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artfully inappropriate

lackadaisical folly

painted as precocious

unfinished murals with no ceilings

to create the barest illusion

of a gallery

not really even a house of cards

but rather a ramshackle shed

what sort of alliance is that

yen made of weakened targets

versus yang with a sniper's

enviable aim

such destiny was meant to collapse

once the romance rations ran out

the ammunition though seemed like

a humorless joke

both amateur combatants

put down their useless weapons

embarrassed and fatigued

they went back home

to bleed in peace

wearing each their bandages

of concession

fully knowing they could only truly heal

if they withdrew from the hopeless front lines

neither really lost the battle

they both merely survived the war

and learned in the process

when to stop beating up on the dead of the

selected enemy.............

(written Jan. 2, 2002 2am)