KATHRYN STEWART MCDONALD - POEM

Kathryn Stewart McDonald 
Journalist, likes coconut pie, has two cats, began writing poetry in 1980. Lived abroad . Carthage Tunisia favorite place, Most fun Livorno, Italy, Best Food, Mangos and Octupus, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Wierdest sights, anthills in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, favorite state ,Texas, least liked state, West Virginia.  Wish list, return to Texas or Coral Gables, Fla. Greatest Need, part time job to relocate from West Virginia.

The contagion spread to West Virginia
Tin Soldiers war on Red Dragons
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Some say India others say China
Some say Morocco or Afgan never mind ya’
 Some say it’s best in South America
never mind, its now in placentas
What it is will just end ya’
What’s the difference anyway
Some say it is the end of days

Tin soldiers warring on Red Dragons
All members were invited to come
Each unit with usual orders fight until all is  done 
Aerosol smoke in the alleys downtown
 moltov cocktails  sniffing hounds
made their bombs with great aplomb
Who won Who won
When  fire was  over  ashes surround
All stores locked grates were down
what were the results ? Some soldiers
falling off the wagon,  some wives did run
Of Dragons some took another warm gun 
spend their time staring at the sun
 Dragon Wives had choices pulling Hollywood
trains for  gum  most said they could
Who who Who won

Blues found bandanas in a kitchen
nothing there for finger lickin.
Bandanas scored a large green batch
suddenly then at the door a crash.
In the madness and confusion
Explosions knocked out eyes of some
others caught fire when the ride didn’t come.
Green confetti blowing down the street
Whose money,  whose gun , where’s gum?
Who Won Who Won

She was sitting on the sidewalk 
meeting up for Firday night street talk
when along came a Lincoln
M16 taking lives for cash by the ton
She lies in a puddle blood running 
to the gutter, just an evening
on her stoop, when blue lights
blazed in, turns out she Mara’s  bait 
Their intention to reel in blues, 
So the battles went on raging
Asians, Afros, Browns and Blues
You need to about raging it’s contagious  
Seems to be all around disadvantagious
Keeps on growing and spreading
South of the border more beheading
Who won Who won

Blue graduated on a warm April night
an academy where they taught him to fight
 hadn’t studied  just for fun
 now they call him Atilla the Hun,
Went to the docks with stars in his eyes
Make people  safe from crimes
Stopped for donuts and coffee one night
Never had time to grab his life real tight
Once had a few stars and a new house
Nobody saw it not even a mouse 
Bride was saving some cash 
Now a widow  cuz her life crashed
Seems all the people outside 
Suddenly went deaf dumb and blind
All humanity is asundered
Who won who won

Infection is growing worse than
cancer the death bells tolling
Now in Kansas, now in the park
Always in the city no longer in the dark
Under bridges and crystal chandeliers
Business growing in better atmospheres
Recruiters bolder than usual punks
Got have a little respect  Don likes jumpin
All the girls who refused his flirting
Grabs his boys sends them out in pain
Find a woman and run his train
Not the usual boss, takes his doses
Leads them to remote locations
 Til his slaves pay for  offending him
Little Italy jumps back in, spreading more
Infection, just be sure trap daddy’s accent
Is the same as The Society of Friends.

Kati went out one night for a soda
Man at the stations her for blow job
Which one which one 
Back home she was cleaning her garage
He came to take her boxes now she’s 
Living inside and hides
Which one which one


When are people going to learn
Yellow Black Brown or Sun-Burnt
The wars going on and on you either
ride or run, the road is long every 
Battle takes hard turns
Who won who won 

Just keep hanging on
Maybe justice comes somehow
Can’t find it now can’t find it now
Can’t find it now ,
Will a Messiah tell us how

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