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By
Ben White
Coloring Book
After Tim Schumacher
What holds the colors together?
The Red; the White; the Blue?
School glue spilled with blood
Graduating into forever
With crayons traded for mud –
Or dust –
Or In God We Trust
Slogans of righteous hypocrisy
Where every box we see
Has eight choices
Or 64
Or 128
Or a magazine full
Of one decisive fate
Holding its true color
In the duller shades
Watching as truth fades
With each shell casing
Spinning; replacing
Coloring books ripped
With arms and legs tripped
By wires exploding
Unable to stay
Inside the lines
Of peace and decency.
Ben White
Author of the books, Buddha Bastinado Blues and The Kill Gene, Ben White thought he was a poet, only to find out he is not a poet at all. He is a witness. What he writes is testimony.
Brilliant!