Similar Girls

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faith is different than what one believes … there’s no leaving soldiers and family for soon they’ll be the ones to grieve

singing is the only weapon of peaceful souls … what they will decide is all they wish to control … the daughter of a private in the national guard … never heard the missile headed for her front yard … the song she had in her head would’ve straightened out the curls of similar girls

her & her mom decided to stay … it wasn’t in their heart to give up their homeland away … leaving family and soldiers behind would never do … the life that’s worth living is as long as it is due … russian missiles launch blind into the mourning rain … never aware they come alive to bring death and pain … the song in its warhead lauds the flag unfurled even when aimed at similar girls

a guitarist and a singer near a crippled church like a choir … baptized by an explosion cleansed in caustic petroleum fire … launched by a bleached white horseman who forgot his shirt … might as well be wearing a fashionable mini skirt

the rubble is rising faster than all his leopard tanks … the germans like their chances more than the jets sold by the yanks … F35s are just starting to pay off … so we can buy noodles romanov … too young and too many ukrainians do all the bleeding … every jet we give them makes the chinese plan on stealing

it’s not safe to twist and shout for three ring clowns to start their bataan twirls … it’s not right or fair to expect such of similar girls

lying next to each other for all time … a band formed around a rhythm with words like hymns to make them rhyme … i’m lucky to have outlived my mistakes … the brave accelerate and the free hit the brakes … pickup guitars like we used to before the warning signs we now ignore … knowing there’s no one around to keep the swine from stealing pearls we said we’d give to all the similar girls

 coulda swore I thought I had a better version of this … this is for Maxine’s gramma Rose … edit: found the first edit  didn’t like parts of it  may merge it with this one later  

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