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                                  Andrew Roller Presents
 
                             PURPOSE SHALL BE THE FIRMER

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The scintillating lights winked out, one by

One.  Filaments expired, radiance

Vanished, shadows coupled with the night.  Sirens

Broke the lush summer air, drowned a cricket

Symphony, screamed at the dispassionate stars.

The towering building shuddered as the first

Shells fell.  Plate glass windows shattered in their 

Frames, wood tasted the lust of fire, pink

Bricks and whitewashed masonry were defiled

By hot ash.  The structure's inhabitants

Scurried between trembling walls.  Children clung

Madly to their mothers, eyes wide with fright.  

Atop the edifice helicopters

Lifted from the grey concrete and sliced toward

The onrushing enemy.  Their metal

Talons raked the adversary legions,

Tore at endless mulatto lines.  Indigo

Cannon snorted in reply, broke the stiff

Limbed hummingbirds, dashed them to the earth.  Swift

Battalions overtook a low ridge near

The erection; remorselessly butchered 

Its staunch but few defenders.  The strength of

The structure's constabulary looked meager

Against the swollen ranks.  But the building

Did not plead for clemency.  Wracked decades

Past by nuclear fires, pillaged in

Earlier years by marauding bands, then

Slumbering until this fateful night; so

Sure of its security, it knew not 

Of this fell foe.  Deep in the heart of the

Pile a radio crackled with the terms:

Unconditional surrender.  Tense men

Vowed to fight till their last breath.  Mounted guns

Upon the ridge ravaged the edifice.

The staunch citizens never acquiesced.

***

Storm clouds cloaked the sun at dawn.  Nature, loath

To be outdone by Adam's progeny,

Prepared to lash the celebrating force

Upon the ridge.  Beyond, the heaps of stone

And rock lay silent as the first drops fell.

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[Each line of the above poem contains exactly ten syllables.  Ed.]


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                                  Andrew Roller Presents
 
                               ALL LIFE NEEDS LIFE TO LIVE

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Wherever life has grown there has always

Come a day when it was extirpated

From its verdant slumber and consumed.  Fish,

Bird, man, or beast; all life needs life to live.

***

The great ships sliced between the stars.  Their honed

Sensors picked out a fertile planet.  They

Swooped in low over an emerald sea. 

Each craft lowered three capacious sieves; scooped

Up seaweed, cod, and salmon.  They rushed toward 

The shore.  Along the beach tawny creatures 

Stared.  They began to flee.  The fleet closed in.

***

One by one the reapers rose, disappeared

Into the clouds.  Through the afternoon they

Had hovered over ivory cities,

Until they had sucked them dry.  Now only

A lone pigeon remained, picking among

The ruins.  Voluminous abdomens full,

The rapacious engines glided away.

***

Wherever life has grown there has always

Come a day when it was extirpated

From its verdant slumber and consumed.  Fish,

Bird, man, or beast; all life needs life to live.

***

The vessel murmured among the stars.  Its

Masters were feasting.  They were delighted 

With the last world the leviathan had 

Plucked from the heavens.  The hulk discharged the 

Rocky core.  It dozed in the detritus

Of the broken sphere.  Suddenly it glimpsed

A cruising argosy.  Each galleon brimmed

With the stuff of harvested worlds.  Each was

A tasty treat.  The steel monster gurgled.

Jaws open, it lunged toward the combines.

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[Each line of the above poem contains exactly ten syllables.  Ed.]

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