Thursday, February 11, 2010

Okay, since this place is dead compared to combatprose

I thought I'd offer a slightly different challenge: defeat Today's News Poem.

Victory conditions are variable: you could riff-off it (no rewrites--that's some lazy shit right there) or you could just outdo it. So here's the news poem: I'll see if anyone wants to enter the kumate arena.

War by Wires and Liars

No, atoms aren't the only building block
Requiring nuclear-force to bind what seeks
To free itself. Take enterprise and stock:
Those rogues—like particles— need wise techniques
To bind what otherwise would break—subvert—
Conjoined alliance. Murder's still a crime
So bind them tight with lies and let covert
And able agents sway the greedy slime:
So war becomes a suicide. And wealth?
That war by other means. With trade, the way
To kill is starve the foreigner by stealth,
And take his land, her kids: they're simply prey—
A profit center needs the casualties.
Without the gore—no war PTSDs.

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