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John Raymond Pollard - Moreno, Moreno
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John Raymond Pollard - Copacabana
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John Raymond Pollard - ellipse
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John Raymond Pollard - Map of the Americas Linhas da Mão
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John Raymond Pollard - After an Apocalypse
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John Raymond Pollard - Alas, Babylon
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John Raymond Pollard - Angels Watch Over
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John Raymond Pollard - Beginner's Luck
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John Raymond Pollard - Bittersweet
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John Raymond Pollard - Boycott
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John Raymond Pollard - Chambers
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John Raymond Pollard - Count on You
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John Raymond Pollard - Deuce
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John Raymond Pollard - Dirty Love
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John Raymond Pollard - Enchantment
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John Raymond Pollard - End of the Season
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John Raymond Pollard - Equality
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John Raymond Pollard - Eye for Eye
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John Raymond Pollard - Flesh and Spirit
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John Raymond Pollard - Ghosts
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John Raymond Pollard - Grand Central
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John Raymond Pollard - Guantanamo
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John Raymond Pollard - Hit and Run
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John Raymond Pollard - Holding
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John Raymond Pollard - Isle Coast
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John Raymond Pollard - King George
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John Raymond Pollard - Lies
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John Raymond Pollard - Life Line
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John Raymond Pollard - Mabel
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John Raymond Pollard - Madam Mamieux
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John Raymond Pollard - Maybe Somewhere Down the Line
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John Raymond Pollard - Meu Coração, Mi Corazón
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John Raymond Pollard - Muvuca
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John Raymond Pollard - New Orleans
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John Raymond Pollard - One More Time
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John Raymond Pollard - Patrícia Angelica
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John Raymond Pollard - Poison
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John Raymond Pollard - Porto da Barra
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John Raymond Pollard - Quicksand
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John Raymond Pollard - Re-Membered
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John Raymond Pollard - Snow
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John Raymond Pollard - Static
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John Raymond Pollard - Tango de los Desaparecidos
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John Raymond Pollard - Tango de los Desaparecidos (Spanish version)
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John Raymond Pollard - The Biggest Fool of All
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John Raymond Pollard - The Government's Got You 2004
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John Raymond Pollard - The Law of Desire
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John Raymond Pollard - This Helten death
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John Raymond Pollard - Umbu
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John Raymond Pollard - Victim
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John Raymond Pollard - Weatherman
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John Raymond Pollard - White Down Comforter
Poison
John Raymond Pollard
(John Raymond Pollard)
2002-04-01
A blood moon's on the rise. On the evening tide
A sailing ship sets anchor in the harbor.
A scar cut 'cross his lip and a sash tied 'round his hips,
The captain is the ship's assured commander.
They make noise like thunder. They wear hard, untarnished shells.
Do they come to plunder or simply to draw water from the well?
On other planets are scenes as divine:
Moonlight on water…stars above that shine?
He commands, "Kill all the men. Murder every boy past ten.
Then bring back the women with the treasure.
We'll share bounty plenty men, and after battle's end
A heathen wench will quench your thirst for pleasure."
They who hunt with poison and their shiny onyx knives
Will be forced to use them to defend their homes, defend their lives.
In slaughter on the shore fall a dozen score or more.
A week goes past then speaks the rested captain,
"We set sail tomorrow morn; load the water, game, and corn.
I shall take the temple's priestess virgin."
Neither knives nor poison could pierce the armored shells.
Cursed, they are leaving with booty, food, and water from the well.
In a world of water ships float or sink.
Parched by an incessant sun, sailors need a drink.
A fortnight out at sea, all is silent. There's no breeze.
The captain's wrenching gut foretells of danger.
He sinks down to his knees. With his fleeting breath he pleads,
"A plague's upon the ship; don't drink the water."
The priestess served him poison mixed with water from the well.
She's the dead chief's daughter. The captain hears the sounding of death's knell.
