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London Targeted: Numbers Game

Temporal July 7, 2005

Tags: terrorism , injustive , poverty , dichotomy

and the spiral continues

first the original self proclaimed one
can a smiley icon go well in a short ditty?
then there were two...
recently we had seven
and now eight
G for god?
G-8

and then for people
short of aid
dying of aids
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof">geldof had live 8

digressionary tale
of naseebo
and allarakha
can a smiley icon go well in a short ditty?

slam...
...anjoo
bam...
...bh ola
thank...
...chotu
you...
...dabboo
ma’m...
...eenoo
slam bang thank...
...and fazloo, guddi, haddi...

incessant reverberations
of an earlier fall
from the heavens
or a
curse of creation

today's mourning*
in the wake of
yesterday's jubilation*
and the futility of
fragmenting one
into us and them


* the london transit attack by the terrorists on July 7, 2005
* and yesterday’s announcement by the IOC awarding london for 2012 olympics

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