Kenneth P. Gurney

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Crushed by War

All the generations of thinking men
collected all their thoughts
and placed them as straws in a cup
and national leaders drew:

long straw
long straw
long straw
short.

Kenneth P. Gurney lives in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He edits the NM poetry anthology Adobe Walls. His latest book of poems is "An Accident Practiced". To learn more about Kenneth, visit http://www.kpgurney.me/Poet/Welcome.html