[lit-ideas] The difficulty in staying home
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:38:53 -0800
06-03
2-10-06
The difficulty in staying home
He who is a fool, let him remain a fool,
But he who is brave enough to call
His home his own, let him keep it
If he has the courage. Let him
Withstand the stormy blasts
Of political red tape and the raging
Of foamy-mouthed bearded mullahs
Who every Friday exhort those
Who would see you riven or skewered,
and draped in the barbed wire you
Hope will keep them out. Your dog
Barks and down the valley you hear
Another dog bark out a reply.
What does it mean? Another night
Without their fires, their incandescent
Logic, their arguments caught up
In explosive blasts that rattle your windows
And doors? You take your pistol,
Check its magazine, and peer out
Into the night, like all the other
Nights since you've been home.
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