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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2005/05

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] A Memorial Day Tribute to American Soldiers
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 22:39:48 -0400


We went from Victory to Liberty and now we are at this new Stonehenge
With the silent dolmans standing round
As though tombs were set upon the ground
We are being walled in and we don't know where it will end
Will we be totally enclosed as concrete that has been posed?
Around our trailers like upright stones
As though they were some ancient bones
From some strange creature seen in a movie feature
Or will they be removed someday?
When we at last can finally say
We've done our job and all are free
And we can go back to Liberty

-Sgt. Sean Smith, American poet

*Among the U.S. troops serving in Iraq, a small group of soldier-poets
convene to share their verses. At Camp Victory, a U.S. military base at Baghdad's
international airport, the "poetry jams" occur every two weeks.

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