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Moon 44

Moon 44
What a depressing film.
 
Prisoners
And boys.
 
Bright
Beautiful
Boys.
 
Smart and alive.
 
Raped.
Martyred.
Destroyed.
 
Seeing such life and beauty
Cut down
And plowed under
By treachery like that
Kept me melancholy
For days afterwards.
 
Death to the dying
Is welcome.
 
Death to the young
Is the greatest crime
The greatest sin
I can conceive.
 



15 February 2000

by Bill Cattey