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Shiloh


Shooting my classmate’s brother

(that war within a war)

I sat next to him at The Point

still targeting him sure

More than blood will flow this day

memory also dies

As honor sells its soul in vain

— each headstone marks the lie

 

(Maryville Tennessee: March, 1999)

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