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forget the war

June 9, 2012 By 13 Comments

forget the war

 

i will go to church tomorrow

and meet a fine woman there

we will make fine babies three

we’ll make three babies rare

 

i’ll teach them of the american dream

we’ll eat three apple pie

they will play badminton and basketball

never curse, nor cheat, nor lie

 

to harvard college they shall go

study business and things like that

two will be republican

one a democrat

 

they will make fine babies too

three little children a piece

i will read them grimm’s fairy tales

tell them life will never cease

 

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About Tim Ruane

Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.

Comments

  1. Straw Hat says:
    June 9, 2012 at 10:03 am

    simple and speaks your mind i think

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  2. k~ says:
    June 11, 2012 at 11:15 pm

    I have been perusing your blog. I enjoy your style.

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  3. Richard Guest says:
    June 12, 2012 at 5:36 am

    Accute. Love this one, Tim.

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  4. Mary MacGowan says:
    June 14, 2012 at 1:42 am

    a different new style for you?
    the first verse is solid and ROCKS.
    i mean, fine babies three/three babies rare – well, that is stupendous! i feel that the rest of your poem doesn’t live up to that kind of creative potential.
    i don’t mean to insult, hope these comments are ok.
    try using one specific grimm’s fairy tale to link with the 1st stanza, and give up on telling us a moralizing story. in fact, tell us less!

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