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Book 11 Page 46

Country paranoia

On guns and proper gander a country relies.

Upon violence and lies it feels the need to survive.

Upon a diet of paranoia and mistrust it feels it must

Despise anyone who steps over its bordering sides.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 23/12/99