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    A Catalog of American Calamity

    A Catalog of American Calamity
    (Sonnet of Sorrow #3)

    A liner meets and icy doom at night.
    A silver blimp becomes a ball of flame.
    A harbor's bombed by planes at early light.
    A charismatic president is slain.
    We lose the man who said he had a dream.
    A campus demonstration goes astray.
    The shuttle splits apart in fiery streams.
    A quake collapses bridges in the Bay.
    A bomb outside an office building blows.
    The nation screams as towers tumble down.
    A sniper terrorizes D.C. roads.
    As levies fail, we watch a city drown.
    A college campus mourns their murdered friends.
    A Texas town's destroyed by sea and winds.



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    I really like this poem, it displays reality so blatently. Good job.

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    Great dark poem and sonnet!
    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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