“I’m tired,” she says.
Reading Vonnegut all day
She’s a hipster, well
So is he with his tight jeans
Lets talk, of blood
That is on the kitchen floor
They’re vegan, nope
But she had an abortion so,
We’ll call it war
She hurts when he ignores her
And it feels cold
She’s not eating staying thin
Like money so
Let’s not be in love no more
He calls her up,
She’s in bed with another soul
His heart is torn,
Just as much as her that day
So it goes, life
Glaciers and wars of a kind
Every time, kill child
This time move on to Tolstoy,
You and I know
It’s not going to stop them
Reading Vonnegut all day
She’s a hipster, well
So is he with his tight jeans
Lets talk, of blood
That is on the kitchen floor
They’re vegan, nope
But she had an abortion so,
We’ll call it war
She hurts when he ignores her
And it feels cold
She’s not eating staying thin
Like money so
Let’s not be in love no more
He calls her up,
She’s in bed with another soul
His heart is torn,
Just as much as her that day
So it goes, life
Glaciers and wars of a kind
Every time, kill child
This time move on to Tolstoy,
You and I know
It’s not going to stop them
About the Poem
The poem depicts a couple who are hipsters, anti-war, (even vegans) but in their own way fighting a war among themselves.
Glaciers and wars is a reference to Vonnegut’s writing in Slaughterhouse Five, where Harrison Starr says, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?”… because wars are as easy to stop as glaciers.
Glaciers and wars is a reference to Vonnegut’s writing in Slaughterhouse Five, where Harrison Starr says, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?”… because wars are as easy to stop as glaciers.
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