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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

"Looking past"

    I stopped a wallclock with my heart today –
    a neat trick I
    cannot recommend.

    The “looking past” at what lies beyond
    comes natural,
    but only at the end.

    Makes no difference to the insurgents
    that the government
    makes in my name,

    still I try to make a new friend for each one of them;
    though, of course, I can’t
    but I’m improved all the same.

    I’m sure my team won’t come out ahead in the end,
    but then war’s not
    the way that I like to win –

    you can’t add up losses to find what anything cost when
    you can’t measure
    how much things were meaning…

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