okay, so a good friend of mine said I needed to poast this here.  I've 
never done this before, but tell me what you think...

 Boxes moving.
 Black boxes.

 No Light.
 No holes.

 No way to know 
 what is inside

 Animals- 
 Animals are inside                             (but is it a lion or a lamb?)

 But there is no way to know-
 no way to know
 the predito from the pray              (Does it really matter?  When fed as
                                                         such, Lambs have been
                                       known to eat    
                                                        their own kind.)
 It does not matter.
 One is charactorized by their actions-
 A man in war is an agressor,
 the same man in peace,
 or wounded on the battlefield
 could be the pray                      (we all wear boxes.  We are all
         
                                                        defined by our actions)
 But who is the decider?
 Who is the definer?
 Who makes the rules, 
 the lines and descintctions,
  between the predator and the pray?     (One man will say that he is
                  
                                                         empowered. He will
                                       explain that he
                                                can do
                                       whatever he wants, 
                                       whenever   
                                                               
                                                               
                                                             
                                       
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                       
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                               
                                                        he
                                       wants.  How do we
                                       react to          
                                       that?)

No one is empowered.                     (or is everyone?  If no one can see
                                                         anything but the big
                                       picture, the     black
                                       box, does it matter
                                       what goes on inside?)

 The anarchists complain.             (The Man gets us down.)

 The liberals complain.                 (People are too caught up in their
                                                        own gains to see the
                                       real picture.)

 The conservatives complain.            (Not enough people take control of
                                                         their own lives!)

 The anarchists complain.               (The Man gets us down!)

 But they all just go-
 go into one black box.                  (but in the other black boxes,
         
                                                         there may be others.
                                       Just think: in their 
                                       box, we hear one
                                       voice, one      
                                       animal, but is there
                                       only one? There^Rs
                                       certainly more than
                                       that in
                                                        ours!)
*That* black box scares us,
but *that* one is nice.                 (so you don^Rt like the one black
        
                                                        box, or anything having
                                       to do with       it,
                                       but the other one, that
                                       is your  
                                                friend.  There are many animals
                                       in      
                                                        each black box.)

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Wow....you weren't kidding when you siad you were having problems formatting
this one :)

picospan is abitch the put something together in that's like this.

wow.  a biting commentary.

btw, 'pray' is supplication to a deity.  I think you were looking to 
spell it 'prey', which is an animal that is fed upon by a predator.

But I knew what you meant.  It would be odd if I assumed otherwise.

This is too freaky for me.  I lost track of the meaning somewhere.

okay, sorry.  a) this was a poem inspired by a political sciecne lecture, 
which should tell you something.  b) the tabs got all messed up when I 
posted it from the 'net.  Sorry 'bout that.

(pssst!  you mean "from the web"....)

I understand the "'net" reference thanks.  It works all the same one way 
or the other.

Thanks for the expaniation, Zebera.

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