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From: dotslash at snosoft.com (KF)
Subject: Off Topic
I am assuming that was in rememberance of today... give the guy some
slack. He is paying his respects.
-KF
Mikhail Iakovlev wrote:
>Why don't you guys make a new poetry mailing list?
>I don't get it how moderators passed this through..
>
>Is someone lazy, or what?
>
>I don't want to believe that this list is starting to get spammed by
>off-topic poetry posts. It's already second one!
>
>
>Cheers,
>Mik-
>
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Charles Stevenson wrote:
>
>>Ah crap just one more I promise. Then I'm really going to try to
>>sleep. This one speaks truth as well:
>>
>>BURY ME WITH SOLDIERS
>>
>>I've played a lot of roles in life;
>>I've met a lot of men.
>>I've done some things I'd like to think
>>I wouldn't do again.
>>
>>And though I'm young, I'm old enough
>>To know someday I'll die,
>>And to think about what lies beyond,
>>Besides whom I would lie.
>>
>>Perhaps it doesn't matter much;
>>Still, if I had my choice,
>>I'd want a grave 'mongst soldiers when
>>At last death quells my voice.
>>
>>I'm sick of the hypocrisy
>>Of lectures of the wise.
>>I'll take the man, with all the flaws,
>>Who goes, though scared, and dies.
>>
>>The troops I knew were commonplace
>>They didn't want the war;
>>They fought because their fathers and
>>Their fathers had before.
>>
>>They cursed and killed and wept...
>>God knows They're easy to deride...
>>But bury me with men like these;
>>They faced the guns and died.
>>
>>It's funny when you think of it,
>>The way we got along.
>>We'd come from different worlds
>>To live in one no one belongs.
>>
>>I didn't even like them all;
>>I'm sure they'd all agree.
>>Yet I would give my life for them,
>>I hope some did for me.
>>
>>So bury me with soldiers, please,
>>Though much maligned they be.
>>Yes, bury me with soldiers, for
>>I miss their company.
>>We'll not soon see their likes again;
>>We've had our fill of war.
>>But bury me with men like them
>>Till someone else does more.
>>
>>-- Not sure on the author here either :(
>>
>>peace,
>>core
>>
>>
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