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To The Trusting
January 8, 1992

I look out at my world
see it all cold to the core
that every belief is being stripped away
too many people what hate
without knowing why they do
reasons abounding
and all that matters is the emotion
how it builds
like the battleship clouds before the storm
cold, threatening
rising higher than the eye can follow
what has become of this world?

I remember Afghanistan from what I read in books
about how the people in the tunnels waited hours on end
while the Soviet troops poured gas in trickles
down through the drainage system
patient while letting the vapors build
then striking flame, not even bothering
with the terms and conditions of a surrender
that was never to be an option -
I inherited their photographs
black and white faces
lost behind a mechanical wall of silence
their situation little more than tactics

I remember the smaller scale
words of hurt cast reflexively through crowds
bustling about in New Orleans, jazz musicians
blowing their horns, sometimes taking a quarter
or a knife in the gut, blowing their blues
and the blues were about endings and losses
but lacked what we might call hate

I remember the old days
but have forgotten what NAZI stands for
and remember the music of the time was stepping
one line at a time forward
as if begging for power
feeding upon everyone's roots
slow and cold and heavy
like acid and iron
drums

and the blues
from the sax wail to the horns
played an entropic game
across the years
not cold, but not forgiving

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from Scattered Resistance v4 - Settling In, released October 19, 2012

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