Lawrence Hall
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To a Ball-Cap Commando Wearing his
Semi-Automatic Albatross
Instead of the cross, the
albatross
About my neck was hung
-Coleridge, Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
An albatross
seems hung from around your neck
Or maybe you are
hugging it to your heart
That steel and
plastic engine of death-tech
That seductive vanity
of satanic art
Where are you
strutting with your deadly toy?
Why are you
posing like a comic-book commando?
Oh, be a man,
and not a dullard boy
You’re ‘way too
old to play at G.I. Joe
There’s anger enough,
and no more hate to give -
That albatross: get
rid of it
and live
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