Two minutes

By doobarz

Thu, 17 Jun 2010
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For two minutes
The chatter stops
The phones don’t ring
The e-mails don’t go ping

The cannon fires, and
The world starts again.

In another part of the world
The chatter is radio
The phones are satellite
E-mail doesn’t happen

The cannon fires again
And again. And again.

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Submitted by alice sunderland on
like this! a lot. (that was no great in-depth critique - sorry - but the poem IS rather good!)