Chemical Warfare

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Chemical Warfare

Invisible serpents
Pharmacological demons
Disguised as wise men
Bearing evil gifts
Squirm into open arms
Of unwary children
Wreaking destruction
And death deadlier
Than the holocaust,
Hiroshima or
Nagasaki. Deadlier
Than the twin towers,
Deadlier than Baghdad
Bombs, Beirut bullets,
Burning, charred buildings.

By day and night they
Slither, like snakes in
Eve’s garden, poisonous
Fangs probe fruit of
Fertile minds, replace
Hope with despair, love
With hate, good with evil.
Transformational venom-
Words like indifferent,
Inert, sluggish, soggy
Apathetic, slow- form
Torpid frogs, stuporous
Beings, pale zombies.

Eve has tasted
New Eden’s luscious
Fruit and again awaits
Expulsion from “Paradise”!