alternative adventures

in dreams
and in
daylight

they fought by
dancing
the border dispute was handled
through baseball
I’ve heard
about
chess diplomacy
as well

does anything get settled by a war
with metal missiles
packed with gelatinous
geared
closed-circuit
destruction

is anything accomplished
save
assurance of another
war
staving off the final one
when afterward
all creatures
all things on Earth
are rendered atomized
and silent
in that way

peace without dimensions for
a grave

and so the horrors of these
stalling actions
for a war
having gone through the world twice
and happening
in
victimizing places

now

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