October 16, 2012

Death Watch

By Tony Brown

A mirror for a battle map.
A diary page for orders.

WAR upon
WAR among
the gang of love
the gang of snoot
the gang of overburden
the gang of falling. 

All in all a free for all,
all in all hands on hilts and handles.  
All inside within
and contained.

How much
expected blood is lacking —
nowhere to run,
no gutter showing
but a gutter is there
and it is full,
making 
drowning
equivalent to
draining.

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About Tony Brown

A poet with a history in slam, lots of publications; my personal poetry and a little bit of daily life and opinions. Read the page called "About..." for the details. View all posts by Tony Brown

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 at 4:46 pm and tagged with meditations, poems, poetry and posted in poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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3 responses to “Death Watch”

• T.C. Stevenson
  October 18th, 2012 at 1:19 am

  Nice use of parallelism. Very powerful poem.

  Reply
  • Tony Brown
    October 18th, 2012 at 4:34 am

    Thank you.

    Reply
• Good Deed
  October 17th, 2012 at 8:32 am

  Love it…

  Reply

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