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Anti-Virus: a complaint or lamentation
I wonder how the world would be if thirty years ago, instead of playing thankless gigs, a soundbyte of a show I’d done when merely seventeen (and better then, than now) would have been made, and hit the ‘net (God … Continue reading
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Tagged complaint, daily poems, experience, lamentation, learning, music, poetic forms, youth
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Decoration Day: a complaint or lamentation
Bang the drum and sound the horn! Wash and press the uniforms. From each window flags are flown; now the troops at last come home. Proud young sons and daughters, too; freedom’s torch they’ve borne for you. Through the world … Continue reading
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Tagged complaint, daily poems, funerals, lamentation, military, mourning, patriotism, poetic forms, public service
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