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Honorable Mention
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
Gary Blankenship

“O my Luve's like a red, red rose”*

On the streets of the Capital
of the Kingdom of the One True Prophet,
bands of the Truest Believers
have banned Robbie’s rose.

Every other “color of the rainbow but one” for sale -

George W’s Texas yellow,
ribbon symbol of our troops

Homeland Security orange

Green for the other over-hyped saint,
eco-lovers,
wasabi

The rainbow coalition

*

Is pink allowed,
or does pink need to be hung
by its thorns and drained
until it is too pale to be white?

Red for the blood of innocents
should be the most acceptable of all,
black the most appropriate.

**

Relating to a news story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050213/od_nm/saudi_valentines_dc
about The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Wahhabi religious police, checking flower shops several times a day to make sure they are not selling red roses for Valentine’s Day.
Williams Carlos Williams was wrong. There are ideas outside of things. Things are only that and not the soul, the faith.
The title is the first line of Robert Burn’s most famous poem.


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