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Twentieth Century Destruction
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney is a poet from New York. This
poem was written in 1963 and was published in
a U.S. publication called Young America Sings.
The dull metallic beat
the stomping of the feet.
Seems determined in its sound
to tear the heavens down.
With the fire and the fight
the devil’s own delight.
To quench his burning thirst
with the blood of war.
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