations
To forego these ideals to preserve corporate profits and thee elite’s status quo
Will lead us down the darkened path for as reap we shall sow the seeds of discontent
And the hard earned efforts of all for a better life will be poorly misspent
From the trust of all past, present and future from whom our actions now borrow
Clearly determining on which side we will be in a not to distant tomorrow






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