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| Police raid frat mansions & cart away drunk pledges in the night. Shambhala Buddhists exchange gun fire with Unitarians. Playboys dowsed in Jagermeister burn on Folsom Field. Watch on You Tube Ward Churchill dangle from a noose. The channel nine traffic chopper is blown out of the sky by insurgents at Naropa University. Baggers hunt prairie dogs along the freeway, feverish hands ripping the bubonic meat from the bone. Bombs rattle the Twenty Ninth St. Mall. Patrons wander in ominous dust, bleeding, clutching their dying, frivolously attempting to contain their intestines. Charred merchandise is scattered among the rubble. Quivering voices pray. Members of Pearl St. Fashion Faction are suspect. Dropping the sedan Bush says to Dick, "Hey Boss, Dis ain't Boulder, Dis is Bagdad!" On Valmont, the refugee ghetto is cleared with fire & its inhabitants shipped to internment camps in Greeley. One hundred stay home dads, armed with Louisville Sluggers, wearing their children's roller-blade pads, aided by twenty thousand marines, erect road blocks and monitor Red Zones. Red Zones include Canyon Bld., Mapleton Drive, over by the Dairy Queen on Baseline rd. Patrols stop and search cars entering the Safeway parking lot. Black Water mercenaries guard Burger King sniping patrons of Bed Bath and Beyond for target practice between Whopper bites. People are picked off the streets like flies in yellow goo, by the CIA, by Minute Men, by Promise Keepers. Neighbors gossip at night, "Did you hear what happened to Dona's husband?" "No what." "The Collection Agency took him away." Mennonites burn the American flag in front of the courthouse. Blood mars the sidewalks. The sent of tear gas clings to office building walls. Children in bare feet beg at the farmer's market.
Weapons of mass destruction are found at the Rocky Flats. In Boulder, The streets are still. Fish are jumping in the Tigris River. Not a whimper from Yafa Street. Only silent flickers from drear windows. You wouldn't even know a war is going on.
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