Who?

[_m_c]

Catholic Protestant
Muslims and Jews
Look at each other
With frightening views
What are we doing
This isn’t God’s plan
We’re meant to be brothers
This family of man
There seems to be something
That gets in the way
Confusing ours minds
From what his words say
Love each other
The gist of his book
No matter the language
Nor how it may look
I’ve missed something
I don’t understand
WHO is it then
If it isn’t God’s hand
Who darkens dreams
With hatred and fear
Clouding our vision
Till nothing is clear
Sharpens our rage
At the point of a knife
Who sends the misguided
To cause loss of life
Who wants the world
To tremble and shake
Who takes innocent
Lives in his wake
Who breaks the spirit
Then fills it with hate
Demonic decisions
Sealing their fate
Who takes a man
And warps his soul
Death and destruction
His devious goal
Who turns souls black
With power or greed
Who preaches hate
Planting the seed
For the slaughter of others
But who do we blame
The ultimate evil
It’s done in Gods name©

~m@c~

[Ilsa_Lund]

Woaaahhhh… Deep man puff puff cough You should like, be famous.

[MercyStreet]

The copyright was a must, I’d say.

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

Uh, yeah…

[astro]

WHO is it then
If it isn’t God’s hand
Who darkens dreams
With hatred and fear
Clouding our vision
Till nothing is clear
Sharpens our rage
At the point of a knife
Who sends the misguided
To cause loss of life

Actually, I can think of quite a few candidates that description attaches to.
BTW unless you’re Ed Schmidt you really should attribute it when posting

[fishbicycle]

Put. The. Joint. Down.
Back. Away. From. The. Keyboard.

[_m_c]

@astro

Actually, I can think of quite a few candidates that description attaches to.
BTW unless you’re Ed Schmidt you really should attribute it when posting

~m@c~ = mr_alleycat = Ed Schmidt (that be me)

[caphis]

That poem reeks of Schmidt!

[Ilsa_Lund]

Didja miss this part:

@Quoth the Chicago Reader

By posting on this board you grant the Chicago Reader, Inc., and its successors and assigns a nonexclusive irrevocable right to re-use your posting in any manner it or they see fit without notice or compensation to you. No material contained in this site may be republished or reposted without express written consent of the Chicago Reader, Inc., except that message board users retain the right to republish or repost their own work.

?

[Polycarp]

@Ilsa_Lund

Didja miss this part:

?

Good point, Ilsa except that you failed to pick up on one word: nonexclusive.

By posting this message on this board, I’m authorizing the Chicago Reader to get whatever use they can out of it – run it as the banner headline in next week’s edition, provide me with a free personal ad with it as the contents, include it in Cecil’s next book, whatever.

I retain copyright beyond what I’ve granted them, to the extent that I care to claim it.

And so does Ed.

[Ilsa_Lund]

That’s not the point. Including the © didn’t do anything. The Chicago Reader can now emblazon his poem in 72 point font on the front page of tomorrow’s edition. Or publish it in book form and make millions, without recompensating him. He can still sell it, sure, but the CR can now do whatever they want with it.

[caphis]

@Ilsa_Lund

That’s not the point. Including the (C) didn’t do anything. The Chicago Reader can now emblazon his poem in 72 point font on the front page of tomorrow’s edition. Or publish it in book form and make millions, without recompensating him. He can still sell it, sure, but the CR can now do whatever they want with it.

Polycarp addressed that.

The CR is unlikely to do that. Schmidt retains his right to do so, if he pleases.

[_m_c]

@Ilsa_Lund

That’s not the point. Including the (C) didn’t do anything. The Chicago Reader can now emblazon his poem in 72 point font on the front page of tomorrow’s edition. Or publish it in book form and make millions, without recompensating him. He can still sell it, sure, but the CR can now do whatever they want with it.

Thank you for pointing that out, but I was aware of it.
More interested in sharing than making money.
If they honor it by publishing all the better just means more people read it.

[DocCathode]

I agree that including the copyright symbol is unnecessary. Should a third party make use of anything I have posted here without my permission or the permission of the Chicago Reader, they have infringed not just on my copyright but the copyright of the Chicago Reader. In which case I don’t have to worry about writing letters or hiring lawyers. I just need to notify the mods. They and the legal department of the Reader shall smite the infringers.

[Excalibre]

Meh. I’ve still seen way worse poetry than this.