[Jim Moonan]

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Tit For Tat and All That

If it wasn’t so tragic it might be funny —Maybe Monty Python


Tit for tat for tit for tat for tit for tat
for tit for tat for tit for tat and all that.

Yes eyes for eyes, yes teeth for teeth.
No never turn the other cheek.

(Find me the forbidden lovers under the covers,
entwined together, possessing what others seek.)

The eyeless cannot see.
The toothless cannot speak.

Some hold tongues, others wag fingers
at the venomous who bleed hatred

upon the young who are learning
the ancient unrest, ungodly, unsung.

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