if We Change Channels All the Pain Will Go Away - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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If We Change Channels All the Pain Will Go Away

 

Captors are shooting trembling prisoners of war

We can watch them writhing as they die

Screaming silently into our telescreens

American Idol is on 282