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Over There

Contributed by just_smile_all_the_time on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 @ 07:53:12 PM in AEST
Topic: war

I sit at the bar – staring blankly at the fuzzy transmission of the television
with all the boys from the old neighborhood –
boys that transformed into men when
I wasn’t looking. Men with
jobs and wives and beat up old trucks
used for working that job on the west side
and for lugging around the pee-wee football team’s equipment.

I listen to them talk of all the friends and sons and brothers
and mechanics and butchers they know
over there – faces stripped from the community.

I’m silent besides my sympathetic nods,
for I only know of eighteen year old boys
who are plagued with the choice of
which university
which car

I have been so disconnected from this whole thing –
their loss, their pride, their pleas
to return their friends, their sons, their brothers
back from overseas.

Copyright Â© just_smile_all_the_time ... [ 2007-01-10 19:53:12]
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Re: Over There (User Rating: 1 )
by CuriousitysCat on Wednesday, 10th January 2007 @ 09:02:10 PM AEST
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Seems like a beautiful tribute poem, the thought is powerful, and presented very differently then one would expect for war poetry. I was really into it, I hope there is more poetry to come.

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~Jazz

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