Timothy Lawton

Late September, 1995

The bloody eyes of Oedipus have but one source
Pride
Your mother is no whore and your father would still be
Alive
But rage with fire passion sire
Anger was your sin on that sanguine road
Your father dead or your mother in your bed
How could you have known?
Oedipus Oedipus you’re no Rex
You forgot your heart and let anger rule your head
Your gouged and bloody eyes blind
Yet you never saw past your pride
Your suffering, pain,anguish, and groans
Repentance for sins you need not atone
Your sword still a diamond in your mind
How you’d suffer no insult if only you weren’t blind

2/27/2008

In frozen depths of Earth

Cold is the heart of mankind

Society loves it’s apple and longs for its day of fire

Storms grow and bubble like eruptions from a volcano mankind

Remember those days as boys and girls innocent

Before we knew that partaking of the fruit was evil

9/16/01

I feel attacked today!
Looking over a horizon forever changed
A sihlouette of billowing smoke shadowing in black illusion
The image of those now dissapeared giants, the Twin Towers
Yet it’s all too real, but I still don’t believe it!
But, it’s happened
They’re gone
Gone!
Gone as I stand mongst the silent crowd in stunned awe, in disbelieving shock
They’re gone, gone as we gaze out from the rocky ridge gaping at the demon cloud rising against the crystal blue sky of a sunny September day
Tranquil and beautiful save that flame flickering up from the bowels of hell itself burning our sky
Save those distant sirens speaking the tale of untold suffering deep beneath the black mask that covers the city
I’ll never look at that skyline the same again
The world is forever different
Those two buildings were what allowed me to stand in any city in the world and know that I’ve seen something bigger, because there were two of them.
Two of them side by side
But, now they’re gone!
Gone!
In a single moment 270 million people were turned into soldiers
The entire population of the free world was placed on the frontline
Now is the time to look inward and up
To purify our hearts and set our minds toward God
Yes, this is a holy war!
A war against the beast
Yet, let us not fall into the pit as well
We must only seek justice and not revenge
We must crush the beast inside as well as out
Crush it under the increasing weight of the word of God in our hearts
For the difference between us and them is that every life is sacred
Every man an image of God
The difference between us and them is that we pray for our enemies
Even the beasts who committed this unspeakable crime
And if we don’t, they have already won
We will have turned from God as well
So, if we offer our embrace and our hands are thrown off it is time to show them our arms
May we defend ourselves armored in the love of God
Seeking only to strike our enemies until they cease to attack
Always remembering the horror of that billowing black cloud of smoke
The terror in our home
That fire sparked from the flames of hell
For there is a time for peace and a time for war
Looking over this horizon forever changed
I realize that this is war!

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2. Victoria’s Secret of Saudi Arabia

3. Tao Ming’s Italian Restaurant

4. Sahara Sand and Gravel

5. Swiss Wheelchair Vacations

6. Josef Stalin Collectbles

7. India’s Best BBQ

8. Hooter’s of San Francisco

9. White Slaves R Us

10. The Military Aczdemy of France

11. Mosquito Lake Lodge

12. The Poprocks Shipping Co.

13. The Israeli Pork and Cheeseburger Co.

14. South Florida Ski Barn

15. Def Jam Middle East

16. Girls Girls Girls of Greenwhich Village

17. Inuet Ice Cream Shop

18. Communist Flea Market

19. Just Bolts, Nothing Else

20. Arabian Divorce Lawyers Cohen and Horowitz

21. Gynsu Knives for Kids