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cognitive dissonance (Remove filter)

THEATRE OF WAR (11/11/2013 – 11.am)

 

If death is thought the ultimate

what price a part or two?

To be left as a mindless torpid trunk

the Elephant in the room.

 

And a limb’s not a limb – it’s a piece of shit

when blown into a muddy pit.

The scalpel only adds subtraction

in that theatre; sealing disconnection.

 

If death yields a hero – is life shame?

Return, with only self to blame?

Nobody t...

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warcognitive dissonance

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