The Pink River Teddies - In Memory

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The World's Teddies Float In Pink Rivers

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sourced by Art de Rivers

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Elegy of the Pink River teddy

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uploaded by Art de Rivers

Its a tradition to write for soldiers and trauma and ghosts on this day . I cannot forget and certainly will remember them. I've been with people and soldiers of war trauma . I hold them as we do inside us . We should . Of course .   But,  I am never sure that we learn , fully learn,  what poor fools of war we all are and will always be . 

However - for honour,  and grace,  we give some special space :

Quick Roasts


It was years later
In post trauma
And wars' image tank alligator
That I saw twisting soldiers
Cry pink streams

And scream too at other's dead

Floating family photograph dreams

While trying to balance
Alice and Mickey in a Wonderland  day out equation
With the memory smell of dead arab children
Quick roasts
Fast bombs

And metal

And family dis-integration .

2. 

The pink river teddies are usually found in war zones

Where humans are juiced and mixed with quiet rains

And bags of flesh float bones

And where human hands float disembodied

With dead children and log of dog ...

And with some grey blood rags of human brains

By a rusting tank wheel and an engine cog 

And by night a low blanket sympathy fog 

Mind you ( said the river Teddy )

I only have 200 years of wars and human history to go on

I am only a young immortal eyed piece of fur myself

Floating ..

In pink ...

I think

How strange this water

Face down

Is like iron to drink

(God bless Ron and the rest of the river companies)