Reading newspapers can be dangerous
Atwood
Whenever I build
neat castles in the sandbox,
These sloppy pits
were filled with flattened corpses
And when I finished washing myself
walking to school, my My feet
stepped on the cracks in the cement
detonated a red bomb
Now I am an adult
can read Write, sit in my chair
I am as quiet as a fuse
The jungle is burning, the bushes
are full of soldiers,
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The place names on that difficult map
rose in the smoke.
I am the cause, I am a nuclear weapon
A chemical toy, my body
A deadly little device,
I reach out in the name of love, my hands are guns,
My good intentions are absolutely lethal.