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      March 22, 2015Dolphin Legend of the World BeforeJanice D. Soderling

      In the world that was before ours,
      In the warring age of walkers,
      There were many wondrous weapons
      But the boom-boom was the greatest.
      Many walker lands had boom-booms,
      The most powerful kind of kill-kills.
      It could out-boom other kill-kills.
      It could melt their eyes to jelly.
      When the first boom-boom exploded,
      It was for the great god True Man
      And his people were the greatest
      And his people ruled our seas.
      They had many wondrous engines
      That held voices in flat boxes,
      Handsome captive heads in boxes
      To praise boom-boom and make rain.
      Other countries had the boom-boom,
      And still others wanted boom-booms
      But they feared the True Man people
      But they feared their nation-building.
      Fearless was the droll god Put In
      Who rode stallions through the desert,
      Wrestled wild bears in the forest,
      Who could disappear at will.
      Mighty Put In god said, “Got it.
      I got boom-boom-boom. I got it.
      I will Put In it your walk land.
      Hear my thunder, True Man people.
      First one thing and then another
      As the heads escaped their boxes,
      As the voices turned to silence,
      As the walker lands all warred.
      So the True Man era ended.
      So all walker countries perished.
      So the golden age of Dolphin.
      So our thumbless golden age.

      from Poets Respond

      Janice D. Soderling

      “This poem is in response to the news revealed this week in a documentary that Putin was ready to put his nuclear forces on alert to deter possible intervention by Western powers in the Crimean takeover. This is particularly interesting because much of Europe is now waiting for his next step.”