The Stagg News Letter

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February 1998 Newsletter

This is the 1998 series of monthly Newsletters featuring staff- penned, original poetry and prose.

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copyright Barry Stagg 1998

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GATING

There is tyranny,

Awful dedication

In the aging, spoiled faces

Of the privileged

Cast.

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Giant four wheel drive

Trucks

Wheel patron and matron

To and from office and home

Protecting mommy and daddy

From the Infidels.

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Security is all

And 1958's insurance salesman

Is 1998's financial adviser.

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The fascists of 2010

Will have grey hair,

Driving

Armored four wheel drives.

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You will be one of them.

You may find yourself

Inside a bunker.

The New Bastille.

Gated of course.

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INCANDESCENCE

I am sitting around

Like everyone else,

Surviving

In the artificial

Light.

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Grey and harmless,

Everyone

Survives the night.

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Now I know the nature

Of this scene.

It's a beautiful morning.


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