ÿþ<HTML> <BODY> <HEAD> <TITLE> Every Rose Has A Thorn: Attaining the Promised Land </TITLE> </HEAD> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#000000" link="#9966ff" vlink="#6633CC" alink="#6633CC"> <CENTER> <BR> <table bgcolor="#ccccff" width="90%" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="5"><tr><td valign="CENTER" align="CENTER"> <table bgcolor="#ffffff" width="100%" height="100%" cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="5"> <TR><TD> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT SIZE=+2>Attaining the Promised Land</FONT> <P>I. <BR> Slowly they heed the siren's call;<BR> eighteen wheelers,<BR> minivans,<BR> Volkswagon bugs.<BR> A thousand headlights on the freeway<BR> still as the dead<BR> They stop <BR> to remember.<BR> Silence interrupts their thoughts, <BR> and the lights blur,<BR> in motion once more.<BR> <P>II.<BR> I stand in the international<BR> playground<BR> for tanks.<BR> And caress the names <BR> of people I never knew.<BR> One, two;<BR> 3,4,5-<BR> only<BR> seventeen thousand nine hundred and ninety five<BR> to go.<BR> <BR>III.<BR> Nephesh Yehudi<BR> weeps at The Wall,<BR> shops at Dizengoff,<BR> eats schwarma,<BR> flirts with the soldier.<BR> Is this holy strip of desert worth it?<BR> Hatikvah.<BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> </TABLE></TABLE> <P> <center> <FONT COLOR="#ccccff"> | <a href="/arsenicjade/misc.html">Back</a> | <a href="mailto:veseymuse@yahoo.com">Arsenic</A> | </FONT> </center> <BR> </body> </html>