Hooray Say The Roses Poem by Charles Bukowski

Hooray Say The Roses

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hooray say the roses, today is blamesday
and we are red as blood.

hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday
and we bloom wher soldiers fell
and lovers too,
and the snake at the word.

hooray say the roses, darkness comes
all at once, like lights gone out,
the sun leaves dark continents
and rows of stone.

hooray say the roses, cannons and spires,
birds, bees, bombers, today is Friday
the hand holding a medal out the window,
a moth going by, half a mile an hour,
hooray hooray
hooray say the roses
we have empires on our stems,
the sun moves the mouth:
hooray hooray hooray
and that is why you like us.


Submitted by .eve.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Roberto Tires 16 March 2005

Hooray say the roses, today is thursday and we are green as tree

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